MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'disobedience'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:30:46 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4522105&cid=t_219308_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwere-the-wisconsin-doctors-practicing-civil-disobedience%2F2011.02.25 A minor firestorm has erupted regarding those doctors in Wisconsin this week who were handing out fake “sick excuses” to demonstrating teachers, Fox news producers, Andrew Breitbart, and, apparently, anyone else who had some use for one. Indeed, there has been more outrage about this episode than DrRich would have thought. Conservative commentators, of course, were predictably apoplectic about the sight of these callow youths, preening in their white coats, abusing and debasing the sacred trust which has been granted to them by virtue of their profession. There’s nothing surprising about that. But even most of the more mainstream commentators expressed at least a slight bit of discomfort about the actions these doctors were taking, even if they were doing it for a very good and noble... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4522105 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:00:27 +0100 4522105 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3382882&cid=t_219308_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F03%2F17%2Fmentally-ill-old-woman-tasered-for-refusing-to-move%2F Usually when one thinks of New England, one thinks of the seat of the War of Independence and home of states that value personal freedom and independence above virtually all else. After all, New Hampshire’s state motto is “Live Free or Die.” This was where the very idea of peaceful civil disobedience was born in the U.S. So when a police officer in Barre, Vermont (population: 9,291) decided that a woman with mental illness wasn’t moving to comply with his requests, he decided to arrest her. And when the woman still wasn’t moving to allow herself to be arrested, Cpl. Henry Duhaime of the Barre (Vt) Police Department apparently decided to pull out his Taser, instead of his radio to call for backup. Was the woman a coked up drug addict trying to fight off the pol... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3382882 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:56:27 +0100 3382882 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3374182&cid=t_219308_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F03%2F17%2Fmentally-ill-old-woman-tasered-for-refusing-to-move%2F Usually when one thinks of New England, one thinks of the seat of the War of Independence and home of states that value personal freedom and independence above virtually all else. After all, New Hampshire’s state motto is “Live Free or Die.” This was where the very idea of peaceful civil disobedience was born in the U.S. So when a police officer in Barre, Vermont (population: 9,291) decided that an old woman with mental illness wasn’t moving to comply with his requests, he decided to arrest her. And when the woman still wasn’t moving to allow herself to be arrested, Cpl. Henry Duhaime of the Barre (Vt) Police Department apparently decided to pull out his Taser, instead of his radio to call for backup. Was the woman a coked up drug addict trying to fight off t... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3374182 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:56:27 +0100 3374182 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2065692&cid=t_219308_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F12%2F26%2Fdisobedience-at-150-volts%2F For our many readers interested in the Milgram obedience experiments, Dominic J. Packer published a valuable paper, “Identifying Systematic Disobedience in Milgram’s Obedience Experiments: A Meta-Analytic Review” (3 Perspectives on Psychol. Sci. 3-1 (2008)).  Here’s the abstract. * * * A meta-analysis of data from eight of Milgram’s obedience experiments reveals previously undocumented systematicity in the behavior of disobedient participants. In all studies, disobedience was most likely at 150 v, the point at which the shocked “learner” first requested to be released. Further illustrating the importance of the 150-v point, obedience rates across studies covaried with rates of disobedience at 150 v, but not at any other point; as obedience decrea... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2065692 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:01:15 +0100 2065692