Charles Wolfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 98169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Wolfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfe |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8264-0981 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Completely Different Person
Stroke is a leading cause of complex disability, with many survivors experiencing mobility, cognitive and/or speech and language impairment. This paper explores the relationship between biographical disruption and body studies through experiences of informal care in stroke. Drawing on narratives from 41 interviews with stroke survivors and their wider support network, we use Michael Bury's concept of 'biographical disruption' alongside body studi…
A Note on the Situation of Biological Philosophy
A Note on the Situation of Biological Philosophy
Dans un court article rarement discuté intitulé « Note sur la situation faite en France à la philosophie biologique » (publié en 1947 dans la Revue de métaphysique et de morale ), Canguilhem dénonce la « situation » de ce qu’il appelle la philosophie biologique en France, par rapport à une tradition germanique plus développée. Il explique que la réflexion française sur les questions biologiques est à l’arrêt, à la fois en raison de son héritage c…
Materialism from Hobbes to Locke, written by Duncan, Stewart
International audience
Science and the Shaping of Modernity
Le parti pris des choses
Avec le mouvement théorique nommé New Materialism, apparu à partir du début des années 2000, on assiste non seulement au retour de l'ontologie mais à une affirmation d'un matérialisme dans lequel toutes les oppositions, toutes les contradictions viendraient se dissoudre. Poussant plus loin la prise en compte de l'agentivité des non-humains suggérée notamment par Haraway et Latour, les courants néomatérialistes en viennent à considérer l'ensemble …
The provision of person‐centred care for care home residents with stroke
Care home residents with stroke have higher levels of disability and poorer access to health services than those living in their own homes. We undertook observations and semi-structured interviews (n = 28 participants) with managers, staff, residents who had experienced a stroke and their relatives in four homes in London, England, in 2018/2019. Thematic analysis revealed that residents' needs regarding valued activity and stroke-specific care an…
Knowledge from Below
This special issue is situated at the intersection of a number of active discourses in the history and philosophy of science, including historical epistemology, the more recently emerged political epistemology, and the various versions and offspring of ‘science studies’ including STS, social epistemology, and social history of science overall. We seek in this special issue to tie together the turn towards the study of vernacular knowledge and the…
Patient, carer and public involvement in major system change in acute stroke services
BACKGROUND: Patient and public involvement is required where changes to care provided by the UK National Health Service are proposed. Yet involvement is characterized by ambiguity about its rationales, methods and impact. AIMS: To understand how patients and carers were involved in major system changes (MSCs) to the delivery of acute stroke care in 2 English cities, and what kinds of effects involvement was thought to produce. METHODS: Analysis o…
Patient experience of centralized acute stroke care pathways
BACKGROUND: In 2010, Greater Manchester (GM) and London centralized acute stroke care services into a reduced number of hyperacute stroke units, with local stroke units providing on-going care nearer patients' homes. OBJECTIVE: To explore the impact of centralized acute stroke care pathways on the experiences of patients. DESIGN: Qualitative interview study. Thematic analysis was undertaken, using deductive and inductive approaches. Final data an…
Patient‐initiated recruitment for clinical research
BACKGROUND: UK Hospital Trusts are charged with increasing patients' research awareness and willingness to take part in research. This includes implementing strategies to encourage patient-initiated enquiries about participation. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of a research statement inserted in outpatient letters in one clinical service, and to derive suggestions on potential steps towards increasing patient-initiated recruitment. SETTING: A…
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases for 10 Causes, 1990 to 2015
BACKGROUND: The burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remains unclear in many regions of the world. OBJECTIVES: The GBD (Global Burden of Disease) 2015 study integrated data on disease incidence, prevalence, and mortality to produce consistent, up-to-date estimates for cardiovascular burden. METHODS: CVD mortality was estimated from vital registration and verbal autopsy data. CVD prevalence was estimated using modeling software and data from h…
