This post ideally should be titled - Savoury or Saviour? - as will become clear. Its part of the Politics of Care forum. It follows What You Can do to Save the World in a sequence of posts about what a range of people from us to Politicians and Us can do to turn around the crisis posed by our growing inability to care for others when sick, when treatments go wrong, when they … [Read more...] about Can Doctors Save their Jobs and the World
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‘Care’ Homes: What is Care?
This is the first of about 6 posts on Social Care that are part of the Politics of Care forum. For more on Teresa Pocock who plays a central role in the efforts of a few of us to define what care is about - see Teresa Pocock. The Technological Revolution The technological revolution that took place around 1800 brought with it an awareness of the need for standardisation. … [Read more...] about ‘Care’ Homes: What is Care?
How You Can Save HealthCare and the Global Climate
f This is the first of a series of posts on the Politics of Care forum that will outline what you, what your doctor, what your politician, what the media can do to make a difference to the ongoing destruction of the climate of health and the wider global climate. The to-dos below are to-do. One Tell your doctor you want her/him to treat you and your children (minors) in … [Read more...] about How You Can Save HealthCare and the Global Climate
The MedicoChemical and PetroChemical Twins
This Medico-Chemical or Petrochemical post is one in a sequence of Politics of Care posts that explores the interface between our ability or inability to Care for our environment and ability or inability to Care for our health and the health of the most vulnerable amongst us. One of the problems getting in the way of a recognition of the disaster now unfolding within Health … [Read more...] about The MedicoChemical and PetroChemical Twins
From Gaia Hypothesis to Pandora
Pandora's Eyes, ©2021 Billiam James From Gaia to Pandora is an instalment in the Politics of Care, which is now the main focus of this site. Pandora: Dos Centavos is a sister piece previously called the Pandora hypothesis. After writing this, I mentioned to my agent that a Pandora Hypothesis would be a closing point in Shipwreck. This caused her to say that she could … [Read more...] about From Gaia Hypothesis to Pandora
The Controlled Healthcare Opposition
An instalment in the Politics of Care In the Beginning For nearly 200 years, concerns about individual and public Health have been a badge for progressive politics. The revolutionaries in Paris in 1790 saw healthcare as close to the most important element of the ancien regime that needed dismantling and replacing with something that would work for the people. Fifty years … [Read more...] about The Controlled Healthcare Opposition
From Stephen O’Neill to the Crack of Doom
This is the first link to the Politics of Care forum. Comments on this post ideally need to centre on reports of actions - outlines of actions that will make a difference or details of what has resulted from efforts to follow up on the leads here. We need to keep track of what has been done and what, if anything, has made a difference, rather than fool ourselves with nice … [Read more...] about From Stephen O’Neill to the Crack of Doom
Venus Rising: Women and Antidepressants
Serotonin may be our most primitive neurotransmitter and so on theoretical grounds alone there was reason to think that the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibiting drugs (SSRIs) - sold as absolutely and completely safe, the only danger lying in not having them when you needed them - might have significant effects, not all of which would be good. In 1993, I chaired a … [Read more...] about Venus Rising: Women and Antidepressants
The Transit of Venus: Autonomy or Nurture?
Venus is the black dot in the upper right quadrant of the sun. The plan was to finish the I Can't Breathe series with Magic is from Venus but then the word Nurture popped onto my radar. There is a Venus Rising to come. The word autonomy starts appearing in medicine and in bioethics sometime in the 1950s, give or take a few years, linked to the emergence of Informed … [Read more...] about The Transit of Venus: Autonomy or Nurture?
Magic is from Venus
This the final instalment of a series that began with Being Black, and went through I Can't Breathe, I Can't Breathe II, I Can't Breathe III, To the Last Breath, and Algorithms are from Mars. There was a delay as the series has spun off a lot of other ideas that will hopefully bear fruit in time. In mid-series, George Floyd got justice but this is clearly just a beginning. … [Read more...] about Magic is from Venus