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Bristol University Press The Conservative Governments and Social Policy
Book SynopsisThis book examines the policy approaches of Conservative governments since 2015 in key social policy areas including education, health, housing, employment, children and young people and more.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Conservative Governments From Cameron to Sunak (2015–23) – Hugh Bochel and Martin Powell 2. The Conservatives and Public Spending Since 2015 – Nick Ellison 3. Turning Up the Thermostat: The Conservatives, Social Policy and Public Opinion – Andrew Defty 4. Brexit and the Conservative Party’s Social Policies – Steven Corbett 5. The Johnson Conservative Government, Its Conservatism and the Pandemic Response – Ian Greener 6. The Governance of Social Policy Under the Conservatives – Catherine Bochel and Hugh Bochel 7. Conservative Health Policy, 2015–23 – Martin Powell 8. The Less Things Change: Conservatism, COVID-19 and Incoherence in Education Policy – Stephen J. Ball 9. Conservative Housing Policy in England – Peter Somerville 10. Social Security Policies Under the Conservatives 2015–22: Austerity, COVID-19, and the Living Cost Crisis – Stephen McKay and Karen Rowlingson 11. Labour Market Strategies and Welfare Policies: The Conservative Record – Anne Daguerre and David Etherington 12. The Conservatives and Adult Social Care – Jon Glasby 13. The Conservatives, Family Policy and the Data Revolution – Val Gillies and Rosalind Edwards 14. Troubling Social Policy During Turbulent Times: Children and UK Conservative Governments Since 2015 – Harriet Churchill 15. Conservative Criminal Justice: A Strange Rediscovery of ‘Law and Order’ Politics – Peter Squires 16. Equalities and The Conservatives: The Widening of Social Divisions – Kirstein Rummery 17. The Conservative Governments, Devolution and Social Policy – Ann Marie Gray 18. Conclusions – Hugh Bochel and Martin Powell
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University Press of Mississippi Dream and Legacy
Book SynopsisExamines how Martin Luther King's life and work had a profound, if unpredictable, impact on the course of the United States since the civil rights era. With unique, multidisciplinary works by scholars from around the US, these pieces explore wide-ranging issues and contemporary social developments through the lens of Dr. King's perceptions, analysis, and prescriptions.
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police
Book Synopsis“Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line....A reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic.”—Time Funny, touching, revealing, here is the view from a rookie cop’s patrol car, during midnight shifts, in a (mostly) peaceful town. With a rich cast of characters, this is a classic memoir of the fear, surprises, excitement, embarrassment that comes with a protecting and serving a small community. “When I was twenty-three years old, five months out of college, with a degree in music, and without any idea of what to do with myself, I took a job as a policeman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts,” so writes Alec Wilkinson. “Music, huh?” the police chief said during the job interview. “That'll be a big help.” Wilkinson’s main qualification was familiarity with the town of 2,000 people from summers there growing up. Committing himself to a year wearing a uniform and carrying a gun, and with no training, Wilkinson was sent out to keep the peace, hoping nothing would happen. There are high-speed chases and stopping drunk drivers, one of whom tries to set Wilkinson's hair on fire. There are domestic squabbles. “The first six months were murder for me,” Wilkinson’s partner confides on his first night. “After that, when I found out the people I thought were my friends weren't really my friends, I felt better off.” There is an attempted bank robbery. The teller convinces the robber that his haul ($300) is too much to carry around in cash. The robber is still listening to investment options when the police arrive. Throughout there are conversations with his eight fellow officers who Wilkinson comes to respect and admire. “Nobody ever calls you when they're behaving themselves,” one admits. “As a rule, you always get called when people are at their worst. It's sad. It depresses me.” The job is often thankless. “Right now I work on the police force,” another officer says, “my wife stamps cans in the supermarket, and she makes more money than I do.” This is experiential journalism at its most poignant and entertaining—and it launched the career of Alec Wilkinson: writer, interviewer, essayist, and author. This is for any reader looking for insight into the real lives of police officers, outside of large cities, across America. It is also for anyone looking for a marvelously engaging read.Midnights is part of Godine’s Nonpareil series: celebrating the joy of discovery with books bound to be classics.Trade Review“Midnights is a generous slice of small-town Americana written in clear and gorgeous prose by a narrator we can all identify with. Wilkinson is the perfect guide for the murky and often hilarious world of a rural police department. As a young writer, I used this book as an example of what to emulate and what to aspire to.”—Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom“There is almost no writer I admire as much as I do Alec Wilkinson. He’s an extraordinary reporter and a writer of such grace that his stories seem illuminated from within. His work has enduring brilliance and humanity.”—Susan Orlean, author of On Animals “Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line…..A reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic.”—Time “His reporter's eye for detail is omnivorous...his ear for voices is fine and precise and his perceptions of and compassion for his fellow officers are profound. Never patronizing, never amused at their expense; he portrays them as they are: underpaid, under-appreciated rural Americans struggling to make it from day to day.”—New York Times “Midnights portrays the voices and routines of believable men...Wilkinson conveys his experiences with wisdom and sophistication.”—Chicago Tribune
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Steerforth Press Ageism Unmasked: Exploring Age Bias and How to
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Steerforth Press If I Betray These Words
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Haymarket Books Disobedience And Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law
Book SynopsisIn Disobedience and Democracy, the inimitable leftist thinker Howard Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest as legitimate vehicles for social change. Zinn challenges the dominant arguments against forms of protest that challenge the status quo. He solidifies his argument, exploring the politics of direct action, nonviolent civil disobedience and strikes, while also offering lessons for protestors of the present and future generations. This book is a passionate, humanist argument for group-led change.Table of Contents1 First Fallacy 2 Second Fallacy 3 Third Fallacy 4 Fourth Fallacy 5 Fifth Fallacy 6 Sixth Fallacy 7 Seventh Fallacy 8 Eighth Fallacy 9 Ninth Fallacy
