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Odor and Power in the Americas: Olfactory Consciousness from Columbus to Emancipation

11 y a une connexion intrins6que entre I'olfaction et la transition, c'est-8-dire, le changement de catkgories. Etant donnk que cette association se retrouve dans le contexte des divers rites de passage 8 travers le monde, elle semble Otre universelle. C'est a cause du fait que les odeurs 6mannent toujours de leurs objets, et qu'habituellement elles signalent les processus de transformation, v.g., cuisson, putrkfaction, qu'elles sont utiliskes comme mkdiateurs (et comme support aux transitions) entre des catbgories sociales.



There is an intrinsic connection between olfaction and transition, or category-change. This association would appear to be universal, for it finds expression in the context of diverse rites of passage the world over. The author suggests that it is because smells constantly escape from their objects, and because of the way they normally signal processes of transformation, e.g., cooking, putrefaction, that they are used to mediate (and manage transitions) between social categories.

Olfaction and transition: an essay on the ritual uses of smell

This paper seeks to understand leaders as material presences. Leadership theory has traditionally explored leaders as sites of disembodied traits, characteristics and abilities. Our qualitative, mixed method study suggests that managers charged with the tasks of leadership operate within a very different understanding. Their endogenous or lay theory understands leadership as physical, corporeal and visible, and as something made manifest through leaders’ material presence. This theory-in-practice holds that leadership qualities are signified by the leader’s physical appearance: the good leader must look the part. Actors consequently work on their own appearance to present an image of themselves as leader. They thus offer a fundamental challenge to dominant exogenous, or academic, theories of leadership. To understand the unspoken assumptions that underpin the lay theory of leadership as material presence, we interrogate it using the new materialist theory of Karen Barad and the object relations theory of Christopher Bollas. This illuminates the lay theory’s complexities and sophisticated insights. In academic terms it offers a theory of how sentient and non-sentient actors intra-act and performatively constitute leadership through complex entanglements that enact and circulate organizational and leadership norms. The paper’s contribution is thus a theory of leadership micro-dynamics in which the leader is materialized through practices of working on a corporeal self for presentation to both self and others.

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Becoming the Leader: Leadership as Material Presence:

Today’s medicine is in the midst of an undeniable crisis Calls to reform healthcare are in the forefront of economic and political discussions worldwide Economic pressures reduce the amount of time physicians can spend with patients contributing to burnout among medical staff and endangering the patient iatrogenically Politicians are getting involved as the public is calling for more affordable healthcare A new paradigm must be embraced in order to address all aspects of this dilemma It is clear that science and technology have resulted in vastly improved understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, but the emphasis on science and technology to the exclusion of other elements of healing has also served to limit the development of a model that humanizes healthcare The healing of a patient must include more than the biology and chemistry of their physical body; by necessity, it must include the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects Because of these challenges, the development of an integral healthcare system that is rooted in appropriate regulation and supported by rigorous scientific evidence is the direction that many models of integrative healthcare are moving towards in the 21st century

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.4137/IMI.S2239

Integral Healthcare: The Benefits and Challenges of Integrating Complementary and Alternative Medicine with a Conventional Healthcare Practice

http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2012/papers/DC_6.pdf

Reputation Mechanism for E-Commerce in Virtual Reality Environments

To introduce the articles in this issue, which treat the ways time shapes the theory and practice of medicine, this essay surveys developments in thinking about the nature of time from the beginnin...

Stephen Kern

Papers

Time and Medicine

Olfactory Ontology and Scented Harmonies: on the History of Smell