What's the difference between cooptation and cooption?

Cooptation


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  • (n.) The act of choosing; selection; choice.

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  • (1) 38 ICU were selected by cooptation rather than randomization, and the data collected concerned input (age, previous health status, simplified acute physiology score or SAPS, intensive care group, processes [TISS points]), percentage of ventilated patients, percentage of pulmonary arterial lines and outcome (ICU death rate).
  • (2) More particularly, it gives insight into the Technical Assistance Grants program, which was set up to enable citizens living close to contaminated sites to interpret and evaluate technical information relating to such sites, but which has been undercut by a weak EPA and cooptation efforts by industries.
  • (3) I examine the process of cooptation in a feminist health clinic, focusing on how the State shapes and absorbs the challenges of grassroots health activism.
  • (4) The first sections touch upon theoretical aspects, including: what is Lesbian Studies, the pros and cons of merging Lesbian and Gay, or Lesbian and Women's Studies, mainstreaming versus creating a separate discipline and the threat of cooptation.
  • (5) Professional or bureaucratic cooptation and control of SHGs?

Cooption


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