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Book SynopsisTracing Hospital Boundaries explores, for the first time, how the forces of both integration and segregation shaped hospitals and their communities between the eleventh and twentieth centuries in Europe, North America and Africa. Within this broad comparative context it also shines a light on a number of case studies from Southeastern Europe. The eleven chapters show how people’s access to, and experience of, healthcare institutions was affected by social, cultural and economic, as well as medical, dynamics. These same factors intersected with developing healthcare technologies to shape hospital design and location, as well as internal policies and practices. The volume produces a new history of the hospital in which boundaries – both physical and symbolic – are frequently contested and redrawn. Contributors are Irena Benyovsky Latin, David Gentilcore, Annemarie Kinzelbach, Rina Kralj-Brassard, Ivana Lazarević, Clement Masakure, Anna Peterson, Egidio Priani, Gordan Ravančić, Jonathan Reinarz, Jane Stevens Crawshaw, David Theodore, Christina Vanja, George Weisz, and Valentina Živković.Table of Contents  Acknowledgements   List of Figures   Notes on Contributors  Introduction: Hospitals, Integration and Segregation    Jane Stevens Crawshaw and Gordan Ravančić Part 1: Patient Identity and Experience  1 Beyond the City’s Walls: The Lepers of Narbonne and Siena before the Black Death    Anna M. Peterson  2 Leprosaria: The Simultaneity of Segregation and Integration in Early Modern Southern German Towns    Annemarie Kinzelbach  3 The Role of Segregation and Integration in Identity Formation for Foundlings in Early Modern Dubrovnik    Rina Kralj-Brassard and Ivana Lazarević  4 “San Servolo Lunatic!”: Segregation and Integration in the Life Cycle of Pellagra Patients at Venice’s Provincial Asylums (1842–1912)    David Gentilcore and Egidio Priani Part 2: Hospital Form and Organisation  5 Shelter and Custody. Identifying and treating Physical and Mental Disabilities in Eighteenth-Century Hessian High Hospitals    Christina Vanja  6 From Isolation to Integration: the Institutional Treatment of Burns Patients in Britain, c.1845–1950    Jonathan Reinarz  7 Segregating or Integrating Chronic Patients in Twentieth-century American Hospitals    George Weisz  8 “Dirty Dirty Dirt”: Automating Segregation in the Friesen Concept Hospital    David Theodore Part 3: Hospital Location and Context  9 Sacral Topography, Charity and Hospitals in Late Medieval Kotor    Valentina Živković  10 Female Piety and Gendered Spaces: Women’s Hospitals in Renaissance Dubrovnik    Irena Benyovsky Latin  11 Government Hospitals as a Microcosm: Integration and Segregation in Salisbury Hospital, Rhodesia, 1890s–1950    Clement Masakure   Thematic bibliography   Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi first describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis. Then they draw the pillars for a more “multi-resilient” Post-Corona world including socio-political recommendations of how to generate it. The Coronavirus crisis proved to be a bundle crisis consisting of multiple, interconnected crisis dimensions. Before Corona, most concepts of a “resilient society” implied a rather isolated focus on only one crisis at a time. Future preparedness in the 21st century will require a multi- and transdisciplinary risk-management concept that the authors call “multi-resilience”. “Multi-resilience” means to systematically enhance universal resilience competencies of societies, such as collective intelligence or overall responsiveness, being appliable to pluri-dimensional crisis contexts. If the Coronavirus crisis in retrospect will have contributed to implement multi-resilience, then it will ultimately have contributed to progress. This volume includes a Foreword by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and an Afterword by Manfred B. Steger.Trade Review“This book is an impressive compass for the Post-Corona World. It makes clear that Multi-Resilience is the central answer to the challenges of a sustainable future.” – Professor Dr. Uwe Schneidewind, Former Director of the Wuppertal Institute and Professor for Innovation Management and Sustainability at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal “Managing global crises-bundles and bundle-crises in the 21st century is in large parts a challenge of transdisciplinary complexity management. This book outlines the concept of societal multi-resiliency as a promising and necessary approach towards systemic future-preparedness.” – Dr. Louis Klein, Vice-President of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) and Dean of the European School of Governance (EUSG) Berlin “Corona, Lehman and the foreseeable next crises have a common cause: a non-sustainable life form. As long as this development continues, by only focusing on curing the symptoms, the next crises of civilization are pre-programmed. This book offers an exemplary overview of Post-Corona discourses and identifies practical starting points for complexity-adequate multi-resilience strategies.” – apl Professor Dr. Niko