🥕Maynard Clark🌱

Don't make me laugh!
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2019

Busy time in the 2nd Great Awakening
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2019

They bounced around the matrix of their times, objecting and doubting hither and yon.

As the characters saw in their own experience, much here can become objects of objection, and the sociology and inner phenomenologies would make any social scientist busy for the entire book.

So will radio talk shows, but the wordsmithing is really quite skillful.

Learn about plant-based diets; stronger more scientific claims FOR plant-based diets can be found
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2019

Retrospectively, this TO ME seems like a great book of notes on how to live on plant-based (vegan) diets, for which I am most grateful. Maybe you will like this book. I have a positive, happy feeling about it. She COULD be faulted as having TRIED to do too much (and not all of that exceptionally well), but IMO it's a great handbook to put… Show more

Learn about plant-based diets; stronger more scientific claims FOR plant-based diets can be found
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2019

Retrospectively, this TO ME seems like a great book of notes on how to live on plant-based (vegan) diets, for which I am most grateful. Maybe you will like this book. I have a positive, happy feeling about it. She COULD be faulted as having TRIED to do too much (and not all of that exceptionally well), but IMO it's a great handbook to put in the center of one's kitchen, where one prepare family meals once or twice each day.

Evidence-based plant-based diets can be a defensible harms-reduction and risk reduction feeding strategy for family and self. I wish Silvia and her family the best, since this book seems to merge personal interest and family duty to optimize their healthy lifestyle. And maybe you can source more of your EVIDENCE-based VEGAN medical information from vegan RDs and MDs, such as those who write PCRM.org and NutritionFacts.org and VRG.org. Show less

I read this in Starbucks
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2019

This introductory volume is IMO a good primer on vegan nutrition and its reasons for a newbie, starter, or otherwise seriously interested good mind. The content is intelligent, factual, and NOT polemic. Good photographs illustrate the magazine, which seems to be one among a series of maybe 8-10 such special magazine issues on vegan nutrition and practice.

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I read this in Starbucks
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2019

This introductory volume is IMO a good primer on vegan nutrition and its reasons for a newbie, starter, or otherwise seriously interested good mind. The content is intelligent, factual, and NOT polemic. Good photographs illustrate the magazine, which seems to be one among a series of maybe 8-10 such special magazine issues on vegan nutrition and practice.

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Aggression in Dogs: Practical Management, Prevention & Behaviour Modification
Paperback – October 1, 2004
by Brenda Aloff (Author)

Canine Body Language: A Photographic Guide Interpreting the Native Language of the Domestic Dog
by Brenda Aloff

North and South (Amazon Classics Edition) Kindle Edition
by Elizabeth Gaskell
AmazonClassics (February 27, 2018)

The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins, edited by Tamara Awerbuch, Maynard Clark and Peter Taylor (2018)

Richard Levins (1930-2016) was an ecologist, evolutionary biologist, biomathematician, philosopher of science, complexity theorist, Marxist, and one-time tropical farmer. Key to all aspects of his thinking was a dialectical logic of process and change. His work provides a framework for the understanding of crises in environment and society and their analytic… Show more

The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins, edited by Tamara Awerbuch, Maynard Clark and Peter Taylor (2018)

Richard Levins (1930-2016) was an ecologist, evolutionary biologist, biomathematician, philosopher of science, complexity theorist, Marxist, and one-time tropical farmer. Key to all aspects of his thinking was a dialectical logic of process and change. His work provides a framework for the understanding of crises in environment and society and their analytic relationship with capitalism and imperialism, as well as the tools for the critique of biological determinist justifications for the existing structures of power. This essay collection honors Levins by carrying forward his work developing understanding of the dialectics of nature and society.
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John Vandermeer, Objects of intellectual interest have real life impacts: Ecology (and more) of Richard Levins

Dialectics in Wholistic Research
Bodini, Dialectics of sustainability
Schwartzman, Dialectics of biospheric evolution
Muñoz-Rubio, Dialectics and neo-Lamarckianism against fetishism of genes
Chaves, Dialectics of malaria bednet use in sub-Saharan Africa
Wallis, Richard Levins and dialectical thinking
Taylor, Changing science in heterogeneous environments

