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Objectivity, Science and Society

Interpreting nature and society in the age of the crisis of science

By: Paul A Komesaroff

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Objectivity, Science and Society

Interpreting nature and society in the age of the crisis of science

By: Paul A Komesaroff

Originally published in 1986. This work remains of compelling interest to those concerned with the natural sciences and their social problems. It puts forward original and unorthodox ideas about the philosophy of and sociology of science, starting from the conviction that modern societies face deep problems arising from unresolved dilemmas about the meaning, content and technical applications of the theories of nature they employ. The book draws on insights developed within a variety of traditions to explore these problems, especially the work of Edmund Husserl and modern critical theory.

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Routledge

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1135028419

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Essential Hypertension and Its Causes

Neural and Non-Neural Mechanisms

By: Paul I. Korner

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Essential Hypertension and Its Causes

Neural and Non-Neural Mechanisms

By: Paul I. Korner

Essential hypertension (EH) is the most common type of high blood pressure and is responsible for much death and serious illness, which has been the reason for the huge research effort to determine its causes. However, countless scientific articles still keep proclaiming that "the causese of essential hypertension remain unknown." In view of the number of publications that descend on the hypertension specialist like a waterfall, such proclamations seem to overlook the considerable amount of knowledge that we already have about the etiology of EH. The problem may be a lack of synthesis rather than a lack of information. This book brings together some of this knowledge into a coherent and clinically relevant account about the pathogenesis of EH. With an extremely broad reach, this book aims to give a balanced view of the causes of EH, its neural, genetic, and environmental causes.

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717

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Oxford University Press

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0195094832

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9780195094831

Rethinking palliative care

A social role valorisation approach

By: Sinclair, Paul

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Rethinking palliative care

A social role valorisation approach

By: Sinclair, Paul

This book's striking message is that palliative care does not deliver on its aims to value people who are dying and make death and dying a natural part of life. This book draws from wider social science perspectives and critically and specifically applies these perspectives to palliative care and its dominant medical model. Applying Social Role Valorisation, the author argues for the de-institutionalisation of palliative care and the development of an alternative framework to the approaches found in hospices, palliative care units and community-based palliative care services. He offers a new conceptualisation of death and loss that refines and expands modern understandings in a way that also resonates with traditional religious views concerning death. Wide-ranging recommendations advise fundamental change in the concept of palliative care, the way support and services are organised and the day to day practice of palliative care. Rethinking palliative care will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners in palliative care as well as those in disability, social policy, sociology, social work, religion, thanatology, nursing and other health related fields.

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257

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Policy Press

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1847422349

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9781847422347

Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History

By: Martin Paul Eve

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Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History

By: Martin Paul Eve

Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. Martin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital space, and traces their history as they interact with physical cultures. Eve posits that digital-textual metaphors move through three life phases. Initially they are descriptive. Then they encounter a moment of fracture or rupture. Finally, they go on to have a prescriptive life of their own that conditions future possibilities for our text environments—even when the metaphors have become untethered from their original intent. Why is "whitespace" white? Was the digital page always a foregone conclusion? Over a series of theses, Eve addresses these and other questions in order to understand the moments when digital-textual metaphors break and to show us how it is that our textual softwares become locked into paradigms that no longer make sense. Contributing to book history, literary studies, new media studies, and material textual studies, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History provides generative insights into the metaphors that define our digital worlds.

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Stanford University Press

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1503639398

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Experiments in Love and Death

Medicine, Postmodernism, Microethics and the Body

By: Paul Komesaroff

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Experiments in Love and Death

Medicine, Postmodernism, Microethics and the Body

By: Paul Komesaroff

Experiments in Love and Death is about the depth and complexity of the ethical issues that arise in illness and medicine. In his concept of ‘microethics’ Paul Komesaroff provides an alternative to the abstract debates about principles and consequences that have long dominated ethical thought. He shows how ethical decisions are everywhere: in small decisions, in facial expressions, in almost inconspicuous acts of recognition and trust. Through powerful descriptions of case studies and clear and concise explanations of contemporary philosophical theory the book brings discussions about ethics in medicine back to where they belong—to the level of the everyday experience where people live, suffer and hope. A fresh and evocative look at the changing world of ethics as it applies to health and illness, this is an important book for all those touched by illness or suffering.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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1938416988

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Riding a Crocodile

A Physician's Tale

By: Paul Komesaroff

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Riding a Crocodile

A Physician's Tale

By: Paul Komesaroff

Riding a Crocodile is a novel that gives you an insider's account into life in a major teaching hospital and a chilling detective story that explores issues of life and death with contemporary relevance. Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to work after a break he becomes aware of disturbing changes taking place in the hospital. A series of suspicious deaths then throws his world into confusion. Nevski's inner turmoil grows and he has to confront the dangers that close in around him.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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1938416503

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Cultures of Ageing

Self, Citizen and the Body

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

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Cultures of Ageing

Self, Citizen and the Body

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political changes in Europe and North America to address the need for a text that moves the study of ageing from social policy towards the mainstream of social science.