Air pollution and the incidence of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke in the South London Stroke Register
Background Few European studies investigating associations between short-term exposure to air pollution and incident stroke have considered stroke subtypes. Using information from the South London Stroke Register for 2005–2012, we investigated associations between daily concentrations of gaseous and particulate air pollutants and incident stroke subtypes in an ethnically diverse area of London, UK. Methods Modelled daily pollutant concentrations …
Patient engagement with research
BACKGROUND: Lay involvement in implementation of research evidence into practice may include using research findings to guide individual care, as well as involvement in research processes and policy development. Little is known about the conditions required for such involvement. AIM: To assess stroke survivors' research awareness, use of research evidence in their own care and readiness to be involved in research processes. METHODS: Cross section…
Utility of electronic patient records in primary care for stroke secondary prevention trials
Electronic patient records have potential for evaluation of outcomes in pragmatic trials of stroke secondary prevention. Stroke prevention interventions in primary care remain suboptimal but important reductions in vascular risk factor values were observed following stroke. Better recording of lifestyle factors in the GPRD has the potential to expand the scope of the GPRD for health care research and practice
Implementing 'translational' biomedical research
The Return of Jimmy Stewart
What is involvement in research and what does it achieve? Reflections on a pilot study of the personal costs of stroke
Background Health researchers are encouraged to involve service users as partners in their research. There is a need to increase the evidence base of involvement, including an accumulation of empirical accounts of involvement practices, demonstrating how involvement influences research and refinement of the concept itself. Aims To report the development of a pilot study by academic researchers and stroke service users belonging to a user research…
Utility of electronic patient records for evaluating stroke secondary prevention in primary care
Background To utilise electronic patient records (EPRs) to evaluate the secondary prevention of stroke; to evaluate data recorded in EPRs as potential outcome measures for pragmatic trials in primary care. Methods Data were analysed for 414 family practices comprising 22 730 patients with an index first stroke between 2003 and 2006. For each subject, the EPR was evaluated for the 12 months before and 12 months after stroke. Data were analysed for…
Introducing Darwin to the Uninitiated
Preventing stroke
Risk management after stroke
Current strategies to reduce risk of stroke recurrence are reported to be inadequate. This paper reports findings from a qualitative observational study investigating how risk management is practiced in the stroke outpatient clinic. The 'patient-centred' approach has been proposed as a mechanism to improve the quality of health care delivery. It is thought that focusing on patients' wants, needs and preferences is ethically desirable and will lea…
Falling through the net of stroke care
The provision of healthcare services has been shown to differ by social characteristics such as gender, age and social status. The processes by which such differences arise are unclear. We report findings from a qualitative interview study with stroke service providers undertaken during an investigation of inequalities in stroke care. We interviewed 41 professionals from hospital and community settings in south London. Participants’ accounts are …
La catégorie d' « organisme » dans la philosophie de la biologie
La catégorie d’organisme a un statut ambigu : scientifique ou philosophique ? Elle a longtemps en tout cas servi de « caution » scientifique à une argumentation philosophique qui refuse la tendance dite « mécaniste » ou « réductionniste » perçue comme dominante depuis le dix-septième siècle, que ce soit au sein de l’animisme stahlien, de la monadologie leibnizienne, du néo-vitalisme de Hans Driesch, ou encore de la « phénoménologie du vivant » au…
Pour une philosophie hybridée de la biologie
Implementing 'translational' biomedical research
The unfortunate generation
La catégorie d' « organisme » dans la philosophie de la biologie
La catégorie d’organisme a un statut ambigu : scientifique ou philosophique ? Elle a longtemps en tout cas servi de « caution » scientifique à une argumentation philosophique qui refuse la tendance dite « mécaniste » ou « réductionniste » perçue comme dominante depuis le dix-septième siècle, que ce soit au sein de l’animisme stahlien, de la monadologie leibnizienne, du néo-vitalisme de Hans Driesch, ou encore de la « phénoménologie du vivant » au…
