This paper aims (1) to create a sense of resonance with Maida Herman Solomon and her ideas, (2) to inspire a reconsideration of current management history (the unquestioned block…
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This paper aims (1) to create a sense of resonance with Maida Herman Solomon and her ideas, (2) to inspire a reconsideration of current management history (the unquestioned block box of dominant figures, dominant foci and dominant practices), (3) to bring Solomon’s contributions to clinical social work into present discourse in management and organizational studies and (4) to foster recognition for Solomon in her own field of social work, as forerunner in a developing profession. Guiding this study is the question: “What are Solomon’s key contributions and why is she overlooked?”
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This paper features a novel methodology, ficto-feminism. The feminism in ficto-feminism is presented as ontology, epistemology, method and mode of writing. Ficto-feminism combines polemical (or prowoman writing) with aspects of collective biography, autoethnography and fictocriticism. As such, the paper contributes to the emerging feminist tradition of writing differently. The approach is an embodied and reflexive approach that engages with history to investigate the absence of women.
Findings
Maida Solomon was an educator, researcher, practitioner and advocate. Her contributions to the development and practice of clinical social work spanned over 60 years, and yet, she is little more than a footnote in the history of the field. Her contributions include authoring and implementing graduate programming, which continues to be the taken for granted training; penning some of the most seminal works and advancing theory; introducing academic and scientific approaches, which saw the field professionalize and adopt new standards; and helping to change the way that society thought about mental health and sexual health. A confluence of factors contributes to her marginalization and neglect: gender, ethnicity, the feminized field of social work and the stigmatized focus for her practice.
Originality/value
The paper combines assertive autobiographical and literary strategies to foreground an overlooked female leader in the field of clinical social work, namely, Maida Solomon. Drawing on biographical material, literature, media and archival material, this paper features a fictional but truthful conversation between the present-day author/writer/historian and the posthumous, historical protagonist (Maida Solomon). In so doing, the engagement with history is both one that deconstructs while reconstructing a historical account with both aesthetic and political implications.
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Harris K. Goldstein, Rex O'Neal, Ann Evans and Diane Miles
Good meals can do more than just keep elderly people fit and healthy: they can also become one of the day's highlights, and when served in a community setting, can provide social…
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Good meals can do more than just keep elderly people fit and healthy: they can also become one of the day's highlights, and when served in a community setting, can provide social contact which otherwise may be missing among elderly people living in rural areas
Are companies effectively protecting new product ideas by using the patent system? Company awareness of the need to use the system to protect new ideas/concepts is focused on, the…
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Are companies effectively protecting new product ideas by using the patent system? Company awareness of the need to use the system to protect new ideas/concepts is focused on, the practical benefits accruing to companies when patents are obtained are discussed, and the necessity for companies to search patent information already in existence is referred to. Comments are made about the present system, with observations on how the recent White Paper, “Intellectual Property and Innovation” presages changes in the patent system law.
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Update was started by the library staff of the Welsh Agricultural College (WAC) in 1974 to fill the gap in the information services provided as there was no comparable system to…
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Update was started by the library staff of the Welsh Agricultural College (WAC) in 1974 to fill the gap in the information services provided as there was no comparable system to CAB for practical agricultural literature. It aims to provide a current awareness service, and also to create a database for the retrieval of information by specific subject headings. Unlike CAB it is not aimed at the scientific researcher, but at students coming to grips with the subject, often for the first time.
Ann L. Casebeer and Kathryn J. Hannah
Efforts of governments to adjust the responsiveness and efficiency of their health care systems are evident across the globe. In the seemingly constant search for solutions…
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Efforts of governments to adjust the responsiveness and efficiency of their health care systems are evident across the globe. In the seemingly constant search for solutions providing both better health outcomes and manageable costs, the directions and designs for change are neither consistent nor well studied. Opportunities for shared learning concerning what strategies for transforming health care systems lead to effective and sustainable change are being missed. There is an urgent need to study and understand the processes of change initiated by health policy shifts aimed at controlling health care costs, altering health service delivery and influencing outcomes of health care. In partial response to this need, research was initiated to study health policy transition within the Western Canadian province of Alberta. The primary objective of this research was: to identify, describe, compare and contrast the processes of change adopted and implemented in a variety of health authorities as a result of health policy shift. Change processes initiated by a specific health policy shift (the restructuring of Alberta’s health care system) were explored from the perspective of the change agents (individuals managing the health system reforms) in order to discover indicators of effective change and to identify questions for further consideration and testing in relation to change process related to health policy shift. This qualitative exploratory study coincided with real time alteration to the health system via legislated health policy shift. Findings relate changes in the structure, process and outcome of the health policy transition. Additionally, a number of questions linked to the reported findings are highlighted to encourage additional and continuing efforts to improve understanding of change process related to health policy shift.
