LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the developmental trends in using medication? • How does aging affect the way the medications work? • What are the consequences of medication interactions? • What are the important medication adherence issues? L ucy is an 80-year-old woman who has several chronic health problems. As a result, she takes 12 […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
SUBJECTIVITY, ‘REASON’ AND NEUTRALITY
Feminists have found Foucault’s critique of liberal humanism not only crucial in terms of recognising the flawed conception of the human subject which characterised Enlightenment thought, but also in his overturning of the objectivity of such thought. Feminist pluralists challenge the claims to universality, value neutrality, impartiality and objectivity of knowledge characteristic of liberal humanism, […]
RESISTANCE
Foucault’s primary concern in a great deal of his work has not been power as such, but the development of an analytical approach to the subject. In ‘The Subject and Power’ (1982), he begins by stating that the goal of his work has not been to analyse ‘the phenomena of power, but rather to create […]
SO, WAS IT A MALE-DOMINATED, PATRIARCHAL, AND SEXIST WORLD?
I govern the Athenians, my wife governs me. Themistocles, 528 to 462 нс*1 Patriarchy versus matriarchy: government structure versus family structure You can cut off a man s head if a man be a bachelor, sir; but if he be a married man, no; for a married man is a woman s; for to cut […]
Wasn’t witch burning proof that we cared less about women than about men?
When we think of burning witches at the stake, we often think of the Salem witch trials and men burning women. In fact, the Salem witch trials were a direct result of two girls who experienced epileptic convulsions and blamed their convulsions on the witchcraft of several women in Salem.59 The. Salem witch trials were […]
POWER, FEMINISM AND FOUCAULT
There are a number of tensions in feminism’s engagement with the Foucauldian conceptualisation of the operation of power. Because power in Foucault can be conceptualised as ever-changing, generating points of intensity, it can also be seen as generating points of resistance. While many forms of feminism are committed to an organisation of the mass of […]
Managing Pain
One of the most unpleasant aspects of many chronic diseases is pain. Pain is disruptive, saps energy, negatively affects quality of life, and can lead to an ever-intensifying cycle of pain, anxiety, and anguish. Pain is also one of the most common complaints of older adults, and does not necessarily reflect the same things as […]
The end of legal discipline
By 1750 most forms of consensual sex outside marriage had drifted beyond the reach of the law. This was a development that could not have been foreseen in 1700, let alone a hundred years earlier, for it overturned some of the longest-established moral and legal principles in English history. Until the later nineteenth century there […]
Didn’t men oppress women by developing male-only clubs?
Both sexes had single-sex clubs in the area of that sex’s responsibility. Arc Power, Patriarchy. Dominance, and Sexism Actually Code Words? 65 Female-only clubs All known societies are ruled by men, who control and profit by women’s reproductive capabilities. Encyclopedia of Feminism*7 In most cultures the birthing process was a female-only club. Men were completely […]
Towards a Practice-based Theory
In the final analysis, categoricalism can recognize power but deletes from its analysis the element of practical politics: choice, doubt, strategy, planning, error and transformation. The ‘battle of the sexes’ comedy in traditional popular culture is a vision of sexual politics with just this kind of deletion. From one year to the next husbands err, […]