Political Ecology and Health
Boucher, Class and industrial revolution in agriculture
Wallace et al, Did neoliberalizing West Africa’s forests produce a vaccine-resistant Ebola?
Possas, Martins and Homma, Dealing with dengue, Zika, and related diseases in Brazil
Guzmán, Revolution, popular power, and disaster risk reduction in Cuba
Bruck, Terms we use politically often impede solutions to the environmental and related crises we face

Complex Systems
Taylor, Hidden complexity of simple models
Lane, Ecological skeletons: Excavating bare bones of community-structure using loop analysis
Heatwole, Trophic structure stability in insular biotic communities
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Real Kids Real Food Kids-Tested Recipes (Real Kids Series Book 1)
by Betsy Bragg (Author), Celia Elinson (Author), Heike Westphal (Editor), Kathleen Bryce (Photographer)

REALLY AWESOME easy-to-grasp health-supporting plant-based recipes tested repeatedly among inner city children
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2017
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REALLY AWESOME easy-to-grasp health-supporting lesson plans for inner city children

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Real Kids Real Food Kids-Tested Recipes (Real Kids Series Book 1)
by Betsy Bragg (Author), Celia Elinson (Author), Heike Westphal (Editor), Kathleen Bryce (Photographer)

REALLY AWESOME easy-to-grasp health-supporting plant-based recipes tested repeatedly among inner city children
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2017
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REALLY AWESOME easy-to-grasp health-supporting lesson plans for inner city children

Betsy Bragg's Real Kids Real Food Kids-Tested Recipes at a VERY affordable price provide a REALLY AWESOME easy-to-grasp health-supporting lesson plans tested and repeatedly demonstrated among inner city children. Show less

Justice Is Served: How And Why Christian Culture Inherently Supports Veganism
by Brad Johnson

Johnson begins with an analysis of our duties to serve justice, not merely to define what it is. He says that serving justice comes from character formation and an assumption of a duty to serve justice is a fair assumption. So far, so good - in the abstract. The late Harvard ethicist John Rawls wrote a book, Justice as Fairness. I recommend it. Philosophers around the world are still… Show more

Justice Is Served: How And Why Christian Culture Inherently Supports Veganism
by Brad Johnson

Johnson begins with an analysis of our duties to serve justice, not merely to define what it is. He says that serving justice comes from character formation and an assumption of a duty to serve justice is a fair assumption. So far, so good - in the abstract. The late Harvard ethicist John Rawls wrote a book, Justice as Fairness. I recommend it. Philosophers around the world are still rereading and citing it often. I know! https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/ Get it from Amazon.com - new or used!

Then Johnson illustrates on various fronts how veganism is a natural extension of justice - it's better for human health (he's written several books on this already), for the ecosystem, obviously for animals, and also for social justice and the broader 'distribution of goods and benefits' -
including happiness. He moves to build a case that this implied duty (I'll call it that because others have struggled with explicit and implied duties) is 'especially [compelling] within a Christian worldview' (but I won't debate that in the context of world religions; if a Christian woujld wish all persons to support a duty to be good, wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone - even those with different world views - practiced a duty to be good. I wouldn't want to make 'duty to be good' a sectarian 'characteristic' (though some vegetarians and vegans have questioned 'specifically Christian' advocacy for 'being vegetarian' or vegan. Show less

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Xin Wang, Susan Hellerstein, Lei Hou, Liying Zou, Yan F. Ruan, Weiyuan ZhangBMC pregnancy and childbirth

MSC cited for signifcant contributions and citation.
Caesarean section rate has risen rapidly in China. This retrospective study estimates caesarean section rates and indications by hospital facility level in Mainland China to study reasons contributing to high… Show more

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Xin Wang, Susan Hellerstein, Lei Hou, Liying Zou, Yan F. Ruan, Weiyuan ZhangBMC pregnancy and childbirth

