Forgotten People Research Articles

Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debate

Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debate

Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debate

Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debate

Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debate

Abortion law reform focuses on early abortion. Women wanting to have a family who have a fetal abnormality detected later in pregnancy are neglected in the debate and harmed by the consequences of current legal uncertainty. Unclear abortion laws compromise: the quality of prenatal testing; management when an abnormality is found; and patient care, through obstetricians' fears of legal repercussions. Women carrying a fetus with an abnormality are being denied abortion, even when the abnormality is so severe that non-treatment would be an option if the baby were born. Many women are likely to refuse to consider motherhood if they are denied appropriate prenatal testing and access to abortion if serious abnormalities are detected. Current abortion laws result in discriminatory and inconsistent practices, where access to prenatal testing and termination of pregnancy depends on location, the values of the treating doctor or hospital ethics committee, and a woman's personal resources. Legal certainty is needed to reduce the suffering of couples wanting to have a family.

The Kurds in Syria: the forgotten people

1: The Kurds 2: Syria 3: The Kurds in Syria Conclusion Appendices Appendix 1: Treat of Sevres Appendix 2: Syria's International Law Obligations Bibliography Index.

Managing memory loss: How early detection impacts individuals being diagnosed

Background: The focus of research efforts concerning Alzheimer’s disease (AD) on the potentially pre-clinical stage, known as Mild Cognitive Impairment, has resulted in the ability to diagnose far earlier than has historically been possible. Objectives: This quest to diagnose AD as soon in the trajectory as possible has important consequences for those who are diagnosed. In practice, clinical assessment transforms the phenomenon of forgetfulness from an everyday occurrence into a medically relevant category of symptomology. This process of converting specific experiences into standardized medical facts also transfers the status of the person with memory loss into a potential patient with Alzheimer’s. Methods: 18 months of participant observation of the diagnostic process, qualitative interview data from 50 people undergoing cognitive evaluation, and focus groups with 35 diagnosed individuals. Conclusions: Respondents depict feelings of shame, fear, disbelief, alienation, and disgust during the testing process and upon hearing the results. For people seeking medical care for their memory loss, the transition from experience to symptom requires a subjective redefinition of everyday forgetfulness as a problem. The social death potentially accompanying a diagnosis of dementia engenders a situation where (pathologically) forgetful people become “Alzheimer’s patients.” This process involves the application of medical labels only as deemed circumstantially necessary; people accept to drastically varying degrees the label of AD only to the extent to which it aides them. Data suggest a distinction between fully assuming the “master status” of Alzheimer’s patient and exploiting such terminology when necessary. The spectrum of identity management employed by people diagnosed demonstrates an ability to purposefully manage one’s interactions. The management of an Alzheimer’s identity involved the utilization of resources such as support groups and research studies. The role that diagnosed individuals play in shaping clinical practice and research surrounding memory loss have clear and important ramifications. Early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, or Mild Cognitive Impairment, has granted researchers access to an entire population of people who are able to articulate their experiences and needs. It is crucial to listen to this new voice if we are to understand their impact on the services delivered and treatments offered.

Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Mayan Lowlands

Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Mayan Lowlands

Comment: the country and the city

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJudith Brett Judith Brett is Reader in Politics in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University, a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Political Science and Vice-President/President-elect of the Australasian Political Studies Association. Her books include The Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Political Lives (Allen & Unwin, 1997), Developments in Australian Politics (Macmillan, 1994) and Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (Macmillan, 1992). Judith Brett is Reader in Politics in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University, a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Political Science and Vice-President/President-elect of the Australasian Political Studies Association. Her books include The Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Political Lives (Allen & Unwin, 1997), Developments in Australian Politics (Macmillan, 1994) and Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (Macmillan, 1992).

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Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands. Edited and translated by Lawrence H. Feldman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 269. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. Works Cited. Index. $54.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.

Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands. Edited and translated by Lawrence H. Feldman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 269. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. Works Cited. Index. 18.95 paper. - Volume 58 Issue 3

Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands. Lawrence H. Feldman, editor. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2001. xxvi + 269 pp., figures, maps, appendices, bibliography, index. $18.95 (paper).

Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands. Lawrence H. Feldman, editor. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2001. xxvi + 269 pp., figures, maps, appendices, bibliography, index. $18.95 (paper). - Volume 12 Issue 3

Life in a Hutterite Colony: An Outsider’s Experience and Reflections on a Forgotten People in Our Midst

In this study of the Hutterites, an Anabaptist Protestant sect tracing its roots to 1528, an attempt is made to discover the qualities that have enabled their colonies to survive and thrive in North America. It is found that the Hutterite beliefs of community of goods and self‐surrender to the will of God are central factors which explain their long‐term survival and the high degree of social cohesion they have achieved. The incentive to work for the common good, which has enabled them to remain economically viable as a relatively small community, are also directly attributable to religious belief. The author, who lived in a Hutterite colony as a participant‐observer, found these additional significant elements contributing to Hutterite colony stability and growth: religious ritual, the structure of the family, a well defined division of labor, and a well‐developed strategy for founding a new colony when the existing colony reaches a critical mass of 120‐130 people. The study concludes with a discussion of what mainstream American society might learn from the Hutterites, including both critical and appreciative assessments of the life of this communal people whose members live quietly and effectively in our midst.

America's Forgotten People and Places: Ending the Legacy of Poverty in the Rural South

AbstractThis study focuses on the longstanding impoverishment of the rural South and three of its subregions-Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, and the Black Belt. The poor quality of life in rural Appalachia and along the Mississippi Delta has been publically acknowledged by programs and commissions for improving conditions. However, the more comprehensive Black Belt subregion that links parts of Southern Appalachia and the Southern Delta has not received such regional policy attention. While the South as a whole is more rural and impoverished than other U.S. regions, this is largely due to the poor conditions in the Black Belt. In addition to region and rurality, a third feature of the pattern is race. It is in the Black Belt that the South's poor socioeconomic conditions are most concentrated. Policy and program attention are needed for regional solutions that take rurality and race into account along with demographic and other subregional characteristics.

America's Forgotten People and Places: Ending the Legacy of Poverty in the Rural South: Discussion

AbstractThese comments discuss the presentations by Christy, Wenner, and Dassie (“A Microenterprise-Centered Economic Development Strategy for the Rural South: Sustaining Growth with Economic Opportunity”) and Freshwater (“What Can Social Scientists Contribute to the Challenges of Rural Economic Development?”) in three sections. These are (1) a brief overview of the Southern Black Belt and its rural development needs, (2) an assessment of the microenterprise-Centered economic development strategy for the rural South, and (3) a quick review of what social scientists can contribute to the challenges of rural economic development. This approach also emphasizes the authors’ background at a historically black land-grant university, and the belief that as goes the Black Belt, so goes the rural South.

The Dissidence of Despair: Rebellion and Identity in Early Modern Cornwall

In May 1648 a group of Cornishmen who had rebelled against Parliament in the name of Charles I met with comprehensive defeat at “the Gear,” near Helford, and were then pursued back across the Lizard peninsula to the seacoast beyond. Surrender seemed inevitable, yet a number of the fugitives refused to submit. Instead they “joyned hand-in-hand” and hurled themselves bodily into the water: “a desperate expedient on that rocky coast,” as one later writer remarked. What can have driven them to such despair? No convincing answer can be given by looking at the events of 1648 alone. The rebels' despairing plunge can be understood only if it is seen as the final act in a long-running drama, a story of repeated popular protest in West Cornwall that spanned over 150 years. It is a story that has gone largely unrecognized by previous historians, most of whom have portrayed the Cornish revolts of 1497, 1548, 1549, 1642, and 1648 as isolated events rather than as part of a continuum. Yet it is a story that deserves to be told, not only because it provides a dramatic new explanation for many of the most important rebellions of the Tudor and Stuart periods, but also because it serves as an enduring monument to a forgotten people and their struggle to preserve a separate identity for themselves in the face of overwhelming odds.A fierce sense of distinctiveness has always characterized the inhabitants of Cornwall.

