Personal and public health / health education Books
Taylor & Francis The Therapeutic Power of the Maggies Centre
Book SynopsisThis book is about the therapeutic environment of the Maggie's centre and explores the many ways this is achieved. With an unconventional architecture as required by the design brief, combined with Maggie's psychological support programme, this special health facility allows extraordinary therapeutic effects in people, to the point that one can speak of therapeutic power.After tracing the story of the Maggie's centre, the book reveals its fundamentals: Maggie's Therapeutikos (the-mind-as-important-as-the-body), the Architectural Brief and the Client-Architect-Users' Triad. It continues by unfolding Maggie's synergy-that between people and place-which increases users' psychological flexibility helping them tolerate what was intolerable before. Although comfort and atmospheres are paramount, they are not enough to define the therapeutic environment of the Maggie's centre. Only by looking at neuroscience that can give us scientific explanations of empathy, feelings and em
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Researchers Guide to Using Electronic Health
Book SynopsisIn an age when electronic health records (EHRs) are an increasingly important source of data, this essential textbook provides both practical and theoretical guidance to researchers conducting epidemiological or clinical analysis through EHRs.Table of Contents1: The Rise of Electronic Health Records. 2: Concepts in Electronic Health Record Research. Section I: EHR Data for Research. 3: Planning for Electronic Health Record Research. 4: Accessing Electronic Health Record Data. 5: Data Management. 6: Perils of Electronic Health Record Data. Section II: Epidemiology and Data Analysis. 7: Study Design and Sampling Strategies. 8: Epidemiologic Measures. 9: Bias and Validity in Observational Research. 10: Epidemiologic Analysis I. 11: Epidemiologic Analysis II. 12: Advanced and Emerging Methods and Applications. Section III: Interpretation to Application. 13: Publication and Presentation. 14: Applications of Electronic Health Record Research. 15: Case Studies in Electronic Health Record Research. Appendix 1: Secondary Data Research Planner. Appendix 2: Example Code using R.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Negotiating Families and Personal Lives in the
Book SynopsisThis book is a vital new resource in the sociological study of family life in the 21st century. The chapters in this volume explore a diverse range of family and intimate life experiences, such as personal choices about reproduction and how life choices and family forms are mediated by factors including geographical location, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, income and government policy. Through a series of evidence-based chapters, leading sociologists explore a diverse range of family and intimate life experiences and the contexts within which they are lived and experienced. Each chapter delves into the lives and experiences of people whose choices in some way seem to disrupt normative and traditional ideas of family, parenting and childhood. Family patterns and experiences of living apart together, troubled families, children in care, culture, coupledom, same-sex families and digital technology are covered and examined innovatively through theoretical engagement.CTrade Review'This book is unique in being the first of its kind to use disruptive ambiguity to fuel critical thinking of the normative understandings of family and life trajectories. It achieves this by challenging the inertia of embedded cultures and policies which still frame reality for non-normative families – a triumph for the creation of an authentic discursive place for societal progress'.Professor Catherine Hayes, University of Sunderland, UK'I would like to endorse this volume, which offers readers engagement with innovative work – both in terms of topic and/or methodology – in the field of family sociology. The book has an international appeal and both the editors and contributors are acknowledged experts in this field. The book aims to disrupt normative or expected accounts of family and the life course and – following the recent death of David HJ Morgan – it is encouraging to see that the volume intends to extend and rethink Morgan's work on family practices. I endorse and very much look forward to reading this publication'.Dr Stephen Hicks, University of Manchester, member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives'An important and timely collection taking forward scholarship in the field of family sociology. This volume draws on a range of empirical research projects investigating many hitherto under-researched life stages and family formations – methodologically innovative and theoretically ambitious, it will be of interest to researchers as well as practitioners working beyond the academy'. Dr Charlotte Faircloth, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Social Research InstituteTable of Contents1. Introduction: Negotiating families and personal lives in the 21st Century 2. Identity and kinship in lesbian parental families 3. Misrecognising ‘complex’ families: a social harm perspective 4. Understanding personal lives: after individualisation 5. Disrupting doxa about children in care: Research from England 6. Negotiating intimacy and family at distance: Living apart together (LAT) relationships in China 7. Of salsa and singlemuslim.com: ethnographic insights about identity shifts and changed self-concepts in middle aged women’s post-separation/divorce transitions 8. Exploring understandings of domestic violence with women in Sunderland: Negotiating and positioning emotionality within sensitive research 9. Displaying family in a digital age: How parents negotiate technology, visibility and privacy 10. Situating visual stories using photo elicitation and biographical narrative methods: Visual representations of family life in South Africa 11. Socially just, authentic research with families in Jamaica, Australia and the UK 12. Looking ahead: What does this mean for the sociology of families and personal lives in the future?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Migration and Aging in the Americas
Book SynopsisWomen, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled in the Americas, from the 19th21st centuries. It explores their empowerment processes, the type of gender inequalities they faced, and their destinies as they aged; whether they resided in the destination country throughout their lives or returned to their home country.The book shows that many immigrant women were able to secure their wellbeing autonomously as they aged, after they retired, and/or when they became widows. The authors offer new research material on immigrant women's aging experiences, their innovative conclusions contrasting with the historiography that has often argued that aging immigrant women were dependent upon their husbands and later their children (especially their daughters) for survival. They consider inter- and intra-continental female migration and compare immigrant women's aging experiences, analyzing diverse groups who migTable of Contents1. Introduction Part I. Women, Households, and Aging 2. French Immigrant Women and their Aging Experiences in California, 1880–1940 3. Aging French-Canadian Immigrant Women in the U.S. in 1910: North American Comparative Perspectives 4. The Grandmother Exception: The Role of Family Relationships in the History of U.S. Immigration Policy and Practice Part II. Isolated Women and Aging 5. Open or Closed Horizons? Personal Accounts on the Emigration/Transfer of Basque Nuns to the Americas 6. Women and War: Aging, Migration, and Violence in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands Part III. Women and Aging as Transnational Experiences 7. From Providing Care to Requiring Care: The Impact of Migration on the Elderly in Paraguay 8. The Importance of Integration in the Life Stories of Immigrant Women from Piaxtla, Mexico, Who Live in the United States 9. Peule Female Migration to the Americas and their Return to Guinea in Old Age: Evolution of Gender Relations in the Mamou Region
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sex Intimacy and Living with LifeShortening Conditions
