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From: "Mcdaid,D" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:25 PM
Subject: Reminder re seminar tommorrow: 'Kinds of learning: how health
policy makers make comparisons':
Dear all,
A reminder that tomorrow Dr. Richard Freeman from University of
Edinburgh will be giving a seminar as part of the LSE health and social
seminar series.
Contact my colleague Nadia Jemai [log in to unmask] for any further
information/queries
Best wishes
David McDaid
Room J116, Cowdrey House, Portugal St. 12:30 - 1.45
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/Default.htm
Abstract
title: 'Kinds of learning: how health policy makers make
comparisons'
abstract: It has become something of a truism that policy makers
know more than ever about their international environments. It is true, too,
that such knowledge matters. But how does it matter? How do health policy
makers acquire information and understanding about policy and practice in
other countries? How is that knowledge processed and used?
This paper draws on interviews conducted with public health policy
makers and practitioners in the UK (Scotland) and the US (Massachusetts).
Its purpose is to explicate the hermeneutics of learning from abroad; it is
meant as a statement or elaboration of the logic and purpose of what might
be termed 'practical comparison'. The paper presents a theoretical typology
of the ways in which information about public health policies in other
countries is acquired, deriving from it a distinction between 'rational' and
'social' modes of communication. It goes on to ask what is social about
social learning and reflects on the communicative element of cross-national
comparison.
As usual a tasty light lunch will be available to those attending,
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