MSC cited for signifcant contributions and citation.
Caesarean section rate has risen rapidly in China. This retrospective study estimates caesarean section rates and indications by hospital facility level in Mainland China to study reasons contributing to high rates.
Methods: This cross-sectional hospital-based study collected data from 39 hospitals in three geographical regions in China, covering 14 different provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, including 20 tertiary health hospitals and 19 secondary hospitals. Data from all women who gave birth at these hospitals during 2011 were included.ResultsA total of 112,138 women who gave birth after 24 weeks of gestation were surveyed. Of these pregnancies, 54.5% (61,084 cases) resulted in caesarean section, non-indicated caesarean section accounted for 38.4% of caesarean sections. Overall caesarean section rates were higher at the tertiary level hospitals (55.9%) compared to the secondary level hospitals (50.9%). The secondary level hospitals had higher rates of non-indicated caesarean section (48.9% of caesarean sections) compared to tertiary level hospitals (34.5% of caesarean sections). The rate of caesarean section on maternal request was higher in the secondary hospitals (16.6%) than in the tertiary hospitals (10%) (P < 0.001), as well as the caesarean section rate for CPD prior to labour. Operative vaginal deliveries were overall rare (1.2%) with 90.9% (1200/1320 cases) performed in the tertiary hospitals.ConclusionsCaesarean section on maternal request accounts for a large portion of China’s high caesarean section rate, especially in the secondary hospitals. The first step to reduced caesarean section rates is to decrease the number of non-indicated caesarean sections.
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Road Transport System in Southeast Asia; Problems and Economic Solutions.

Kaffashi S, Shamsudin M. N, Clark M. S, Sidique S. F, Radam A. Road Transport System in Southeast Asia; Problems and Economic Solutions. Current World Environment 2016;11(1). 0973-4929 (Print); 2320-8031 (Online)
Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/vol11no1/road-transport-system-in-southeast-asia-problems-and-economic-solutions/ and http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=13543

Sara Kaffashi, Mad Nasir… Show more

Road Transport System in Southeast Asia; Problems and Economic Solutions.

Kaffashi S, Shamsudin M. N, Clark M. S, Sidique S. F, Radam A. Road Transport System in Southeast Asia; Problems and Economic Solutions. Current World Environment 2016;11(1). 0973-4929 (Print); 2320-8031 (Online)
Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/vol11no1/road-transport-system-in-southeast-asia-problems-and-economic-solutions/ and http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=13543

Sara Kaffashi, Mad Nasir Shamsudin, Maynard S. Clark, Shaufique Fahmi Sidique, and Alias Radam
http://www.cwejournal.org/vol11no1/road-transport-system-in-southeast-asia-problems-and-economic-solutions/

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.11.1.02

Abstract:
In Southeast Asian countries (SEA), road transport accounts for the main energy consumption and CO2 emission. Air pollution is a major concern in densely populated cities such as Bangkok, Manila, and Kuala Lumpur. The main objective of this paper is to give insights on trends of transport development, car ownership, and CO2 emissions in Southeast Asia. This study also attempts to review the successful transportation policies around the globe and to introduce the possible instruments that can help reduce air pollution in Southeast Asian countries. Economic instruments to estimate the benefits of a cleaner environment due to new policies are introduced as well. The results of this research could help policy makers consider approaches that could internalize external costs of transportation and maximize the societal welfare.

Keywords:
Southeast Asia; transportation; car ownership; CO2 emission; economic methods; societal welfare Show less

Volume 56, November 2016, Pages 274–290.
doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.05.005

Highlights
• This research studies the mode choice of car commuters in Klang Valley, Malaysia.
• Introducing a congestion fee has the largest impact in the modal shift of car commuters.
• Public transport’s access and frequency obtained highest value between respondents.
• People with longer commute time with car and bus have more WTP to save commute time.
• Through suggested transport… Show more

Volume 56, November 2016, Pages 274–290.
doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.05.005

Highlights
• This research studies the mode choice of car commuters in Klang Valley, Malaysia.
• Introducing a congestion fee has the largest impact in the modal shift of car commuters.
• Public transport’s access and frequency obtained highest value between respondents.
• People with longer commute time with car and bus have more WTP to save commute time.
• Through suggested transport policies 70% modal shift among current car users is observed.