Book SynopsisThis multi-disciplinary and inclusive collection brings together theoretically informed and empirically focused research on sex, intimacy and reproduction in relation to young people and adults with life-shortening conditions.Advances in healthcare mean that increasing numbers of young people with life-shortening conditions are transitioning into adulthood. Issues such as sex and intimacy, dating and relationships, fertility and having children are increasingly relevant to them and to the people that support them, including families, carers, practitioners and professional education, health and social care agencies. This three-part book explores the relevance and significance of this field, examines everyday experiences, and highlights the challenges faced by individuals and organisations in addressing the needs of such people in daily life and in the context of practice.Drawing on perspectives from sociology, disability studies, epidemiology, health policy, psychotheraTable of Contents Part One: Policy and regulation: National and international landscapes. 1.A changing population: Young adults with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. 2.International policy and governance related to young adults with life-shortening conditions. 3.The regulation of sexual expression and joy: Complexities and contradictions. 4.British law, help or hinderance? Sexuality and disability. 5.A rite of passage? A UK perspective on transition for young people with life-shortening conditions. Part Two: Experiences of sex, intimacy and reproduction. 6.Life-long learning about sex on an uncertain life course. 7.Reasons to shag a cripple. 8.Disruptions, relationships and intimate futures: The unintended consequences of pandemic control. 9.Near-death issues and the impact on the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities during the pandemic. 10.Navigating normativity: Understanding reproductive loss in the lives of young adults with shortened lives. Part Three: Reflections on researching sexual and reproductive intimacy. 11.Involving people with life-shortening conditions in research: Perspectives on co-production. 12.Research and governance in action: Implementing research on sex, intimacy and reproduction.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Embodied Progress
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's findings in the context of the past two decades and providing a state-of-the-art' review of the field today.Over the past 25 years, both the assisted conception industry and the academic field of reproductive studies have grown enormously. IVF, in particular, is belatedly becoming recognised as one of the most influential technologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a far-reaching set of implications that have to date been underestimated, understudied and under-reported. This pioneering text was the first to explore the emergence of commercial IVF in the United Kingdom, where the technique was originally developed. During the 1980s, the British Parliament devised a unique system of comprehensive national regulation of assisted reproduction amidst fractious public and media Table of ContentsIntroduction to the 1st edition. Introduction to the second edition. 1.Conception among the anthropologists. 2.Contested conceptions in the enterprise culture. 3.The ‘obstacle course’: the reproductive work of IVF. 4.‘It just takes over’: IVF as a ‘way of life’. 5.Hhaving to try ‘and ‘having to choose’: how IVF ‘makes sense’. 6.The embodiment of progress. Afterword
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Taylor & Francis TraumaInformed Practices for Early Childhood Educators
This second edition of Trauma-Informed Practices for Early Childhood Educators continues to guide childcare providers and early educators working with infants, toddlers, preschoolers and early elementary-aged children to understand trauma as well as its impact on young childrenâs brains, behavior, learning and development. The book covers a range of trauma-responsive teaching strategies that readers can use to create strength-based environments that support childrenâs health, healing and resiliency. Updates include a greater emphasis on resilience and collaborating with mental health specialists, new chapters on developing childrenâs body awareness/sensory literacy and pathways to regulation that reduce stress through breathing techniques and mindful movement, as well as new vignettes and case studies to use in workshops or professional development. Supervisors and coaches will learn a range of powerful trauma-responsive practices that they can use to support workforce develo
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Primary Health Care and Population Mortality
Book SynopsisPopulation health management is being increasingly adopted by health systems yet the importance of primary health care in influencing population mortality and the mechanisms that explain it are not well understood. Too often, primary health care is regarded as a service for minor health problems and for managing access to secondary care. This limited view is no longer tenable and it is time to be much more ambitious about the place of primary health care in health systems worldwide.In delivering and planning health care and in re-building health systems after the pandemic, practitioners and policymakers in low-, middle- and high-income countries need evidence on how primary health care affects population mortality and practical advice to effect change. Primary Health Care and Population Mortality fulfils this need. Drawing on his long experience as both a practitioner and researcher, the author Richard Baker describes how primary health is crucial to the effect of health systems on population mortality, including its potential for reducing inequalities in mortality.This accessible new book will provide invaluable information to leaders in service development and delivery, academics in primary health care and those working within international organisations that are promoting primary health care for improving population health. It will also be of practical value to general practitioners, primary health care nurses and managers and public health staff.Table of Contents Hard times From certificates to statistics Variations in population mortality and some things that influence them Primary health care and population mortality in low-, middle and high-income countries Communicable diseases Non-communicable diseases 1: cardiovascular disease and cancer Non-communicable diseases 2: respiratory disorders and mental health Organisational features of primary health care The patient - professional relationship Policy and populations health management The mechanisms framework New ambitions for primary health care Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes
Book SynopsisCultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing. In this book we explore the ways in which gardens and gardening prevent illness and restore wellbeing, and how they improve social and health equity via tradi-tional and innovative mechanisms and across a range of sites.Therapeutic landscapes are relational, reciprocal, and evolving. In this book, leading scholars from across the globe demonstrate how therapeutic landscapes research and practice is expanded through and around the processes of cultivation. Deliberately interdisciplinary, the book explores how tending and caring for green spaces, collectively and individually, works to prevent and restore health and wellbeing, as well as impact upstream factors determining social justice and equity. A unique combination of academics, clinicians, and practitioners deliver theoretical and practical insights into wide-rangingTable of ContentsIntroductionPauline Marsh and Allison Williams Part I: Boots on: Scoping the cultivated therapeutic landscape 1. Tending more than gardens: Engaging residents in public landscapes to cultivate urban nature Sara Barron, Kate Lee, Maddison Miller and Emily Rugel 2. Gardening for good in Ontario, Canada: A case study of Hamilton’s Victory Gardens Allison Williams 3. Growing health in local food gardens: Case studies of community, school, and home gardens Sumita Ghosh 4. The cultivated ‘healing garden’: Respite and support or lifestyle change? Esther Veen and Karolina Doughty 5. Mental health outcomes associated with gardening: A scoping review Selma Lunde Fjaestad, Jessica L Mackelprang, Takemi Sugiyama and Jonathan Kingsley Part II: Companion planting: Cultivating human wellbeing 6. Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing Jessica Thompson, Michelle Howarth, Michael Hardman and Penny Cook 7. Creating a therapeutic garden for people with Huntington’s Disease and other neurological conditions Josephine Spring 8. Green places in red spaces: Broadening understanding of therapeutic gardening within rural Australia Amy Baker, Alejandra Aguilar and Ben Sellar 9. Health and wellbeing benefits of therapeutic gardens and gardening activities for older people living in residential aged care settings Theresa L Scott Part III: Dig Deep: expanding and enriching the cultivated therapeutic landscape 10. Environmental place-making by the ‘out of place’: Migrants building connections to new landscapes through structured conservation activities Pauline Marsh, Suzanne Mallick, Dave Kendal and Renae Riviere 11. Eradicating malnutrition through small-scale, diverse and local food production Bruce French and Anthea Maynard 12. Nurturing Soil-adarities: Growing multispecies justice in therapeutic landscapes Bethaney Turner 13. Tending the wilds inside: Cultivating healing at the unruly edges of the garden Alice McSherry and Robin Kearns 14. ConclusionHorti-cultural geographies: Situating the garden as an assemblage of health and wellbeing Ronan Foley
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies
