Comment on "(Re) Making the
Procrustean Bed? Standardization and Customization as Competing Logics in Healthcare." Int J Health Policy Manag.
Researching the Co-Existence and Continuity of Standardization and Customization in Healthcare: A Response to Recent Commentaries
While offering the theory of intermediality as an alternative to describing film sound in terms of diegetic relationships (what she calls "the
Procrustean bed of diegesis," p.
When Opera Meets Film
The inattention to gay violence happens because gay violence cannot be fitted into DeKeseredy's
Procrustean bed of heterosexual ("patriarchal") male violence.
An ongoing battle: is domestic violence really (mostly) men's fault?
"The
Procrustean Bed of Film Adaptation." Mythlore 11.3 (#41) (1985): 3.
Bibliography of Glen GoodKnight's articles, reviews, and major editorials in Mythlore
It was also a clear departure from the conventional foreign-policy straightjacket devised by Kemal Ataturk, which had for decades forced Turkish diplomacy into the
Procrustean bed of 1920s-style integral nationalism.
Turkey's foreign policy aims at a new regional hegemony
Given the empirical detail and the plausible narrative that Dwyer gives us, his pressing of the maneuvering by the Mexican government and its diplomatic representatives into the
procrustean bed of "everyday resistance" and the "weapons of the weak" seems a bit gratuitous, since it does little work in adding to the reader's understanding of the history.
The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico
At their most dogged, or programmatically theoretical, they bludgeon the reader so that by a certain point he can predict what they will have to say when they lay the matters of their analysis reductively upon a
Procrustean bed. Other books work deftly and with nuance, refining arguments and looking more at the trees than the forest.
Paul H. Fry. Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are
Yet, a "one size fits all" approach is the
Procrustean bed that RiskMetrics is seeking to impose with its new approach.
Going off the GRId: there are sound reasons why boards should not blindly follow the new RiskMetrics model
Still, their peripatetic day remains highly amusing, for old Dad is quite a character, while his son, dour and melancholic by comparison, rouses himself by and by from his
procrustean bed of self-tormenting freedom to realize that he loves the old man, despite the differences time and temperament have wrought on their mutual regard.
Emil Hakl. Of Kids & Parents
The problem is when society (or elements thereof) try and force all media to conform to the
Procrustean bed of whatever happens to be popular in media.
The information bubble
Although he is aware that strict definitions, especially if not deeply contextually located, can get caught in a
procrustean bed, Olson's definition of "science" may have already short-sheeted the project.
Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe
But, he claims, "the a posteriori use of first philosophy is demanded by the prior claims of Christian faith itself" (30), and it need not be a
Procrustean bed that constricts Christian truth.
Foundations of Systematic Theology
To her credit, Howe does not try to fit the peculiar saint into this or any other
Procrustean bed. Accepting Teresa on her own terms, she also takes the opportunity to discuss convent culture and what level of learning might have been expected from the choir nuns versus the abbess.
Elizabeth Teresa Howe. Education and Women in the Early Modern Hispanic World
The sensitive critic of Shakespeare, as Nuttall demonstrates over and over in his close readings, seems to find that the Bard has always included another layer of complexity in his art that resists the urge of the critic to create a
Procrustean bed of meaning.
Shakespeare and mimesis
The
Procrustean bed of physics tells us that such expansion comes at the price of penetration.
XTP marks the spot: Hornady's XTP bullet excels at both penetration and expansion--with outstanding accuracy