This thesis contributes to the historiography of women in medicine by exploring, in-depth, one small specialty, public health, which, from 1974, offered women doctors working within it equality of opportunity with men for career development. At that time, most women doctors working in the English health service were relegated to junior or support roles, their particular needs for family-friendly working environments being largely ignored. This research examines the reasons behind the development of these equal opportunities and the subsequent rapid trajectory of women doctors in public health, comparing it with the much slower progress made by female colleagues in hospital medicine and general practice. In considering the factors helping or hindering women’s advance in medicine from 1974, it proposes that these changes occurred in public health because the specialty was not tied to the pyramidal model of medicine, developed in the 1930s by senior male doctors for male doctors, which dominated other specialties and which stifled progress. An innovative feature of this research, following women’s entry to consultant and training posts in proportions equal to men in public health, is to highlight their subsequent move into major strategic roles within the health service management structure from the late 1980s. Interviews with senior public health men and women doctors help shed light on how this move was achieved and how women in strategic positions were able to combine high profile careers with domestic responsibilities. Also includes five transcipts of interviews : The five interviewees, whose career stories are presented here - Professor Sian Griffiths, Professor Sheila Adam, Professor Mala Rao, Dr Sue Atkinson and Professor Fiona Sim - were selected, with the help of the Faculty of Public Health, for their considerable achievement in strategic leadership roles in public health practice, whether in leading complex organisation, chairing national policy committees, leading international work, promoting education and development.

The modern global agrifood system has had significant negative impacts on consumers and producers. This has precipitated the rise of local food systems that are purported to improve the health and livelihoods of consumers and producers. High expectations have led to significant public and private resources dedicated to the development of local food systems. Despite this, there has been little systematic research exploring the social and institutional conditions that facilitate or frustrate local food system development. Using a comparative case study approach, this study explored the ways local structural conditions, collective action, food system policies, and the political context affect the development of local food systems. Findings suggested truly robust local food system development requires either collective action or public policies and are more likely to exist and be successful depending on the political climate and the balance of power between land use interests in the community.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:29:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Zilberman Vainer.pdf: 3889501 bytes, checksum: 3832c3bcef618dbd8664d7ba3e852499 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-08 / This Masters thesis is intended to review the so-called pertinência temática [subject matter pertinence, as a free translation], a specific legal-interest demonstration requirement introduced by the Federal Supreme Court, and which it imposed on some of the entities that have jurisdiction to enforce concentrate constitutional control. Indeed, the aforesaid requirement actually limits concentrate constitutional control, insofar as the Federal Supreme Court thus avoids review of relevant constitutional matters, simply by denying further processing to actions on grounds of lack of legal interest to sue.The subject-matter requirement becomes all the more deleterious when it reaches strict actions involving concentrate control, where, typically, there are neither parties nor a claim of one s interest, and where there is no litigation in the strict sense of the term. As a matter of fact, the subject matter of such actions is but the in abstracto determination of constitutional grounds of a given rule, with a view at safeguarding the system from rules that might otherwise violate the Federal Constitution. To that effect, this work begins with a brief introduction that deals with the main issues and features of concentrate control and reviews base-control systems (of the USA, Austria and France) with particular emphasis on their influence on the Brazilian Law. Likewise, this work provides a summarized background on constitutional control in Brazil and a critical discussion on each appropriate entity, particularly in the light of the Federal Supreme Court case law and best-reputed collection of legal studies. This work is completed with some recommendations intended to change the current scenario, such as to lessen access-limitation to the entities that have jurisdiction to enforce concentrate constitutional control and to assure that the Federal Supreme Court s highest purpose to safeguard the Constitution is attained in an effective manner / A presente dissertação de mestrado tem como objetivo realizar uma análise da pertinência temática, exigência oriunda do Supremo Tribunal Federal que impõe a alguns dos legitimados para o controle concentrado de constitucionalidade a demonstração de interesse de agir específico. De fato, referida exigência se apresenta como um fator limitativo ao controle concentrado de constitucionalidade, a partir do momento em que importantes questões constitucionais deixam de ser analisadas sob o fundamento da ausência de interesse de agir. A exigência da pertinência temática torna-se ainda mais questionável no âmbito dos processos objetivos de controle concentrado, onde, via de regra, não há defesa de interesse próprios, não se verificando um litígio propriamente dito. Com efeito, tais processos possuem como objeto tão-somente a verificação in abstracto da constitucionalidade de determinado ato normativo, no intuito de proteger a Constituição, buscando preservar o sistema de normas contrárias à Carta Magna. Ademais, o nítido desenvolvimento do controle concentrado de constitucionalidade no Brasil em contraposição à análise, pelo Supremo, da pertinência temática (que dificulta o acesso de alguns legitimados ao controle concentrado) conduz à discussão no sentido de se identificar o papel do Supremo Tribunal Federal nos dias atuais. Isso porque o número assustador de processos que desembocam no Tribunal Maior todos os anos acarretou a necessidade de se modificar o sistema atual, principalmente com relação ao grande número de competências desta Corte. Nesse sentido, são apresentadas algumas propostas para a modificação deste panorama, de modo a redefinir as prioridades do Supremo Tribunal Federal, diminuindo a limitação no acesso dos legitimados ao controle concentrado de constitucionalidade, no intuito de resgatar a sua principal função: a guarda da Constituição