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The New Press Usual Cruelty
Book SynopsisA “searing, searching, and eloquent” (Martha Minow, Harvard Law School) investigation into the role of the legal profession in perpetuating mass incarceration—now in an accessible paperback format from the award-winning civil rights lawyer “Usual Cruelty cuts to the core of what is critical to understand about our legal system, and about ourselves.” —Anthony D. Romero, executive director, ACLUAlec Karakatsanis doesn’t think people who have gone to law school, passed the bar, and sworn to uphold the Constitution should be complicit in the mass caging of human beings—an everyday brutality inflicted disproportionately on the bodies and minds of poor people and people of color, for which the legal system has never offered sufficient justification. Usual Cruelty offers a radical reconsideration of
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PM Press Crisis And Care: Queer Activist Responses to a
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Simon And Schuster Group USA No Woman Left Behind
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ECW Press,Canada Happily Ever Older: Revolutionary Approaches To
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CoramBAAF Parenting A Child Affected by Domestic Violence
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Text Publishing The Believer: Encounters with love, death & faith
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Daraja Press A Zone of Nonbeing
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University of California Press In the Clutches of the Law Clarence Darrows Letters
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University of California Press Resisting Change in Suburbia Asian Immigrants
Book Synopsis2023 Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner, Organization of American Historians Between the 1980s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, Asian Americans in Los Angeles moved toward becoming a racial majority in the communities of the East San Gabriel Valley. By the late 1990s, their model minority status resulted in greater influence in local culture, neighborhood politics, and policies regarding the use of suburban space. In the country living subdivisions, which featured symbols of Western agrarianism including horse trails, ranch fencing, and Spanish colonial architecture, white homeowners encouraged assimilation and enacted policies suppressing unwanted changesthat is, increased density and influence of Asian culture. While some Asian suburbanites challenged whites' concerns, many others did not. Rather, white critics found support from affluent Asian homeowners who also wished to protect their class privilege and suburbia's conservative Anglocentric milieu. In Resisting Change in Suburbia, award-winning historian James Zarsadiaz explains how myths of suburbia, the American West, and the American Dream informed regional planning, suburban design, and ideas about race and belonging.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Constructing “Country Living” 2 • The People of “Country Living” 3 • Asian Families Making a Home in the Suburbs 4 • Asian Suburbanites in the “In-Between” 5 • Growth and the Imminent Death of “Country Living” 6 • To Remain Country, Become a City Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press The Violence of Austerity
Book SynopsisExplores the different facets of how austerity in Britain is a form of institutional violenceTrade Review'An analytical masterpiece, describing what has happened to our communities as a result of austerity' -- John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer'A dazzling collection of short essays which detail how state violence is unfolding in Britain on multiple scales and in myriad forms' -- Imogen Tyler, Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain (Zed, 2013)'In this brilliant book, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the arguments that break down the sick Tory Party political violence against the people of Britain. This book shows that there is only one response to the imposition of austerity as a crude and violent political strategy, and that is to turn our anger back against the Tories' -- Chunky Mark, Artist Taxi Driver'This book leaves the reader in no doubt that government actions have the power to make or break lives and communities' -- Lynsey Hanley, The Guardian, and Author of Estates'A well-written and shocking exposé of the institutional violence of the state' -- Morning Star'Eye opening ... enlightening and an education' -- The Canary'An important book' -- CounterfireTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Violence of Austerity - Vickie Cooper and David Whyte Part I: Deadly Welfare 1. Mental Health and Suicide - Mary O’Hara 2. Austerity and Mortality - Danny Dorling 3. Welfare Reforms and the Attack on Disabled People - John Pring 4. The Violence of Workfare - Jon Burnett and David Whyte 5. The Multiple Forms of Violence in the Asylum System - Victoria Canning 6. The Degradation and Humiliation of Young People - Emma Bond and Simon Hallsworth Part II: Poverty Amplification 7. Child Maltreatment and Child Mortality - Joanna Mack 8. Hunger and Food Poverty - Rebecca O’Connell and Laura Hamilton 9. The Deadly Impact of Fuel Poverty - Ruth London 10. The Violence of the Debtfare State - David Ellis 11. Women of Colour’s Anti-Austerity Activism - Akwugo Emejulu and Leah Bassel 12. Dismantling the Irish Peace Process - Daniel Holder Part III: State Regulation 13. Undoing Social Protection - Steve Tombs 14. Health and Safety at the Frontline of Austerity - Hilda Palmer and David Whyte 15. Environmental Degradation - Charlotte Burns and Paul Tobin 16. Fracking and State Violence - Will Jackson, Helen Monk and Joanna Gilmore 17. Domicide, Eviction and Repossession - Kirsteen Paton and Vickie Cooper 18. Austerity’s Impact on Rough Sleeping and Violence - Daniel McCulloch Part IV: State Control 19. Legalising the Violence of Austerity - Robert Knox 20. The Failure to Protect Women in the Criminal Justice System - Maureen Mansfield and Vickie Cooper 21. Austerity, Violence and Prisons - Joe Sim 22. Evicting Manchester’s Street Homeless - Steven Speed 23. Policing Anti-Austerity through the ‘War on Terror’ - Rizwaan Sabir 24. Austerity and the Production of Hate - Jon Burnett Notes on Contributors Index
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Open University Press Sexual Health A Public Health Perspective