Subjective forgetfulness in a normal Dutch population: possibilities for health education and other interventions

Many, especially elderly people, are worried about their diminishing memory. In order to be able to improve health education activities about forgetfulness and aging processes, nearly 2000 healthy Dutch people, aged 25–85 years, participated in a postal survey into the determinants of subjective forgetfulness. As expected, there was a systematic increase in the prevalence of forgetfulness with age. The relatively high prevalence of forgetfulness in the young (29%) and middle-aged groups (34%) was unexpected. Besides age, the occurrence of dementia in a close relative appeared to be a strong predictor of people's subjective forgetfulness. Furthermore, people who felt more in control of their memory functioning reported less forgetfulness. Younger people ascribed their forgetfulness mostly to external causes (stress, concentration) and older people to internal causes (age, retardation). Eleven percent of all forgetful people were interested in an intervention for their memory complaints. In this group, education (37%), memory training (29%), and medication (12%) were the preferred interventions. No differences were found between older and younger respondents.

A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans

A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans. Directed by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson. 1995. 1/2 Video, Color. 59 min. Distributed by National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA), 346 Ninth St., 2nd Fl., San Francisco, CA 94103. 16mm Film. $265. Video Rental: $75. Film Rental: $150. During final years of Korea's occupation by Japan, over 40,000 Koreans were sent-many forcibly conscripted-to work as laborers on southern Sakhalin Island, then a Japanese territory. When World War II came to an end, however, and all Sakhalin fell under Soviet rule, political circumstances prevented these displaced unfortunates from returning to their homeland, and their plight has since been largely ignored by outside world. A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans, a film written, directed and produced by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, devotes itself to allowing their moving story to be heard. The opening sequence pans slowly over attractive forested hillsides of Sakhalin, but beauty of land belies horror of stories recounted. As a plaintive soundtrack of classical Korean music sets a melancholy mood, encounter a litany of harrowing tales: interviewees describe how they were snatched from their families as young men and sent to a distant land to further imperial Japanese war effort. Their accounts tell of frequent beatings and appalling living conditions, marked by a meager diet, inadequate shelter, and intense cold; former mine laborers detail dangers of their work and attendant possibilities of disease, disfigurement, and death. The film captures recurrent use of animal similes in interviewees' self-presentation (e.g. the Japanese worked us like horses and oxen, we were like pigs in one room), and thus effectively evokes dehumanization they experienced: those sent to Sakhalin became, quite literally, beasts of burden. But editorial presentation suggests an even more fundamental effacement of their identities: we've become nameless souls, sighs one elderly gentleman. The title itself strikes a keynote which recurs several times: Koreans of Sakhalin see themselves as exiled from their homes and then abandoned by world. The voiceover narrative concurs, noting upon more than one occasion that no one remembered these people. The film highlights particularly an everpresent longing for land left behind. Again and again meet people struggling with burden of their memories: one miner's daughter describes nostalgically how she came from a village with a beautiful river and mountains, from which she was uprooted, and traveled with her family to a cold, cold country. For many, Korea becomes an idealized motherland of distant past seen in contrast to frozen land of their more recent lives. Although notion of han (often paraphrased as unrequited resentment or sorrow), so central to Korean popular discourse, is never invoked directly in production, both self-presentation of interviewees and narrative viewpoint are thoroughly informed by this concept. One Sakhalin resident relates a friend's deathbed words, which veritably burst with han:if you ever go back to Korea, tell everyone our story, story kept in our chests. In most cases self is presented first and foremost as an ethnic subject, and those interviewed often become, above all, exiled Koreans. …

Review Essay : Forgotten People? Marriage and Masculine Identities in Britain

Review Essay : Forgotten People? Marriage and Masculine Identities in Britain

Robert Menzies' Forgotten People

Robert Menzies' Forgotten People

The First Hull Mercy Nuns: A Nineteenth Century Case Study

Preaching in Edinburgh on 8 October 1885 at the clothing ceremony of two Mercy nuns, Fr. William Humphrey SJ, the convert-chaplain of the episcopalian bishop of Brechin, used the following extract from Psalm XLIV as his theme:Hearken, O daughter and seeAnd incline thine ear,And forget thy people and thy father’s houseAnd the King shall desire thy beauty.(v. 11–12)