No Place for Dying

No Place for Predators?

Braced for savagery and sacrifice, European settlers in the New World came to the Pacific Northwest to tame the final frontier, the last refuge of “dismal wilderness.” While colonists in the East were poisoning, shooting, and trapping cougars to extinction during the 1880s, hundreds of thousands of pioneers flooded into what would soon become the new state of Washington. Following the well-worn...

Ageing in place--dying in place: competing discourses for care of the dying in aged care policy.

Australian Government aged care policy documents emphasise healthy ageing. Even though death in the aged care setting is a common occurrence, minimal policy exists to underpin activities that surround dying in this setting. Issues and practices about caring well for the dying remain a hidden discourse in aged care policy, the literature and therefore in practice. A discourse analysis of aged ca...

No Place for the Teenager

Two and a half years ago the Ministry of Health asked the 15 regional hospital boards to expand their psychiatric facilities for adolescents. The National Association for Mental Health then collected detailed information about the boards' expansion plans. But late last year a further NAMH survey revealed that in the 2\ years since the Ministry's call there had been a national increase of only 3...

No place like HOME.

Open source processes: no place for politics?

Open source processes have attracted considerable attention recently. The underlying motivation for this surging interest is strikingly varied. Open source is not so much a precisely defined and delineated topic as an evolving, intrinsically ambiguous phenomenon. From a marginal, esoteric interest around ‘hacker’ sub-cultures (Turkle, 1985; Hannemyr, 1999), open source is emerging as a theme wi...