In Malaysia, transportation accounts for almost 70% of carbon monoxide emissions. This study sought to discover whether intelligently changing policies for the private and public transport sectors can affect mode choice of private car owners in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. Results of a random parameter logit model identified the most significant parameters affecting respondents’ utility measures. These were introducing a congestion fee in private transport mode; and also access, comfort and the frequency of the available public transport. Respondents’ marginal value estimates showed that they are willing to pay up to 175% of their hourly wage to have a more frequent and more accessible public transport. Moreover, the value of travel time showed that persons with longer commute time by car and bus are willing to pay more to save travel time. This is estimated about 25–50% of hourly wage of respondents. Simulation of results indicate that introducing the congestion fee has the largest impact both in modal shift and in reducing the number of cars used in the Klang Valley area. Overall results of this study suggested that any government intervention through innovative transport policy implementation such as pricing and providing more efficient public transport could result in 70% modal shift among current car users to public transport.

Keywords
Innovative transport policy implementation; Choice experiment; Random parameter logit; Commuter mode shift Show less

Exploring visitors' willingness to pay to generate revenues for managing the National Elephant Conservation Center in Malaysia. Forest Policy and Economics (Impact Factor: 1.81). 04/2015; DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2015.03.004
Kaffashi S., Yacob M.R., Clark M.S., Radam A., Mamat M.F.

Abstract:
Financial sustainability of protected areas is one of the main challenges of management. Financial self-sufficiency is an important element in improving conservation effort in these areas. This… Show more

Exploring visitors' willingness to pay to generate revenues for managing the National Elephant Conservation Center in Malaysia. Forest Policy and Economics (Impact Factor: 1.81). 04/2015; DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2015.03.004
Kaffashi S., Yacob M.R., Clark M.S., Radam A., Mamat M.F.

Abstract:
Financial sustainability of protected areas is one of the main challenges of management. Financial self-sufficiency is an important element in improving conservation effort in these areas. This study seeks to review best practices in recreational fee systems in different countries and to find a relevant entry fee for a wildlife sanctuary in Malaysia. The revenue of the National Elephant Conservation Center (NECC) in Kuala Gandah, Malaysia, comes from several sources, including the national government, but all these budgetary sources are strained by tighter public budgets and greater demands. The present study investigates the introduction of visitor entrance fees to supplement an otherwise inadequate budget for supporting the operational costs of the sanctuary. Factor analysis and a double-bounded contingent valuation method were combined to estimate tourists' willingness to pay (WTP) the proposed entrance fee. Factor analysis showed that respondents' motivation to support the NECC with user fees is conditioned by their direct experiences with elephants, their satisfaction with NECC's educational programs and services, and other experiences it gives to users. The WTP model considered respondents' four motivation factors with their sociodemographic characteristics. Since NECC visitors arrive from both within and outside the country, this study suggests to center managers a two-tier fee structure (residents vs. nonresidents of Malaysia), based upon mean WTP estimates. This study further suggests that revenue from such an entrance fee for NECC could support the Center's management and development costs. Show less

Book Chapter: A Side We Didn’t See or Hear. in Dinshah, S. (2014) Powerful Vegan Messages, 2014

H. Jay Dinshah (1933-2000) was a motivational speaker, lifelong vegetarian, vegan since 1957, founder of American Vegan Society in 1960, editor of Ahimsa magazine, and president of AVS for forty years. Jay was especially skilled at planning conferences and encouraging people to get involved. After touring a slaughterhouse in 1957, he vowed to work every day until all the slaughterhouses are… Show more

Book Chapter: A Side We Didn’t See or Hear. in Dinshah, S. (2014) Powerful Vegan Messages, 2014

H. Jay Dinshah (1933-2000) was a motivational speaker, lifelong vegetarian, vegan since 1957, founder of American Vegan Society in 1960, editor of Ahimsa magazine, and president of AVS for forty years. Jay was especially skilled at planning conferences and encouraging people to get involved. After touring a slaughterhouse in 1957, he vowed to work every day until all the slaughterhouses are closed.