Book SynopsisThis exciting new book provides a novel interdisciplinary introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology. Its accessible approach illuminates holistic understandings of children and young peopleâs lives by drawing from multiple disciplines and theoretical frameworks and wide-ranging research examples, including case studies from around the world, featuring children and young peopleâs perspectives throughout.Weaving insights from education and cultural studies, social anthropology, and sociology with social, cultural, and developmental psychology, it covers children and young peopleâs experiences and development from infancy to young adulthood (0â23 years) and their rights. Chapters explore key contemporary topics such as the following: Digital childhood and youth Childrenâs embodied experiences The social and cultural origins of selves Diverse families Race and ethnicity Global childhoods Models for understanding health and disability Childrenâs rights and agency Gender in childhood and youth An essential reading for students on childhood and youth, psychology, and education courses, An Introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology is also a valuable introductory resource for practitioners working with children and young people and for parents and policy makers with an interest in how we understand children and young peopleâs lives today.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding children and young people's livesChapter 1 What is Childhood and Youth Studies?Chapter 2 The psychology of childhood and youthChapter 3 Children’s bodiesChapter 4 Making sense of the selfChapter 5 Diverse FamiliesChapter 6 Young people’s mental healthChapter 7 Education, schools, and learningChapter 8 Models of disability and their effects on children livesChapter 9 Race(ism) and ethnicityChapter 10 Global childhoodsChapter 11 Gender in childhood and youthChapter 12 Digital childhood and youth: life with screensChapter 13 Adolescents, teenagers, and youth: A time of changeChapter 14 Transitions to adulthood
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Patient and Staff Voices in Primary Care
Book SynopsisThis unique work represents the recording and analysis of oral history interviews conducted by the pioneering general practitioner Dr Hetty Ockrim with over seventy patients, as well as office staff and members of the nursing team, between 1989 and 1992 in her former practice in the Ibrox/Govan areas of Glasgow, places of significant socio-economic deprivation. Her focus in undertaking this study was on personal and social, rather than just clinical, issues. The interviews are accompanied by background and commentary for the study, reflecting the full breadth of general practice. Many of the interviewees had memories stretching back before the NHS, providing a unique historical perspective of service development, as well as invaluable directions for improving current and future general practice. Key Features Provides a historical context for the developments in health over several decades prior to the study Shows how oral history methods haTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Biography List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Medical and Practice Background Chapter 3: Study Methodology Chapter 4: Practice Organisation Chapter 5: Stigma and Marginalisation Chapter 6: Clinical Topics Chapter 7: Discussion and Conclusion Appendices
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Process Mining Techniques for Managing and
Book SynopsisThis book discusses a new process mining method along with a detailed comparison between different techniques that provide a complete vision of the process of data acquisition, data analysis, and data prediction.Process Mining Techniques for Managing and Improving Healthcare Systems offers a new framework for process learning which is probabilistic and enables the process to be learned in an accumulative manner. The steps of prediction modeling and building the required knowledge are highlighted throughout the book, along with a strong emphasis on the correlation between the healthcare domain and technology including the different aspects, such as: managing records, information, and procedures; early detection of diseases; and the improvement of accuracy in choosing the right treatment procedures.This reference provides a wealth of knowledge for practitioners, researchers, and students at the basic and intermediary levels working within the healthcare system, computer science, electronics and communications, as well as medical providers and also hospital management entities.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Children in Tourism Communities
Book SynopsisThis book explores how children living in tourism destinations are particularly susceptible to the impacts of tourism and how they can be included in public policies, programmes and decision-making, focusing particularly on case studies in Europe.Children in Tourism Communities argues that for tourism to exercise its regenerative role and encourage sustainable development, it must be inclusive of all voices, especially children who represent the future generation and will soon become adults with the rights and responsibilities for engaging in and delivering tourism activities. The book is based on original, ground-breaking research assessing the views of children regarding tourism, with a specific focus on sustainable tourism and development. It includes discussion on key case study locations including Croatia, India, Ireland, Malta, Serbia and Slovenia, although the themes, issues and practices have relevance in all tourism destinations worldwide. Through child-centre
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Transcending Crisis by Attending to Care Emotion
Book SynopsisThis innovative book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, and flourishing in the context of acute and persistent crises.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural
Book SynopsisDisability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new day. Using autocritical discourse analysis, a new hybrid research method that combines aspects of the established methods of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and autoethnography, this book explores the formative cultural identity politics of disability via cultural stations of UK popular culture. These cultural stations include action figures, children's books, television miniseries, comics, comedy films, teenage drama and sitcoms, the punk rock movement, and alternative comedy. Although the cultural stations range from toys and comics to aggressive music and chaotic sitcoms, all are considered with a focus on the language and tropes of disability. Indeed, most of the works are not remembered as portrayals of disability but the book's analysis reveals flash if not fleeting reprTable of Contents0.Prologue. 1.Toy Man: Figuring Out the Play Figure. 2.Mr Moral: Animating the Ordinary via the Extraordinary. 3. Made in Misterland: Rain and Shine on the Identity Parade. 4.Comic Priming: To Read and Subscribe. 5.Power and Palaver: Medicalisation of the Funny Film Franchise. 6.Happy Hill: Teenage Television and the Half-Hour Antihero. 7.No Futurity: Non-normative Affinities with the Punk Rock Movement. 8.Anarchy in the Comedy: A Complete and Utter Alternative. 9.Epilogue.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Still Waters Run Deep
Book SynopsisThis book brings together theologians, clergy, people with dementia, carers, clinicians and others to offer a holistic, interdisciplinary exploration of dementia which focuses not only on what dementia is and what it is not, but more importantly, what it means to live well with dementia and to find hope where sometimes it feels like there is no hope.Located within practical theology and theological anthropology, the diversity of perspectives on dementia presented in this book offers deep insights into what it means to be a human being, to live humanly in the midst of difficult situations, and helps us understand and navigate the complexities of the dementia journey. In offering foundational practical and theoretical knowledge, the book helps cut through the false consciousness of modernity and enter a world where personhood is defined not by our capacities or the loss of them, but by God's loving presence. It offers a contextual theological framework to look beyond what we assumTable of ContentsA Word From the Editor A Word From the Guest Editors 1. A Spiritual Journey Into the I-Thou Relationship: A Personal Reflection on Living With Dementia 2. My Glorious Opportunity: How My Dementia Has Been a Gift 3. Journeys With People Who Have Dementia: Connecting and Finding Meaning in the Journey 4. Epiphanies: Small Miracles in Everyday Experiences of Dementia 5. God’s Faithfulness and Dementia: Christian Theology in Context 6. Lost in Eden: Dementia From Paradise 7. The Lived Experience of Dementia: Developing a Contextual Theology 8. “I Am Still With You”: Dementia and the Christian Wayfarer 9. What Happens to the Person With Dementia?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth