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:23:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Guilherme Strenger.pdf: 531300 bytes, checksum: 77944ef63f946f6a29c8b75f978853a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-11-07 / This study aims to analyze the principle of reasonable duration of the proceedings towards the so-called effectiveness in contemporary civil procedure. In this sense, the analysis of constitutional principles will support a better understanding of the modern scientism procedure, guided by the obedience to Constitution. Thus, reflections turn over on what represents an expeditious and effective process, so focusing on the reasonable length without sacrificing legal certainty. Also, it is included in the study the Electronic process of law and its sue activities. Thereat, the goal is to evaluate in what ways or points the Electronic process of law and electronic activities in process of law may contribute for the principle of reasonable duration of the proceedings in sue activities. Moreover, it is presented some observations about this up-to-date phenomenon; and finally it is concluded that an expeditious and effective process does not necessarily means that the process of law shall be electronically managed / Este estudo tem como finalidade a análise do princípio da razoável duração do processo frente ao que se objetiva denominar efetividade no processo civil contemporâneo. A análise de princípios constitucionais dará suporte para melhor compreensão do cientificismo processual moderno pautado pela obediência à Constituição. Desta forma, a reflexão gira em torno do que representa um processo célere e efetivo de modo a privilegiar a razoável duração sem que se ofenda a segurança jurídica. Neste sentido, analisa-se, ainda e especialmente, o processo eletrônico e seus atos processuais. Com isso, pretende-se discutir até que ponto a introdução do processo eletrônico em nosso sistema e a prática de atos processuais de maneira eletrônica pode efetivar a aplicação do princípio constitucional da razoável duração do processo. Nessa toada tem-se a apresentação de críticas e visões sobre essa nova realidade para se concluir que um processo mais célere não necessariamente representa um processo conduzido de maneira eletrônica

This dissertation examines from a Vattimian perspective the challenge that euthanasia and assisted suicide posed to the sanctity of life ethos in Canada from 1972–2005. Gianni Vattimo’s central themes—metaphysics (absolute values), “event of being” (lived experiences that call absolute values into question), and passive-reactive nihilism (the use of “masks” or “disguises” to prevent the dissolution of metaphysics)—are pivotal to understanding the way religious and secular beliefs are interwoven within ethical, medical, legal and political discourses in Canada. Vattimo’s philosophico-ethical approach was specifically chosen because as a theoretical tool, it helps to illuminate the presence, weakening, and resilience of metaphysics in discourses surrounding an intentionally hastened death. To demonstrate how Vattimo’s major themes apply empirically to the research, a social constructionist approach was adopted in the form of a discourse analysis. Particular emphasis was placed on an examination of the three most important cases of death and dying in Canada, namely, Nancy B., Sue Rodriguez and Robert Latimer. The bulk of the evidence suggests that when these “events of being” challenged the sanctity doctrine as the ultimate foundation for life-terminating decisions, ethical, medical, legal and political discourses converged to promote three normative positions or authorizing discourses used in the tradition of Christian ethics: (1) stewardship—the view that since life is a “loan from God,” sacred, and of infinite worth, death cannot be intentionally hastened (“nature must take its course”); (2) value in prolonged suffering—the view that since suffering possesses transcendent meaning or purpose, its prolongation is justified in individual circumstances; and (3) the “slippery slope”—the view that any weakening of the sanctity of life ethos inevitably harms or threatens the community. Generally speaking, religious and secular advocates of the sanctity of life ethos reacted similarly in cases involving an intentionally hastened death. In other words, both the religious and the secular embraced metaphysics (absolute values), condoned and rationalized the prolongation of suffering, and relied on the “slippery slope” as a “mask” to maintain the sanctity of human life as first principle. The research strongly suggests that Canada is still significantly indebted to Christian notions when it comes to discussions surrounding the decriminalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

This dissertation examines from a Vattimian perspective the challenge that euthanasia and assisted suicide posed to the sanctity of life ethos in Canada from 1972–2005. Gianni Vattimo’s central themes—metaphysics (absolute values), “event of being” (lived experiences that call absolute values into question), and passive-reactive nihilism (the use of “masks” or “disguises” to prevent the dissolution of metaphysics)—are pivotal to understanding the way religious and secular beliefs are interwoven within ethical, medical, legal and political discourses in Canada. Vattimo’s philosophico-ethical approach was specifically chosen because as a theoretical tool, it helps to illuminate the presence, weakening, and resilience of metaphysics in discourses surrounding an intentionally hastened death. To demonstrate how Vattimo’s major themes apply empirically to the research, a social constructionist approach was adopted in the form of a discourse analysis. Particular emphasis was placed on an examination of the three most important cases of death and dying in Canada, namely, Nancy B., Sue Rodriguez and Robert Latimer. The bulk of the evidence suggests that when these “events of being” challenged the sanctity doctrine as the ultimate foundation for life-terminating decisions, ethical, medical, legal and political discourses converged to promote three normative positions or authorizing discourses used in the tradition of Christian ethics: (1) stewardship—the view that since life is a “loan from God,” sacred, and of infinite worth, death cannot be intentionally hastened (“nature must take its course”); (2) value in prolonged suffering—the view that since suffering possesses transcendent meaning or purpose, its prolongation is justified in individual circumstances; and (3) the “slippery slope”—the view that any weakening of the sanctity of life ethos inevitably harms or threatens the community. Generally speaking, religious and secular advocates of the sanctity of life ethos reacted similarly in cases involving an intentionally hastened death. In other words, both the religious and the secular embraced metaphysics (absolute values), condoned and rationalized the prolongation of suffering, and relied on the “slippery slope” as a “mask” to maintain the sanctity of human life as first principle. The research strongly suggests that Canada is still significantly indebted to Christian notions when it comes to discussions surrounding the decriminalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

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