Weiquan Lawyers, or "rights protection" lawyers, refer to a small but influential movement of lawyers, legal practitioners, scholars and activists who help Chinese citizens to assert their constitutional, civil rights and/or public interest through litigation and legal activism.
On the contrary, the movement of both medical practitioners and patients from other countries into Thailand is more likely but the impact on health systems is inconclusive.
The discipline is about freedom and efficiency of movement, and its practitioners – known as traceurs – hone the ability to navigate urban spaces by climbing, jumping, balancing and running through them, using pavements as more of a guideline than a rule.
Meanwhile, within the eugenics movement, practitioners of phrenology, who attempted to correlate skull size and shape with mental abilities and character, held that a specific sector of the Jewish or "Hebrew" brain was "abnormally" developed, causing Jews to be highly interested in money and banking (Gilman, 1991).
None is as mystifying as "tape reading", whose practitioners use the movement of market prices to gauge where a particular stock is heading, even while knowing nothing of the underlying company.
A fledgling movement of early childhood scholars, policymakers, and practitioners is heeding this call, experimenting with novel, innovative approaches for funding early childhood services, building caregivers' skills, and identifying children at risk for adversity.
This stands in stark contrast with more linear models tracing the movement of scientific knowledge from researchers to practitioners.
Just as the sanitary movement of the 19th century required health practitioners to come out of the hospitals and engage with the larger world to stop tuberculosis, cholera, and pellagra, we argue that similar efforts are now required to address global environmental change.
Though the movement claims only 400 local members, it holds an annual conference here, which draws thousands of practitioners from Boston to Beijing.
"He made me feel like I was part of a movement of my time, not an irrelevant practitioner grinding out trivial works for yet another bureaucratic corporation".
