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Particular Experience (particular + experience)

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Disability Rights Commission: From Civil Rights to Social Rights

JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 4 2008
Agnes Fletcher
This paper argues that, although originally conceived as part of the ,civil rights' agenda, the development of disability rights in Britain by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) is better seen as a movement towards the realization of social, economic, and cultural rights, and so as reaffirmation of the indissolubility of human rights in the round. As such, that process of development represents a concrete exercise in the implementation of social rights by a statutory equality body and a significant step towards the conception of disability rights as universal participation, not just individual or minority group entitlement. The paper considers the distinctive features of that regulatory activity. It asks what sort of equality the DRC set out to achieve for disabled people and where, as a result, its work positioned it on the regulatory spectrum. From the particular experience of the DRC, the paper looks forward to considerations of general relevance to other such bodies, including the new Equality and Human Rights Commission. [source]

Maternal experiences of peanut avoidance during pregnancy/lactation: An in-depth qualitative study

PEDIATRIC ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY, Issue 6 2005
Joanna Turke
In 1998 the Department of Health Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment issued a report to British general practitioners, which advised that pregnant mothers with a family history of atopy may wish to avoid peanuts during pregnancy/lactation. To explore the lived-in experience of mothers who avoided/did not avoid peanuts during pregnancy/lactation in the light of the information issued. A qualitative approach, using unstructured in-depth interviews to explore what it was like for mothers to have a particular experience. A purposive sample frame was designed to ensure a maximum variation of participants. Forty-two interviews were conducted: 25 participants avoided peanuts; 15 with a family history of atopy and 10 with no such history. Seventeen participants did not avoid peanuts; 10 with a family history of atopy and seven with no such history. Emergent themes included: variations in information provision, a lack of clarity in relation to information and advice about peanut avoidance, the risks entailed and the introduction of peanuts to the developing child's diet; the importance of atopy in influencing participants' decisions to avoid peanuts and the importance of individual's choice in the decision making process. There was a significant difference in family size with respect to avoidance behaviour with ,avoider' families being smaller (p = 0.007). Avoidance was more likely in single child families (71% vs. 53%) although this difference was not significant. Improvements to the experience of avoidance and/or non-avoidance were primarily focused around provision of information and advice. In particular, a need for clear, consistent factual information and advice about the real risks associated with peanut consumption during pregnancy/lactation, and to whom these risks apply. [source]

XI,Film as Philosophy: The Very Idea

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY (HARDBACK), Issue 1pt3 2007
Stephen Mulhall
This paper addresses certain criticisms of my book On Film. In elucidating and defending my claim that some films can be thought of as philosophizing, I argue that my critics have missed the sense in which my work assumes the aesthetic priority and the argumentative relevance of particular experience. I further identify a number of questionable assumptions about the nature of philosophy that underlie their qualms about my project,assumptions about how one can appropriately meet the claims reason makes on philosophy, and so about the relation between reason, emotion and imagination in aesthetics and ethics, and in philosophical discourse more generally. [source]

"Drinking the Hot Blood of Humans": Witchcraft Confessions in a South African Pentecostal Church

ANTHROPOLOGY & HUMANISM, Issue 1 2003
Jennifer BadstuebnerArticle first published online: 28 JUN 200
Giant cats flying to America and cities under the sea off Cape Town are part of a cascade of imagery brought forth in the confessions ofbom-again witches. Now Christian, these exwitches confess stories of murder and bloodshed to packed audiences in townships in the Eastern and Western Cape provinces of South Africa. The confessions reveal occult realms in deep engagement with the particular experiences of young, poor, black women in South Africa. These confessions are performances of risky agency in a country in which acts of witchcraft are severely punished. This article explores the possible motivations of these young, disenfranchised women who take up witchcraft and Christianity as one way to negotiate conditions of extreme violence and dislocation in the sprawling urban townships. [source]