Book Synopsis"Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective provides a comprehensive, yet a practical resource on sexual health for public health professionals. The book elaborates sexual health from a variety of angles including biomedical, behavioural, social and contextual as well as giving a clear articulation of public health interventions for improving sexual health. Illustrative examples relevant to a variety of settings facilitate understanding and applicability of knowledge to both low- and high-resource settings. The book is highly recommended for public health programmers and practitioners, and those working in the area of sexual health."Dr Lale Say, Co-ordinator, Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR), World Health Organization, UK"A great and novel approach which demonstrates theoretically and through many examples, the need to consider issues of sexual health by understanding sexuality not as a fact of nature but as a social construction. A valuaTable of ContentsOverview of the bookSection 1: Conceptual and Theoretical Aspects of Sexual HealthSexual health: theoretical perspectives Section 2: Sexual Health OutcomesSexually Transmitted Infections Unplanned pregnancySexual violenceSexual function, pleasure and satisfaction Section 3: Risk and VulnerabilityYoung PeopleSex between men Sex workers Mobile populations Structural influences on sexual healthSection 4: Interventions to Improve Sexual HealthCommunication and language Sexual health promotionSex education: theory and practiceSexual health servicesSection 5: Measuring and Assessing Sexual Health StatusResearching sexual behaviour Evaluating sexual health interventions
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AK Press Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine
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University of California Press On Hunger Violence and Craving in America from
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Penguin Putnam Inc A Paradise Built in Hell
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McGraw-Hill Education Law Ethics for the Health Professions ISE
Book SynopsisLaw and Ethics: For Health Professions explains how to navigate the numerous legal and ethical issues that health care professionals face every day. Topics are based upon real-world scenarios and dilemmas from a variety of health care practitioners. Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1 Introduction to Law and EthicsCHAPTER 2 Making Ethical DecisionsCHAPTER 3 Working in Health CareCHAPTER 4 Law, the Courts, and ContractsCHAPTER 5 Professional LiabilityCHAPTER 6 Defenses to Liability SuitsCHAPTER 7 Medical Records and Health Information TechnologyCHAPTER 8 Privacy, Security, and FraudCHAPTER 9 Public Health Responsibilities of Health Care PractitionersCHAPTER 10 Workplace LegalitiesCHAPTER 11 The Beginning of Life and ChildhoodCHAPTER 12 Death and DyingCHAPTER 13 Stakeholders, Costs, and Patients’ RightsGlossaryIndex
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Brookings Institution Of Boys and Men
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McGraw-Hill Education General Organic Biological Chemistry ISE
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Melville House Publishing Until The World Shatters: Truth, Lies, and the
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University of California Press Sidewalking Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
Book SynopsisOffers an inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. This book offers a pointed look beneath the surface in order to see, and engage with, the city on its own terms.Trade Review"In this brief but engaging book, the author chronicles his wanderings through the streets and his conversations with friends, entrepreneurs, and officials, and he makes it clear that he has read every book and seen every movie on his subject. Those who know the city will have the advantage, but Ulin casts his net widely, so most readers will enjoy his observations of Los Angeles in literary and popular art as well as his thoughtful personal views." Kirkus "In Sidewalking, Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin wanders L.A.-along Wilshire, around Bunker Hill, through the Grove-and as he does, he ponders the city's fading past and emerging future. A self-described 'reluctant Angeleno,' Ulin, who moved here from New York in 1991, brings a sharp eye, a good pair of legs, and a sensitive thoughtfulness to the subject of urban sprawl. Ulin's musings are immediately relevant, covering everything from the Metro Purple Line extension to Rick Caruso's proposed downtown trolley to Councilman Jose Huizar's Bringing Back Broadway campaign." Los Angeles Magazine "The moments of true beauty in this shortest of books are precisely when Ulin reminds us that the everyday texture of Los Angeles ... already functions like a quantum field out of which distant influences, disorienting urban rebirths and half-remembered cinematic cameos are constantly emerging. It is a city of 'seismic existentialism,' he wonderfully suggests, whose ground is shaken not just by earthquakes but by the seemingly endless eruption of alternative urban forms, often successfully breaking through." -- Geoff Manaugh Los Angeles Times "Walking in Los Angeles is not an oxymoron. In this revealing meditation on what it means to pound the pavement in the City of Automobiles, book critic David L. Ulin observes a Los Angeles that many of us didn't even knew existed... Thoughtful and poetic, Ulin's small volume proves there is more to the City of Angels than just beaches, movie stars and abundant sunshine." -- June Sawyers Chicago Tribune "In a series of fascinating, at times impressionistic, disquisitions [Ulin] unlocks some of Los Angeles's "hieroglyphic" secrets. Step right up then for Ulin's tour of Los Angeles, a diffuse city full of 'nonlandmark landmarks.' ... The pleasure of Sidewalking is watching Ulin contextualize each place by considering the way its history is preserved, effaced, or buried under the surface." -- Matt Seidel Los Angeles Review of Books "David Ulin's Sidewalking opens LA up for all of us-locals or not. A quietly stirring book, this should be on your must-read list... I loved it and can't wait to read it again and again." -- Anna March The Rumpus "In Sidewalking, David Ulin brilliantly reflects on the city as experienced by someone with a need to walk, a need to savor streetscapes, registering signage, vistas, vegetation, fellow citizens. And while Ulin walks, he thinks: processing traces of history, architectural styles, street plans, demographics, changes. A longtime L.A. Times book critic, Ulin, intimately familiar with the best that's ever been written about this sprawling, layered city, also artfully folds in the perceptions of others. Memories, observations, bygone L.A., 21st-century L.A.-Ulin's superlative tapestry makes this the latest of great literary takes on the City of Angels." BookishTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Street, Haunting Los Angeles Plays Itself Falling Down Sidewalking Mapping History Miracle Mile A Walker, in the City
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McGraw-Hill Education Living with Dementia Reconsidered