Paech, Department of Production and Environment, Faculty of Economics, University of Siegen “Benedikter and Fathi make a major contribution to one of the most pressing questions of our time: How to re-organize the world after Corona? This book provides one of the most encompassing accounts of – and overview over – the Coronavirus crisis 2019-20 available on the market. It also presents one of the most original and complexity-adequate solution patterns, including an advanced concept of prevention and anticipation branded ‘Multi-Resilience’. A must-read for everybody who wants to be informed in-depth and understand how to prepare for the next upcoming global emergency.” – Professor Dott. Andrea Billi, University Rome I - La Sapienza, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Director, Sapienza Innovazione (Sapienza Innovation - SI) “The globe is asking: What will the Post-Corona world look like? The answer is in principle a fundamental hope: A better, more just world. This book contributes to exemplarily sketch the path toward such a different world by undertaking the two indispensable steps needed: first, by carefully reconstructing what happened, including countless examples of the phenomenology of the crisis, its many side effects and ramifications. Second, by providing the practical tools to master transformation positively in order to build a more resilient global society. I can hardly think of one concept, one thought, one aspect that has not been elaborated in this book in a comprehensive, multi- and transdisciplinary way. The Corona epidemic worked as magnifying lens on the state of our planet, and the authors offer a multi-facetted view on several potential futures. Will we forget the lecture learned as soon as we have a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2? This volume tells me that the odds are against this proposition: there is no going back to business as usual. Post Corona est ante majorem proximum angustum.” – Professor Dr. Roland Psenner, Head of the National Committee “Global Change” of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna “In addition to a rich and multifaceted knowledge transfer for a Post-Corona world, the authors describe five principles for multi-resilience. The existing resilience strategies against the Coronavirus pandemic and future emergencies are not sufficient and are therefore not sustainable. The discussion triggered by the Coronavirus pandemic about a reorientation of globalization, i.e. toward re-globalization, is excellently described and illustrated by examples. There is no comparable book in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic, given that this one is committed to a fairer and better world potentially coming out of the crisis with many concrete theses. This book belongs in the hands of everyone who wants to be comprehensively informed about possible progress in a Post-Corona world. It also belongs in the hands of social and political decision-makers and should be made compulsory reading for students.” – Werner Mittelstaedt, futurist, author of many books about sustainable futures, founder and editor of the journal Blickpunkt Zukunft [“Viewpoint Future“] "Without doubt, the COVID pandemic has shed light on human vulnerabilities and capabilities on a variety of scales. Our humanity, as an interactive system of biological, psychologic, socio-economic, and political domains and dimensions has been affected by, and reactive to both the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the current structures and functions of institutions of healthcare, public safety, economic stability, and political leadership. The pandemic has been a crisis, in the most literal sense - a time of difficulty, decision, and change. The question remains as to whether, and to what extent, the COVID crisis will evoke change to these regnant systems. Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi address this question, and its embedded and derivative scientific, socio-economic, political, and cultural issues. To be sure, their invocation to regard, heed and engage the status quo is telling, informative, and rightly provocative. The American historian Daniel J. Boorstin has stated that "...education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know"; and in that light, Benedikter and Fathi provide a stellar education based upon - and responsive to - what the COVID crisis may teach, and prompt - if not require - the world to learn." – James Giordano, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry and Senior Scholar-in-Residence, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, and Senior Research Fellow Biosecurity, Technology, and Ethics, US Naval War College, Newport, RI, USA ---------------------------------------- Online conference and book presentation with Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi. The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps Towards Multi-Resilience in: eurac researchTable of ContentsForeword Jan Nederveen Pieterse Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Overview and Summary part 1 The Coronavirus Crisis 1 Introduction “Do Nothing” or, an Epochal Crisis 2 Systemic Unpreparedness Inducing a Variety of Psychological Reactions 3 The Branches and Social Strata Hardest Hit A List to Be Carefully Remembered for the Next Systemic Rupture 4 Were Nature and the Environment “Winners” of the Crisis? Disputed “Improvements” and Their Flip Sides 5 Children and Relationships 6 Labour and the Economy “Generation Corona” 7 Corona and Re-Globalisation 1 Sharpening Awareness about the Differences between Political Systems and Their Growing Asymmetries 8 A Battle for Values and Transformation Not Confined to Bilateral Competition, but Spanning the Globe 9 Unprecedented Penetrative Depth Uplifting Technology, Changing Sexuality, Questioning Science? 