...Social Science & Medicine 66 (2008) 2520e2531 www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed Biomedical scientists’ perception of the social sciences in health research* Mathieu Albert a,*, Suzanne Laberge b, Brian D. Hodges a, Glenn Regehr a, Lorelei Lingard a a b University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada ´ ´ ´ Available online 11 March 2008 Abstract The growing interest in interdisciplinary research within the Canadian health sciences sector has been manifested by initiatives aimed at increasing the involvement of the social sciences in this sector. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of field and Knorr-Cetina’s concept of epistemic culture, this study explores the extent to which it is possible for the social sciences to integrate into, and thrive in, a field in which the experimental paradigm occupies a hegemonic position. Thirty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore biomedical scientists’ receptiveness toward the social sciences in general and to qualitative research in particular. We found that these respondents exhibited a predominantly negative posture toward the social sciences; however, we also found considerable variation in their judgments and explanations. Eight biomedical scientists tended to be receptive to the social sciences, 7 ambivalent, and 16 unreceptive. The main rationale expressed by receptive respondents is that the legitimacy of a method depends on its capacity to adequately...
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...AMAL ADEN HOME ADDRESS Stranraer Garden SL1 3CE CONTACT NUMBER: 07956832497 E-mail address: amaladen@live.co.uk Education......................................................................................................................................... .......................................................................................................................................................... 2007-2011 London Metropolitan University BHs (Hons) in Biomedical Science 2.2 . Data analysis . Clinical Biochemistry . Microbiology 2005-2006 Birmingham College, Hall Green, Birmingham Studied Access to Science Brass Language Centre, Birmingham, studied As and A2 level in Dutch : B 2003-2004 City college, Bordesly Green Woman’s Centre Studied for GCSE’s in: Biology, Chemistry and English 2000-2002 George Dixon School, Edgbaston, Birmingham achieved 2 GCSE’S Dutch A* and Mathematics C . 1999-2000 ...
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...Biomedical scientist: Job description More in this section Job description Salary and conditions Entry requirements Training Career development Employers and vacancy … Related jobs Print all pages in this section Case studies Biomedical scientist: Ann Thomas Biomedical scientist: Kathryn Owen Biomedical scientist: Roslyn Cooke Biomedical scientists work in healthcare and carry out a range of laboratory tests and techniques on tissue samples and fluids to help clinicians diagnose diseases. They also evaluate the effectiveness of treatments. Their work is extremely important for many hospital departments and the functions they carry out are wide ranging. For example, they may work on medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, AIDS, malaria, food poisoning or anaemia, or carry out tests for emergency blood transfusions or to see if someone has had a heart attack. Biomedical scientists can work in three areas: infection sciences; blood sciences; and cellular sciences. Infection sciences include: •medical microbiology - identification of micro-organisms causing disease and their antibiotic treatment; •virology - identification of viruses, associated diseases and monitoring the effectiveness of vaccines. Blood sciences include: •clinical chemistry - analysis of body fluids and toxicology studies; •transfusion science - determination of donor/recipient blood compatibility, ensuring blood banks are sufficient; •haematology - form...
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...Case for chapter 5: Personality and Value The Situation The Allen Company had just recruited and hired six people for production supervisors from various universities in the Midwest. Ron and Bill were told to take three a piece for assignment into their departments. The men have seen these new employees for only thirty minutes during their company interview visits. Ron and Bill now have to give their recommendation to human resources from placement. Ron thinking it would nice to work directly with Bill on this issue called for a meeting. The meeting was set for Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 and the human resources department needed the final recommendations by Friday at noon. The new people were going to report to human resources on Monday. The Decision Makers Ron, a white male, grew up in an affluent neighborhood in the western Chicago suburbs. He attended private schools including the finest prep school in the area. After prep school, he was accepted at an Ivy League school. He was a member of a top fraternity on campus and was joking referred to as the big man on campus. He graduated near the top of his business school class. After college, he married an eastern socialite from a campus sorority. They have one infant child. This is his first job since graduating from college and he is viewed by the company as a fast tracker and a keeper. His job as production supervisor can be viewed as a temporary assignment on his way to the top. Bill, an African-American...