Book SynopsisThis accessible book draws on research around women's experiences to illustrate and explore the concept of posttraumatic growth, emphasizing practice implications for healthcare professionals and strategies for fostering posttraumatic growth.Including the voices of women, in their own words, Women's Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth explains the differences between post-traumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic growth and presents the theoretical framework of posttraumatic growth. It synthesizes relevant international research and introduces data from four new qualitative research studies on posttraumatic growth in women who have experienced the death of a spouse or longtime partner, death of a child, a close brush with death, and intimate partner abuse. The book develops clinical and nursing practice implications for healthcare professionals and explores current self-help and professional therapeutic strategies to foster posttraumatic growth.Women's JTrade Review'An empathetic exploration of women's traumas and how those experiencing them travel to Posttraumatic Growth. The authors explore the tumultuous emotions stirred up by the death of a loved one, domestic abuse, serious accidents, illnesses, and the broad fluctuations between hope and despair. Insightful, practical, compassionate, and a must-read!' Sharon R. Rainer, Ph.D., APRN, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, ENP-C, Program Director, Emergency Nurse Practitioner Post-Graduate Program, Thomas Jefferson University College of Nursing, USA 'Women’s Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth is compassionately infused with true stories of life traumas encountered by ordinary women. Drs. Doherty and Scannell-Desch draw on their research and clinical experience to provide the reader with a riveting account of women’s struggles, setbacks, and gradual navigation to Posttraumatic Growth.'Iris J. Turkenkopf, Ph.D., Professor & Vice President for Academic Affairs (retired), Mount Saint Mary College, USATable of Contents1. Before Posttraumatic Growth Came Posttraumatic Stress, 2. A Conceptual Framework and Model for Posttraumatic Growth, 3. Posttraumatic Growth and the Loss of a Husband or Longtime Partner, 4. Posttraumatic Growth in Women Who Have Experienced the Loss of a Child, 5. Women’s Experiences of a Close Brush with Death and Posttraumatic Growth, 6. Posttraumatic Growth in Women Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Abuse, 7. Therapeutic Modalities, Self-Help Resources, and Implications for Clinical Practice, Education, and Research, 8. Authors’ Concluding Thoughts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Interdisciplinary Approach to Aging Biohacking
Book SynopsisAn Interdisciplinary Approach to Aging, Biohacking and Technology focuses on a broad range of issues that cover everything from the most basic ways technology and biohacking influence people's everyday lives to concerns about equity, globalization and how we humans produce, consume and are consumed by our technologies.This edited collection looks at the intersection between technology and aging, addressing the ways in which technology affects individuals, groups, local communities and entire populations. Contributions from a range of disciplines including sociology, philosophy, communications, medicine and religion provide interdisciplinary perspectives, addressing questions such as What is the impact of technology on adult bodies, our well-being and our safety?' The book explores risks such as surveillance technology, body modification and the Internet as well as issues in the aging journey such as the body and its modification; communication, privacy and surveillance;Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Biohacking and Aging Technology – A Primer 2. The Biology of Aging and its Social Implications 3. Anti-Aging or Enhancing-Aging Technologies? Social and Religious Implications of Radical Life Extension 4. Assistive Technologies and Older Adults with Cognitive Problems 5. Aging in the Smart Home Conclusion and Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Skill in Work and Play
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Taylor & Francis Ltd African Ethics and Death
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death.The book first challenges the criticism and rejection of moral status in African philosophy and then continues to consider how moral personhood is defined in African ethical theories, investigating which entities have full moral status or moral personhood and are therefore worthy of full ethical consideration. It then applies this theory to the problems associated with death. In the medical context, will an African theory of moral status permit or forbid euthanasia? Do we have moral obligations towards dead human bodies? Overall, the book provides an important African axiological contribution to debates on global ethics and moral philosophy.Providing an important overview of the ethical problems associated with the biological fact of death, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of philosophy and AfTable of ContentsPart 1: African Moral Philosophy 1. Introduction to Moral Status and Death in African Ethics 2. A Defence of Moral Status in African Philosophy 3. Ubuntu Ethics, ubuntu and Moral Status 4. Ubuntu, Empathy and Moral Status Part 2: African Applied Ethics 5. Ubuntu Ethics and Voluntary Euthanasia 6. Ubuntu Ethics and the Moral Status of Dead Human Bodies
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held beliefs around visual impairment. It provides a bridge between medical practice and social and cultural research drawing on authentic investigations.It is the intention of this Handbook to provide an opportunity to engage with academic researchers who wish to ensure a coherent and rigorous approach to research construction and reflection on visual impairment that is in collaboration with, but sometimes is beyond, the medical realm. This Handbook is divided into ten thematic areas in order to represent the wide range of debates and concepts within visual impairment. The ten themes include: cerebral visual impairment; education; sport and physical exercise; assistive technology; understanding the cultural aesthetics; socio-emotional and seTable of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Section I: Introducing and understanding the profile, sociological and psychological impact of Visual Impairment.; Chapter 1. Introduction and Synthesis of Themes: The Editor’s Perspective. (John Ravenscroft); Chapter 2. Global Data on Vision Loss: Implications for Services. (Jill Keeffe); Chapter 3. Psychological Representation of Visual Impairment: Perception and How Visually Impaired People "See" the World. (Jennifer C. Fielder & Michael J. Proulx); Chapter 4. On being blind. (Gaylen Kapperman); Section II: Cerebral Visual Impairment / Cerebral Visual Processing.; Chapter 5. Cerebral (Cortical) Visual Impairment in Children – A Perspective. (Gordon N Dutton & Corinna M Bauer); Chapter 6. A Personal Perspective on CVI. (Nicola McDowell); Chapter 7. Assessment of Visual Processing Functions and Disorders. (Lea Hyvärinen); Section III: Education.; Chapter 8. Trends in Low Vision Education: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future.; (Amanda Hall Lueck & Gregory L. Goodrich); Chapter 9. Formal and non-formal education for individuals with vision impairment or multiple disabilities and vision impairment: Current trends and challenges. (Vassilios Argyropoulos & Frances Gentle); Chapter 10. Transition from school to Higher Education: Research evidence and best practice. (Graeme Douglas, Rachel Hewett & Mike McLinden); Chapter 11. Career Education for Students with Visual Impairments. (Karen E. Wolffe); Section IV: Sport and Physical Exercise for People with Visual Impairment.; Chapter 12. Teaching Children who are Deafblind in Physical Education, Physical Activity and Recreation. (Lauren J. Lieberman & Justin A. Haegele); Chapter 13. Movement and Visual Impairment: Research and Practice. (Justin A. Haegele & Lauren J. Lieberman); Section V: Assistive technology.; Chapter 14. Assistive Technology Foundations in Research. (Yue-Ting SIU); Section VI: Understanding the Cultural Aesthetics.; Chapter 15. Classic Philosophies on Blindness and Cross-Modal Transfer. (Simon Hayhoe); Chapter 16. In Vision and Touch, Pictures Trigger Equations for Surfaces and Edges. (John M. Kennedy); Chapter 17. Art, Visual Impairment and the Gatekeepers of Aesthetic Value. (David Feeney); Chapter 18. Using Expressive Movement and Haptics to Explore Kinaesthetic Empathy, Aesthetic and Physical literacy. (Wendy Timmons & John Ravenscroft); Section VII: Socio-Emotional and Sexual Aspects of Visual Impairment.; Chapter 19. Socio-emotional Aspects of Visual Impairment: A practitioner’s perspective. (Joao Roe); Chapter 20. Self Esteem of People with Visual Impairment. (Samir Qasim); Chapter 21. Human Mate Selection Theory: Specific Considerations for Persons with Visual Impairments. (Gaylen Kapperman & Stacy M. Kelly); Section VIII: Orientation, Mobility, Habilitation, and Rehabilitation.; Chapter 22. Modern Approaches to Orientation and Mobility: Habilitation and Rehabilitation. (Karl Wall); Chapter 23. Measuring vision, orientation and mobility in the wild. (Lil Deverell); Section IX: Recent Advances in ‘Eye’ Research and Sensory Substitution Devices.; Chapter 24. An overview of human pluripotent stem cell applications for the understanding and treatment of blindness. (Louise A. Rooney, Duncan E. Crombie, Grace E. Lidgerwood, Maciej Daniszewski, & Aice Pébay); Chapter 25. Technologies for Vision Impairment: Bionic Eyes and Sensory Substitution Devices. (Lauren N. Ayton, Penelope J. Allen, Carla J. Abbott, & Matthew A. Petoe); Section X: Aging and Adulthood; Chapter 26. Employment and Visual Impairment: Issues in Adulthood. (Natalie Martiniello & Walter Wittich); Chapter 27. Aging and Combined Vision and Hearing Loss. (Walter Wittich & Peter Simcock); Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Essential Guide to Doing a Health and Social
