Allied healthcare undergraduate education: international students at the clinical interface

The global movement of students in higher education is a relatively recent phenomenon, which has gained momentum in the last 30 years. Much research has been focused on the experiences of this population. Relatively little is known about international allied healthcare students who undertake clinical placements as part of their undergraduate course. This study explores students’ perceptions of their clinical experience. The chosen focus group method was prefaced by a pilot study; both were conducted within the allied healthcare school of a university in the UK. Four themes emerged from the study: communication, cultural differences, relationships with professionals and survival strategies. Communication referred to both the interaction with and between the students, their patients and fellow members of the multidisciplinary team. Cultural differences were expressed in the negotiation of differing cultures at the patient interface. A third theme was the students’ relationship with clinical professionals; within this, the relationship with the student’s clinical educator was paramount. Finally, survival strategies represented the advice students wished to impart to future international students to facilitate their clinical placement abroad.     

Reading Occupied Istanbul: Turkish Subject-Formation from Historical Trauma to Literary Trope

Abstract

The Allied occupation of Istanbul is a little-known historical event outside of Turkey and the Middle East. European powers occupied Istanbul between 1918 and 1923 to enforce the partition of the Ottoman Empire after WWI in the construction of the Modern Middle East. Almost 100 Turkish novels that address occupied Istanbul have appeared over the last ninety years, beginning even before Allied armies left Istanbul in 1923. Turkey's present Middle Eastern re-emergence and post-Kemalist reassessment of secular modernity has also led writers and intellectuals back to the occupation of Istanbul. To examine why Turkish authors return repeatedly to the trope of occupied Istanbul, this essay surveys the first canonised novels about occupied Istanbul written during the Kemalist monoparty period (1923–50): Shirt of Flame by the exiled feminist and nationalist Halide Edib (1884–1964), Sodom and Gomorrah by the Kemalist ideologue Yakup Kadri Karaosmano?lu (1889–1974) and Outside the Scene by Turkey's first experimental, modernist author Ahmet Hamdi Tanp?nar (1902–62). As bilingual Istanbul intellectuals, all three made occupied Istanbul a central drama in their fictions. However, each represented it differently as a formative event in the construction and critique of the nation-state and of modern Turkish subject-formation.     

试论条约前时代清政府对领水主权的维护

在不平等条约签订前，西方列强对中国的侵略集中表现为挑衅中国领水主权。面对这种非法挑衅，当时的清正府出于维护自身统治的需要，采取了相应的措施：实施强制引水制度，牢牢控制引水主权。严格管理湾泊的洋船。商船、兵船必须湾泊于指定地点，并接受严格管束。对外国船员行使完全的刑事管辖权。拒绝列强染指海上缉捕权。正是由于清政府采取了比较严厉的措施，在武力和封舱的威慑下，西方列强的挑衅活动不得不有所收敛，条约前时代的中国领水主权也因此而大体上保持了完整。当然，这种完整随时都受到威胁。嘉道年问，特别是鸦片战争前夕，列强挑衅中国领水主权的活动日益增多，预示着对中国领水主权大规模侵犯的时代即将到来。鸦片战争的爆发就是一个标志。自此之后，中国领水主权遭到了前所未有的破坏。     

中国监督制度的问题及道路选择——以"三权分立"批判为视角

三权分立只是一种监督的工具,对于工具而言都有其针对性和专用性。无论是从国情、政治伦理,还是从我们的政治体制和法律框架出发,三权分立都不适应我们。在中国实质上真正需要监督和难以监督的是党权而非政权;同时,中国并不缺少监督的手段,而是缺乏必要的监督力度;为此,有必要在符合现有的政治体制和法律的框架内,提高和加强政协的监督地位,选择党、人大、政协之间相互监督的第三条道路。     

英军焚毁圆明园事件与“国际法”

1860年10月,英国首席代表额尔金以清政府虐待英法"侨民"致死"违犯国际公法"为借口,悍然下令侵华英军劫掠并焚毁了圆明园等中国皇家园林。查证史实,可知当时并未形成世界意义上的"国际法",美国人惠顿的法学著作《万国公法》尚未传入中国,清政府也未签署任何有关战争的国际法文件。若就事论理,指出清廷违反人道主义是必要的,但责难清政府违反国际法却是没有道理的。反过来看,拥有国际法观念的英法军队对身受重伤的中方非战斗人员清宫太监,不但未进行必要的医疗救治,反而加戴镣铐,实施虐待,这种行径与他们标榜的国际法是相违背的。英法军队焚毁圆明园,劫掠文物,是违反他们自己的"国际法"的,是毁灭人类文明的野蛮犯罪。     

清末中外修约谈判中的知识产权保护问题

根据1901《辛丑条约》的规定,清政府与英、美、日三国分别进行了修改通商条约的谈判。在谈判中,英、美、日三国谈判代表分别提出了保护其在华知识产权的要求条款。清政府谈判代表与各国代表讨价还价,在保护外国在华知识产权问题上,尽可能地保障中国的主权和利益。最后达成的1902年中英商约、1903年的中美商约、1903年中日商约分别规定了对外国在华商标、版权和专利权进行保护的原则和办法,但又照顾了中国的实际情况。     

或为妖怪:对人的一种解读

社会出了问题:战争不断、生态环境恶化、能源短缺、贪污腐败等等,说到底是人出了问题,因为社会是人的社会。社会是公;人都有个自我,是私。自我与私并非全是坏事,公私错位,使人异化,天下纷纷,从此多事了。这是一个十分困人而极难解决的问题。     

Focused Library Instruction for Occupational Therapy,Physical Therapy,and Respiratory Care Students and Faculty: Library Instruction in Allied Health

The integration of librarians into allied health programs presents many exciting opportunities for collaboration. This column will describe how a library instruction program is integrated into the occupational therapy, respiratory care, and physical therapy curricula at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The allied health faculty have welcomed and recognized the librarians’ expertise in teaching evidence-based practice and library research skills.     

Doing Without: Serving Allied Health Programs at Universities Without Medical Schools

This article compares libraries in the United States that serve allied health programs at universities without medical schools. Although these university libraries all serve a similar array of health sciences programs, the organization of their library services differ dramatically. There is also little similarity in their collections, particularly in their choice of indexing and abstracting databases. Yet librarians serving as liaisons to allied health programs at universities without medical schools face comparable challenges in meeting the needs of their users. All reported concerns about gaps in their collections and felt hard pressed to provide optimal library service.     

八国联军侵华战争警世录

八国联军侵华战争是中华民族史上最为耻辱和最为惨痛的一页，本文从清廷决策、战事指挥以及军民合作三个方面分析总结了此次战争给我们带来的教训与启示。