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...Chemical Boyhood” shined a light on all the human feelings that chemists are typically caught up over the course of their lives. Feelings such as the joy of completing one’s first experiment, or the love one might have for a particular compound are discussed in full. The novel also discusses his experiences with amateur chemistry that turned into a lifelong passion. Many of his memoirs closely resemble many of the first encounter that chemists worldwide had. His work also served as a great source of history for many. Although Sacks was not a chemist his works that depict various different situations he encountered as a physician as well as general aspects of life definitely illuminated the world to interesting problem-solving skills any scientists needs to have in order to be...
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...Empowering the Kanawan Ayta Community To commemorate the Father of Modern Public Health in the Philippines the UP Manila College of Public Health held its annual Dr. Hilario G. Lara Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at Room 407, College of Public Health, Lara Hall. This year’s lecture, “A Framework for the Development of the Ayta Community in Morong, Bataan”, was presented by Dr. Lourdes J. Cruz, a national scientist and former Professor of the UP Diliman Marine Science Institute and a recipient of the 2010 L’Oriel-UNESCO Award for Women in Science. Dr. Cruz is also president of the Bataan Center for Innovative Science and Technology, Inc. (BCISTI) since 1999. Through the years, she has led her team in alleviating poverty in areas of Bataan populated by indigenous Aytas, specifically Kanawan. BCISTI works as a technology incubator to Science and Technology for economic development. It has taken on the task of developing mechanisms to mobilize Science and Technology resources for direct mitigation of poverty. As basis of development, Dr. Cruz presented the concept of 4-Helix Model as an alternative approach for Science and Technology-based economic development. Developing countries use the Triple Helix Model that identifies three institutions, the Academe, Industry, and Government, as major constituents in socio-economic development. However, she points out that the situation in the Philippines vary in that a greater part of the population in rural areas do not belong...
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...In 1969, a chemist working with livestock for the CIA was dropping bulls in a new chemical they had created to figure out effects from it. After taking a few notes on the side effects, he slipped into a nuclear stall containing a rotting bull and was enclosed in with the animal. Unknowingly, his fellow scientists pressed a button and fused together the scientist and the bull together. After researchers discovered their accident, they ran a few tests on the hybrid but concluded that he was too unstable to remain alive so they attempted to put him down. Realizing what they had in store for him, he went on a rampage and destroyed everything in his way and using his new cloudy lower body, put the scientist into a horrible trance. He then fled to a nearby rainforest at incredible speed and head-butted a boulder out pure frustration but blacked out and suffered from amnesia. After awakening, he struggled to survive in the wild and only remembers the pain the humans caused him and blames them for his miserable life. As a result, he dedicates his life to seeking out an individual, learning their biggest fear and makes them hallucinate with his cloud lower body until he finds his next target. I believe people still believe in the possibilities of monsters in order to explain the unexplainable. It also releases the bad in us that everyone has which has been proven to help an individual, that’s why we enjoy horror movies so much. The thrill and entertainment of something being dangerous...
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...A data scientist is a relatively new term and job. It implies that one has the ability to make discoveries in the world of big data. D.J. Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher coined the term itself in 2008. Businesses recently have begun bringing in these high-ranking professionals to attempt to make sense of and use the large amounts of data coming to them from various different angles. A well-rehearsed data scientist should be able to do many different tasks. One of those is bring structure to large quantities of formless data. This is important because it brings a sense of ease to business officials that now no longer have to worry about doing this and can focus on more important business decisions. Of course, the now analyzable data would help a business make these decisions. Data Scientists are also able to pair a rich set a data with another rich set or maybe even an incomplete set of data and make it useable once again. This could help with business decisions or even help streamline a website by matching possible friends like mentioned in the article. These scientists also help make the data look visually pleasing by displaying it in different patterns and graphs. With this new form of science they are able to advise managers and higher ups about the implications of certain decisions being thought of by the business. Above all a data scientists’ most universal skill is the ability to write code as they are seen as a hybrid of a data hacker and a data analyst. One last key trait...
