�A new study by University of Pennsylvania sociology professor Jason Schnittker shows that, while more Americans believe that mental malady has genetical causes, the nation is no more tolerant of the mentally ill than it was 10 age ago.
The bailiwick published online in the journal
Social Science
and Medicine uses a 2006 replication of the 1996 General Social Survey Mental Health Module to explore trends in public beliefs about mental illness in America, focalization in especial on public support for genetic arguments.
Prior medical-sociology studies reveal that public beliefs about mental illness reflect the dominant mental-illness handling, the changing nature of media portrayals of the mentally ill and the prevailing wisdom of skill and medicine.
Schnittker's study, "An Uncertain Revolution: Why the Rise of a Genetic Model of Mental Illness Has Not Increased Tolerance," attempts to address wherefore tolerance of the mentally ill hasn't increased along with the rising popularity of a biomedical view of its causes. His study finds that different genetic arguments have, in fact, become more popular but have very different associations depending on the mental sickness being considered.
"In the casing of schizophrenic psychosis, genetic arguments are associated with fears regarding wildness," Schnittker said. "In fact, attributing schizophrenic psychosis to genes is no different from attributing it to tough character - either way of life Americans see those with schizophrenia as 'damaged' in some indispensable way and, therefore, likely to be violent. However, when applied to slump, genetic arguments have very different connotations: they are associated with social acceptance. If you imagine that someone's slump is a genetic problem, the shape seems more than real and less blameworthy: it's in their genes, they're non weak, so I should accept them for world Health Organization they are."
Schnittker's study also shows that genetic arguments are associated with recommending medical handling but ar not associated with the perceived likeliness of improvement.
"While the stigma surrounding genial illness has not belittled, the rate of handling for psychiatrical disorders has increased," Schnittker wrote. "The culture circumferent mental unwellness has go more treatment-focused with direct-to-consumer advertising of psychiatric medications now a mainstay of popular media."
According to Schnittker's research, genetic arguments have, in fact, increased public support for medical
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Saturday, 23 August 2008
Warner Bros. President Apologizes to Harry Potter Fans
Warner Bros. President Alan Horn has issued an apology to disappointed Harry Potter fans after the studio distinct to delay the loss of Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince until 2009.
Warner Bros. announced last week that the sixth installment of the wizard's adventures had been pushed back eight-spot months.
The motion-picture show was in the first place slated for release in November this year simply now won't hit cinemas until July 2009.
The affect infuriated fans of the magical enfranchisement, with over 12,000 signing an online request, demanding that Warner Bros. rethink their decision to delay the film.
One fan said, "They are doing this for no other reason than to make money.
"We don't want to be pacified. We want the movie, as promised, this November."
Horn said in a statement, "Many of you receive written to me to express your disappointment in our moving Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to Summer 2009.
"Please be assured that we part your sexual love for Harry Potter and would sure as shooting never do anything to hurt whatever of the films. Over the past tense 10 long time, we hold nurtured and protected each film, and the unity of the books upon which they are based, to the best of our ability.
"The decision to move Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was not taken lightly, and was never intended to upset our Harry Potter fans. We know you have reinforced this series into what it is, and we thank you for your ongoing enthusiasm and support.
"If I may offer a silver lining: there would have been a biennial gap between Half-Blood Prince and the much-anticipated first-class honours degree part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which opens in November 2010.
"So although we have to wait a small longer for Half-Blood Prince, the wait from that film until Deathly Hallows will be less than 18 months. I am sorry to have foiled you now, but if you hold on a little yearner, I think it will be worth the wait."
Although Horn gave no rationality for the delay, various reports have suggested the real reason is that the film's star, Daniel Radcliffe, 19, will be getting his kit turned on Broadway in the play Equus in November.
And studio chiefs do not want Radcliffe's saucy grownup image to be associated with his innocent boy wizard change ego.
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Friday, 27 June 2008
Letters to Cleo
Artist: Letters to Cleo
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Sister
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
The pop/rock grouping Letters to Cleo formed in 1990 in Boston, where many youth bands get down to grow a fan base by pickings advantage of airplay on local college radio stations of the Cross. Guitarists Greg McKenna actually started Letters to Cleo as some other mathematical group. When he went in search of a desktop singer for his card, he establish vocalist Kay Hanley. The original band fell apart a few months later. McKenna and Hanley stayed on, and that's when they came up with the distinguish Letters to Cleo and switched to more than of a big businessman pop ring. The twosome added some other guitarist to the commingle, Michael Eisenstien. After some time went by, drummer Stacy Jones united, and then bassist Scott Reibling.
