Moving Beyond Disciplinary Silos Towards a Transdisciplinary Model of Wellbeing: An Invited Review

The construct of wellbeing has been criticised as a neoliberal construction of western individualism that ignores wider systemic issues such as inequality and anthropogenic climate change. Accordingly, there have been increasing calls for a broader conceptualisation of wellbeing. Here we impose an interpretative framework on previously published literature and theory, and present a theoretical framework that brings into focus the multifaceted determinants of wellbeing and their interactions across multiple domains and levels of scale. We define wellbeing as positive psychological experience, promoted by connections to self, community and environment, supported by healthy vagal function, all of which are impacted by socio-contextual factors that lie beyond the control of the individual. By emphasising the factors within and beyond the control of the individual and highlighting how vagal function both affects and are impacted by key domains, the biopsychosocial underpinnings of wellbeing are explicitly linked to a broader context that is consistent with, yet complementary to, multi-levelled ecological systems theory. Reflecting on the reciprocal relationships between multiple domains, levels of scale and related social contextual factors known to impact on wellbeing, our GENIAL framework may provide a foundation for a transdisciplinary science of wellbeing that has the potential to promote the wellbeing of individuals while also playing a key role in tackling major societal challenges.

Opportunities for Transdisciplinary Science to Mitigate Biosecurity Risks From the Intersectionality of Illegal Wildlife Trade With Emerging Zoonotic Pathogens

Existing collaborations among public health practitioners, veterinarians, and ecologists do not sufficiently consider illegal wildlife trade in their surveillance, biosafety, and security (SB&S) efforts even though the risks to health and biodiversity from these threats are significant. We highlight multiple cases to illustrate the risks posed by existing gaps in understanding the intersectionality of the illegal wildlife trade and zoonotic disease transmission. We argue for more integrative science in support of decision-making using the One Health approach. Opportunities abound to apply transdisciplinary science to sustainable wildlife trade policy and programming, such as combining on-the-ground monitoring of health, environmental, and social conditions with an understanding of the operational and spatial dynamics of illicit wildlife trade. We advocate for (1) a surveillance sample management system for enhanced diagnostic efficiency in collaboration with diverse and local partners that can help establish new or link existing surveillance networks, outbreak analysis, and risk mitigation strategies; (2) novel analytical tools and decision support models that can enhance self-directed local livelihoods by addressing monitoring, detection, prevention, interdiction, and remediation; (3) enhanced capacity to promote joint SB&S efforts that can encourage improved human and animal health, timely reporting, emerging disease detection, and outbreak response; and, (4) enhanced monitoring of illicit wildlife trade and supply chains across the heterogeneous context within which they occur. By integrating more diverse scientific disciplines, and their respective scientists with indigenous people and local community insight and risk assessment data, we can help promote a more sustainable and equitable wildlife trade.

The Therapeutic Centaur

This is an age of convergence, where insights from disparate disciplines are coming together to meet modern challenges. In this chapter, the authors describe the ways convergence science will impact the workflow of future psychiatrists. They anticipate human clinicians to work in close partnership with technology; streamlining, eliminating, and transforming a range of clinical activities. Here, they provide a framework for modernizing perennial skills and present a roadmap for the development of new knowledge. They anticipate that two important areas of knowledge for future psychiatrists will include clinical informatics and data science. The potential of convergence psychiatry will be realized most effectively as they update clinical training to reflect the shift toward transdisciplinary science. The authors advocate for psychiatrists to embrace interaction with emerging technology including highlighting the risk if they fail to do so.

L’anthroponymie religieuse en Algérie

Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons à l’onomastique, qui est une science auxiliaire de l’histoire et de la linguistique. Nous consacrons ce travail en particulier à l’anthroponymie à base religieuse. De ce fait nous nous interrogeons sur l’origine et la formation des anthroponymes inscrits sur deux périodes d’étude de 1875/1885 et de 1962 /2010. Il s’agit de deux corpus recensés aux services d’état civil de la ville de Mostaganem.Dans cette étude diachronique, notre objectif est de rendre compréhensibles les conditions historiques et religieuses ayant produit des catégories anthroponymiques formées à l’aide de bases religieuses.Religious anthroponymy in AlgeriaAbstract In this article, we are interested in Onomastics, which was, initially, an auxiliary science of History and Linguistics that become a transdisciplinary science mobilizing other sciences such as Sociology, Marketing, Law, and Literature. We dedicate this work in particular to religious-based anthroponymy. As a result, we wonder about the origin and formation of anthroponyms recorded over two study periods of 1875/1885 and 1962/2010. These are two corpuses identified at the civil registry services of the city of Mostaganem. In this diachronic study, our goal is to make understandable the historical and religious conditions that produced anthroponymic categories formed using religious bases.Keywords: Anthropony; religion; forms; theophore; hegirian.

What such of subjectology?

The assumption is based that subjectology, synthesising the results of a number of particular disciplines about the man (sociology, politologii, psychology, the methodology of science, theory of control, etc.), it appears as transdisciplinary science. In its formation the ideas of constructivism play the decisive role. The Marxist principle of activity composes its philosophic methodological basis. Keywords: subjectology; activity; the principle of activity; transdisciplinary science; triad is purpose – means – result; shift «into the side»; the constructivism.