Re: musing "aloud"

From: George McKinlay (mckinlay@unr.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 11:38:35 PDT


fascinating...

I want to know more about these stories of impoverishment...

I'm editing a small newspaper edition about Assistive Technology by
trying to de-emphasize the "tech" bent and re-focus on peoples
experiences of using them, the limitations, benfits etc from a
socio-cultural... angle as well as broaden the notion of "Assistive
tech" from meaning people in wheel chairs. I'm real interested in these
stories that have the first hand insight, especially if they can talk
about the technologies that have helped them, what's missing and why
(I'm thinking money and money) through the lens that first-hand
experience gives. I really abhor those articles on Assistive Tech that
are little more than "Motor Week" reviews that reduces people down to
"consumers" so I hope to inject the socio-cultural...

PS This is really a Nevada distributed newspaper but I'd happily accept
stories from anyplace that move in this direction, but I'd need them
soon...

Cheers all

On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 09:08 AM, Bruce Robinson wrote:

> More musing. Michael J. Fox's autobiography was being broadcast on BBC
> radio
> this week. A couple of chilling stories about how US citizens went
> straight
> to welfare and poverty from middle class occupations from which they
> were
> ejected when it was discovered they had Parkinson's Disease. Presumably
> they
> were also then lost health coverage as he mentioned the high cost of the
> drugs they needed.
>
> They wrote to Fox saying we don't mind you getting lots of publicity as
> long
> as you can get some for us too...
>
> At the risk of sounding smug at a time when everyone in Britain is
> going on
> about a crisis in the National Health Service, the principles of free
> care
> for all funded from taxation would certainly not let that happen, though
> rationing is creeping in at the margins.
>
> Bruce Robinson
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Cole" <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>
> To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Sent: 26 April 2002 01:34
> Subject: musing "aloud"
>
>
>>
>> Musing--
>>
>> No one noted that yesterday was the anniversary of the Turkish
>> genocidal
>> attack on Armenians. There were stories in both the new york times and
>> los angeles times. I am thankful I learned to pay attention here.
>>
>> I am looking at statistics on infant mortalilty around the world. In
>> a group in Nepal, infant mortality INCREASES if the mother goes to
>> modern medical facilties.
>>
>> And of course, there is the US. For a story that makes one weep at the
>> thought of Paul Wellstone being ill, visit
>>
>> http://www.press-on.net/articles/1-25indian_children.
>>
>> The weather in southern california is beautiful and our local 5thD is
>> full of kids from many backgrounds, having fun, and ucsd
>> undergraduates,
>> from generally more privileged backgrounds, having fun too.
>>
>> And i get to have fun next week. The person who teaches the 5thD Class
>> will be away, so I "have" to teach the course. sigh.
>> mike
>> PS-- I had this really strange experience. A colleague I have known for
>> many years met me several times at AERA but she couldn't recognize me
>> to say hello. I must be getting REALLY old.
>>



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