Anne Dinshah is the daughter of Jay and Freya Dinshah. She is a motivational speaker and lifelong vegan who is currently vice-president of AVS and managing editor of American Vegan magazine. She is a professional rowing coach and "the girl next door." Her son Clint joins Jay and Anne on the cover of Powerful Vegan Messages. Show less

Fat Management through Diet Change

ABSTRACT

Uniquely vegetarian restaurants have been around for a very long time. Mohandas Gandhi reported (in his 1925 biography) running into a vegetarian restaurant in London during his days there as a law student between 1888 and 1891. Over the past several decades, neighborhood outreach in schools, temples, churches, and community centers has introduced people to health-supporting vegetarian food choices that many might not have tried on their own. Experience with delicious… Show more

ABSTRACT

Uniquely vegetarian restaurants have been around for a very long time. Mohandas Gandhi reported (in his 1925 biography) running into a vegetarian restaurant in London during his days there as a law student between 1888 and 1891. Over the past several decades, neighborhood outreach in schools, temples, churches, and community centers has introduced people to health-supporting vegetarian food choices that many might not have tried on their own. Experience with delicious vegetarian food – including today’s lighter cuisine (rather than the heavier countercultural beans and grains) provides a “health-supporting attraction” that draws people to vegetarian restaurants. Individual motives vary, and how we express those intuitions, values and convictions, and practices varies considerably. In other words, what it means to be vegetarian or vegan varies widely across the practicing and wannabe populations, so selling to ideas can be problematic, while all agree that, depending on individual tastes, the experience of delicious vegetarian (and vegan) foods is a charm and a delight. Serving vegans and vegetarians can be challenging for anyone who is unwilling to fully accept beliefs, values, and realizations that underlie the market's decisions to see progressive decisions to be vegetarians. Those who support the underlying process can attract those markets, while those who merely include vegetarian options can undercut vegans' veto vote in mixed groups that dine out together, but they may not as effectively compete for the long-term repeat business of true vegans. Show less

Conference Paper: Asian Legacy and Futures: Focusing on Vegan Products and Services.
Conference: Seeds of Hope: Global Future of Vegan and Vegetarian Institutions
Maynard S. Clark (2013)

Conference Paper: Asian Legacy and Futures: Focusing on Vegan Products and Services.
Conference: Seeds of Hope: Global Future of Vegan and Vegetarian Institutions
Maynard S. Clark (2013)

World Vegan Day is an annual event celebrated by vegans around the world on 1 November. The Day was established in 1994 by Louise Wallis, then President & Chair of The Vegan Society UK.

2011 marks the 67th anniversary of the term 'vegan' (and thus the verbally clarified concept of 'veganism' and of the Vegan Society).

A comparable vegetarian event is the global World Vegetarian Day on 1 October, which opens Vegetarian Awareness Month, also known as Reverence for All Life Month… Show more

World Vegan Day is an annual event celebrated by vegans around the world on 1 November. The Day was established in 1994 by Louise Wallis, then President & Chair of The Vegan Society UK.

2011 marks the 67th anniversary of the term 'vegan' (and thus the verbally clarified concept of 'veganism' and of the Vegan Society).

A comparable vegetarian event is the global World Vegetarian Day on 1 October, which opens Vegetarian Awareness Month, also known as Reverence for All Life Month, which is completed by World Vegan Day on 1 November. Show less

Abstract:

The Economic Challenges for Iran in 2011 included the dependence upon the fungibility of money when they could have produced everything they needed at home. Despite their very large land mass touching several volatile political states, their failure to modernize appropriately - as evidence by their rush to nuclear power while trying to exploit oil as completely as possible - with a seemingly top-down decisionmaking process that manipulates markets to produce the illusion of a… Show more

Abstract:

The Economic Challenges for Iran in 2011 included the dependence upon the fungibility of money when they could have produced everything they needed at home. Despite their very large land mass touching several volatile political states, their failure to modernize appropriately - as evidence by their rush to nuclear power while trying to exploit oil as completely as possible - with a seemingly top-down decisionmaking process that manipulates markets to produce the illusion of a state professing allegiance to religiously defined values - is a model of theocracy that many modern American social dreamers on both sides of the ideological political fence(s) may do well to consider. Show less

Starting a Veg Restaurant - Food for Thought

Read about the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research at the Trust's website at www.drhadwentrust.org and the Wikipedia article about Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Hadwen_Trust.