Book SynopsisThe book is a first of its kind drawing on over a decade of research evidence conducted by the IDEAL programme alongside the perspective and voice of people with living dementia and their carers. This new book outlines the findings and learnings of the largest study of dementia in the community in Great Britain and tells us about the things that will make a difference to the quality of life for both people with dementia and their carers. The voice of those with the lived experience is presented alongside the research team, exploring the different aspects of how lives interconnect to make people feel content and included or distressed and excluded. Each chapter builds towards an evidence-based statement so that the volume ends by providing a manifesto for the changes necessary for living with dementia to be truly reconsidered. This books foundations are deep within the largest study of living with mild-to-moderate dementia in the community in Great Britai
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Ig Publishing The Queer Allies Bible
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McGraw-Hill Education Hadzics Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute
Book SynopsisQuestions and answers for thorough understanding of the latest advances in regional anesthesia and pain managementRegional anesthesia and acute pain management protocols are rapidly changing. The introduction of ultrasound in international pain management and regional anesthesia has resulted in significant changes in the practice, management, protocols, techniques applications, and their effects on patient safety and efficacy. This evolution of the practice and expansion of new knowledge demands a reliable, up-to-date resource designed to assess understanding of this ever-changing subspecialty. Hadzicâs Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management Self-Assessment and Review is designed to do just that.Filling a gap in the medical literatureThis innovative review is the first question-and-answer book that focuses on the subspecialty of regional anesthesia and acute pain management and point-of-care ultrasTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part 1 History 1 The History of Local Anesthesia Part 2 Foundations of Local and Regional Anesthesia Section 1 Anatomy and Histology of Peripheral Nervous System and Neuraxis 2 Functional Regional Anesthesia Anatomy 3 Histology of the Peripheral Nerves and Light Microscopy 4 Connective Tissues of Peripheral Nerves 5 Ultrastructural Anatomy of the Spinal Meninges and Related Structures Section 2 Pharmacology 6 Clinical Pharmacology of Local Anesthetics 7 Controlled-Release Local Anesthetics 8 Analgesic Adjuvants in the Peripheral Nervous System 9 Local Anesthetic Mixtures for Peripheral Nerve Blocks 10 Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks: Local Anesthetic Solutions and Infusion Strategies Section 3 Equipment for Peripheral Nerve Blocks 11 Equipment for Regional Anesthesia 12 Equipment for Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks 13 Electrical Nerve Stimulators and Localization of Peripheral Nerves Section 4 Patient Management Considerations 14 Developing Regional Anesthesia Pathways 15 Infection Control in Regional Anesthesia 16 Local Anesthetics, Regional Anesthesia, and Cancer Recurrence 17 Perioperative Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia: Effects on Cancer Recurrence and Survival After Oncological Surgery Part 3 Clinical Practice of Regional Anesthesia Part 3A Local and Infiltrational Anesthesia 18 Intra-articular and Periarticular Infiltration of Local Anesthetics 19 Regional and Topical Anesthesia for Awake Endotracheal Intubation Part 3B Intravenous Regional Block for Upper and Lower Extremity 20 Intravenous Regional Block for Upper and Lower Extremity Surgery Part 3C Neuraxial Anesthesia Section 1 Spinal Anesthesia 21 Neuraxial Anatomy (Anatomy Relevant to Neuraxial Anesthesia) 22 Spinal Anesthesia 22A Mechanisms and Management of Failed Spinal Anesthesia Section 2 Epidural Anesthesia 23 Epidural Anesthesia and Analgesia Section 3 Caudal Anesthesia 24 Caudal Anesthesia Section 4 Combined Spinal and Epidural Anesthesia 25 Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia Section 5 Postdural Puncture Headache 26 Postdural Puncture Headache Part 3D Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks Section 1 Fundamentals of Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia 27 Physics of Ultrasound 28 Optimizing an Ultrasound Image 29 Introduction to Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Section 2 Ultrasound-Guided Head and Neck Nerve Blocks 30 Nerve Blocks of the Face Section 3 Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks for the Upper Extremity 31A Ultrasound-Guided Cervical Plexus Block 31B Ultrasound-Guided Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block 31C Ultrasound-Guided Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block 31D Ultrasound-Guided Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block 31E Ultrasound-Guided Axillary Brachial Plexus Block 31F Ultrasound-Guided Blocks at the Elbow 31G Ultrasound-Guided Wrist Block Section 4 Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks for the Lower Extremity 32A Ultrasound-Guided Femoral Nerve Block 32B Ultrasound-Guided Fascia Iliaca Block 32C Ultrasound-Guided Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Block 32D Ultrasound-Guided Obturator Nerve Block 32E Ultrasound-Guided Saphenous (Subsartorius/Adductor Canal) Nerve Block 32F Ultrasound-Guided Sciatic Nerve Block 32G Ultrasound-Guided Popliteal Sciatic Block 32H Ultrasound-Guided Ankle Block Section 5 Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks for Abdominal and Thoracic Wall 33 Ultrasound-Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane and Quadratus Lumborum Blocks 34 Pectoralis and Serratus Plane Blocks Part 3E Local and Regional Anesthesia for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 35 Oral and Maxillofacial Regional Anesthesia Part 3F Local and Regional Anesthesia for the Eye 36 Local and Regional Anesthesia for Ophthalmic Surgery Part 4 Ultrasound Imaging of Neuraxial and Perivertebral Space 37 Sonography of the Lumbar Paravertebral Space and Considerations for Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Plexus Block 38 Lumbar Paravertebral Sonography and Considerations for Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Plexus Block 39 Spinal Sonography and Applications of Ultrasound for Central Neuraxial Blocks Part 5 Obstetric Anesthesia 40 Obstetric Regional Anesthesia Part 6 Pediatric Anesthesia 41 Regional Anesthesia in Pediatric Patients: General Considerations 42 Pediatric Epidural and Spinal Anesthesia and Analgesia 43 Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Children 44 Acute and Chronic Pain Management in Children Part 7 Anesthesia in Patients with Specific Considerations 45 Perioperative Regional Anesthesia in the Elderly 46 Regional Anesthesia and Cardiovascular Disease 47 Regional Anesthesia and Systemic Disease 48 Regional Anesthesia in the Patient with Preexisting Neurologic Disease 49 Acute Compartment Syndrome of the Limb: Implications for Regional Anesthesia 50 Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Outpatient Surgery 51 Neuraxial Anesthesia and Peripheral Nerve Blocks in Patients on Anticoagulants 52 Regional Analgesia in the Critically Ill 53 Acute Pain Management in the Opioid-Dependent Patient 54 Regional Anesthesia in Patients with Trauma 55 Regional