Does the incidence, severity, or case fatality of stroke vary in southern England
STUDY OBJECTIVES--To determine differences in incidence and case fatality of stroke in district health authorities with differing standardised mortality ratios (SMR) for stroke in residents aged under 65 years in whom death from stroke is considered 'avoidable'. DESIGN--Registration of first ever strokes in three district health authorities. Patients were assessed and followed up over one year by one of three observers. SETTING--West Lambeth, Lew…
The provision of person‐centred care for care home residents with stroke
Care home residents with stroke have higher levels of disability and poorer access to health services than those living in their own homes. We undertook observations and semi-structured interviews (n = 28 participants) with managers, staff, residents who had experienced a stroke and their relatives in four homes in London, England, in 2018/2019. Thematic analysis revealed that residents' needs regarding valued activity and stroke-specific care an…
Ethnic Differences in Behavioural Risk Factors for Stroke
Strategies to reduce behavioural risk factors for heart attack and stroke need to emphasise different risk foctors among ethnic groups, especially in relation to alcohol use in the White population and weight in the Black Caribbean population. Influencing the change of these behaviours requires working in partnership with local community' groups
Machine et organisme chez Diderot
I. Le problème du rapport entre matérialisme et mécanisme. Modèles mécaniques du vivant. Est-ce possible de différencier radicalement entre une explication mécanique de la vie et une explication matérialiste ? Spécificité des Lumières à cet égard (entre cartésianisme et réductionnisme contemporain). Mais même dans la vision mécanique, il y a une formule de compromis ; le matérialisme ne serait plus seulement abstrait mais réellement vivant sur le…
Patterns of acute stroke care in three districts of southern England
OBJECTIVE--To quantify the use of health care services by acutely ill stroke patients in three district health authorities. DESIGN--A follow up study of all patients recorded in population based registers who had a first ever stroke in three district health authorities, with assessment following the onset and three months after the stroke. SETTING--West Lambeth, Lewisham and North Southwark, and Tunbridge Wells District Health Authorities in sout…
Rural Black String Band Music
The first time I think I ever seen Arnold Schultz ... this square dance was at Rosine, Kentucky, and Arnold and two more colored fellows come up there and played for the dance. They had a guitar, banjo, and fiddle. Arnold played the guitar but he could play the fiddle-numbers like Sally Goodin. People loved Arnold so well all through Kentucky there; if he was playing a guitar they'd go gang up around him till he would get tired and then maybe he'…
Trade and Aid in Southeast Asia. I. Malaysia and Singapore
Country Music in the Modern Era, 1940s-1970s
Going down the Valley
Country
Gospel Boogie
It has become a truism to say that most forms of traditional music in the American South were to some extent 'commercialised' by the end of the 1920s: certainly this is true of fiddle and instrumental traditions, country singing, the blues and jazz. By the middle of the Depression most of these musics had gained access to the mass media, either through phonograph records or radio. Throughout the Depression amateur musicians gave way to semi-profe…
"Art Galbraith, James River Fiddler, "Dixie Blossoms
Georgia Grassroots Music Festival
M. Hulôt in the archives
Lucy Fischer, ed. Jacques Tati: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1983. 160 pp. $26.00 cloth
What's entertainment? Recent writing on the musical
Rick Altman, ed. Genre: The Musical. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. 228 pp. $9.95 paper. Jane Feuer. The Hollywood Musical. Blooming‐ton, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1982. 131 pp. $7.95 paper. Clive Hirschhorn. The Hollywood Musical. New York: Crown, 1981. 456 pp. $17.95 cloth. Ted Sen nett. Hollywood Musicals. New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981. 384 pp. $50.00 cloth. Ethan Mordden. The Hollywood Musical. New York: St. Martin's…
Bluegrass Breakdown
The Sunny Side of Life
Rural Black String Band Music
The first time I think I ever seen Arnold Schultz ... this square dance was at Rosine, Kentucky, and Arnold and two more colored fellows come up there and played for the dance. They had a guitar, banjo, and fiddle. Arnold played the guitar but he could play the fiddle-numbers like Sally Goodin. People loved Arnold so well all through Kentucky there; if he was playing a guitar they'd go gang up around him till he would get tired and then maybe he'…
Patterns of acute stroke care in three districts of southern England
