Between the Works and the Arts: The Integrative Studies Round Table, October 1997 and January 1998

Art in Social Work: Equivocation, Evidence, and Ethical Quandaries

Research on Social Work Practice ◽

10.1177/1049731517735898 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 29 (6) ◽

pp. 693-697 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Shelley Cohen Konrad

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Work Practice ◽

Round Table ◽

Social Work Practice ◽

Practice Research ◽

The Arts ◽

Research And Education ◽

Clinical Engagement ◽

Academic Search ◽

Central Social

Documenting the epistemological and ethical hazards of using the arts in social work is an unusual task, especially for one who has for decades found art to be a most potent partner in teaching and a method of clinical engagement. My assignment for the June round table, however, forced me to mine the databases (e.g., ProQuest Central, Social Work Abstracts, Academic Search Complete, and PubMed, among others) in search of content that challenged the benefits and justification of arts in social work. The following commentary identifies arguments, or at the very least equivocation, about where or whether the arts belong in social work practice, research, and education; this brought me into a complex discussion that I learned has persisted since the founding of the profession.

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Electron Microscopy in Molecular Biology

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100060027 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 25 ◽

pp. 2-3

Author(s):

Cecil E. Hall

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Molecular Biology ◽

Noise Level ◽

Molecular Structures ◽

Material Structure ◽

The Arts ◽

Shadow Casting ◽

Electron Image ◽

High Degree ◽

Very High

The visualization of organic macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, viruses and virus components has reached its high degree of effectiveness owing to refinements and reliability of instruments and to the invention of methods for enhancing the structure of these materials within the electron image. The latter techniques have been most important because what can be seen depends upon the molecular and atomic character of the object as modified which is rarely evident in the pristine material. Structure may thus be displayed by the arts of positive and negative staining, shadow casting, replication and other techniques. Enhancement of contrast, which delineates bounds of isolated macromolecules has been effected progressively over the years as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 by these methods. We now look to the future wondering what other visions are waiting to be seen. The instrument designers will need to exact from the arts of fabrication the performance that theory has prescribed as well as methods for phase and interference contrast with explorations of the potentialities of very high and very low voltages. Chemistry must play an increasingly important part in future progress by providing specific stain molecules of high visibility, substrates of vanishing “noise” level and means for preservation of molecular structures that usually exist in a solvated condition.

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