Redrawing Boundaries

Autism at 70--redrawing the boundaries.

safety can impede students’ ability to gain required procedural skills and to develop close relationships with patients. We strongly believe that educators should ensure that each clinical rotation is actually a course in a given discipline rather than simply a 1or 2-month period of clinical involvement or observation of clinical care. Extensive didactics and the use of new tools for evaluating...

Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration: Redrawing the Boundaries of Expertise

In order to enhance the ‘sustainability’ of brownfield urban regeneration it is increasingly argued that there needs to be a wholesale re-drawing of the boundaries of expertise. The original objectives of the sustainable development discourses included the idea that powers and responsibilities should be devolved away from professionals, bureaucrats, engineers, and scientists and given to empowe...

REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF MEDICINE: The Case for Social Determinants of Health

The Challenge of Making and Redrawing Boundaries: a Perspective on Socio-rhetorical Criticism

Introduction Formulating a perspective on the work of Vernon Robbins (Robbins 1996a) and (Robbins 1996b), I would like to link to the metaphor of boundaries which is evidently of great importance to Robbins and which he prefers over against the well known metaphor of texts as mirrors and windows. In his preface to New Boundaries in old territory (Robbins 1994:xif), he remarks that the choice fo...

Legal solutions to Ontario's organ shortage: redrawing the boundaries of consent.

[I]f a gift-of-life ethic is preferred and policy makers cannot solve the philosophical dispute over emotion in morality, a dispute that divides proponents of altruism and of routine procurement, then policy makers could judge whether the prevailing model of altruism has received a fair and sufficient test. This judgment would flow from an initial endorsement of altruism as a preferred public p...