Anesthesia for Cardiac and Thoracic Anesthesia 56 Regional Anesthesia in Austere Environment Medicine 57 Anesthesia for Humanitarian Relief Operations Part 8 Regional Anesthesia in the Emergency Department 58 Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management in the Emergency Department Part 9 Complications of Local and Regional Anesthesia 59 Complications and Prevention of Neurologic Injury with Peripheral Nerve Blocks 60 Assessment of Neurologic Complications of Regional Anesthesia 61 Perioperative Nerve Injury Unrelated to Nerve Blockade 62 Monitoring, Documentation, and Consent for Regional Anesthesia Procedures 63 Diagnosis and Management of Spinal and Peripheral Nerve Hematoma Part 10 LAST: Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity 64 Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity Part 11 Perioperative Outcome and Economics of Regional Anesthesia 65 Regional Anesthesia, Cost, Operating Room, and Personnel Management 66 Regional Anesthesia and Perioperative Outcome 67 The Effects of Regional Anesthesia on Functional Outcome After Surgery Part 12 Acute Pain Management 68 Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia 69 Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks 70 Organization of an Acute Pain Management Service Incorporating Regional Anesthesia Techniques 71 Multimodal Analgesia: Pharmacologic Interventions and Prevention of Persistent Postoperative Pain 72 The Role of Nonopioid Analgesic Infusions in the Management of Postoperative Pain Part 13 Education in Regional Anesthesia 73 Teaching Regional Anesthesia Part 14 Statistics and Principles of Research Design in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine 74 Principles of Statistical Methods for Research in Regional 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Autonomedia The Occupation Cookbook
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Open University Press Health Promotion Theory
Book SynopsisPart of the Understanding Public Health series, this book offers students and practitioners an accessible exploration of the origins and development of health promotion. It highlights the philosophical, ethical and political debates that influence health promotion today while also explaining the theories, frameworks and methodologies that help us understand public health problems and develop effective health promotion responses. The book focuses on the practical application of theory and implementation of health promotion activities in a variety of contexts, making it suitable for readers from a range of backgrounds. Case studies and activities are drawn from a variety of international settings to offer a global perspective and insights as to what effective practice looks like.The new edition has been comprehensively updated as follows: Additional, new and more challenging activities for readers to try out as they read Offers more in-depth coverage of key Table of ContentsList of figures, tables and boxesList of authorsAcknowledgementsOverview of the bookSection 1: History and concepts of health promotionChapter 1: The history of health promotionChapter 2: Social construction of health and health promotionChapter 3: What drives health promotion?Chapter 4: Political and ethical considerations Section 2: Using theory to inform health promotion practice Chapter 5: Using theory to guide change at the individual level Chapter 6: Using theory to guide change at the community levelChapter 7: The determinants of health Chapter 8: Theorizing inequalities in healthChapter 9: The Rose hypothesis: advantages of whole population over targeted approachesChapter 10: Health communication Glossary
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Open University Press Social Work Skills and Knowledge A Practice
Book Synopsis"What a sensible book, a book born of much wisdom and practical experience. Pamela Trevithick takes the reader on a wonderfully clear but thorough journey of social work's knowledge, skills and values in which theories are elegantly put into practice. The whole enterprise is reassuringly held together by a strong commitment to organised thinking and the value of the social work relationship. For those who want to sharpen their ideas while keeping their practical feet firmly on the ground, this is the book for you."Professor David Howe, University of East Anglia, UK"This new edition is an excellent resource for practitioners, students and indeed managers in social work and social care who are committed to effective practice and service delivery ... Trevithick provides a comprehensive knowledge and skills framework and excellent practice examples to enable the reader to apply the knowledge to undertaking skilled and effective practice. This is a clear, readily understTable of ContentsPart 1: Theories and TheoristsIntroductionTheoretical knowledge Factual knowledge Practice knowledge Understanding human beings Part 2: Skills and InterventionsCommunication, observation, listening and assessment skills Interviewing skills Providing help, direction and guidance Empowerment, negotiation and partnership skills Professional competence and accountability AppendicesAppendix 1: Behavioural approachesAppendix 2: Cognitive approachesAppendix 3: Crisis interventionAppendix 4: Ecological approach in social workAppendix 5: Feminist perspectives in social workAppendix 6: Motivational interviewingAppendix 7: Person-centred approachesAppendix 8: Psychological approachesAppendix 9: Radical and activist perspectives insocial workAppendix 10: Strengths perspectiveAppendix 11: Task-centred approachesAppendix 12: Stages of change (or cycle of change)References
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Open University Press Understanding Health Services
Book SynopsisNo single discipline can provide a full account of why health care is the way it is. Introducing an accessible overview of health services and drawing on medicine, sociology, economics, history and epidemiology, this book provides a series of conceptual frameworks which help to clarify some of the complexity that confronts the inexperienced observer. Helping to determine what influences and shapes health services, it also examines some of the key processes involved in providing healthcare, considering three levels: individual patients, health care organizations such as hospitals, and regional or national institutions such as governments.This second edition has been updated to include recent developments and further examples and activities from low, middle and high income countries. The book examines: â how medical knowledge, staff, patients and finance shape health services â what factors influence utilization of health services â Table of ContentsSection 1: Introduction1 A systems approach to health services2 Formal and lay careSection 2: Inputs to health care3 Diseases and medical knowledge4 Medical paradigms5 Health care professionals6 Funding health careSection 3: Processes of health care7 Need, demand and use8 Users of health care9 Paying providersSection 4: Outcomes and quality of health care10 Quality of health services11 Defining quality12 Quality assessment13 Quality improvement
