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Book SynopsisCan experimenting with game design increase our chances of finding a cure for cancer?Cancer is crafty, forcing us to be just as clever in our efforts to outfox it?and we?ve made excellent progress, but is it time for a new play in the playbook? In Gaming Cancer, Jeff Yoshimi proposes a new approach to fighting an increasingly exhausting war. By putting the work of cancer research into the hands of nonspecialists, Yoshimi believes, we can accelerate the process of outgaming the disease once and for all.Gamers have already used ?serious games? to discover new galaxies, digitize ancient texts, decode viruses, and solve theoretical problems in neuroscience. Cancer is a multilayered threat, and our best bet at overcoming it is via more minds working in concert. Gaming Cancer is an instruction manual for engineering games that motivate users to strain and sweat to find cancer cures. It integrates game design with research in cancer biology, data visualization techniques, and developments in cognitive science and AI while remaining sensitive to the limitations of citizen science and ethical concerns. Yoshimi sees in cutting-edge game technology the potential to educate and empower people to outwit cancer, an indirect route to richer science literacy that draws on the boundless resources of the mind.This book offers anyone invested in beating this seemingly intractable disease a concrete playbook that combines real science with creative vision in an effort to defeat the boss monster, cancer.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the hospital via organisational ethnography (OE), an approach that involves a mix of fieldwork methods designed to analyse the hospital which also includes participatory observation, qualitative interviews and shadowing. One way to define a hospital is by its high level of formal organisation, resulting in written or digital communication as the main source of communication in patient journals, minutes and medical and quality guidelines. In contrast, in this book, the aspects of the informal organisation will be the focus. In spite of the many formal regulations of healthcare, hospitals are also chaotic organising places where many different groups of people interact in order to negotiate, to practice and to make sense of daily work tasks. The underlying argument is that, in the mundane everyday life of hospitals, frontline workers and their interactions with patients and local managers remain at the core of organising hospitals. The overall purpose of this book is to report stories back from the field of healthcare, demonstrating how people, spaces and work (as examples of events) become important elements of organising hospitals.The book will be of interest to students and scholars in and across healthcare management, organisation studies, ethnography, sociology, qualitative methods, anthropology, service management and cultural studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction. Making sense of organizational change and innovation in health care: An everyday ethnography 2. A theoretical narrative approach to organizational change studies: Towards everyday organizing 3. Making sense of everyday innovation at a clinical ward through individual narratives of visitation routines 4. A resistance and everyday view on health care professionals: Meeting encounters with patients and professionals 5. Designing and driving collaborative, everyday innovation using combined narratives of internal and external participation 6. Organizational change through administrative coordination: Shared narratives of politicians and administrators 7. Policy expectations of innovation: Policy narratives drawing on different public management perspectives 8. Concluding remarks

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Book SynopsisA simple guide to the process of conducting research in the humanities, with special reference to media and culture.Table of ContentsSECTION ONE: DESIGN: 'PLANNING IT'; 1. Introduction; 2. What do you want to know? The research question; 3. Choosing a method; SECTION TWO: EXECUTION: 'DOING IT'; 4. Sampling; 5. The practicalities: 'the six Ps'; 6. Instrument design: the questionnaire; 7. Content analysis; 8. Piloting; 9. Special audiences: work with children; SECTION THREE: ANALYSIS: 'UNDERSTANDING IT; 10. Data analysis; 11. Presenting results; 12. Information for teachers; 13. Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES; APPENDICES.

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