Nurse Education Today (1990)10,151-155 Langman Group UK Ltd 1990 02606917/90/0010-0151/$10.00 Desmond Ryan and Hazel E McHaffie Desmond Ryan MA D Phil Dip Sot Admin Hazel E McHaffie SRN SCM PhD both at Department of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, 12 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JT (Requests for offprints to […]
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prodigal, a. & n. Recklessly wasteful (person); lavish of.[. . . f. L prodigus wasteful] It is tempting to think of Jesus’s parables as timeless, unvaryingly true for every age. A temptation I find myself resisting in one recently heard gospel reading, to wit the Parable of the Prodigal Son. […]
Palliative and Supportive Care (2004), 2, 371–378. Printed in the USA. Copyright © 2004 Cambridge University Press 1478-9515004 $16.00 DOI: 10.10170S1478951504040490 ELIZABETH GRANT, PH.D.,1 SCOTT A. MURRAY, M.D.,1 MARILYN KENDALL, PH.D.,1 KIRSTY BOYD, F.R.C.P.,2 STEPHEN TILLEY, PH.D.,3 AND DESMOND RYAN, D.PHIL.3 1Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, […]
Neil Henery’s paper promises to throw light on ‘constructions of spirituality in contemporary nursing theory’. We note that in his title ‘spirituality’ is not in inverted commas, and so acknowledge that we are being positioned to expect more than a conceptual analysis. We therefore assume he will help us to […]
‘Distributed Parenting’ Teenage pregnancy in post-industrial areas in a social medicine perspective; A medical theory of social pain Desmond P. Ryan March 2001 ©2001 Desmond Ryan. All rights reserved Table of Contents I PREFACE II SUMMARY 1. Constitutional factors 2. Causal factors 3. Topographical factors 4. Pathological […]
Ansley F. L. (1995) The Gulf of Mexico, the Academy and me: the hazards of boundary crossing. Soundings: an Interdisciplinary Journal 78: 66- 104. Armstrong C., Hill M., and Secker J. (2000) Young people’s perceptions of mental health. Children and Society 14: 60-72. Baldwin N. and Carruthers L. […]
1 For the sake of readability, the presenting symptoms and signs of today’s post-industrial Dundee are presented in the main text, while insights into similar ‘patients’ elsewhere and into the wider context are largely restricted to these notes. Thus the notes should be seen as evidence of contextual validity and […]
In terms of our clinical entity analogy, distributed parenting is an attempt to recover the patient: the community fighting for its survival. But, as with real diseases, the fight causes the community to generate toxins in its system. One toxic effect of distributed parenting as a reproductive form is to […]
What of the adolescent males? How does distributed parenting affect the developmental path of boys? We have seen in Section IV that the ox-bow scheme is no more propitious an environment for development for adolescent boys than for adolescent girls, especially for those from non-educogenic homes. But boys have no […]
A mid-teenage girl living out an adolescence in which her family, friends and teachers are not providing sufficient positive support to enable her to manage the challenges of changing has both the motive and the opportunity to escape. The opportunity is provided by the facts a) that she is sexually […]
Human evolution takes place at the level of culture rather than of ‘nature’. Mind is what matters. Rather than organisms, it is cultural properties and social behaviours which get selected for by environmental change. When socio-economic niches alter, if the social groups occupying them can relinquish their current socio-cultural behaviours […]
The last pathologico-physiological (functional) deficit to emerge from the research requires us to invent a new term: ‘copelessness’. Inductively derived from the data from this study, copelessness is defined as a syndrome in which two regressive social psychological features are typically found fused together, co-morbidly reinforcing each other: poor organization […]