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What I learnt from studying epilepsy: Epileptology and myself

PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES, Issue 2 2004
HARUO AKIMOTO
Abstract, My life work with epilepsy has allowed me to learn a great deal. As an old soldier, I would like to give an account of some important milestones in my lifetime learning. The first factor that linked me to epilepsy was listening to a lecture delivered by Dr Yushi Uchimura on ,The pathogenesis of Ammon's horn sclerosis' at a conference of the Japanese Society of Neurology (now Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology) in 1928 when I was a 4th year medical student at Tokyo University. The following year, I started to study under Dr Uchimura at the Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University School of Medicine. Another factor that linked me to clinical care and research of epilepsy as a psychiatrist was my encounter with the two volumes of ,Selected Writing of John Hughlings Jackson' edited by J. Taylor. Jackson's greatest asset and contribution to modern epileptology include (i) the discovery of ,Jacksonian epilepsy', (ii) ,conceptual revolution of epilepsy' by recognizing transient mental disorders as seizures, (iii) modern definition of epilepsy by defining epileptic seizures as discharges in the gray matter, and (iv) discovery of ,new epilepsy' (now temporal lobe epilepsy). In 1940, I reported clinical courses indistinguishable from schizophrenia in epilepsy cases. Through my studies, I disputed the then prevailing interpretation of this condition as epilepsy complicating schizophrenia, and proved that these cases were in fact epileptic mental disorders caused by epilepsy. Many patients with epilepsy require medical care as well as rehabilitation and welfare support. We need to further promote the facilities for rehabilitation and employment in the community for persons with epilepsy, such as co-operatives and welfare worksites. The issues that epileptology and epilepsy face in the 21st century is to realize the goals of liberating epilepsy from social stigma and protecting all the citizen's rights for persons with epilepsy. [source]

A Hidden Agenda: Gender in Selected Writings by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer

ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 4 2001
Heidi M. Schlipphacke
In Dialektik der Aufklärung (1944,47), Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno criticize the "bourgeois subject" as a perpetrator of the exploitation and domination of "nature." Within the parameters of "bourgeois ideology,""woman" functions as a representative of "nature." Although Horkheimer and Adorno reflect critically on the utilization and misuse of "woman," this essay explores the extent to which the concepts "masculine" and "feminine" function as implicit theoretical categories in selected writings by these authors. Indeed, a close reading of selected passages in works by Horkheimer and Adorno reveals that gendered categories in these texts carry with them a value judgment. While Horkheimer and Adorno describe the individual of late capitalism as "emasculated" and feminized ("castrated"), Adorno praises artists such as Arnold Schönberg, who manifests a potent masculinity. In fact, Adorno often writes about individuals and art works in terms which privilege "masculinity" as opposed to an emasculating "femininity." Value judgments which employ gendered categories, then, stand in contradiction to the explicitly critical project of Dialektik der Aufklärung. [source]

Staples and beyond: selected writings of Mel Watkins , Edited by Hugh Grant and David Wolfe

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 1 2008
Robin Neill
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Practice, power and meaning: frameworks for studying organizational culture in multi-agency rural development projects

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Issue 5 2003
David Lewis
Culture has received increasing attention in critical development studies, though the notion that there are important cultural differences within and between development organizations has received less consideration. This paper elaborates elements of a framework for studying organizational culture in multi-agency development projects. It draws on selected writings in anthropology and in organizational theory and suggests that these two bodies of literature can be usefully brought together, as well as on insights from ongoing fieldwork in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso and Peru. At the centre of this framework is the analysis of context, practice and power. Where development projects involve multiple organizations (such as donors, government agencies, non-governmental organizations and grassroots groups) an analysis of cultures both within and between organizational actors can help explain important aspects of project performance. The paper argues that organizational culture is constantly being produced within projects, sometimes tending towards integration, often towards fragmentation. This fragmentation, indicative of the range of cultures within development organizations, is an important reason why some projects fail, and why ideas stated in project documents are often not realized, especially in the case of the newer and more contentious objectives such as ,empowerment'. © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]