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The Hong Kong Health Sector

Development and Change

By: Robin Gauld,Derek Gould

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The Hong Kong Health Sector

Development and Change

By: Robin Gauld,Derek Gould

The book covers the period from British colonisation of Hong Kong in 1841 through to the present day. It looks at the way in which the health sector developed, the structural arrangements that resulted, and the manner in which the health system functions today.

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Chinese University Press

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9629960958

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9789629960957

Comparative Health Policy In The Asia Pacific

By: Gauld, Robin

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Comparative Health Policy In The Asia Pacific

By: Gauld, Robin

Dr. Gauld's collection of case studies is informativeand accessible. I would recommend it as acentral text for a course in comparative healthsystems." Political Studies Review Based upon research from eight countries in the Asia-Pacific - Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan - this book analyses and compares their differing health policies. Key issues the book probes include: The ways that health care is financed and delivered across the region The historical and institutional arrangements that impact upon health policy and health care How the health systems differ between the countries under study How policymakers and service providers deal with unlimited demand and limited funding and issues such as service coverage and quality How pharmaceuticals and population health strategies are managed What the roles of the state and various other players (such as the private sector and professional associations) are in the making of health policy and delivery of health care The challenges that lie ahead for health care and health policy in the region Comparative Health Policy in the Asia-Pacific is key reading for students, researchers and policy makers with an interest in health policy. It is relevant to those studying medicine and health studies, anthropology, history, sociology, public policy, politics and Asian studies.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335214339

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9780335214334

The Age of Supported Independence

Voices of In-home Care

By: Beatrice Hale,Patrick Barrett,Robin Gauld

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The Age of Supported Independence

Voices of In-home Care

By: Beatrice Hale,Patrick Barrett,Robin Gauld

This book investigates the experiences of older people who remain at home with care. It examines the transition points for the important life changes faced by family members who take on a greater care-giving role. The book draws on demographic analyses and qualitative fieldwork to explore the shift from independence to increasing dependence, and suggests that this transition constitutes movement into a new stage of life, that of an Age of Supported Independence. Applying the anthropological concept of rites of passage in their analysis, the authors focus on the changes in everyday living within the spatial environment of the home, the temporal organization of daily life, and the reshaping of relationships. They suggest that many older people – as well as the family members who become carers – remain in a state of ‘liminality’: unable to make sense of their new situation and experience and, despite assumptions that ageing-in-place sustains social connectedness, excluded from their communities.

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149

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9048188148

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9789048188147

The Language of Mediums and Psychics

The Social Organization of Everyday Miracles

By: Robin Wooffitt

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The Language of Mediums and Psychics

The Social Organization of Everyday Miracles

By: Robin Wooffitt

Every week thousands of people in Europe and the USA consult psychic practitioners. Communication is crucial to the performance of psychic powers in a range of settings. Psychic practitioners use language to demonstrate their powers, whether they are reporting the words of their spirit contacts or interpreting the spread of Tarot cards. Their clients also accept or reject this information through talk. This book presents the first sustained study of the verbal interaction between the various kinds of psychic practitioners and their clients. Using conversation analysis, Robin Wooffitt examines the structure of the interaction, focusing on the ways in which psychic practitioners and their clients establish the authenticity of the claimed paranormal powers. Adopting a neutral standpoint towards the status of the claims of psychic practitioners, the book raises important issues about the role of social science in understanding the activities of psychic practitioners and other kinds of parapsychological phenomena. This highly original study will appeal to students and scholars of discourse studies, and to sociologists interested in conversation analysis. It is written in a style accessible to non-specialists, and will also interest parapsychologists and social scientists studying psychic phenomena and the paranormal.

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178

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Routledge

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1351887173

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9781351887175

The New Health Policy

By: Gauld, Robin

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The New Health Policy

By: Gauld, Robin

This book analyzes the issues that form the nucleus of the emerging 'new health policy' agenda. Robin Gauld brings together in one volume a comprehensive picture of the health policy challenges facing contemporary developed world health systems, as well as the strategies for tackling these." "The book highlights the importance to policy makers of each subject, overviews research into it, and discusses policy responses in Britain, New Zealand and the United States." "The New Health Policy is essential reading for all students of health policy and health care, along with policy makers and health care professionals." --Book Jacket.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335229034

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9780335229031

A Theory of Action Identification

By: Robin R. Vallacher,Daniel M. Wegner

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A Theory of Action Identification

By: Robin R. Vallacher,Daniel M. Wegner

First published in 1985. A person may be caught in the midst of a patently ridiculous act, interrupted in a moment of apparent confusion, or even aroused from sleep, and yet respond to a query of What are you doing? with remarkable ease. The answer that is given is an identification of action. It is the central idea of this book that such action identifications perform pivotal functions in a broad range of psychological and social processes.