My work explored in depth the history, philosophy, policies, and processes of Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research.

Dr. Richard Alan Cash is an American global health researcher, public health physician, internist, and Prince Mahidol Award/Medal winner. He is a Senior Lecturer in International Health and Director of the Program on Ethical Issues in International Health in the Department of Global Health & Population of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Prior to joining HSPH full-time, he was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Institute for International Development (previously HIID, now CID) and… Show more

Dr. Richard Alan Cash is an American global health researcher, public health physician, internist, and Prince Mahidol Award/Medal winner. He is a Senior Lecturer in International Health and Director of the Program on Ethical Issues in International Health in the Department of Global Health & Population of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Prior to joining HSPH full-time, he was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Institute for International Development (previously HIID, now CID) and part-time at HSPH . He is gifted at figuring out how to show others how to do much with very little.

Cash began his international career over 40 years ago when he was assigned by NIAID of the NIH to the Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory (CRL) in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now the ICDDR,B in Dhaka, Bangladesh). While there, he and his colleagues developed and conducted the first clinical trials of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) in adult and pediatric cholera patients and patients with other infectious causes of diarrhea. This technology matches the volume of fluid losses from dehydration patients with the volume they consume so the fluid replacement packets greatly reduce or completely replace IV therapy (particularly where it is not feasible or unavailable), then the only current treatment for cholera. Discoveries in oral rehydration therapy (ORT) [* have been estimated to have saved over 50 million lives worldwide. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates are that at least 60 million children have been spared painful deaths because of ORT. They also conducted the first field trials of ORT, the first community-based trials of ORT, and the first use of amino acids (glycine) as an additional substrate. In the late 1970s, Cash worked with BRAC (the world's largest NGO in terms of programs and personnel) on their OTEP (Oral Therapy Extension Programme), which taught over 13 million mothers and caregivers how to prepare and use ORT at home with a "pinch and scoop" method. Show less

Conference Paper: How Vegetarians can use Social Media (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, mySpace, and more) to make relevant connections and to communicate publicly. (July 10, 2009)
Conference: 2009 North American Vegetarian Society’s annual Vegetarian Summerfest, Johnstown, PA

Manfred S. Guttmacher (1898–1966) was a forensic psychiatrist and chief medical officer at the Court Clinic for Baltimore City's Supreme Bench, who authored America's Last King: An Interpretation of the Madness of George III (establishing his reputation as a medical historian), and numerous other works.

Dane Gaskill Prugh, MD (3 June 1918 – 6 October 1990), a well-respected child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, with training and experience in pediatrics, who pioneered in demonstrating the necessity for wider knowledge, understanding, and experience in persons who evaluate such programs.

His research indicated that cheerful and familiar hospital stays for children are shorter and reduce difficulties adapting to the hospital when physical… Show more

Dane Gaskill Prugh, MD (3 June 1918 – 6 October 1990), a well-respected child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, with training and experience in pediatrics, who pioneered in demonstrating the necessity for wider knowledge, understanding, and experience in persons who evaluate such programs.

His research indicated that cheerful and familiar hospital stays for children are shorter and reduce difficulties adapting to the hospital when physical surroundings. Related studies have shown that children who have the support of family members during prolonged hospitalizations are less likely to suffer from learning problems and delinquency later on.

Dane Prugh is sometimes cited as a leader in developing play therapy, and of affirmative action at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a school which annually names a recipient for the Dane Prugh Teaching Award.

