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 'ehrenreich'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:37:09 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419114&cid=t_298768_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F91SBgyn8c6M%2F By David RittgersThe ongoing war of words between Glenn Beck and Frances Fox Piven over the prospect of workers rioting in the streets isn’t just a two-way dance. Stanley Kurtz has provided insight into Piven’s work over the years in his book, Radical-in-Chief, and a prominent figure of the left, Barbara Ehrenreich, has fired back. In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Ehrenreich said that the reaction to Piven’s writings shows that America is “no longer a democracy but a tyranny of the heavily armed.” Ehrenreich’s position contains a kernel of truth, but the real armed tyranny is the one Piven seeks to impose. We have a window into Ehrenreich’s thoughts on violent struggle from her book on the subject, Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. I attended a pr... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419114 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:57:20 +0100 4419114 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3082438&cid=t_298768_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F12%2F12%2Fwhats-wrong-with-positive-thinking%2F I absolutely love this post that Tamar Chansky, Ph.D., wrote specifically for Beyond Blue! You may remember her from another interview I did with her. She is a clinical psychologist, author of “Freeing Your Child From Negative Thinking” and other books, and a Huffington Post blogger. She’s an expert on negative thinking — how to turn it around to work for you. So I asked her to set us straight on what we should do with positive thinking, because the research is mixed. Voila! Here is her explanation, which I find VERY helpful, possibly brilliant. * * * Just when it seemed that the laws of modern life couldn’t get any more complicated–do you do facebook or just twitter: for the last time, what is twitter anyway? we seem to be getting conflicting advice abo... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3082438 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:35:25 +0100 3082438 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2977360&cid=t_298768_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F10%2Fbarbara-ehrenreich-on-the-sources-of-and-problems-with-dispositionism%2F From GRITtv: “Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book looks at the downside of looking on the bright side, which she says has undermined America.” * * * * * * * * * To read a sample of related Situationist posts, see “Barbara Ehrenreich – a Situationist,” “The Motivated Situation of Inequality and Discrimination,” “Thanksgiving as “System Justification”?,” “Cheering for the Underdog,” “Ayn Rand’s Dispositionism: The Situation of Ideas,” “Deep Capture – Part X,” “Promoting Dispositionism through Entertainment – Part I, Part II, & Part III,” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2977360 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:01:47 +0100 2977360 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2890715&cid=t_298768_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F10%2F14%2Fbarbara-ehrenreich-a-situationist%2F Barbara Ehrenreich’s terrific, highly situationist, new book is now on the shelves, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America. From a related Time Magazine article here’s a brief sample of her writing on the topic of optimism. * * * If you’re craving a quick hit of optimism, reading a news magazine is probably not the best way to go about finding it. As the life coaches and motivational speakers have been trying to tell us for more than a decade now, a healthy, positive mental outlook requires strict abstinence from current events in all forms. Instead, you should patronize sites like Happynews.com, where the top international stories of the week include “Jobless Man Finds Buried Treasure” and “Adorable &#821... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2890715 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:01:59 +0100 2890715 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=752809&cid=t_298768_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F24%2Fehrenreich-on-the-blame-the-cancer-patient-mentality%2F Filed under: Breast Cancer, All Cancers, Opinion, BlogsBarbara Ehrenreich, author, political activist and breast cancer survivor, writes on the "Blame the cancer patient" mentality this week on her blog in a piece titled, "What Causes Cancer: Probably Not You."Ehrenreich writes about the new study that came out last week about fruits and vegetables not preventing the recurrence of breast cancer:The perennial temptation to blame disease on sin or at least some grave moral failing just took another hit. A major new study shows that women on a virtuous low fat diet with an extraordinary abundance of fruits and veggies were no less likely to die of breast cancer than women who grazed more freely.Ehrenreich also criticizes the positive psychology movement, where any health setback can be conque... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=752809 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 752809