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...played a part in scientific endeavor, even prior to invention of the term ‘scientist’. Nevertheless, in Western culture, science and femininity lacked unity and the masculine painting of science revealed not only that more males did science, but that science itself was seen as an integrally masculine venture. The notion that mathematics and science were unsuitable or ‘hard’ for women, and even ‘at odds’ with real femininity, can be trailed back to the beginning of modern science and the commencement of the Royal Society in the seventeenth century. Then ‘femininity’ became the exact opposite of the new, masculine, experimental science of Newton and his colleagues who needed to break from the passive, reflective analytical style of outdated ‘natural philosophy’, the former word for science. (Schiebinger, 1996). This divide that detached women from the new experimental science, was made a lot wider by the Nature’s tradition being embodied in female form only. The masculine scientists made ‘mother nature’ their goal of research, and branded her as a female muse who could trick them, but if trained would also permit them to ‘enter her secrets’. This entire trap cast femininity as the inactive, topic of investigation and the male as the virile, enthusiastic investigator; a dualism that just increased the difference between science and femininity (Jordanova, 1991). Regardless of this, there existed women scientists— botanists, mathematicians, astronomers chemists and more—who took part...
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...creatures and God replaced them with new living beings. Uniformitarians believed that all geological change happened at the same rate, intensity and power over history. And scriptural geologists believe in the biblical account of a literal six-day creation of all things by God, followed by a global flood which created that geological record.” (Mortenson) The strengths in the article are the differing views presented by various scientists and non-scientists both Christian and non-Christian based. Dr. Mortenson summarized these scientist’s views straight to their points of belief. The points that I found clear was that there was not proof to back the “theories” of the Old Earth views expressed and there was proof of the New Earth view, the Bible. I feel the weakness of the article was that there was not much elaboration on the scientist’s findings. There were a lot Journal Article Review One 3 of names and dates given but not a lot of detail. I feel there should have been more backing information on the views that each scientist or geologist presented. When all you read are names and dates you tend to lose the reader’s attention. I also feel like the author could have had a little more information that was more up to date, such as current studies or studies that have been done more recently. In conclusion, I agree with Dr. Mortenson’s statement made in his article that evolution is not the cause for moral...
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...Naturally two chemicals not destined to come together will not come together to react and become a new compound. But the man behind the science ... 10 unlikely ideas that changed the world - New Scientist www.newscientist.com/.../zeros-to-heroes-10-unlikely-ideas-that-change... Zeros to heroes: 10 unlikely ideas that changed the world ... these 10 ideas serve as a timely reminder of the value of pure science not only in terms of satisfying ... Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World - The Great Courses www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=1120 In this course you will explore ideas that—when society has been willing to pursue them—have helped form the foundation of modern life. You'll discover there ... 10 Inventions That Changed the World | Stuff of Genius www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/.../blog/.../10-inventions-changed-world/ Jun 24, 2013 - 10 inventions that changed the world are explained in this article from HowStuffWorks. ... Who Judges Genius in Google's 2013 Science Fair? Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself ... www.amazon.com › ... › Science & Mathematics Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science (2nd Edition with Update on Results) [Rupert Sheldrake] on ... 5 Scientific Advances That Should Have Changed Everything ... www.cracked.com › History Nov 17, 2011 - You don't need anesthetic." How It Could Have Changed the World: How does medical science...
