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Pocket Emergency Medicine

By: Richard D. Zane,Joshua M. Kosowsky,Pooja Agrawal,Christopher H. LeMaster,Kalpana Narayan,Heather R. Studley

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Pocket Emergency Medicine

By: Richard D. Zane,Joshua M. Kosowsky,Pooja Agrawal,Christopher H. LeMaster,Kalpana Narayan,Heather R. Studley

Pocket Emergency Medicine contains the essential information that residents and medical students in the emergency department need to have at their fingertips. Major sections cover symptoms and diseases of each organ system as well as infectious diseases, environmental exposures, hematology and oncology, pediatric emergencies, the psychiatric patient, toxicology, airway management, and trauma. Information is presented in concise, rapid-access format, with easy-to-scan bulleted lists and tables. Chapters follow a standard structure—differential diagnosis, history, classic findings, critical studies, ED interventions, pearls, and references. The six-ring binder can accommodate the student's or resident's own notes. New topics covered in this edition include bioterrorism, distraction injuries, and indications for bedside emergency ultrasound. A special considerations section has been added to each chapter. Other new features include an acronym table, an introductory differential diagnosis table boxed for quick access, and an updated appendix with ACLS/PALS protocols, ICU medications, antibiotics, and formulas.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451165994

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9781451165999

Tools of Justice

Non-discrimination and the Indian Constitution

By: Kalpana Kannabiran

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Tools of Justice

Non-discrimination and the Indian Constitution

By: Kalpana Kannabiran

In the years since independence, the Indian subcontinent has witnessed an alarming rise in violence against marginalized communities, with an increasing number of groups pushed to the margins of the democratic order. Against this background of violence, injustice and the abuse of rights, this book explores the critical, ‘insurgent’ possibilities of constitutionalism as a means of revitalising the concepts of non-discrimination and liberty, and of reimagining democratic citizenship. The book argues that the breaking down of discrimination in constitutional interpretation and the narrowing of the field of liberty in law deepen discriminatory ideologies and practices. Instead, it offers an intersectional approach to jurisprudence as a means of enabling the law to address the problem of discrimination along multiple, intersecting axes. The argument is developed in the context of the various grounds of discrimination mentioned in the constitution — caste, tribe, religious minorities, women, sexual minorities, and disability. The study draws on a rich body of materials, including official reports, case law and historical records, and uses insights from social theory, anthropology, literary and historical studies and constitutional jurisprudence to offer a new reading of non-discrimination. This book will be useful to those interested in law, sociology, gender studies, politics, constitutionalism, disability studies, human rights, social exclusion, etc.

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520

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Routledge

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1136198768

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9781136198762

The Madhesi Upsurge and the Contested Idea of Nepal

By: Kalpana Jha

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The Madhesi Upsurge and the Contested Idea of Nepal

By: Kalpana Jha

This book is set against the burning issue of ethnic uprisings in the Madhes region of Nepal and analyses debates on the idea of contemporary Nepal. The limited view of Nepal as a primarily hill nation with Nepali-speaking people ignores the vast ethnic and linguistic diversity of the country. It has particularly rendered stateless the Madhesi community which inhabits the plains bordering India and shares closer cultural affinity and marital ties across the border. Increasing demands for ethnic and territorial autonomy by the Madhesis suggest the need for redefining the idea of Nepal and establishing Madhesi identity as Nepali identity while at the same time addressing the deeply contested idea of regional versus social identity in the region. This book uses narratives from the Madhesi community including from prominent Madhesi analysts and activists, to define their identity as well as their aspirations in a democratic Nepal. It also provides a perspective on the internal dynamics of caste and language of this region and their possible impact on consolidating ethnic identities in Nepal.

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120

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Springer

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9811029261

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9789811029264

De-eroticizing Assault

Essays on Modesty, Honour and Power

By: Kalpana Kannabirān,Vasantha Kannabiran

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De-eroticizing Assault

Essays on Modesty, Honour and Power

By: Kalpana Kannabirān,Vasantha Kannabiran

Focusing on the many hegemonies that confront women and men today, the authors present fresh insights on the linkages among gender, culture and politics. Their 'concerns in politics have centred on questions of culture and representation, on power and hegemonies that find legitimacy, in globalisation, and the imperatives of anti-communal struggles'. They analyse the coalition between globalisation and fundamentalism and consider the disturbing portents for women, children, minorities and dalits. While reflecting on the increase in state repression, they also critique the way the Left revolutionary parties too restrict women's engagement.

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288

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Popular Prakashan

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ISBN 10

8185604525

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9788185604527

Race, Racism and Development

Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice

By: Kalpana Wilson

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Race, Racism and Development

Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice

By: Kalpana Wilson

Race, Racism and Development places racism and constructions of race at the centre of an exploration of the dominant discourses, structures and practices of development. Combining insights from postcolonial and race critical theory with a political economy framework, it puts forward provocative theoretical analyses of the relationships between development, race, capital, embodiment and resistance in historical and contemporary contexts. Exposing how race is central to development policies and practices relating to human rights, security, good governance, HIV/AIDS, population control, NGOs, visual representations and the role of diasporas in development, the book raises compelling questions about contemporary imperialism and the possibilities for transnational political solidarity.

