What role does gender have in shaping knowledge that underpins the practice of midwifery?

Midwifery is an ancient profession that continues to be practiced almost exclusively by women. This paper explores the role that millennia of gender exclusivity has had in shaping the knowledge that informs the profession. Prior to the Renaissance this knowledge was exclusively female, largely oral, tacit and intuitive whilst recognising childbearing as an important transformative period in a woman’s lifecycle. Male scientific enquiry in the seventeenth century into human anatomy extended to women’s bodies and childbirth and disrupted the female ways of knowing. Their positivist ontology focussing on the mechanics of childbirth created an opportunity for intervening in a normal process and receiving payment for it. The perceived structural superiority of a male obstetric ontology of childbirth has posed an existential threat to the midwifery profession. This paper concludes by discussing how 20^th century professional regulation of midwifery has encouraged midwives to use patriarchal structures and frameworks of knowledge to co-exist within the hegemonic biomedical model advocated by the majority of their obstetric colleagues.     

La resistencia al programa fuerte en la sociología del conocimiento: la asepsia científica y la amenaza del relativismo

In this article we defend the plausibility of adopting a Strong Program in the Sociology of Knowledge. We critically analyze various objections against it; in particular, we show that the auto-refutation charge is not decisive. We offer a Mertonian hypothesis to explain the reason why the Strong Program continues to be the target of very passionate attacks and mockery, despite its prima facie attractiveness and its affinity with contemporary epistemology. Such hypothesis suggests that at least some of the passionate arguments against the Strong Program are motivated by outrage occurring as a result of the violation of a central value of scientific endeavor.     

在知识创新中加速推进经济发展

在知识经济时代,知识的丰裕程度和创新是经济发展的决定性因素,对知识资源的开发利用水平,将从根本上决定一个国家经济增长的速度和质量.因此,大力建构以知识创新为核心的新经济增长动力机制,大力发展我国的知识产业.大力加强知识资源管理,对加快我国产业结构的优化升级,推进国有企业改革和现代化建设,深化分配制度改革等无疑具有极其重要的意义.     

古希腊哲学中的灵魂问题初探

在古希腊哲学中,从泰勒斯、毕达哥拉斯到赫拉克利特、德谟克利特,再到柏拉图和亚里士多德,都对灵魂问题进行了阐释,分别赋予灵魂概念以物质、精神、运动、认识论和主体性的意义,并以灵魂问题为切入点,在人类认识史上开启了哲学基本问题的研究,从而使灵魂问题成为古希腊哲学中一个重要的基本问题.     

知识创新与社会进步

不同条件下知识创新的性质不同,由此表现出社会进步的内容也不同;知识创新推动着知识的社会化与社会的知识化,成长为经济与社会发展的主导力量;知识创新的历史作用与社会发展程度密切相关,随着社会的进步,它将获得更大的力量与发挥更大的作用.     

企业知识员工激励机制研究

企业知识员工激励是一个伴随知识经济时代而产生的新课题,对知识型员工进行激励,既要结合知识员工自身的个体特点,也需要综合考虑知识员工群体的总体特点,还要考虑知识员工的工作性质。企业必须构建灵活的福利和薪酬激励体系,满足不同类型知识员工的需求;必须营造宽松的文化氛围,提供知识员工自主的工作环境;必须对知识员工进行系统培训,为知识员工职业生涯提供发展空间。     

科学知识进化与科学合理性--波普科学合理性理论研究

科学合理性问题是科学哲学的核心问题。为此,科学哲学家们提出了各种合理性模型,试图澄清和解决这一难题。波普认为,科学研究的目的就是追求真理,科学发展是一个通过猜测与反驳而不断向真理进化的动态过程。     

Who is this we that gives the gift? Native American Political Theory and The Western Tradition

Abstract

The allocation of self-determination rights to minority groups is a highly charged issue around the world, but the difficulties are particularly acute in the case of indigenous peoples within the white settler states. While liberal multiculturalism offers a ‘solution’ to this ‘problem of diversity’ through a system of differentiated citizenship rights, this comes only at the expense of excluding dissenting voices from the intercultural dialogue. Through an engagement with the multi-faceted critique of liberal multiculturalism advanced by Native American political theory, the limits of the recognition paradigm are identified, and the possibilities offered by a reconstructed Proudhonian federalism are described.     

浅析教师职业自尊

专业发展的原动力源于职业的自尊。教师的人格魅力是教师职业自尊的基石,教师的学识魅力是教师职业自尊之源泉,教师的人格魅力与学识魅力是师德的最高境界。教师的职业自尊,关系到教师的生存状态,关系到学生的健康成长,关系到优质教育能否实现,关系到教育的今天和未来。     

Between Interculturalism and Ethnocentrism: Local Government and the Indigenous Movement in Otavalo‐Ecuador

To what extent might an indigenous mayor govern beyond ethnically defined grievances, without being labelled traitor by the indigenous organisation? This article deals with the challenges faced by the Ecuadorian indigenous movement when it attains power in local government. The issue will be explored through the case of Mario Conejo, who in 2000 became the first indigenous mayor of Otavalo representing the indigenous political movement Pachakutik. Although ethnically based tensions in the local indigenous movement were evident throughout the period, 2006 saw Conejo leave Pachakutik and create a new political movement. This rupture can be traced, I argue, to an intercultural dilemma and the difficulties of ethnically defined political movements.