Book SynopsisThis step-by-step guide takes the reader logically through the process of undertaking a literature review, from determining when this methodology might be useful, through to publishing the findings. It is designed particularly for students undertaking a dissertation using literature review methodology. However, it also caters to practitioners who wish to review the existing evidence in order to develop practice. Key features of the text include: a chapter on what makes a good literature review, so that readers are clear and confident about what they're aiming for; discussion of the value of literature reviews, whether for fulfilling the requirements of a course or for developing practice; a chapter structure that reflects the structure of a typical dissertation by literature review, making the material intuitive and easy to navigate; case examples throughout to illustrate how methodolTable of Contents1. What is Literature Review Methodology? 2. Why Carry Out a Literature Review? 3. What Constitutes a Good Literature Review? 4. The Background and Rationale for the Review 5. Developing the Review Question and Aims 6. Carrying out the Search 7. Appraising the Literature 8. Synthesizing the Findings 8. Discussing the Literature Review Findings 10. Drawing Conclusions and Making Recommendations 11. Disseminating the Findings of a Literature Review
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Taylor & Francis Exploring Medical Anthropology
Book SynopsisNow in its fourth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Concrete examples and the authorâs personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the disciplineâs most important insights, such as that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease and that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering.The text has been thoroughly updated for the fourth edition, including fresh case studies and a new chapter on drugs. It contains a range of pedagogical features to support teaching and learning, including images, text boxes, a glossary, and suggested further reading.Trade ReviewPraise for the new edition:"Using the process of ethnographic fieldwork, Joralemon helps understand, address and apply knowledge on health and disease. This concise yet complete rendition of sufferers’ stories in the context of research, intervention, media coverage and health policy should be required reading in university courses on medical anthropology."Judith Freidenberg, University of Maryland, USA"This indispensable work solves the need for a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of health. It can serve as the primary text for a beginning level course or, as I employ it, a template to jump start an advanced course on culture, health and healing that integrates varied literature, ethnography, and media. Topics cover the gamut from the classical, such as shamanism and the malarial origins of sickle cell, to the timely, such as TRT and the gendered politics of Zika. Engagingly written, with a biocultural bent, Joralemon’s book deftly and fairly portrays the field’s achievements without shying from its controversies."Kathryn Oths, University of Alabama, USATable of Contents1. What’s So Cultural about Disease? 2. Anthropological Questions and Methods in the Study of Sickness and Healing 3. Recognizing Biological, Social, and Cultural Interconnections: Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives on a Cholera Epidemic 4. Expanding the Vision of Medical Anthropology: Critical and Interpretive Views of the Cholera Epidemic 5. The Global Petri Dish 6. Healers and the Healing Professions 7. Drugs 8. Applying Medical Anthropology 9. Anthropology and Medical Ethics 10. A Look Back and a Glance Ahead
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Health Economics
Book SynopsisCan we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health Economics, now in its sixth edition, not only shows how this is done, but also provides the tools to analyze the economic behavior of patients and providers in health care markets.Health Economics combines current economic theory, recent research, and up-to-date empirical studies into a comprehensive overview of the field. Key changes to this edition include: additional discussion of the consequences of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), in light of current political changes; an extensive discussion of quality measures; more discussion of preventive services; a new section on drug markets and regulation; discussion of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs); new references, problem sets, and an updated companion website with lecture slides. Designed for use in upper-division undTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1 Why Health Economics?CHAPTER 2 Utility and HealthCHAPTER 3 The Transformation of Medical Care to HealthCHAPTER 4 The Demand for Medical Care: Conceptual FrameworkCHAPTER 5 Empirical Studies of Medical Care Demand and ApplicationsCHAPTER 6 The Physician and the Physician-FirmCHAPTER 7 Physicians in the MarketplaceCHAPTER 8 The Hospital as a Supplier of Medical CareCHAPTER 9 Hospitals in the MarketplaceCHAPTER IO The Demand for Health InsuranceCHAPTER 11 Health Insurance Supply and Managed CareCHAPTER 12 Government Provision of Health InsuranceCHAPTER 13 Medical MalpracticeCHAPTER 14 Externalities in Health and Medical CareCHAPTER 15 Managing the Market: Regulation, Quality Certification, and Technical Change CHAPTER 16 Universal Insurance Issues and International Comparisons of Health Care Systems
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Health Psychology
Book SynopsisThis accessible primer on health psychology covers the key theories and models of the discipline. Through the use of real-life case studies and examples, it covers a broad range of topics related to the field of health psychology including: health promotion, risky health behaviour and health in healthcare settings. It explains how health psychology serves to not only promote positive health and reduce maladaptive health behaviours, but also support those who are chronically ill.Unlike medicine, health psychology takes a more holistic approach through the interaction of psychological, social and biological factors to improve health. This book outlines the inter-relationship between how we think and feel, our biological systems and the social contexts in which we live. It discusses how belief and attitude can shape behavior, the pivotal role of stress and how we can adjust to chronic illness. Drawing from experience, the authors answer important and common questions like howTable of Contents The development of Health Psychology A bio/psycho/social approach to health and wellbeing Attitudes, beliefs & behaviour: Models of health behaviour Health behaviours of children & adolescence Stress, behaviour & illness Adjusting to chronic health conditions Health psychology in Health care settings Glossary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Men Masculinities and the Care of Children
Book SynopsisSharing the care of children in families is increasingly becoming the norm in modern-day society as more mothers enter paid work and government campaigns endeavour to increase the number of men working in childcare. However, running alongside debates of gender imbalance in childcare, there has also been mounting anxiety from the media and public about the risks of child abuse, often perceived as being mostly perpetrated by men and calling for firmer regulation of men's involvement with children.This book asks whether men's care for children, both as fathers and practitioners, actually differs at all from the care provided by mothers and female carers? In what ways do men and concepts of masculinity need to change if they are to play a greater role in the care of children or are such societal perceptions based on outdated gender stereotypes? Bringing together cutting-edge theory, up-to-date research and current practice, this book analyses the role of both fathers and male proTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Images and Representations2. Discourses and Debates3. Ideas and Perspectives4. Identities and ExperiencesConclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd NonReligious Pastoral Care