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Psychology Press

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131776787X

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9781317767879

Making Sense of the Paranormal

The Interactional Construction of Unexplained Experiences

By: Rachael Ironside,Robin Wooffitt

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Making Sense of the Paranormal

The Interactional Construction of Unexplained Experiences

By: Rachael Ironside,Robin Wooffitt

This book is a study of how people collaboratively interpret events or experiences as having paranormal features, or as evidence of spiritual agency. The authors study recordings of paranormal research groups as they conduct real life investigations into allegedly haunted spaces and the analyses describe how, through their talk and embodied actions, participants collaboratively negotiate the paranormal status of the events they experience.By drawing on the study of the social organisation in everyday interaction, they show how paranormal interpretations may be proposed, contested and negotiated through conversational and embodied practices of the group. The book contributes to the sociology of anomalous experience, and explores its relevance to other social science topics such as dark tourism, participation in religious spaces and practices, and the attribution of agency. This book will therefore be of interest to academics and postgraduate researchers of language and social interaction; discourse and communication, cultural studies; social psychology, sociology of religious experience; parapsychology, communication and psychotherapy.

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Springer Nature

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3030884074

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9783030884079

Telling Tales of the Unexpected

The Organization of Factual Discourse

By: Robin Wooffitt

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Telling Tales of the Unexpected

The Organization of Factual Discourse

By: Robin Wooffitt

Conversation analysis, discourse analysis and the study of rhetoric are combining to form a powerful interdisciplinary field of social scientific inquiry. Robin Wooffitt, in a systematic analysis of how people describe their paranormal encounters as factual experiences, introduces this field to the student and reader unfamiliar with its methods and theoretical constructs. Powerful cultural scepticism about the paranormal ensures that such experiences not only provide an implicit challenge to common-sense understanding of the world, but also undermine the pronouncements of the scientific orthodoxy. Wooffitt focuses on the ways in which accounts are organized in order to warrant the speaker's claim that the experiences actually happened and were not, say, the product of misperception, wish fulfilment or psychological aberration. He also examines the design of descriptive sequences through which speakers portray themselves as 'normal','rational' people; and contributes to the study of identity construction in discursive practices. Wooffitt has illustrated and simplified complex theoretical arguments in conversation and discourse analysis with relevant empirical materials, and he usefully clarifies points of convergence and divergence between these analytic traditions.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0745010512

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9780745010519

Hidden Depths

The Story of Hypnosis

By: Robin Waterfield

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Hidden Depths

The Story of Hypnosis

By: Robin Waterfield

In Hidden Depths, Robin Waterfield explores the fascinating world of hypnosis, tracing the history of this often misunderstood craft beginning with a passage in the book of Genesis, and continuing through his own personal experiences today. Waterfield uses the history and controversy surrounding the practice of hypnosis to gain insight into our behavior and psychology, and considers how hypnotic techniques have been absorbed into society through advertising, media and popular culture.

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Routledge

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1135403678

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Anatomy of a Ghost

By: Robin M. Strom-Mackey

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Anatomy of a Ghost

By: Robin M. Strom-Mackey

Anatomy of a Ghost is a careful dissection of many subjects on the paranormal. Find out what experts in the field really believe about ghosts and haunted locations. Beyond just spirits and ghostly phenomena, the book also covers man-made paranormal entities, the unexplained shadow people and the lore surrounding angels and demons. Looking for evidence that the soul survives bodily death? The chapter on After Death Communications and Near Death Experiences suggests that such experiences are universal and, in the case of After Death Communications, occur quite frequently. Included in the book are many of the first-hand experiences by the author and her colleagues. From the child ghost in Pennsylvania, to the demon in Dover. The book is laced with stories from people who have actually experienced the paranormal in their own lives.