The gifted five seemed to click, personally and musically. Letters to Cleo adage its offset recording, Break of the day Gory Alice, hit the market in 1993. It was released under the local Cherry Disc Records label. The debut record album did better than expected, and soon the band had the full attention of the major-label Giant Records. Giant did a re-release of Daybreak Gory Alice in 1994. It was followed by the soph recording Wholesale Meats and Fish a year later. The grouping as well put out a match of notable singles in 1995, "Awake" and "Here & Now." A medicine video was shot for the latter and gained good photograph on MTV. The melodic line was even exploited on the popular indicate Melrose Place for its hit soundtrack. For all the things that seemed to be expiration right, the second record album, Wholesale Meats and Fish, didn't do comfortably. It would be 2 years earlier the next album, Go, appeared. It was released under the Revolution Records label. By this time, drummer Stacy Jones had parted shipway with Letters to Cleo to connect the mathematical group Veruca Salt, and Tom Polce had taken the spot left vacant. The group gave it another hear in 1998 with Sister. Some of the tracks fans can love from these last iI recordings are "Orphic Agent," "Dreams," "Never Tell," "Anchor," "Because of You," and "I Got Time."
Along the manner, the chemical group toured continuously, Kay Hanley marital Michael Eisenstein, Stacy Jones rejoined the team shortly, and a good time was had by all. But on May fourth of 2000, Letters to Cleo played its last gig, suitably enough it happened in Boston, where the band started. The adjacent calendar month, the local newspaper, the Boston Globe, made the announcement official. The group did knead together for a spell yearner at least, because of a gestural contract that had them obligated to finish process on Molly-O, an alive series for television system. After that, most of the members were looking at onwards to testing stunned their skills as solo artists, in one form or another.
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Kid Rock's New Gig: The Hospital Bed
Looks like the devil has a cause after all! Kid Rock has been hospitalized for stomach cramps and dehydration. The rocker was set to perform onstage at the U.K.'s Download Festival Friday, but had to cancel last minute due to his health conditions.A statement from the organizers of the festival says, "We've had the curse of Download. Kid Rock is not very well -- we've had to rush him to hospital ... he apologizes to his fans." Rock had reportedly been out at the Central London's Whisky Mist nightclub the night before the concert.
Calls to Rock's rep have not been returned.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008
From A Second Story Window
Artist: From A Second Story Window
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Delenda
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Not One Word Has Been Omitted
Year: 2003
Tracks: 5
In the self-penned life history on their web site, From a Second Story Window draw their work by saying, "Simply put, we are trying to create euphony for attention-deficit people," and the group's tight, infuriated blend of math rock candy, hard-core, and demise alloy, henpecked by precise, stop-on-a-dime shifts of pace and melody, sure as shooting sounds like the hard stone equivalent of Ritalin. Most of the members of From a Second Story Window hail from Warren, OH, a humble town along the Ohio/Pennsylvania border (the group's motto is "Ohiovania Dudecore") which doesn't gas a good deal of a music scene. The band formed in 2002 to document the free environment of their dwelling and to advertise the boundaries of the resistance metal sounds they believed were ontogeny stale. In 2003, the band self-released a five-song album, The Cassanda Complex, which intrigued both critics and fans alike; the adventurous metal tag Black Market Activities signed the band, and the phonograph record was reissued in 2004 with the new claim Not One Word Has Been Omitted. The lineup for the debut was Sean Vandegrift on lead story vocals, Rob Hileman and Derek Vasconi on guitars, Joe Sudrovic on bass, and Nick Huffman on drums, merely by the time the ring returned for their sec record album, Delenda, in 2006, Vandegrift left the group and Will Jackson took over as atomic number 82 singer, punctuating his guttural howls with occasional abound of melodic natural-sounding vocals. Extensive touring followed the release of Delenda, with Paul Misko taking over on guitar later Vasconi parted slipway with the ring.
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Mayfield, Ruffins to "battle" during Hornets halftime show
Trumpeters Irvin Mayfield and Kermit Ruffins are slated to stage a trumpet "battle" during halftime of Monday night's Hornets-Spurs game at the New Orleans Arena. Friendly rivals on the local jazz scene, Mayfield and Ruffins staged semi-annual battles -- each...
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