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321

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1780325649

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9781780325644

Geriatric Emergencies, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, E-Book

By: Brendan G. Magauran Jr,Kalpana N. Shankar,Joseph H. Kahn

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Geriatric Emergencies, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, E-Book

By: Brendan G. Magauran Jr,Kalpana N. Shankar,Joseph H. Kahn

This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics focuses on Geriatric Emergencies. Articles include: Recent Trends in Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Resuscitation of the Elderly, Pharmacology in the Geriatric Patient, Trauma and Falls in the Elderly, Sepsis and Infectious Emergencies in the Elderly, Evaluation of the Geriatric Patient with Chest Pain, Evaluation of Dyspnea in the Elderly, Abdominal Pain in the Geriatric Patient, Neurologic Emergencies in the Elderly, Evaluation of Syncope, Altered Mental Status and Delirium, and more!

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294

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323459625

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9780323459624

Political Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda

By: Kalpana Mohapatra

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Political Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda

By: Kalpana Mohapatra

The present work is a modest attempt to systematise Vivekanandas political ideas and preachings for the glorification of todays politics. It deals with a rich legacy of political ideas, conceived and believed by Vivekananda in the context of social, political and economic tendencies of his time. A careful study of Vivekanandas philosophy in preparing the ground for the politics of independence and giving the country a new political ideology through his re-interpretation of Vedanta and the Hindu religion. The present work is divided into five distinct chapters, the political, social and economic crisis, the early days of Swami, the concept of Vedanta, and the concept of his political ideas, besides preface and bibliography.

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Northern Book Centre

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8172110790

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9788172110796

Fertile Disorder

Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern

By: Kalpana Ram

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Fertile Disorder

Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern

By: Kalpana Ram

In her innovative new book, Kalpana Ram reflects on the way spirit possession unsettles some of the foundational assumptions of modernity. What is a human subject under the varied conditions commonly associated with possession? What kind of subjectivity must already be in place to allow such a transformation to occur? How does it alter our understanding of memory and emotion if these assail us in the form of ghosts rather than as attributes of subjective experience? What does it mean to worship deities who are afflictive and capricious, yet bear an intimate relationship to justice? What is a "human" body if it can be taken over by a whole array of entities? What is agency if people can be "claimed" in this manner? What is gender if, while possessed, a woman is a woman no longer? Drawing on spirit possession among women and the rich traditions of subaltern religion in Tamil Nadu, South India, Ram concludes that the basis for constructing an alternative understanding of human agency need not rest on the usual requirements of a fully present consciousness or on the exercise of choice and planning. Instead of relegating possession, ghosts, and demons to the domain of the exotic, Ram uses spirit possession to illuminate ordinary experiences and relationships. In doing so, she uncovers fundamental instabilities that continue to haunt modern formulations of gender, human agency, and political emancipation. Fertile Disorder interrogates the modern assumptions about gender, agency, and subjectivity that underlie the social improvement projects circulating in Tamil Nadu, assumptions that directly shape people’s lives. The book pays particular attention to projects of family planning, development, reform, and emancipation. Combining ethnography with philosophical argument, Ram fashions alternatives to standard post-modernist and post-structuralist formulations. Grounded in decades of fieldwork, ambitious and wide ranging, her work is conceived as a journey that makes incursions into the unfamiliar, then returns us to the familiar. She argues that magic is not a monopoly of any one culture, historical period, or social formation but inhabits modernity—not only in the places, such as cinema and sound recording, where it is commonly looked for, but in "habit" and in aspects of everyday life that have been largely overlooked and shunned. Fertile Disorder will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in anthropology, religion, gender studies, subaltern studies, and post colonial theory.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824837789

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9780824837785

Daddykins

A Memoir of My Father and I

By: Kalpana Mohan

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Daddykins

A Memoir of My Father and I

By: Kalpana Mohan

A big-hearted meditation on love, loss, and happy memories When journalist Kalpana Mohan's elderly father falls ill in Chennai, she is on the next flight over from California, where she has lived with her husband for three decades. Caring for her sometimes cranky, sometimes playful, and always adored father at his home in Chennai, Mohan sets out to piece together an account of her father's life, from his poverty-stricken childhood in a village in south India, to his arranged marriage, to his first job in the city, all the while coming to terms with his inevitable passing. Mohan's tender, moving, and sometimes hilarious memoir is an account of a changing India captured in her father's life, from the sheer feat of surviving poverty in I920s India of his birth, to witnessing key moments in the nation's history and changing alongside them. Above all, Daddykins is an intimate and deeply relatable account of our relationships with our parents whatever our age, and the shared experiences of love and grief that unite us all.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9388271300

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9789388271301

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Pocket Emergency Medicine

Pocket Emergency Medicine

Tools of Justice

Tools of Justice

The Madhesi Upsurge and the Contested Idea of Nepal

The Madhesi Upsurge and the Contested Idea of Nepal

De-eroticizing Assault

De-eroticizing Assault

Race, Racism and Development

Race, Racism and Development

Geriatric Emergencies, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, E-Book

Geriatric Emergencies, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, E-Book

Political Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda

Political Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda

Fertile Disorder

Fertile Disorder

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