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Lulu.com

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1387225723

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9781387225729

The Turing Guide

By: Jack Copeland,Jonathan Bowen,Mark Sprevak,Robin Wilson

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The Turing Guide

By: Jack Copeland,Jonathan Bowen,Mark Sprevak,Robin Wilson

Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work. This volume will bring together contributions from some of the leading experts on Alan Turing to create a comprehensive guide to Turing that will serve as a useful resource for researchers in the area as well as the increasingly interested general reader. The book will cover aspects of Turing's life and the wide range of his intellectual activities, including mathematics, code-breaking, computer science, logic, artificial intelligence and mathematical biology, as well as his subsequent influence.

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Oxford University Press

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0191065005

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9780191065002

Bombast And Broadsides

The Lives of George Johnstone

By: Robin F. A. Fabel

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Bombast And Broadsides

The Lives of George Johnstone

By: Robin F. A. Fabel

Through research in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Kew, London, Philadelphia, and Washington in largely unpublished manuscripts, together with the use of secondary sources, the author has been able to present the first coherent picture of George Johnstone, a vigorous and intelligent but turbulent and always controversial figure.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817311920

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9780817311926

CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics, Twenty-First Edition

By: William W. Hay,Myron J. Levin,Robin R Deterding,Mark J. Abzug

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CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics, Twenty-First Edition

By: William W. Hay,Myron J. Levin,Robin R Deterding,Mark J. Abzug

Evidence-based information on the care of children from birth through adolescence in an easy-to-use, find-it-now presentation CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatrics, 21e delivers concise, up-to-date, and clinically relevant coverage of how to assess and treat common disorders in children. Known as the on-the-go guide to pediatrics, the book features the easy-to-follow LANGE CURRENT outline presentation, which consists of: Problem, Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment, Clinical Features, Treatment, Prognosis. Written by experienced pediatricians to ensure that every chapter reflects the needs and realities of day-to-day practice, this is an essential resource for pediatricians, family practitioners, physician assistants, nurses and nurse practitioners, and the critical care unit. Emphasizes the clinical aspects of pediatric care while also covering important underlying principles Provides a quick, authoritative guide to the diagnosis, understanding, and treatment of a wide range of pediatric medical conditions Includes detailed description of diseases as well as the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures Organized by general topics as well as by organ systems Presented in time-saving LANGE CURENT outline format: Problem, Essentials of Diagnosis & Typical Features, Clinical Findings, Differential Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis Delivers concise overviews of important pediatric health concerns, including childhood nutrition and eating disorders, substance abuse, psychiatric disorders, child abuse, oral medicine and dentistry, immunization, and emergencies and injuries

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McGraw Hill Professional

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007177971X

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9780071779715

Dangerous Enthusiasms

E-government, Computer Failure and Information System Development

By: Robin Gauld,Shaun Goldfinch,Tony Dale

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Dangerous Enthusiasms

E-government, Computer Failure and Information System Development

By: Robin Gauld,Shaun Goldfinch,Tony Dale

Information and technology that supports its collection, communication and analysis is a core concern of modern government, making 'e-government' (electronically enabled government) fundamental to the ongoing 'reinvention' of public administration. The spending of public money is always intriguing and perhaps money spent on ICT has been the most intriguing of all, with some spectacular failures costing millions. This book is written for a general audience and takes a critical look at policies, problems and prospects for e-government in a series of case studies. Why have ICT failures in the public sector occurred and what lessons do they provide for the future?

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187737234X

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9781877372346

The Hong Kong Health Sector

Development and Change

By: Robin Gauld,Derek Gould

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The Hong Kong Health Sector

Development and Change

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The Age of Supported Independence

Voices of In-home Care

By: Beatrice Hale,Patrick Barrett,Robin Gauld

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Voices of In-home Care

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9048188148

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My Song to My Son

By: Barbara Farrell-Moshier Brown

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My Song to My Son

By: Barbara Farrell-Moshier Brown

A song for my son, was written for you change the name and see what kids do. Imaginations are far and few have fun with them also becomes fun for you With learning or play sing kids a song it makes fun for the day. If you rock them to sleep or comfort a fall sooth a baby's belly, a song will cure it all.

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1098072480

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