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 'education history'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:09:22 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4794903&cid=t_338365_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F06%2Fsituational-sources-of-the-holocaust%2F From the Harvard Gazette: The table slab was cold and hard beneath 6-year-old Irene Hizme as doctors and nurses took measurements and blood samples. She didn’t know what was happening to her, and by the time it was all over, she wouldn’t care. She was found lying nearly comatose on the ground by a woman who brought her home to begin her recovery. Though it’s routine for children to be examined by physicians, that was hardly the case here. Her doctor was Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi who conducted cruel experiments on inmates at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Hizme, who survived both her imprisonment and Mengele’s experiments, told her story to a rapt audience at Harvard Medical School’s Joseph Martin Conference Center in the New Research Building on Apri... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4794903 Fri, 06 May 2011 12:37:11 +0100 4794903 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4314062&cid=t_338365_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F05%2Fthe-unequal-situation-of-seperation%2F From Rice News (by Mike Williams): However much people choose to live in a segregated society, the trend is a losing proposition for all. That was the takeaway message delivered by Rice’s Michael Emerson in a presentation to the Houston Association of Hispanic Media Professionals (HAHMP) last week. Members came to campus to hear him discuss select results from the Houston Area Survey, particularly as they relate to housing preferences among blacks, whites and Hispanics. Emerson, the Allyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology and co-director of the university’s new Institute for Urban Research (IUR), gave a brief summary of segregation in Houston based on the 2000 Census that showed distinct separation between black and white neighborhoods, with Hispanics somewhat more integr... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4314062 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:49:32 +0100 4314062 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4162958&cid=t_338365_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F12%2Fthe-legal-policy-situation-of-continued-inequality%2F Judge Michael Wolff posted his article “Stories of Civil Rights Progress and the Persistence of Inequality and Unequal Opportunity 1970-2010” (forthcoming in William Mitchell Law Review) on  SSRN.  Here is the abstract. * * * In this article, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Michael A. Wolff, who also is distinguished visiting professor at St. Louis University School of Law, outlines the judicial and legislative victories and failures of civil rights advocates over the last forty years at both the federal and state level. He details the reform efforts through personal anecdotes of many of his own cases that he pursued as a legal services lawyer and has seen as a judge. Judge Wolff’s stories focus on the rights that legal services programs fought for and obtained and the battles... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4162958 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:01:01 +0100 4162958 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3350258&cid=t_338365_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUbaWkbQpyek%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonDiane Ravitch is a leading education historian. Her work in that field is characteristically thorough and well-researched, and her books The Troubled Crusade and The Great School Wars, in particular, made significant contributions to our understanding of U.S. education history. On the presumption that Ravitch is as much an expert on policy as she is on history, her latest book, recounting her change of heart on certain policy questions, has garnered enormous media attention. I suggest, with all due respect, that this presumption is a mistake. Unlike her thorough and rigorous historical writing, Ravitch’s policy opinions were never grounded in a systematic and comprehensive review of the relevant evidence. They should never have been given credence in the first place. ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3350258 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:41:51 +0100 3350258 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3290858&cid=t_338365_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F02%2F20%2Fclarence-darrow-on-the-situation-of-crime-and-criminals-2%2F “Crime and Criminals: Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail” (1902) Preface This address is a stenographic report of a talk made to the prisoners in the Chicago jail. Some of my good friends have insisted that while my theories are true, I should not have given them to the inmates of a jail. Realizing the force of the suggestion that the truth should not be spoken to all people, I have caused these remarks to be printed on rather good paper and in a somewhat expensive form. In this way the truth does not become cheap and vulgar, and is only placed before those whose intelligence and affluence will prevent their being influenced by it. —Clarence Darrow Crime and Criminals If I looked at jails and crimes and prisoners in the way the ordinary person does, I should not spe... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3290858 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:43:14 +0100 3290858 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2691717&cid=t_338365_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FPxTgm-hH-CI%2F The New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan has a program that seems ripe for the future impact of autism. Its Vocational Independence Program looks to “maximize the potential of individuals with learning differences by teaching skills and strategies and providing support necessary for successful and independent lives.” Image: NYIT VIP During freshman year, students “adjust to the collegiate experience” with such courses as college study skills and managing a personal budget, and take field trips to Long Island and New York City. They also team up to tackle large projects. The junior year curriculum focuses on living independently: food and nutrition, budgeting, apartment living. Junior dormitory living spaces more closely model living independently in an apar... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2691717 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:26:22 +0100 2691717 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2613952&cid=t_338365_122_f&fid=34756&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrainethics.