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disposable Nursing adjective Referring to that which is discarded or disposed of noun An item used in health care-related Pt contact which is discarded after use–eg masks, gloves, gowns, needles, paper products, syringes,
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What corporations call "flexibility"--the right to dispose of workers at will--is what workers experience as disposability, not to mention insecurity and poverty. It's always sobering to witness the fragility of alternative art cultures and to speculate on how much of value is lost in the inevitable disposability of history. These act both as social glue, and as a bulwark against factors that prompt despair or a sense of insignificance and disposability. |
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