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book is a guide to non-religious pastoral care practice in healthcare, prisons, education, and the armed forces in the UK. It brings a new perspective to our understanding of care services traditionally offered by chaplaincy departments. The book charts the progress from a Christian to a multi-faith and on to a fully inclusive care service. Compelling evidence is presented showing strong and broad support for non-religious pastoral care provision.A practical guide, it outlines the beliefs and values on which this care is founded and its person-centred approach. The role, skills, competencies, and training requirements for non-religious pastoral carers are described. Institutions need to consider their policy responses to the rapid development of non-religious pastoral care provision. A number of policy aspects are explored, including understanding service users' needs, recruitment, and communications.This book is essential reading for non-religiousTrade Review'This is a much-needed intervention on the growing phenomenon of non-religious pastoral care within chaplaincy contexts. It will undoubtedly raise challenges for chaplaincies and institutions across a wide range of settings in British public life.' - Ben Ryan, Researcher at Theos Think Tank, author of A Very Modern Ministry: Chaplaincy in the UK‘This timely book sketches an innovative and inspiring view of pastoral care that is relevant for professionals and managers involved in spiritual/pastoral care provisions and chaplaincy, both within and beyond the UK. Using both scientific evidence and case examples, David Savage makes a well-founded and passionate plea for a more inclusive pastoral care service in which pastoral care needs of all people are taken seriously and can be addressed.’ – Carmen Schuhmann, Assistant Professor, Dep. Globalization and Dialogue Studies, University of Humanistic StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Foreword ; 1 Introduction; PART I: THE SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT; 2 The Development of Pastoral, Spiritual, and Religious Care Practice; 3 Public Perceptions of Chaplains and Non-Religious Pastoral Carers; 4 Religious, and Non-Religious Beliefs in Society; Part II: NON-RELIGIOUS PASTORAL CARE PRACTICE; 5 Beliefs and Values; 6 Roles, Skills, and Competencies; 7 Death, Rituals, and Memorials; 8 Ethical Behaviour; Part III: THE ROLE OF THE INSTITUTIONS; 9 Introduction; 10 Understanding People’s Needs; 11 Effective Communications; 12 Better Recruitment; 13 Policy and Practice Development; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of HIVAIDS in Russia
Book SynopsisThis book studies the role of civil society organisations in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Russia. It looks at how Russia's HIV/AIDS epidemic has developed into a serious social, economic and political problem, and how according to the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Russia is currently facing the biggest HIV/AIDS epidemic in all of Europe with an estimated number of 980,000 people living with HIV in 2009. The book investigates civil society organisations' contribution to social change and civil society development in post-Soviet Russia, and thus situates a specific type of civil society actors into a broader socio-political context and questions their ability to represent civic interests, particularly in the field of social policy-making and health. This allows for a better understanding of the dynamics of state-society relations in present-day Russia, and gives insight into the ways HIV/AIDS NGOs in Russia have used transnational ties in order to exert influence on Trade Review"This book is an immense contribution to the public health literature that provides readers with a complex picture of the HIV crisis in Russia. It also calls for our greater admiration of HIV/AIDS NGOs that have key roles in confronting HIV/AIDS in Russia and whose dedication and care are at the very heart of slowly emerging civil society in Russia." - Yuri A Amirkhanian, The LancetTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Civil Society, NGOs and the Russian State 3. Civil Society and the Global Governance of HIV/AIDS 4. Russia’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Government Response 5. HIV/AIDS and Russian Society 6. The Organisational Landscape of HIV/AIDS NGOs in Russia 7. Building Bridges, Creating Trust: HIV/AIDS NGOs in Tomsk 8. Improving Policy and Practice: NGOs in St. Petersburg 9. Advocacy Based on Evidence: HIV/AIDS NGOs in Kaliningrad 10. In the Centre of Russian HIV/AIDS politics: NGOs in Moscow 11. Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd NarrativeBased Practice in Health and Social Care
Book SynopsisNarrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care outlines a vision of how witnessing narratives, paying attention to them, and developing an ability to question them creatively, can make the person's emerging story the central focus of health and social care, and of healing. This text gives an account of the practical application of ideas and skills from contemporary narrative studies to health and social care. Promoting narrative-based practice in everyday encounters with patients and clients, and in supervision, teaching, teamwork and management, it presents Conversations Inviting Change, an established narrative-based model of interactional skills. Underpinned by an account of theory from narrative studies and related fields, including communication theory and systems thinking, it is written for students and practitioners across a broad range of professions in primary and secondary health care and social care. More information about CTrade Review"Reading John Launer’s Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change gave me a powerful surge of hope. John finds words to express our deepest thoughts and visions for a truly respectful and effective health care. His transparent prose brings his reader to experience the clarity and value of narrative practice. Reading John Launer, awakened by his purity of thought, falling under the spell of his idealism, charged by his optimism, I feel myself in the presence of those giants of vision and faithful representers of 'the other.' We all gather, with John as host, in the clearing of a narrative path toward wholeness. If you care for the sick, read this book." – Professor Rita Charon, Columbia University, USA"[Launer’s] training practices provide a crucial component in the project of humanizing clinical relationships… systematic training in asking patients questions that can help them to clarify their narratives, which in turn clarifies alternatives they might pursue in their lives and sets the most productive course for clinical treatment" – Professor Arthur Frank, University of Calgary, Canada in Journal of Medical Humanities"This book guides us through the rapids and challenges of how to conduct conversations that lead to meaningful change. John Launer articulates with wonderful simplicity the subtleties of a narrative-based approach which enables people in difficult situations to negotiate and realise new ways of going forward. Given the ubiquity of calls for change and innovation, this book must be everyone's first port of call to make sure their plans and initiatives benefit from Launer's transformational approach to narrative communication." – Professor Rick Iedema, King’s College London, UK"How can practitioners and patients become more receptive and responsive to each other? Launer’s book addresses this question, and resonates with today’s policy preoccupations; the need to develop relationships between practitioners working with the same patients in the same teams to improve collaborative practice. Narrative-based practice has yet to receive the attention in interprofessional education that it merits. 'Conversations Inviting Change' offers a remedy for this that I shall certainly keep to hand." – Hugh Barr, President, the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction: narrative, health and social care1. Narrative practitioners at work2. Concepts: the "seven C's"3. Narrative inquiry4. What hinders narratives5. Helping narratives to develop6. Families7. Mental Health8. Supervision9. Consultancy in the workplace10. TrainingAppendix: some teaching exercises
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying
