Wisps of Violence: Producing Public and Private Politics in the Turn-of-the-Century British Novel

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-94
Author(s):  
Alex Zwerdling
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
British Novel ◽  
Private Politics

Off to Work At Home: Egyptian Midwives Blur Public-Private Boundaries

Hawwa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hibba Abugideiri
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Societal Participation ◽  
Work At Home ◽  
At Home

AbstractThis article uncovers the invaluable work of midwives as medical professionals in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Egyptian society. It challenges the public-private distinction as a way of demonstrating its obscuring effect on measuring Arab women's participation in society. In fact, relying on this conceptualization of space, and by implication, gendered power, can lead to a misleading conclusion. Because Egyptian midwives participated publicly in society, they consequently were unshackled from those social and cultural forces that otherwise segregated them to the private confines of the home. By challenging this construct, this study interrogates what societal participation means to the study of Middle Eastern gender. More specifically, the process of medical modernization in colonial Egypt provides an ideal case study to argue that by becoming modern working women whose profession brought them out into the public in order to work at home, midwives' participation in Egyptian society blurred any neat demarcation of public and private space. Indeed, the public-private paradigm has little analytical value in studying turn-of-the-century Egyptian midwives other than to expose the glaring ways that "public," as buoyed by Western liberal thinking, does not translate into a universal historical experience; if anything, it obscures the powerful agency of these Arab women.

scholarly journals Approaching the Necessity of Pediatric Palliative Care in Colombia: A challenge for the Health System. A Retrospective Cross Sectional Study.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Orrego Villegas ◽  
Karine Maria Posada España ◽  
Silvia Librada Flores ◽  
Juliana Lopera Solano
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Pediatric Population ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Pediatric Palliative Care ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Attention Model ◽  
Private Politics ◽  
Clinic Practice

Abstract Background: Pediatric Palliative Care (PPC) focuses on achieving quality of life and control the symptoms for children during the sickness process, also provide support to the family in order to relief suffering and give response to needs assessment. In Colombia, this subspecialty does not exist, as a result of not having clinic practice guides and information about the population who benefit under 18 years of age. This study is to approach the necessity of PPC in our country, defining a methodology to characterize and estimate prevalence of pediatric population who may need special care in order to develop an attention model. Methods: A retrospective descriptive study was conducted among 80,926 members between 0 and 18 years of age who has a private health insurance in Colombia between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2018. Data was obtained from the insurance transactional database. Patients were grouped based on the Association for children with life threatening conditions and their families (ACT) of the Royal College of Pediatrics four classifications plus perinatal group. Results were processed and analyzed using descriptive statistical functions in Microsoft Excel. Results: 1,694 patients (2,09%) were eligible to enter a PPC program according to their IDC-10 diagnoses based on ACT plus Perinatal Group classification. Approximately 54% were male, 57.97% were considered early childhood, 26.56% childhood and 15,47% adolescence. With regards to ACT classification and Perinatal Group; 55.55% of patients had diagnosis from Perinatal Group (55.55%) followed by group 4 (23.2%) and group 1 non-cancer (9.68%). Conclusion: Being able to identify patients in need of PPC programs early may increase it being utilize at the time of diagnosis and not wait till the end of life. This might also help alleviate misconception of PPC only being offered during the end of life period. This study should help with the development of public and private politics aimed to promote the creation of PPC programs in developing countries.

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