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F17%2Fyoutube-as-neuroscience-resource-hub%2F I just love the way that YouTube is developing these days. If you just spend some time searching this wonderful site, you can get access to so many different teaching resources for psychology, neuroscience and philosophy that you could ever dream of. Seeing an interview with the younger Michael Gazzaniga speaking about the callosotomy procedure, BF Skinner speaking, even an item on Pavlov, just just blows my mind. Below is just a few examples: Gazzaniga on the split-brain procedure (good thing it’s not in colour) And here is a thing on split-brain mind-blowing behaviour: BF Skinner on operant conditioning Or how about giving a demo of how patients with unilateral neglect actually behave (I’ve seen this many time when I was working clinically, but it’s like “what ... BRAINETHICS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2613952 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:06:50 +0100 2613952 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2077345&cid=t_338365_88_f&fid=38203&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprecordialthump.medbrains.net%2F2008%2F12%2F31%2Fthe-cretin-and-the-pharoah%2F One of the true joys of being a student at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was to be taught by Professor Peter Pharoah. Well, not so much to be taught by him, as to have him share intriguing insights and amazing adventures from his work in Papua New Guinea. Professor Pharoah’s mission, one that he enthusiastically embraced, was to confirm the cause of endemic cretinism: Because endemic goitre is attributable to iodine deficiency and endemic cretinism is found only in areas where there is endemic goitre, it was hypothesised that endemic cretinism was also attributable to iodine deficiency. However, there was conflicting evidence concerning the hypothesis whether or not iodine deficiency was the cause of both endemic cretinism and endemic goitre. - Pharoah, POD. Dr Duncan&#82... AEQUANIMITAS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2077345 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:30:40 +0100 2077345 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1911389&cid=t_338365_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2Fwv5MUqj7ciY%2F Through laboratory experiments with rats, Prof. Marta Weinstock-Rosin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Pharmacy is studying how maternal stress during pregnancy can lead to developmental and emotional problems in their offspring. From a press release, which notes that some of the “unfortunate consequences” that children can develop are “slower development, learning and attention difficulties, anxiety and depressive symptoms and possibly even autism.” Weinstock-Rosin has been able to show through her laboratory experiments that when rat mothers were subject to stressful situations (irritating sounds at alternating times, for example), their offspring were later shown to have impaired learning and memory abilities, less capacity to cope with adverse sit... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1911389 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:13:29 +0100 1911389 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1689059&cid=t_338365_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fadolf-hitler-schools.html Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1689059 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:34:00 +0100 1689059 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1655795&cid=t_338365_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F25%2Fsituationist-torts-earns-additional-top-10-ssrn-rankings%2F Situationist contributors Jon Hanson and Michael McCann recently posted on SSRN a draft of their forthcoming law review article, Situationist Torts, 41 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review _ (forthcoming, 2008). Earlier this month, SSRN announced its Law & Psychology Top Ten and Legal Education Top Ten lists and Situationist Torts placed in the top 10 on both lists (#1 and #3, respectively) for the last 60 days. More recently, SSRN announced that Situationist Torts has earned a spot on the top 10 lists of Legal History (#9) and Public Law and Legal Theory (#10). To download Situationist Torts for free click here. That link will direct you to the abstract and various download options. (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1655795 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:17:49 +0100 1655795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1583045&cid=t_338365_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F07%2Fsituationist-torts-abstract%2F We recently posted on SSRN a draft of our forthcoming law review article, Situationist Torts, 41 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review _ (forthcoming, 2008). Our article’s abstract is excerpted below. * * * This Article calls for a situationist approach to teaching law, particularly tort law. This new approach would begin by rejecting the dominant, common-sense account of human behavior (sometimes called dispositionism) and replacing it with the more accurate account being revealed by the social sciences, such as social psychology, social cognition, cognitive neuroscience, and other mind sciences. At its core, situationism is occupied with identifying and bridging the gap between what actually moves us, on one hand, and what we imagine moves us, on the other. Recognizing that gap is criti... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1583045 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:01:07 +0100 1583045 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3965489&cid=t_338365_107_f&fid=39265&url=http%3A%2F%2Fanimacules.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F25%2Frandom-banned-books%2F I disagree with the practice in some places of banning books, which I view as a generally stupid and anti-educational practice (there would be certain exceptions of course, borderline pornographic romance novels would be one example I could think of, but even then…). Thankfully, there are groups that seem to want to fight back against this sort of thing, which is something I highly approve of and should be clearly encouraged. Something that does peak my interest is some of the weird choices in books people have campaigned to ban are. Some of them have at least some reasonably logical basis, such as having considerably racist language as they were written during periods when social inequality was the norm such as Huckleberry Finn. This doesn’t mean I agree with doing so however,... Animacules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3965489 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:32:58 +0100 3965489 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=923750&cid=t_338365_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F10%2Fhitlers-children-education.html In Hitler´s Third Reich children joined the "Jungvolk" movement at the age of 10, they joined the Hitler Youth at 14, and at 18 they joined the party, the "Wehrmacht", the SA, or the SS. This documentary demonstrates how Hitler succeeded in gaining power over "his children" through years of manipulation. "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round". from Mein Kampf page 376 (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=923750 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:00:00 +0100 923750 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=517774&cid=t_338365_107_f&fid=35009&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsciencesque.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F04%2F02%2Fhinterland-whos-who-the-beaver%2F One of my favourite things as a kid were the Hinterland Who’s Who wildlife films shown on the CBC in the 1970’s. These 60 second shorts provided information on the habitat and behaviour of a Canadian wildlife species, and helped to instill millions of Canadian children with a healthy sense of reverence for nature and all of her creatures. The serene opening flute music and the deadpan-calmness of narrator John Livingston are icons of Canadian culture which many have deemed suitable as fodder for parody and satire (often with hilarious results!!!). Of course, parody is the sincerest form of flattery, and these films have a unique style and mystique that you just can’t find anywhere else. The genius of these shorts is their use of silence. Some more recent incarnations of H... Sciencesque blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=517774 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:12:54 +0100 517774