Dane Prugh had done psychiatry in the Children’s Medical Center in Brookline, then ran the inpatient unit at Rochester for a number of years. Dane argued that the problem was not so much the ineffectiveness of treatment but the inability of finding placements for the children back in the community when they were ready to leave so that the gains in mental health they had made during treatment rapidly dissipated when they became chronically hospitalized. Dane later left for Colorado. Show less

Daniel I. Wikler is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. He has been a core faculty member in the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health (PEH) since its founding. His current research interests are ethical issues in population and international health, including the allocation of health resources, health research involving human subjects… Show more

Daniel I. Wikler is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. He has been a core faculty member in the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health (PEH) since its founding. His current research interests are ethical issues in population and international health, including the allocation of health resources, health research involving human subjects, organ transplant ethics, and ethical dilemmas arising in public health practice, and he teaches several courses each year. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.

Professor Wikler’s published work addresses many issues in bioethics, including issues in reproduction, transplantation, and end-of-life decision-making. His current interests address bioethical issues arising in a population level and global perspective. His book series, Studies in Philosophy and Health Policy, was published by Cambridge University Press, as was From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice, co-authored by Prof. Wikler and three other philosophers: Allen D. Buchanan, Norman Daniels, and Daniel W. Brock. His most current research and writing topics include Compensation and Redress, Ethics Committees, Research Experimentation upon Human Subjects, Informed Consent, Patient Selection, Poverty, and War-Time Human Rights Abuses and Atrocities. Show less

Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of philosophy at Duke University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. He taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of Minnesota before joining Duke's faculty in 2002 as professor of public policy and philosophy. He has written six books covering such topics as Marx, applied ethics (especially bio-medical ethics), social justice, and international… Show more

Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of philosophy at Duke University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. He taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of Minnesota before joining Duke's faculty in 2002 as professor of public policy and philosophy. He has written six books covering such topics as Marx, applied ethics (especially bio-medical ethics), social justice, and international justice, including the foundations of international law.
Buchanan served as staff philosopher for the President's Commission on Medical Ethics in 1983. From 1996 to 2000 he served on the Advisory Council for the National Human Genome Research Institute. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution. Show less

Captain Josiah W. Macy, Jr. (1838?-1876) was an American Sea Captain and philanthropist.

The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation was endowed in the name of Captain Josiah W. Macy, Jr., by his daughter (Catherine "Kate" Everit Macy), in 1930. Time Magazine in 1930 reported[3] that the Foundation created a fellowship fund for the expenses of Albert Einstein's assistant. "First incumbent will be Dr. Einstein's good friend and familiar, Dr. Walter Mayer, mathematician at the University of Vienna."

Janet Regina Hyland, aka J. R. Hyland, (Nov 30, 1933 - Oct 9, 2007), was a non-fiction and philosophical author. Hyland read the Bible as a story of the human failure to fulfill a Divinely-assigned role as compassionate caregiver for other species.
Her books speak to the goal of discovering during Bible reading a motivation to bring about changes in traditional Christian attitudes towards animals. She talk about the biblical teaching that both humans and animals are ""nefesh chaya," that… Show more

Janet Regina Hyland, aka J. R. Hyland, (Nov 30, 1933 - Oct 9, 2007), was a non-fiction and philosophical author. Hyland read the Bible as a story of the human failure to fulfill a Divinely-assigned role as compassionate caregiver for other species.
Her books speak to the goal of discovering during Bible reading a motivation to bring about changes in traditional Christian attitudes towards animals. She talk about the biblical teaching that both humans and animals are ""nefesh chaya," that is, beings who live because of the soul infused by their Creator.
Several religious vegetarians have written selectively about underlying themes in Hyland's viewpoints, but few or none have done a systematic treatment of her overall worldview. Ophthalmologist Dr. Stephen Kaufman of the Christian Vegetarian Association writes in one draft of his book, Good News for All Creation, of the Jungian dualism in Hyland's worldview: Show less

Hom Jay Dinshah (November 2, 1933 – June 8, 2000) was founder and president of the American Vegan Society and editor of its publication, Ahimsa magazine (1960–2000).