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217

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Routledge

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1317880153

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Globalization Matters

Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times

By: Manfred B. Steger,Paul James

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Globalization Matters

Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times

By: Manfred B. Steger,Paul James

By addressing the major contemporary challenges to globalization, this study explains why and how the global continues to matter in our unsettled world.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108470793

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9781108470797

Obesity in the News

Language and Representation in the Press

By: Gavin Brookes,Paul Baker

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Obesity in the News

Language and Representation in the Press

By: Gavin Brookes,Paul Baker

The way in : shared keywords in the press -- Studying difference : comparing sections of the press -- Change over time -- Shaming and reclaiming -- Healthy body : diet and exercise -- Gendered discourses of obesity -- 'A disease of the poor'? Obesity and social class -- Going 'below the line' : reader responses.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108836399

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Stigma, State Expressions and the Law

Implications of Freedom of Speech

By: Paul Quinn

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Stigma, State Expressions and the Law

Implications of Freedom of Speech

By: Paul Quinn

This book demonstrates the difficulties the law is likely to encounter in regulating the expressive activities of the state, particularly with regard to the stigmatization of vulnerable groups and minorities. Freedom of speech is indispensable to a democratic society, enabling it to operate with a healthy level of debate and discussion. Historically, legal scholars have underappreciated the power of stigmatization, instead focusing on anti-discrimination law, and the implicit assumption that the state is permitted to communicate freely with little fear of legal consequences. Whilst integral to a democratic society, the freedom of a state to express itself can however also be corrosive, allowing influential figures and organizations the possibility to stigmatize vulnerable groups within society. The book takes this idea and, uniquely weaving legal analysis with extant psychological and sociological research, shows that current legal approaches to stigmatization are limited. Starting with a deep insight into what constitutes state expressions and how they can become stigmatizing, the book then goes on to look into the capacity the law currently has to limit these expressions and asks even if it could, should it? This fascinating study of an increasingly topical subject will be of interest to any legal scholar working in the field of freedom of expression and discrimination law.

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Routledge

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1351470566

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Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development

Other Paths for Papua New Guinea

By: Paul James,Yaso Nadarajah,Karen Haive,Victoria C. Stead

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Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development

Other Paths for Papua New Guinea

By: Paul James,Yaso Nadarajah,Karen Haive,Victoria C. Stead

Papua New Guinea is going through a crisis: A concentration on conventional approaches to development, including an unsustainable reliance on mining, forestry, and foreign aid, has contributed to the country’s slow decline since independence in 1975. Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development attempts to address problems and gaps in the literature on development and develop a new qualitative conception of community sustainability informed by substantial and innovative research in Papua New Guinea. In this context, sustainability is conceived in terms that include not just practices tied to economic development. It also informs questions of wellbeing and social integration, community-building, social support, and infrastructure renewal. In short, the concern with sustainability here entails undertaking an analysis of how communities are sustained through time, how they cohere and change, rather than being constrained within discourses and models of development. From another angle, this project presents an account of community sustainability detached from instrumental concerns with economic development. Contributors address questions such as: What are the stories and histories through which people respond to their nation’s development? What is the everyday social environment of groups living in highly diverse areas (migrant settlements, urban villages, remote communities)? They seek to contribute to a creative and dynamic grass-roots response to the demands of everyday life and local-global pressures. While the overdeveloped world faces an intersecting crisis created by global climate change and financial instability, Papua New Guinea, with all its difficulties, still has the basis for responding to this manifold predicament. Its secret lies in what has been seen as its weakness: underdeveloped economies and communities, where people still maintain sustainable relations to each other and the natural world.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824861205

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9780824861209

Business Ethics in Practice

By: Simon Robinson,Paul Dowson

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Business Ethics in Practice

By: Simon Robinson,Paul Dowson

Business Ethics in Practice is essential reading for all undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students looking to ensure they act responsibly and make the right decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas. Covering the impact of character and culture on managing ethics, leadership, governance and social responsibility, this book goes beyond ethical theory to show ethical considerations and challenges in practice. With examples from both small businesses and large multinational corporates such as Google, BP and Nestle, Business Ethics in Practice shows how ethics must be considered by everyone in every sector, in a business of any size. With coverage of ethics in relation to staff, consumers, the supply chain, competitors and the environment, this book will ensure that students can think ethically and make effective ethical decisions. Supported by online resources including powerpoint slides and a guide for lecturers as well as practical tips for students, this book will help anyone studying business ethics in both their professional and personal development.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749482540