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Open University Press The Midwifery Testbook
Book Synopsis"This will be a great revision tool ... Each type of question is used to enhance the development of the student by self assessment of their knowledge and understanding of the relevant anatomy and physiology and the application to practice ... I will strongly recommend this excellent text to all student midwives."Nan Morse, Professional Head of Midwifery Education, University of Glamorgan, UK"The Midwifery Textbook is a valuable and unique resource to midwifery ... It tests existing knowledge in complex situations whilst building upon earlier foundations ... The variety of question types available make learning and revision fun, whilst providing ideas for creative learning opportunities."Patricia Walker, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery and Child Health, Canterbury Christ Church University, UKLooking for a quick and effective way to revise and test your knowledge?This handy reference book is the essential self test resource to help studentTable of ContentsForewordContributorsPrefaceGuide to Useful ResourcesList of AbbreviationsPart 1: Anatomy and PhysiologyChapter 1: Pre-conceptionChapter 2: PregnancyChapter 3: LabourChapter 4: PuerperiumPart 2: PathophysiologyChapter 5: PregnancyChapter 6: IntrapartumChapter 7: PuerperiumChapter 8: PharmacologyChapter 9: NumeracyGlossary of Terms
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Bristol University Press Defund the Police
Book SynopsisThis book examines the defund the police' movement from historical and contemporary perspectives. Against the backdrop of abolition and the failure of police reform, it uses international case studies to reimagine community safety beyond policing and imprisonment.Table of Contents1. Time for change 2. A brief history of policing 3. Don’t police solve crime? 4. The protest movement never stopped: from Black Power to zero tolerance 5. Police violence is the pandemic 6. The protection racket 7. Disabling policing, protecting community health 8. The failure of reform 9. What is to be done?
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Autonomedia Organization After Social Media
Book SynopsisStrategies of commitment to help claw ourselves out of the toxic morass of platform suffocation.
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Penguin Random House Group Nature Culture and Inequality
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Penguin Random House Group The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity
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LittlePuss Press Log Off
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Penguin Adult The Fishermen And The Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe The GlycemicLoad Diet
Book SynopsisA cardiologist's revolutionary weight-loss plan that allows dieters to enjoy good carbs while still losing weightThe glycemic index has been the basis of many popular diets. But it doesn't take into account the serving sizes people actually eat and eliminates too many foods for dieters to stick with it. Now Dr. Robert Thompson's breakthrough program uses the glycemic load--the glycemic index adjusted for serving size--to take the GI a step forward. The glycemic load is a more accurate and effective tool in controlling weight and insulin resistance, allowing dieters to eat more foods while still burning fat, cutting cravings, and speeding up their metabolism. Safe, simple, and scientifically proven, it's the smartest weight-loss plan yet.
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe The Flexitarian Diet The Mostly Vegetarian Way to
Book SynopsisThe Flexitarian Diet is the first book to describe what is potentially the next big diet and nutritional movementââœflexitarianism.â The concept has grown so popular that Bon Apetit selected âœflexitarianâ as a hot trend for 2010. A flexitarian diet is part-time vegetarianism but, as the name suggests, flexitarianism is also about flexibilityâ a healthy, guided, customizable, appetizing, family-friendly flexibility. The Flexitarian Diet begins with a quiz examining three nutrition factors: 1) food preferences and aversions; 2) whether the readerâs current diet is likely to cause shortfalls or overloads in particular nutrients; and 3) which food habits they most want to change. The answers point to best starting point for that reader. This way, readers make gradual, rational changes one meal, one food group at a time. Each section includes information about how to substitute flexitarian recipes for traditional favorites, tips on how to assure that family members Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1 Getting Started: The Five-by-Five Flex Plan DesignThe Flex FiveSetting the Right Flex GoalYour FlexScore: How Flex Are You?Part 2 Five Flex Food GroupsFlex Food Group 1: Meet the New MeatFlex Food Group 2: Veg Out and Satisfy Your Fruit ToothFlex Food Group 3: Go with the GrainFlex Food Group 4: Dairy DiscoveryFlex Food Group 5: Sugar and Spice (and Everything in Between)Fill in the Nutrient Gaps from A to Z (Vitamin A to Zinc)Part 3 Five-Week Flex Meal Plan and Five-Main-Ingredient Flex RecipesFlex Fridge, Pantry, and Spice Rack StaplesEssential Flex Kitchen Tools ChecklistWeek One Recipes, Meal Plan, Shopping ListWeek Two Recipes, Meal Plan, Shopping ListWeek Three Recipes, Meal Plan, Shopping ListWeek Four Recipes, Meal Plan, Shopping ListWeek Five Recipes, Meal Plan, Shopping ListPart 4 Five Flex Fitness FactorsThe World as Your GymStart-Up StrategiesMaintaining MotivationTools of the TradeReferencesIndex
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Open University Press Female Forms
Book Synopsis* What is the relevance of feminist ideas for understanding women's experiences of disability?* How can the social model of disability be developed theoretically?* What are the key differences between Disability Studies and medical sociology?In answer to these questions, this book explores and develops ideas about disability, engaging with important debates in disability studies about what disability is and how to theorize it. It also examines the interface between disability studies, women's studies and medical sociology, and offers an accessible review of contemporary debates and theoretical approaches. The title Female Forms reflects two things about the book: first, its use of disabled women's experiences, as told by themselves, to bring a number of themes to life, and second, the author's belief in the importance of feminist ideas and debates for disability studies. The social model of disability is the book's bedrock, but the author both challenges and Table of ContentsSeries editor's prefaceIntroductionPart one: Defining disabilityDefining disabilitythe social modelDefining disabilitya definitional riddleDisability and the social self Part two: Female formsDisability and feminist perspectivesthe personal and the politicalDisability and genderWherein lies the difference?Part three: Understanding disabilityTheorizing disability and impairmentDisability Studies and medical sociologyChapter notesReferencesIndex.