10 Corona and Re-Globalisation 2 Creating Conscience for National and International Reforms 11 Intellectual Rhetoric between Cheap “Humanistic” Appeal and Kitsch 12 “Humanised” Technology Instead of a New Humanism? 13 A Boost to “Post-human Hybrid Intelligence” Such as Biological Espionage and Sentiment Analysis? 14 Striking a Balance Was Corona a Watershed for Western Humanism and the Basic Rationality of the Enlightenment? 15 The Vast Variety of Political Instrumentalisations 16 Three More Far-reaching Aspects within Global Democracies and Open Societies Confirmation Bias, “Republican” Turn and Re-Globalisation Drive part 2 The Simultaneousness of Local, National and Global Effects 17 An Unprecedented Crisis Accelerating the (Temporary?) Rupture of Advanced Life Patterns – Including Gender Role Models in Democracies 18 “Unsocial Sociability” and the Re-shaping of the Global Order Anthropology and Politics Intertwined 19 Medical Diplomacy, or: The Great Divide of Principles over and after Corona More “Do It Alone” – or More Cooperation? 20 Don’t Forget the Bizarre, the Surreal and the Perfidious From Mona Lisa to Sharon Stone and Global Terror 21 Coronavirus Crisis Social Psychology Between Disorientation, Infodemic and the Need to Understand 22 Conspiracy Theories Misusing the Crisis for Legitimating the Absurd in Times of “Fake News” 23 The Perspective The Real Question is Not about covid-19, but about “the World after” part 3 The Corona Challenge: Multi-Resilience for an Interconnected World Ridden by Crisis Bundles 24 In Search of Examples of Efficient Resilience From the Evolutionary Teachings of Bats to Regional Self-administration within Political Autonomies to a “Flexible” Handling of Constitutions 25 Crisis Resistance in the Face of Corona and in Anticipation of Potential Future Pandemics A Short Overview of Different Options of Socio-political Responses 26 The Primordial Path to Follow Enhancing Resilience. Basic Philosophical Assumptions and Their Implications for Crisis-policy Design 27 Revisioning the Concept of Resilience A Necessary Step (Not Only) after Corona 28 Progressing from Resilience to Multi-resilience Two Basic Approaches 28.1 Prerequisites: Relevant Criteria 28.2 Complexify: Multi-resilience in a Systemic Perspective 28.3 Simplify: Multi-resilience in an Action-oriented Perspective 29 Five Principles of Multi-resilience 29.1 Principle 1: Fostering Individual Resilience 29.2 Principle 2: Integrating Centralised and Decentralised Decision-making and Implementation 29.3 Principle 3: Problem-solving Practices with Knowns and Unknowns 29.4 Principle 4: Supporting and Enhancing Collective Intelligence through Participatory and Cross-sectoral Knowledge Management and Integration 29.5 Principle 5: Fostering “Resilience Culture” by Stimulating and Facilitating Collective Reasoning and Cohesion 30 Summary. Multi-resilience A Crucial Topic to Shape “Globalisation 2.0” part 4 Requirements for a Post-Corona World 31 The Corona Effect and “Diseasescape” Towards Weaker, but More Realistic Globalisation and Transnationalisation? 32 The Uncertainty about the Future of covid-19 Short-term Scenarios versus Big-picture Trends 33 Technological Requirements Six Trends 33.1 Remote Working 33.2 eLearning 33.3 Telehealth 33.4 E-commerce and On-demand Economy 33.5 Automatisation 33.6 Increasing Use of Immersive Technologies 34 Towards a Post-Corona World Seven Upcoming Conflict Lines Open Societies Should Prepare for 34.1 Nationalism versus Globalism 34.2 Freedom versus Safety 34.3 Professionalism versus Populism 34.4 Class: Rich versus Poor 34.5 Ethnicity (Racism) 34.6 Gender 34.7 Generation: Young versus Old 35 The Post-Corona World Potentials and Visions for a “Better Globalised” International System 35.1 Idea Potentials: Policy-relevant Contributions by Intellectuals, Ecologists and Futurists 35.2 Universal Basic Income as a Driver towards Better Socio-economic Resilience? 35.3 Post-Growth and Degrowth as Responses to the Economic and Ecological Challenges in a Post-Corona World? part 5 Post-Corona Policy Design 36 Chances and Limits of Resilience The Development Paradox and the Increasing Danger of Man-made Disasters with Multi-sectoral Side Effects 37 Towards a Broader and More Integrated Policy of Future Preparedness Contributions from Selected Guiding Concepts 37.1 A Brief Outline of Three Contemporary Coping Concepts: Development, Sustainability, Resilience 37.2 Development versus Sustainability versus Resilience: Similarities, Fault Lines and Potential (Realistic) Complementarities 37.3 Collective Wisdom as the Missing Connecting Principle towards Multi-Resilience? 