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...joined us through lateral recruitment. Over the years many break through innovations have taken place. Hindustan Lever Research gained eminence within Unilever Global R&D and became recognized as one of the six global R&D Centers of Unilever with the creation of Unilever Research India in Bangalore in 1997.At Bangalore R&D center, a team of 10 scientists were appointed for a project on ‘shampoo’ line. Suranjan Sircar heading the team as Principal Research Scientist with thesupport of Vikas Pawar, Aparna Damle, Jaideep Chatterjee, Amitava Pramanik asResearch Scientists. Suresh Jayaraman & Punam Bandyopadhyay were ResearchAssociates.Vikas Pawar came up with an idea of pet shampoos during brainstorming with the team.“Hey, why don’t we target the pet care segment because in India, pet industry is being seriously looked at as a growing industry. I had been working on this concept for a few weeks & have done some initial research as well”, said Vikas. “I think we should just focus on the dog segment & bring out a range of shampoos that are breed specific”, contributed by Aparna Damle, who was a new unmarried scientist in...
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...Australian scientists have found a novel way to study whales without killing them. The Japanese authorities claim to base their arguments for whaling on science, but in fact invest heavily in emotive messages - for example, that whaling is an integral part of the national culture • There is no national culture of whaling in Japan; there are local cultures, but there are also local cultures that regard whales as gods, where killing them would be unthinkable • Successive governments have placed a high priority on ensuring a plentiful supply of fish through diplomacy, often building relationships with developing countries possessing productive coastal waters They say analysis of the whales' faeces lets them examine their stomach contents minutely. Japan says the need to find out about the animals' diets is one reason why it kills hundreds of whales every year. The new approach was developed by Australian and US researchers, who collected blue whale faeces in nets. The animals discharge them as a thin brown cloud near the ocean surface. Using DNA testing, the researchers established what the whales had eaten and also a distinctive "signature" for each animal, as well as the internal parasites the whales were carrying. The research was revealed by Dr Nick Gales, a principal research scientist at the Australian Environment Department's Antarctic division. He said: "We will be telling the International Whaling Commission that this is a robust, non-lethal method for...
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...Building Data Science Teams The Skills, Tools, and Perspectives Behind Great Data Science Groups DJ Patil THE SIMPLEST WAY TO BRING MapReduce and SQL www.asterdata.com Optimized in One Database Appliance Everyone knows data is the new black. The Aster MapReduce Analytics Portfolio enables customers to quickly make use of their data for actionable insights, analysis and product innovation. - Jonathan Goldman, Director of Analytics, Teradata Aster (and former Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn) Learn More www.Asterdata.com/MapReduce Change the world with data. We’ll show you how. strataconf.com Sep 25 – 27, 2013 Boston, MA Oct 28 – 30, 2013 New York, NY Nov 11 – 13, 2013 London, England ©2013 O’Reilly Media, Inc. O’Reilly logo is a registered trademark of O’Reilly Media, Inc. 13110 Building Data Science Teams DJ Patil Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Sebastopol • Tokyo Building Data Science Teams by DJ Patil Copyright © 2011 O’Reilly Media. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (http://my.safaribookson line.com). For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: (800) 998-9938 or corporate@oreilly.com. Editor: Mike Loukides Printing History: Many...
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...On last week I received a communication from the general counsel indicating a potential problem with customers misusing our products. As the CEO met with all of us about this issue we have come to several decision to fix this problem. First we are going to start testing our products as soon as possible to deal with one hour. Next recall all products back to factory. Start advertising for new products. Make some changes to the product by changing color, labels, and scent. Also we go to take the blame for what we did and proved medical compensation. Last hire scientists to help with research and testing. First we are going to deal with one hour. We going to let them know that there has been a recall products and we are testing them as soon as possible. Also we take blame for the misunderstanding with the products. We are giving medical compensation to the one that misused any of our products. We also are trying different resources to make our products out of so this misusing the products will not happen again. Soy- DRI is hiring a new scientist’s crew to make sure everything is tested before leaving our factory. As the vice president of sales marketing I going to make sure that advertising am met. For example, no rushing from the products to be tested to meet a deadline. Make sure everything is tested and all of the marketing crew is on one page. If these things are met in this department then more products will be sold and sales are going to go up. Last we decided to make...
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