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Open University Press Research Methods For Nurses And The Caring
Book SynopsisPraise for the first edition of Research into Practice and Research Methods for Nurses and the Caring Professions:These books provide a good introduction for the uninitiated to reading and doing research. Abbott and Sapsford provide a clearly written and accessible introduction to social research ... One of their aims is to 'de-mystify' research, and in this they succeed admirably... After reading the text and the articles in the reader, and working through the various research exercises, readers should have a clear appreciation of how to evaluate other people's research and how to begin their own.-David Field, Journal of Palliative MedicineThis book, now substantially revised in its second edition, is about the appreciation, evaluation and conduct of social research. Aimed at nurses, social workers, community workers and others in the caring professions, the book is particularly focused on research which evaluates and contributes to professional practice. The autTrade Review"This is an excellent introduction to the evaluation and conduct of research. It will continue to be required reading for students of health professional courses and for other practitioners new to research." - Journal of Nursing ManagementTable of ContentsPrefaceSection oneIntroductionFinding out and making senseSection twoAssessing researchReading research reportsReading open interview researchReading observation researchReading about controlled trialsReading survey researchReading secondary-source researchSection threeDoing researchUsing secondary sourcesSurvey researchdesign and samplingExperimental practiceOpen interviewingAnalysing textParticipant observationSection fourWriting upIn conclusionresearch into practiceGlossaryIndex.
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McGraw-Hill Education Responsive Healthcare
Book Synopsis* How should marketing be carried out by publicly-funded health services?* How must conventional marketing techniques be altered for this purpose?* What lessons can be drawn from practical attempts to market healthcare to date?This comprehensive book covers all main aspects of marketing and describes how conventional marketing methods can be adapted for use in healthcare and publicly-funded systems responsible for health promotion and health service planning. Written for busy health service managers and clinical professionals, the book shows how successful marketing can be put into practice. The material is organized according to the different type of marketing task found in health systems: healthcare purchasing, health promotion, public hospital provision, primary care and consumer research. Responsive Healthcare focuses mainly on the British health system and its recent reforms, but the general themes and lessons to be learned are applicable to most health systems and
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Open University Press On Bereavement
Book Synopsis'Insightful and refreshing.' - Professor Dennis Klass, Webster University Religion Department, St. Louis, USA'A tour de force.' - Dr Colin Murray Parkes, OBE, MD, FRCPsych, President of CRUSESome societies and some individuals find a place for their dead, others leave them behind. In recent years, researchers, professionals and bereaved people themselves have struggled with this. Should the bond with the dead be continued or broken? What is clear is that the grieving individual is not left in a social vacuum but has to struggle with expectations from self, family, friends, professionals and academic theorists.This ground-breaking book looks at the social position of the bereaved. They find themselves caught between the living and the dead, sometimes searching for guidelines in a de-ritualized society that has few to offer, sometimes finding their grief inappropriately pathologised and policed. At its best, bereavement care offers reassurance, validation, anTrade Review“This is an important book with its refreshingly new insights into the process of grief and the context of bereavement. It should be on the reading list of all practitioners and students of loss and bereavement.” – Ageing & SocietyTable of ContentsSeries editor's prefaceIntroductionPart one: Living with the deadOther places, other timesWar, peace and the deadtwentieth century popular culturePrivate bondsPublic bondsthe dead in everyday conversationThe last chapterTheoriesPart two: Policing griefGuidelines for griefhistorical backgroundPopular guidelinesthe English caseExpert guidelinesclinical loreVive la difference?the politics of genderBereavement careConclusionintegration, regulation and postmodernismReferencesIndex.