Book SynopsisFew issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death, mortality, and more recently of end-of-life care, have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways. Comprising over fifty-two chapters from a team of international contributors, the companion covers: funerary and mourning practices; concepts of the afterlife; psychical issues associated with death and dying; clinical and ethical issues; philosophical issues; death and dying as represented in popular culture. This comprehensive collection of essays will Trade ReviewA remarkably impressive collection of various points of view on death and afterlife. The joining of conventional religious worldviews with the latest research coming out of psychical science - including the near-death experience, children’s reincarnational memories, and ghosts the world over - is especially noteworthy. A professor teaching a course on death couldn’t do better than selecting this as his or her one and only text for the course. Stafford Betty, California State University, USA.Table of ContentsList of ContributorsIntroduction – Christopher M. MoremanSection 1: Religious Approaches to Death and the Afterlife1. Catholic Views of the Afterlife – Diana Walsh Pasulka2. Protestant Views of the Afterlife – Mark S. Sweetnam3. Mormon Views of the Afterlife – Daniel Belnap4. Christian Funerary Traditions – Thomas G. Long5. Jewish Views of the Afterlife – Dan Cohn-Sherbok6. Jewish Funeral and Mourning Practices – Vanessa L. Ochs7. Muslim Views of the Afterlife – David Cook8. Funerary Culture in Islam – Amila Buturovic9. Zoroastrian Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Almut Hintze10. Sikh Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Arvind-Pal S. Mandair11. Hindu Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – T. S. Rukmani12. Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Peter Flügel13. Theravāda Buddhist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Rachelle M. Scott14. Tibetan Buddhist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Matthew T. Kapstein15. Shinto and Death: From Cultural Roots to Contemporary Thought – Stuart D. B. Picken16. Early Chinese Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Mu-chou Poo17. Contemporary Daoist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Adeline Herrou18. North American Indigenous Afterlife Beliefs – Joseph A. P. Wilson19. African Afterlife Beliefs – Zayin Cabot20. Overcoming Death in New Religious Movements – Susan J. Palmer21. Afterlife Beliefs in the Spiritualist Movement – Walter Meyer zu Erpen22. Death and the Afterlife in the Raëlian Religion – Erik A. W. Östling & James R. LewisSection 2: General Beliefs and Practices23. Heavens and Hells – Eileen Gardiner24. Reincarnation – James A. Santucci25. Mysticism – Thomas Quartier26. The American Cemetery – Albert N. Hamscher27. Cremation – Douglas J. Davies28. Mummification – Heather Gill-Frerking29. Digital Memorial – Candi K. CannSection 3: Liminal States and Liminal Beings30. Near-Death Experiences – Gregory Shushan31. Past-life Memories – Jim B. Tucker32. Ghosts – Owen Davies33. Angels – John Charles Arnold & Tony Walter34. The Undead: Vampires and Zombies – John Edgar Browning35. Animals – Barbara R. Ambros & Laura Hobgood36. Organ Donation and Spirit Possession – Lesley A. SharpSection 4: On Dying37. Defining Medical Death – James L. Bernat38. The Death Awareness Movement – Lucy Bregman39. Conceptual Approaches to Understanding the Dying Process – Kenneth J. Doka40. The Cross-Cultural Study of Grief – Dennis Klass41. A "Good Death" in Hospice Palliative Care – Harold Coward & Elizabeth Causton42. Assisted Dying – Paul BadhamSection 5: Additional Ethical Considerations43. Suicide: Psychopathology, Existential Choice, or Religious/Cultural Influences – Mark M. Leach & Frederick T. L. Leong 44. Martyrdom – Paul Middleton45. The Psychology of Mass Murder and Serial Killing – Katherine Ramsland46. Abortion – Daniel C. Maguire47. Intellectual Disability and the End of Life – Laura A. Kicklighter48. Epidemic – Joseph P. ByrneSection 6: Additional Scholarly Perspectives49. Philosophical Perspectives – Steven Luper50. Anthropology and Death – Douglas J. Davies51. Mortuary Archaeology – Zoë Crossland & J. Suzi Wilson52. Death in Western Art and Literature – Christina Staudt
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Health
Global Health continues to provide readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date and thought-provoking outline and understanding of the constantly evolving global health landscape. In this new edition the authors have maintained the successful structure and organisation of the previous edition to examine and explain recent health changes and consider likely future patterns. New or expanded topics covered include: emerging and re-emerging infectious disease threats increasing awareness of, and interest in, antimicrobial resistance and superbugs terrorism, global conflict and health the new UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development the drive for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) the use of information technology in global health substance abuse palliative and end-of-life-care ethical issues in global health. Using clear and original explanations of complex issues, this text ma
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Disability and Popular Culture
Book SynopsisAs a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies, this book examines disability across a number of internationally recognised texts and objects from popular culture, including film, television, magazines and advertising campaigns, children's toys, music videos, sport and online spaces, to attend to the social and cultural construction of disability. While acknowledging that disability features in popular culture in ways that reinforce stereotypes and stigmatise, Disability and Popular Culture celebrates and complicates the increasing visibility of disability in popular culture, showing how popular culture can focus passion, create community and express defiance in the context of disability and social change. Covering a broad range of concerns that lie at the intersection of disaTrade Review’This rich and compelling book shows us the fundamental, consequential ways in which disability is omnipresent yet strangely neglected in our everyday lives. Ellis brilliantly traces the contours of disability across toys, beauty myths and ideals, science fiction, television, music, sport, and the cutting edge of online media. Popular culture - and disability studies - will never be the same again. Required reading for anyone interested in contemporary media, culture, society - and where our bodies, identities, and desires do, and don’t, fit in.’ Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, Australia ’Popular culture defines how we see the world. However, critical examination of the images and interpretation of disability in this arena is rare. Dr Katie Ellis's book helps fill this gap in understanding. Dr Ellis has started a conversation about disability and popular culture with her latest title to produce a fascinating opening address to an important discussion.’ Mike Kent, Curtin University, AustraliaTable of ContentsDisability and Popular Culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children
Book SynopsisCollaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families focuses on the knowledge and skills needed by professionals who work across disciplines to meet the needs of parents and children experiencing complex difficulties. It establishes the importance of both interprofessional and interagency collaboration. After detailing the characteristics of parents and children who may be in need of specialized services, the authors describe different approaches to service delivery in theory and practice, provide case examples and exercises, and address the developments in interprofessional education for those currently working in the field. They present evidence supporting collaborative practice as a means of achieving better outcomes for vulnerable children and their families, and explore the difficulties in working successfully across agencies and disciplines.A provocative examination focused on the wellbeing of families in crisis and the care they receive, this book: Introduces terms that are used in collaborative practice Details the legal mandate for working with families experiencing complex problems Provides legal definitions of ‘children in need’ and with a right to receive "targeted" services Outlines the circumstances that require court action (family law and criminal law) to protect children from "significant harm" Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families examines the values and ethical standards shared by all professionals who work together to help at-risk children and their families, and serves as a definitive guide to professionals in social work, nursing, general practice, pediatrics and related professions.A volume in the series CAIPE Collaborative Practice SeriesSeries edited by Hugh Barr and Marion HelmeTrade Review"This lively and engaging book makes an essential contribution to this woefully neglected area. It takes the reader step-by-step through key areas of law, values and research-based knowledge to encourage confident and compassionate collaborative practice."—Professor Marian Brandon, University Of East Anglia, UK"The content is particularly useful to those who have decision-making and case-accountable roles in providing services to vulnerable children and their parents …This is a timely and interesting book, which I thoroughly recommend."—Jane V. Appleton, Professor in Primary and Community CareTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction - Why this book and why now? Chapter 2 - An overview of the characteristics of the children and families. Chapter 3 - Theoretical frameworks underpinning inter-professional and inter-agency practice. Chapter 4 - Working collaboratively within the legal mandate. Chapter 5 - The value base for working collaboratively with vulnerable children and families. Chapter 6 - A guide through the knowledge base on effective services to children and families. Chapter 7 - Collaborative practice in planning, undertaking and disseminating practice-informed research. Chapter 8 - Training for multi-disciplinary practice with vulnerable children and families. Chapter 9 - Conclusion.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sensory-Being for Sensory Beings: Creating