38 Fostering Local, National and International Paths towards Multi-resilience Leverage Points for Interrelated Social Change Bottom-up and Top-down 38.1 Education Programs for Individual Resilience 38.2 Bottom-up Transformational Impulses via Building Critical Masses for Positive Change 38.3 Experimental Prototyping Projects 38.4 Building Bridges between Subsystems 38.5 Methods of Communicative Complexity Management 38.6 Towards the Integration of Standards? part 6 Recommendations for a Multi-Resilient Post-Corona World 39 “Health Terror”? Towards an Adequate Framework for a Post-Corona Socio-political Philosophy “Resistance” and Power Critique Will Not Suffice 40 Seven Strategic Recommendations for Pro-positive Multi-resilient Policymaking in the Post-Corona World of Open Societies 40.1 Recommendation 1: Include Competency Development to Become a Crucial Part of the Education System 40.2 Recommendation 2: Strengthen European-Western Simulation Methodology and Strategic Foresight 40.3 Recommendation 3: Strengthen Future Anticipation Capacities and (Potentially) Their Integration. From the Futures Cone and the Futures Diamond to Futures Literacy 40.4 Recommendation 4: Improve Communication through “Complexity Workers” 40.5 Recommendation 5: Refine Multi-level Governance 40.6 Recommendation 6: Expand and Improve International Cooperation 40.7 Recommendation 7: Sharpen Global “Crisis Automatisms” and Interconnected Responsibility Patterns on the Way to Global Governance 41 Recommendations for Global Post-Corona Policymaking in an Increasingly Multipolar World 41.1 Five Policy Trajectories Proposed by the University of the United Nations – Leading to the Key Concept of “Futures Literacy” 41.2 The Forgotten Perspective: Instilling a More Encompassing and Trans-systemic Concept of Health and Healing? part 7 Outlook. The Coronavirus Legacy: A “New World” Ahead – or back to Business as Usual? 42 The (Productively) Ambiguous Post-Corona Vision A “New World” Ahead? 43 “Corona Positivism” The Global Pandemic as an Unprecedented “Chance” for Radical Transformation – or Even as the Epochal Example for What (Social) Art Should Achieve? 44 Corona as a Driver of Re-globalisation towards Post-Corona Globalisation 45 A Post-Corona Core Task Re-positioning the Open Systems of Europe and the West by the Means of Multi-resilience 46 An End to Geopolitical Rivalry? Not Likely – Despite Some Positive Signals 47 Back to Business as Usual - Systemic Improvements at the “Evo-devo” Interface? 48 Integrating the Obvious Post-Corona, Multi-Resilience and “Futures Literacy”: “Bring Together What belongs Together” 49 Corona and Emerging New Responsibility Patterns 50 Outlook: A Post-Corona World in the Making Towards Difficult, but Feasible Innovation – for the Sake of a More Pro-positive Re-globalisation  Afterword Manfred B. Steger Bibliographic References Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the last decade the food and nutrition situation in developing countries has changed dramatically. For better or worse, urbanization and globalization have altered the diet and nutrition in both rural and urban areas. In many developing countries a persistent level of under nutrition exists both in rural areas and in urban slums due to less access to food needed for an active and healthy life. On the other hand, over-nutrition, or eating too much, has emerged among the middle-income groups. It is essential to have a better understanding of how people deal with their food in developing countries, in order to plan and implement food and nutrition programmes. This manual deals with the process of changing food habits and consumption patterns in developing countries. Nutritional implications, together with practical information is discussed in relationship to conducting field surveys. Part one of the manual provides insight into the dynamics of food habits and consumption and its socio-economic and cultural dimensions. Part two gives practical information on small scale surveys to be carried out within the framework of a nutrition issue; including data collecting on food habits and the measurement of food intake. This manual addresses professionals with practical or academic training and those who are involved in various types of food and nutrition programmes or related activities. It can also be used as a handbook in food and nutrition training courses at higher and at academic level.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: KRI Health Care System Leadership.- Chapter 3: Regulation of KRI Health Care System.- Chapter 4: Quality of Healthcare in KRI.- Chapter 5: Recommendations for strengthening KRI Health system Governace.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the urgent need to have time for health. It explains why it's not laziness, ignorance or lack of motivation that's the problem for unhealthy lifestyles, and why so many people lack time for their health.

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