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Open University Press Disability Discourse
Book Synopsis* Why has 'the discursive turn' been sidelined in the development of a social theory of disability, and what has been the result of this?* How might a social theory of disability which fully incorporates the multidimensional and multifunctional role of language be described?* What would such a theory contribute to a more inclusive understanding of 'discourse' and 'culture'?The idea that disability is socially created has, in recent years, been increasingly legitimated within social, cultural and policy frameworks and structures which view disability as a form of social oppression. However, the materialist emphasis of these frameworks and structures has sidelined the growing recognition of the central role of language in social phenomena which has accompanied the 'linguistic turn' in social theory. As a result, little attention has been paid within Disability Studies to analysing the role of language in struggle and transformation in power relations and the engineering oTrade Review"Most new books recycle existing thought, but occasionallya book comes along which offers a new set of ideas and a fresh perspective. This international compilation does both: it provides the familiar alongside the normal." - The Times Educational Supplement "Disability and the Dilemmas of Education and Justice pulls no punches. It is a relentless critique of our current special educational needs system and of those who work in it." - Special Children "A thought provoking and interesting book, that raises many valuable issues. Certainly worth a read for all involved in special education." - Education Review "I have for over 30 years been concerned with the education of students with a variety of disabilities and of various degrees of disability, andbelieved that I had acquired a knowledge of most of theproblems experienced by disabled people. However, after reading the essays containedin this book my eyes have been opened to a myriad of other problems experienced by them, and for me the essays have opened up new avenues of thought on education as it affects disabled students.The writing of this book has long been overdue." - EducationToday "...a must for students...It brings special needs into the wide cultural arena which seems to me to be where it must be located as we moveinto the twenty-first century." - British Educational Research Journal "This book is stronglyrecommendedto anyone involved in special education." - Educational Research "...a book that will inform and enlighten even the most veteran and knowledgeable members of the special education profession...At the same time, it is written in sufficient detail and with enough background information to allow its ideas to be accessible to newcomers or lay readers. Its authors'perspectives are fresh, informed by multiple sources and disciplines." - Qualitative Studies in EducationTable of ContentsSeries editor's prefaceIntroductionreclaiming language in disability studiesPart one: Personal narrativesInside aphasiaThe wind gets in my wayI am more than my wheelsDepressed and disabledsome discursive problems with mental illnessNarrative identity and the disabled selfPart two: The social creation of disability identityWhy can't you be normal for once in your life? From a problem with no name to the emergency of a new category of differenceUnless otherwise stateddiscourses of labelling and identity in coming outCarving out a place to actacquired impairment and contested identityDiscourse and identitydisabled children in mainstream high schoolsTransforming disability identity through critical literacy and the cultural politics of languageTalking 'tragedy'identity issues in the parental story of disabilityPart three: Cultural discoursesStudying disability rhetoricallyModern slogan, ancient scriptdisability in the Chinese languageBodies, brains and behaviourthe return of the three stooges in learning disabilityJoseph F. Sullivan and the discourse of 'crippledom' in progressive AmericaArt and lies? Representations of disability on filmWhat they don't tell people with learning difficultiesFinal accounts and the parasite peopleDisability discourse, the principle of optimization and social changeBiographical notesReferencesIndex.
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Open University Press Family Focused Grief Therapy
Book Synopsis "To those of us who have been aware of the innovative service to families facing death and bereavement that has been developed by David W. Kissane and Sidney Bloch this book has been eagerly awaited. Their work is a logical development in the field of Palliative Care in which it has long been recognized that, when life is threatened, it is the family (which includes the patient) which is, or ought to be, the unit of care.The work also has great relevance for the wider field of bereavement care...all who work to help families at times of death and bereavement will find much to learn from this book which represents a useful addition to our understanding of the losses which, sooner or later, we all have to face." - Colin Murray Parkes Family members are often intimately involved in the care of dying people and themselves require support through both their experience of palliative care and bereavement. This innovative book describes a comprehensive model of famTrade Review"Kissane and Bloch demonstrate an extraordinary commitment to improving the quality of family life in this moving are readable account of a research project using Family Focussed Grief Therapy (FFGT). I recommend it to anyone working with seriously ill and dying patients." - Jeni WebsterTable of ContentsSeries editor's prefaceForeword by Colin Murray ParkesIntroductionFamily care and family griefA typology of family functioningConducting family focused grief therapy (FFGT)Common themes that arise during FFGTA typical encounter of therapyChallenges and problems in the delivery of FFGTThe impact of specific life events upon familiesThe ethical dimensionClinical application of the FFGT modelAppendix 1The Family Relationships Index (FRI)Appendix 2Tables of results from the Melbourne Family Grief StudiesBibliographyIndex.
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Open University Press Grief Mourning And Death Ritual
Book Synopsis"a must for any specialist and advanced practitioner's bookshelf." Journal of Interpersonal CareThis book focuses on what happens after a death has taken place. Drawing on social theory and anthropology, contributors examine responses to death as they occur within the unique set of cultural, social and historical circumstances which characterizes post-war society. The book does not just document and make sense of contemporary practices but also critically reviews the ways grief, mourning and death ritual have been approached by academics and practitioners in the field. It does this by combining substantial reviews with shorter illustrative examples of grief, mourning and death ritual as they are manifest in specific settings and with defined groups. These illustrative examples include personal and institutional responses to death at different points in the life cycle, and responses to different sorts of death - the death of children and death in disasters for exampTable of ContentsSeries editor's prefaceIntroductionTheories of griefa critical reviewIs grief an illness? Issues of theory in relation to cultural diversity and the grieving processFour siblings' perspectives on parent deatha family focus'Naturalizing' death among older adults in residential careJust an old fashioned love song or a harlequin romance? Some experiences of widowhood Discourse into practicethe production of bereavement careThe skills we need. Bereavement counselling and governmentality in England'You have to get inside the person' or making grief privateimage and metaphor in the therapeutic re-construction of bereavementSupporting bereaved children at schoolThe child death helplineA place for my child. The evolution of a candle serviceChanging death ritualsFuneral ritual, past and presentForget me notmemorialisation in cemeteries and crematoriaThe cemeterythe evidence of continuing bondsHindu death and mourning ritualsthe impact of geographical mobilityGrieving in publicPost-disaster ritualsConclusionsReferencesIndex.
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