This book explores five important areas where technology affects society, and suggests ways in which human communication can facilitate the use of that technology.
This book explores five important areas where technology affects society, and suggests ways in which human communication can facilitate the use of that technology.
The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years.
"e;Cross-Cultural Communication"e; is a collection of essays that examines how practitioners can improve the acceptance of their documentation when communicating to cultures other than their own.
"e;Cross-Cultural Communication"e; is a collection of essays that examines how practitioners can improve the acceptance of their documentation when communicating to cultures other than their own.
This final volume of "e;"e;Death and Bereavement Around the World"e;"e; reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural variations, suicide, and other issues.
This final volume of "e;"e;Death and Bereavement Around the World"e;"e; reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural variations, suicide, and other issues.
The workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they produce.
The workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they produce.
The editors of "e;Making Sense of Death: Spiritual, Pastoral, and Personal Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement"e; provide stimulating discussions as they ponder the meaning of life and death.
The editors of "e;Making Sense of Death: Spiritual, Pastoral, and Personal Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement"e; provide stimulating discussions as they ponder the meaning of life and death.
"e;Meeting the Needs of Our Clients Creatively: The Impact of Art and Culture on Caregiving"e; is an important new work which integrates traditional understandings of care of the dying and bereaved with the use of arts and other forms of cultural creativity in therapy and funeralization.
"e;Meeting the Needs of Our Clients Creatively: The Impact of Art and Culture on Caregiving"e; is an important new work which integrates traditional understandings of care of the dying and bereaved with the use of arts and other forms of cultural creativity in therapy and funeralization.
Comparative analyses of social actors and policy outcomes in Bahia and Texas show the similarities and differences in the actors and the policies adopted in each case.
Comparative analyses of social actors and policy outcomes in Bahia and Texas show the similarities and differences in the actors and the policies adopted in each case.
This new text is a state-of-the-art collection of essays representing varying points of view about dreams and the major research conducted in dream therapy today.
This new text is a state-of-the-art collection of essays representing varying points of view about dreams and the major research conducted in dream therapy today.
In "e;Eighteenth Century British Aesthetics"e;, editor Dabney Townsend has brought together the work of such well-known writers as John Dryden, Joshua Reynolds, David Hume, and Samuel Johnson with the more obscure works of aestheticians such as Uvedale Price, Daniel Webb, John Baillie, and James Harris, whose work is difficult to find, but is nonetheless important, informative, and interesting.
In "e;Eighteenth Century British Aesthetics"e;, editor Dabney Townsend has brought together the work of such well-known writers as John Dryden, Joshua Reynolds, David Hume, and Samuel Johnson with the more obscure works of aestheticians such as Uvedale Price, Daniel Webb, John Baillie, and James Harris, whose work is difficult to find, but is nonetheless important, informative, and interesting.
To advance the epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health, and of the ways in which population distributions of disease, disability, and death reflect embodied expressions of social inequality, this volume draws on articles published in the "e;International Journal of Health Services"e; between 1990 and 2000.
To advance the epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health, and of the ways in which population distributions of disease, disability, and death reflect embodied expressions of social inequality, this volume draws on articles published in the "e;International Journal of Health Services"e; between 1990 and 2000.
In this book, well-known scholars describe new and exciting approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topics from a point of view that is biological or related to biology and answering new questions with new methods and theories.
In this book, well-known scholars describe new and exciting approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topics from a point of view that is biological or related to biology and answering new questions with new methods and theories.
Based on groundbreaking research on the working conditions of airport check-in workers in two countries, a previously unstudied category of predominantly women workers, Ellen Rosskam describes a form of work characterized as modern-day Taylorism.
Based on groundbreaking research on the working conditions of airport check-in workers in two countries, a previously unstudied category of predominantly women workers, Ellen Rosskam describes a form of work characterized as modern-day Taylorism.
Presents a collection of fourteen essays that responds to the need for a more rhetorical conception of professional communication as an international discipline.
Presents a collection of fourteen essays that responds to the need for a more rhetorical conception of professional communication as an international discipline.
One cause of the behavioral, emotional and mental torment in a person's life is the psychological trauma that results from the actions and words of parents and others.
One cause of the behavioral, emotional and mental torment in a person's life is the psychological trauma that results from the actions and words of parents and others.
The analogy of the torn fabric was first used by the author in response to a bereaved mother's cry: "e;I know what grief feels like; I don't know what it looks like.
This book was nurtured by the belief that the new dynamics of today's and tomorrow's aging has not yet been treated well in the gerontology literature.