Book SynopsisSensory-being: the enveloping of natural presentness and awareness in an unfolding sensory moment. Sensory Beings: people whose experience of the world, and meaning within it, is primarily sensory. Often these are people who do not have access to language.If you support someone who understands the world in a primarily sensory way, for example someone with PMLD or later stage dementia, you will recognise that they often face periods of time in which they are left without an activity they can access. This unique, practical guide helps you to plan and deliver sensory activities that lead people into a calm, focused state. You are even invited to let the person you support lead you into a state of sensory focus. Written by a leading sensory specialist this book will help you to: View the world as the person you support may view it, and identify times when a sensory-being activity may be appropriate. Understand how to select and create the most engaging, low cost, sensory foci to suit the specific needs of the individuals in your care. Effectively facilitate sensory-being sessions from start to finish so that the people you care for receive the full and many benefits of calm, focused time. Tried and tested in a diverse range of settings prior to publication, these techniques and practical tools have already helped many people provide an enriched experience of life for those in their care. Throughout the book you will find numerous case studies and insights from parents, carers, special school practitioners, therapists, research institutions and more so that you can benefit from this broad body of experience.Trade Review"Her years of experience combined with intuition and learning have brought Jo, I think, as close as anyone can, to being able to ‘get’ what the world is like for sensory beings.The book starts with ‘introducing sensory beings’. This is full of theory with explanations pitched at the less scholarly (like me) but without at any point a single note of condescension. There are sublimely mind-opening explanations, such as in chapter 2, taking us through the ’getting wired group’; ‘the ‘search & discover group’; the ‘explore and connect group’ through to the ‘specialising group’. They really make sense and ring true. And she’s managed to slip in a load of real science of how the brain works without frightening me away!She enables (for me anyway) a new and different kind of respect for sensory beings, through describing their world. Her analogies (learning the properties of metal; learning the useful sounds for a language) helped my understanding – and that’s just two from one page! It’s not that I didn’t have respect for sensory beings, but this book has given me a better lens through which to see them.Jo brings many insights into the best practice that should be out there – explaining why I am seeing what I'm seeing when I encounter the very best practice. I got a lot from the ‘practitioner insight’ boxes which are scattered throughout, as well as the many short case studies – some of them so inspiring!She uses wonderful phrases and descriptions which made me stop and think. ‘Parked time’ as an example – something that has long bothered me – but now I have the language for it and more ideas of what to do about it.Along with the glow I felt, reading Jo’s book, the satisfaction of learning and understanding more, there’s also the feeling of being pulled up sharply sometimes. She doesn’t pull her punches when questioning practice. And this is great too. At my school we have ‘The WHY imperative’, and Jo’s book supports this – asking why we are doing what we are doing at every point. Except Jo knows so much more than me about what works and why it does, and there are pearls of (hard-earned) wisdom throughout.Chapters 3 to 8 on stimuli for the senses are just astonishing – so many things to think about! However, Jo has made this digestible with a very clever and perceptive way of laying out all the ideas. (My feeling is that she has used her knowledge of the brain to work out what’s best for her readers!) Her idea works – there is an order – but, and this is close to my heart – it’s ‘not that you should seek to push people forwards’. It is that ‘in locating one experience tht appeals to an individual, you can look nearby in the sequence to find others also likely to appeal’. Typical Jo, common sense but brilliantly well thought-out common sense! As you’d expect, the chapters on making resources and facilitating time with sensory beings are creative and insightful – and cheap!! This book is written by someone with an outstanding intuition – but it’s more than that, it’s intuition with years of research, experience and a highly developed intelligence behind it. It’s a thoroughly human book, personal and thoughtful throughout. It’s also, without feeling like it is, a scholarly book, based on research. I feel a better practitioner already just for having read it. Congratulations, Jo." - Simon Yates, Leading Special School Practitioner"It's an inspired book written by someone who really "gets" it and is also able to share it. The respect she has for all humankind is so evident. I particularly loved Jo's use of language and her terminology. As a linguistic being, she has given me the tools to enable me to develop my thoughts and understanding" - Gill Warren, Special School Teacher"I enjoyed reading ‘Sensory-Being for Sensory Beings’ so much it was hard to put down! I read with delight that I, who have spent 30 years in a special school, have read something which puts into words all I believe in when it comes to planning and delivering sensory experiences. Words that can be used when justifying what I want to do, words that can be used to explain to why?, how? when others look at you as if you are from a different planet!It is a book I will definitely recommend to new staff, particularly those that have little or no experience of SEN or in deed PMLD." – Janet O'Sullivan Special School Teacher"Sensory Being for Sensory Beings outlines one technique amongst many which might help our learners connect with, learn and feel safe within their environments. It shows the importance of sensory stimulation, using and engaging the senses and being respectful and responsive to our learners’ independence and time." - Katherine Shearer, the SLD experience"With clear boundaries and well-placed words of encouragement, this book is as much a soothing massage for the brain (and the senses!) as it is a brilliant handbook for the classroom or home. Every EYFS setting should be using this daily." - EarlyArtsTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Introducing Sensory Beings, Linguistic Beings and sensory-being Chapter 2: Sensory engagement and experience Chapter 3: Stimuli for the visual sense Chapter 4: Stimuli for the olfactory sense Chapter 5: Stimuli for the auditory sense Chapter 6: Stimuli for the gustatory sense Chapter 7: Stimuli for the tactile sense Chapter 8: Stimuli for the proprioceptive and vestibular senses Chapter 9: Foci for Sensory Beings with Dementia Chapter 10: Sensory makes Chapter 11: Facilitating sensory-being Chapter 12: Conclusion Appendices
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Cambridge University Press Public Health
Public Health: Local and Global Perspectives presents a comprehensive introduction to public health issues and concepts in the Australian and international contexts. It provides students with fundamental knowledge of the public health field, including frameworks, theories, key organisations and contemporary issues. The third edition features a new chapter on the public health workforce and the importance of advocacy in the profession and a thorough update that includes current research and case studies. Discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic and other contemporary public health issues offers students the opportunity to apply theory to familiar examples. Each chapter contextualises key concepts with spotlights and vignettes, reflective questions, tutorial exercises and suggestions for further reading. Written by an expert team of public health professionals, Public Health is an essential resource for public health students.
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