Carola Blitzman Eisenberg, MD, now retired but widely involved in human rights work through Physicians for Human Rights, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is the former Dean of Students of MIT (the first woman to hold that position at MIT), then Dean of Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School (1978–90). Licensed to practice psychiatry in Maryland and Massachusetts, she was Lecturer in the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and is Honorary Psychiatrist with Boston's… Show more

Carola Blitzman Eisenberg, MD, now retired but widely involved in human rights work through Physicians for Human Rights, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is the former Dean of Students of MIT (the first woman to hold that position at MIT), then Dean of Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School (1978–90). Licensed to practice psychiatry in Maryland and Massachusetts, she was Lecturer in the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and is Honorary Psychiatrist with Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital.

She taught at Johns Hopkins Medical School from 1958-1967, then was MIT staff psychiatrist at the Student Health Service and MIT Dean of Students from 1972-78, the 1st woman in that position and the first on the Academic Council, its highest academic governing authority. In 1978, she because HMS Dean for Student Affairs and served for 12 years (1978–90). From 1990-92, she was Director of International Programs for Medical Students at HMS.

She has consulted with the Pan American Health Organization(1979), Swarthmore College (1984), Mental Health Division of WHO (1985), Committee on Human Rights and Medical Practice, American College of Physicians (1989–93), NIH (1992), Office of the Surgeon General, HHS (1992), National Research Council of the National Academy of Science and The National Academy of Engineering (1992–96), and NIH (1995–98).

She has been a member of human rights missions to El Salvador, Chile, and Paraguay. She founded and served as Vice President of Physicians for Human Rights and President of the Examiners Club of Boston. She served on the Committee on Women in Science and Engineering of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences and is on the Advisory Committee to the Office of Research on Women’s Health of NIH.

She is active in human rights issues and a member of The Cambridge-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Oral History Project of the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine. Show less

~200 Wikipedia pages started from scratch, and hundreds of others edited (at various levels of intensity; some edits were merely a day's worth of minor edits). Topics include Harvard Faculty (>100 articles), famous figures, vegetarianism and veganism, and miscellany I knew well enough to research (and find sufficient documentation for the articles' organization) until I could write publication quality articles. Yeoman Editor rank. Attended one Wikipedia world gathering.

Cedarville University is a private, co-educational liberal arts university located in Cedarville, Ohio, United States.
At its founding, the school was affiliated with the conservative General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America.[1] Today, Cedarville is an independent Baptist school known for its adherence to the conservative or (evangelical) tradition. Across all academic disciplines, student life is influenced by codes of personal conduct, community service, and… Show more

Cedarville University is a private, co-educational liberal arts university located in Cedarville, Ohio, United States.
At its founding, the school was affiliated with the conservative General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America.[1] Today, Cedarville is an independent Baptist school known for its adherence to the conservative or (evangelical) tradition. Across all academic disciplines, student life is influenced by codes of personal conduct, community service, and theological study.
Chartered by the state of Ohio and accredited by the Ohio Board of Regents, Cedarville University is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Show less

Leon Eisenberg (1922 – September 15, 2009) was a social psychiatrist, child psychiatrist, and medical educator who "transformed child psychiatry by advocating research into developmental problems" (David DeMaso). Leon Eisenberg was credited with a number of "firsts" in medicine and psychiatry - in child psychiatry, autism, and the controversies around autism, randomized clinical trials (RCTs), social medicine, global health, affirmative action, and evidence-based psychiatry. Having retired in… Show more

Leon Eisenberg (1922 – September 15, 2009) was a social psychiatrist, child psychiatrist, and medical educator who "transformed child psychiatry by advocating research into developmental problems" (David DeMaso). Leon Eisenberg was credited with a number of "firsts" in medicine and psychiatry - in child psychiatry, autism, and the controversies around autism, randomized clinical trials (RCTs), social medicine, global health, affirmative action, and evidence-based psychiatry. Having retired in 1967 from Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Child and adolescent psychiatry (he was the chairman of the department after Leo Kanner) and from Harvard Medical School in 1988, he continued as The Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine and Psychiatry Emeritus (and actively serving - lecturing, researching and writing, and mentoring ) in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of the Harvard Medical School in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston until a few months before his death in 2009. He received both his BA and MD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, taught previously at both the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, and was Chief of Psychiatry at both Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston during formative periods in psychiatry for each institution. Show less

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