OBJECTIVE--To quantify the use of health care services by acutely ill stroke patients in three district health authorities. DESIGN--A follow up study of all patients recorded in population based registers who had a first ever stroke in three district health authorities, with assessment following the onset and three months after the stroke. SETTING--West Lambeth, Lewisham and North Southwark, and Tunbridge Wells District Health Authorities in sout…
Does the incidence, severity, or case fatality of stroke vary in southern England
STUDY OBJECTIVES--To determine differences in incidence and case fatality of stroke in district health authorities with differing standardised mortality ratios (SMR) for stroke in residents aged under 65 years in whom death from stroke is considered 'avoidable'. DESIGN--Registration of first ever strokes in three district health authorities. Patients were assessed and followed up over one year by one of three observers. SETTING--West Lambeth, Lew…
We'll Understand It Better By and By
Is HIV testing in antenatal clinics worthwhile? Can we afford it
Since 0.2-0.4% of pregnant women attending antenatal clinics (ANC) at St Thomas's Hospital are HIV positive, and as the Department of Health (DH) have recommended that universal voluntary HIV testing be made available to women attending ANC in areas of "known or suspected higher prevalence of HIV infection", we examined the implications of the DH initiative in an Inner London Teaching Hospital as well as in a General Practice involved in shared c…
The uptake and costs of guidelines for stroke in a district of southern England
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of guidelines for stroke management on the utilisation of services by patients and the cost consequences of implementation. DESIGN: Prospective audit. SETTING: District health authority in southern England. PATIENTS: A total of 468 live non-comatose stroke patients registered between November 1991 and May 1993. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: A comparison between the three, six month periods for investigations perform…
Feasibility of named antenatal HIV screening in an inner city population
The object of this study was to assess the resource use, feasibility, uptake and consumers' perspective of introducing routine named human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing into an inner city hospital antenatal clinic (St Thomas Hospital, part of Guy's and St Thomas Hospital Trust). Following the introduction of a new service offering routine named HIV testing at booking appointments, the length of the appointments were recorded over a three-m…
The Devil's Box
Machine et organisme chez Diderot
I. Le problème du rapport entre matérialisme et mécanisme. Modèles mécaniques du vivant. Est-ce possible de différencier radicalement entre une explication mécanique de la vie et une explication matérialiste ? Spécificité des Lumières à cet égard (entre cartésianisme et réductionnisme contemporain). Mais même dans la vision mécanique, il y a une formule de compromis ; le matérialisme ne serait plus seulement abstrait mais réellement vivant sur le…
Ethnic Differences in Behavioural Risk Factors for Stroke
Strategies to reduce behavioural risk factors for heart attack and stroke need to emphasise different risk foctors among ethnic groups, especially in relation to alcohol use in the White population and weight in the Black Caribbean population. Influencing the change of these behaviours requires working in partnership with local community' groups
Preventable Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke Amongst Ethnic Groups in London
These differences in risk factors may partially explain the high stroke mortality rates in black Caribbeans and black Africans compared to whites. There was little difference in prevalence of these risk factors between black Caribbean and black African groups. Specific strategies targeted to each ethnic group need to be developed to reduce risk factors
A review and commentary of the social factors which influence stroke care
Stroke is the third most common cause of death in the UK and a major cause of adult disability. Stroke services have long been criticised for being deficient and there is evidence that some aspects of care provision vary across different population groups. While there is information about the patterns of service provision, questions remain about processes which might underlie these variations. The present paper sought to assess how well the proce…
The unfortunate generation
La catégorie d' « organisme » dans la philosophie de la biologie
La catégorie d’organisme a un statut ambigu : scientifique ou philosophique ? Elle a longtemps en tout cas servi de « caution » scientifique à une argumentation philosophique qui refuse la tendance dite « mécaniste » ou « réductionniste » perçue comme dominante depuis le dix-septième siècle, que ce soit au sein de l’animisme stahlien, de la monadologie leibnizienne, du néo-vitalisme de Hans Driesch, ou encore de la « phénoménologie du vivant » au…
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