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9780749482541

Holyoak and Torremans Intellectual Property Law

By: Paul Torremans

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Holyoak and Torremans Intellectual Property Law

By: Paul Torremans

Holyoak and Torremans Intellectual Property Law provides a complete introduction and overview of UK intellectual property law. It examines how the law has developed through key statutory provisions and leading cases, and highlights the increasing influence of the EU and other international jurisdictions in shaping the law in its global context.

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0198836457

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Objectivity, Science and Society

Interpreting nature and society in the age of the crisis of science

By: Paul A Komesaroff

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Interpreting nature and society in the age of the crisis of science

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Palliative Medicine E-Book

By: T. Declan Walsh,Augusto T. Caraceni,Robin Fainsinger,Kathleen M. Foley,Paul Glare,Cynthia Goh,Mari Lloyd-Williams,Juan Nunez Olarte,Lukas Radbruch

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Palliative Medicine E-Book

By: T. Declan Walsh,Augusto T. Caraceni,Robin Fainsinger,Kathleen M. Foley,Paul Glare,Cynthia Goh,Mari Lloyd-Williams,Juan Nunez Olarte,Lukas Radbruch

As a palliative medicine physician, you struggle every day to make your patients as comfortable as possible in the face of physically and psychologically devastating circumstances. This new reference equips you with all of today's best international approaches for meeting these complex and multifaceted challenges. In print and online, it brings you the world's most comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of your field. You'll find the answers to the most difficult questions you face every day...so you can provide every patient with the relief they need. Equips you to provide today's most effective palliation for terminal malignant diseases • end-stage renal, cardiovascular, respiratory, and liver disorders • progressive neurological conditions • and HIV/AIDS. Covers your complete range of clinical challenges with in-depth discussions of patient evaluation and outcome assessment • ethical issues • communication • cultural and psychosocial issues • research in palliative medicine • principles of drug use • symptom control • nutrition • disease-modifying palliation • rehabilitation • and special interventions. Helps you implement unparalleled expertise and global best practices with advice from a matchless international author team. Provides in-depth guidance on meeting the specific needs of pediatric and geriatric patients. Assists you in skillfully navigating professional issues in palliative medicine such as education and training • administration • and the role of allied health professionals. Includes just enough pathophysiology so you can understand the "whys" of effective decision making, as well as the "how tos." Offers a user-friendly, full-color layout for ease of reference, including color-coded topic areas, mini chapter outlines, decision trees, and treatment algorithms. Comes with access to the complete contents of the book online, for convenient, rapid consultation from any computer.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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143772194X

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Experiments in Love and Death

Medicine, Postmodernism, Microethics and the Body

By: Paul Komesaroff

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Experiments in Love and Death

Medicine, Postmodernism, Microethics and the Body

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Riding a Crocodile

A Physician's Tale

By: Paul Komesaroff

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Riding a Crocodile

A Physician's Tale

By: Paul Komesaroff

Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to work after a break he becomes aware of disturbing changes taking place in the hospital. A series of suspicious deaths then throws his world into confusion. Nevski’s inner turmoil grows and he has to confront the dangers that close in around him. Riding a Crocodile is both an insider’s account of life in a major teaching hospital and a chilling detective story, exploring life and death issues of urgent contemporary relevance.

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1938416511

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Troubled Bodies

Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body

By: Paul A Komesaroff

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Troubled Bodies

Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body

By: Paul A Komesaroff

With transplant surgery, abortion, and radical new technologies for human reproduction and prolonging life as part of our everyday experience, the need to consider ethical issues in medicine almost goes without saying. But the field of traditional biomedical ethics attracts plenty of criticism for its narrow theoretical perspectives and its ignorance of wider philosophical concerns. Troubled Bodies breaks new ground by placing medical ethics in a broad framework of philosophical and cultural analysis. Ten contributors with diverse backgrounds, including medicine and philosophy, biology and social theory, examine how modern medicine regards the human body and its intimate relationship with other aspects of our culture. Certain to provoke vigorous debate, this collection seeks to expand ethical reflection on medicine to include current concerns about the body and the implications of the newer medical technologies for society as a whole.

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