MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE

Message from the Office of Nursing Policy.

Public Affairs Quarterly

The purpose of this essay is to offer criteria for the identification of propaganda as a type of discourse, and for the analysis and evaluation of argumentation used in propaganda.1 Ten essential characteristics (as well as several other typical properties) of propaganda as an identifiable type of discourse are given. Some advice is given on how to analyze argumentation in propaganda, and to re...

Mental Health in Public Affairs

research symposia which were in themselves the reports of working Parties held over the preceding fortnight. Some of them have been already printed in various journals, but this book will provide a welcome opportunity for these to be re-read and for some to be studied for the first time. It will also bring back happy memories to participants. The subjects covered partnership in mental health an...

Psychiatry, the law, and public affairs.

The law is a public affair. The involvement of psychiatrists and psychiatry in legal and judicial proceedings themselves, not to mention the ever-increasing media commentary, is an opportunity to educate the public, but it also entails the very real risk of compounding public misinformation and misgivings about our field. The American Psychiatric Association has both a professional staff Divisi...

Perspectives on coordination from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense/Health Affairs.

Many teams from each of the different military services, as well as numerous civilian agencies, were involved in providing care to the victims, survivors, and family members of the September 11th attacks. However, the different teams initially had difficulties with communication and command and control issues. This article describes the perspective from Health Affairs on coordination of those e...