Diaspora Walks: Small Lessons in Unlearning

Lessons from the retinal diaspora.

There are many rare and far flung retinal diseases which few of us will ever see in the oYce. One of these is Oguchi’s disease, a night blinding disorder in which patients can recover their sensitivity to dim light over several hours in darkness, only to lose it to a brief light exposure that hardly bleaches any visual pigment. The report in this issue by Yamamoto et al (p 000) shows that the S...

The ‘diaspora’ diaspora

As the use of ‘diaspora’ has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning has been stretched in various directions. This article traces the dispersion of the term in semantic, conceptual and disciplinary space; analyses three core elements that continue to be understood as constitutive of diaspora; assesses claims made by theorists of diaspora about a radical shift in perspective and a fundamen...

kurdish diaspora in central asia and caoucasus

در طول دو قرن گذشته و ظهور روسیه بعنوان قدرتی بزرگ در عرصه جهانی و شروع رقابت با سایر قدرت های بین المللی و منطقهای خصوصا با ایران و عثمانی این ئکشور تلاش کرده است تاد از جمعیت کردها در این کشورها در راستای منافع خود بهره برداری کند در قرون 18 و 19 بارها بخشی از کردها برعلیه امپراطوری عثمانی توسط این کشور مورد استفاده قرار گرفت خصوصا در جنگ های سال 1790تا 1798. این ججنگ ها م.جب شد که بخشی از کر...

Practical Lessons from the Small Bowel Bleeding Lesions: A Case Report on Small Bowel Cavernous Hemangioma

Unlearning in health care.

Learning in health care is essential if healthcare organisations are to tackle a challenging quality of care agenda. Yet while we know a reasonable amount about the nature of learning, how learning occurs, the forms it can take, and the routines that encourage it to happen within organisations, we know very little about the nature and processes of unlearning. We review the literature addressing...