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Since world attention has been focussed on the quality and safety of drugs, thought is being given to improving the methods of dealing with this branch of control under the Food…
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Since world attention has been focussed on the quality and safety of drugs, thought is being given to improving the methods of dealing with this branch of control under the Food and Drugs Act, 1955. This work is entirely different to the several projects now being undertaken, such as the Government‐sponsored “safety committee” dealing with the clinical testing of new drugs before sale; this deals mainly with toxicity trials, therapeutic efficiency and adverse reactions and is designed to prevent such catastrophies as the recent drug‐induced deformities of babies. The recently proposed scheme of the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry for an advisory centre had similar objectives.
Jill Manthorpe and Jo Moriarty
Providing housing with care may seem to be integration at its best. This paper investigates the workforce implications of this form of provision with a focus on older people with…
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Providing housing with care may seem to be integration at its best. This paper investigates the workforce implications of this form of provision with a focus on older people with high support needs.
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This article uses the case of paid domestic work in Los Angeles to argue that affluent and middle‐class members of U.S. society constitute important participants in the informal…
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This article uses the case of paid domestic work in Los Angeles to argue that affluent and middle‐class members of U.S. society constitute important participants in the informal economy. In‐depth, tape‐recorded interviews conducted with thirty‐five employers of nannies and house cleaners, and survey responses of 154 Latina house cleaners and nannies shows that compliance with government regulations, as indicated by payment of Social Security, Medicare and federal tax withholdings, are rare. Affluent citizens may not directly depend on informally generated income, but as employers of paid domestic workers and nannies, they do depend on informally organized and remunerated services. Employers of paid domestic workers rely on three major narrative strategies to distance themselves from the regulations, arguing that the standards should be followed by certain categories of people (attorneys, celebrities, the very wealthy), that the regulations apply only to those employing full‐time help, and that the regulations are illegitimate because both undocumented workers and the state lack legitimacy. These rationalizations allow them to simultaneously condemn Zoe Baird and yet follow the same practices. Upgrading the occupation requires state support and the education of employers. This process would lead to greater recognition of paid domestic work as an occupation, one that merits the protections and regulatory guidelines governing other jobs.
ELIZABETH, Queen of Roumania between 1881 and her death in 1916, was a writer. For many years she turned out verses and stories purely for her own interest and that of her private…
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ELIZABETH, Queen of Roumania between 1881 and her death in 1916, was a writer. For many years she turned out verses and stories purely for her own interest and that of her private circle, but then one day it occurred to her that as what she wrote seemed to go down well with friends and acquaintances, it might reasonably, therefore, be worth publishing. At the same time, though, she did not wish to publish under her own name. What name should she use instead? She wanted it, she said, to be something Latin, as she now belonged to a Latin country, and eventually she fixed upon the combination Carmen Sylva (carmen being the Latin for song, silva for forest), explaining: ‘I began in the woods and found my best songs in roaming through the forests of my home on the Rhine.’ It was certainly one way of choosing a pseudonym.
THE Writers directory 1974–76 ‘lists more than 18,000 living authors of fiction and/or non‐fiction in English.’ It is something of an achievement to receive 18,000 completed…
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THE Writers directory 1974–76 ‘lists more than 18,000 living authors of fiction and/or non‐fiction in English.’ It is something of an achievement to receive 18,000 completed questionnaires and sort them into order. To get £7 or $25 for them printed and bound (even with indexes) is quite admirable.