This textbook aims to provide students with a stimulatingalternative to the textbooks currently available by placing thediscipline within the context of the social world and encouragingthem to question some of the assumptions and values underlying muchcurrent research. A comprehensive survey of the discipline isprovided, framed within a lifespan approach, and emphasisingsocial-cultural factors such as gender, ethnicity andsocial-economic status. All major topics are covered, includinghealth behaviours, health promotion, coping strategies, stress,biomedical and biopsychosocial models of health and illness,chronic illnesses, psychoneuroimmunology, disability, pain, andpatient-provider communication. Each topic is situated within itssocial and cultural context and constantly linked back toreal-world experience. Chapters include valuable features such asresearch updates, learning objectives and recommended readings.This book will be an invaluable resource for students of healthpsychology across a range of
Oxford Kidney Unit, UK. Text provides a concise introduction to clinical history taking and examination. Includes key history taking skills, history and examination of the systems, and history taking and examination of the common clinical presentations. Halftone illustrations. For medical students. Softcover. DNLM: Medical History Taking--Handbooks.
This book investigates the causes, course and consequences ofthe shift in West German chemical technology from a coal to apetroleum basis between 1945 and 1961. It examines the historicalunderpinnings of the technological culture of the German chemicalindustry; changing political and economic constraints ontechnological decision-making in the post-war period; and theactual decision-making process within five individual firms. Byaddressing a wide variety of broader issues - including the originsand impact of the division of Germany; the effects of theWirtschaftswunder, or economic miracle; European integration; andthe changing role of the West German Federal Republic in theinternational political order - this book explains how West Germanindustry regained and then retained a competitive position in worldmarkets.
How did life on earth originate? Did replication ormetabolism come first in the history of life? In this book, FreemanDyson examines these questions and discusses the two main theoriesthat try to explain how naturally occurring chemicals couldorganize themselves into living creatures. The majority view isthat life began with replicating molecules, the precursors ofmodern genes. The minority belief is that random populations ofmolecules evolved metabolic activities before exact replicationexisted. Dyson analyzes both of these theories with reference torecent important discoveries by geologists and chemists. His mainaim is to stimulate experiments that could help to decide whichtheory is correct. This second edition covers the enormous advancesthat have been made in biology and geology in the past and theimpact they have had on our ideas about how life began. It is aclearly-written, fascinating book that will appeal to anyoneinterested in the origins of life.
Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century Americanliterature, and his novels are among the best-known and most oftenstudied texts in the field. This clear and incisive introductionprovides a biography of the author and situates his works in thehistorical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent givesaccessible but penetrating readings of the best-known writingsincluding Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He pays particularattention to the way Twain's humour works and how it underpins hisprose style. The final chapter provides up-to-date analysis of therecent critical reception of Twain's writing, and summarises thecontentious and important debates about his literary and culturalposition. The guide to further reading will help those who wish toextend their research and critical work on the author. This bookwill be of outstanding value to anyone coming to Twain for thefirst time.
The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus,Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but nevermore so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and RomanNovel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast ofexperts in the field. The emphasis is upon the criticalinterpretation of the texts within historical settings, both inantiquity and in the later generations that have been and continueto be inspired by them. All the central issues of currentscholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class,religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more.Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents,literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity andbeyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. Thiscollection will be essential for scholars and students, as well asfor others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction intothis exhilarating material. · Comprehensive, sophisticated critical
Are evolution and creation irreconcilably opposed? Is'intelligent design' theory an unhappy compromise? Is there anotherway of approaching the present-day divide between religious andso-called secular views of the origins of life? Jacob Klapwijkoffers a philosophical analysis of the relation of evolutionarybiology to religion, and addresses the question of whether theevolution of life is exclusively a matter of chance or is betterunderstood as including the notion of purpose. Writing from aChristian (Augustinian) point of view, he criticizes creationismand intelligent design theory as well as opposing reductivenaturalism. He offers an alternative to both and an attempt tobridge the gap between them, via the idea of 'emergent evolution'.In this theory the process of evolution has an emergent orinnovative character resulting in a living world of ingenious,multifaceted complexity.
This book examines the major progress made in recentpsychological science in understanding the cognitive control ofthought, emotion, and behavior and what happens when that controlis diminished as a result of aging, depression, developmentaldisabilities, or psychopathology. Each chapter of this volumereports the most recent research by a leading researcher on theinternational stage. Topics include the effects on thought,emotion, and behavior by limitations in working memory, cognitivecontrol, attention, inhibition, and reasoning processes. Otherchapters review standard and emerging research paradigms and newfindings on limitations in cognitive functioning associated withaging and psychopathology. The explicit goal behind this volume wasto facilitate cross-area research and training by familiarizingresearchers with paradigms and findings in areas different from butrelated to their own.
In an age when modern reproductive technology is moving at arapid and alarming rate, Conscious Conception is an alternativeexploration into understanding personal fertility, as well as acomprehensive guide to discovering newfound meaning in oursexuality. Combining knowledge of myth and culture, authorsJeannine Parvati Baker and Frederick Baker offer a step-by-stepmanual of fertility awareness, depth psychology, and psychic birthcontrol and interweave the five elements—Earth, Water, Fire, Air,and Ether—as tools for discovery in the face of reproductivechallenges. Including numerous contributions from experts in thefield, the book investigates a broad range of topics, from thecauses of infertility to the spiritualization of sexuality.Conscious Conception urges us to see all of the possibilities inlife’s plan of continuation and to seek a clearer communion withour own reproductive experience. Over 20,000 copies sold.
The world is getting older and no one knows exactly what lifewill be like in tomorrow's older societies. But we do know that agedependency ratios--the ratio of retirees to workers--will be muchhigher than we see today. The combined effects of fewer workers,more retirees and longer retirement periods threaten not only thesustainability of pension systems but also the broader economicprospects of many developed countries. This analysis describescurrent trends in birth rates, longevity and labor forceparticipation and productivity, the cross-border flow of capital,the globalization of labor markets, the financial viability ofsocial insurance programs, and the ways economic output is sharedbetween working-age and retiree populations.
This book explores new ground in social movements by analyzingan escalatingspiral of tension between the Patriot movement and thestate centered on themutual framing of conflict as "warfare." Byexamining the social construction of"warfare" as a principal *or frame defining the movement-state dynamic,Stuart A. Wrightexplains how this highly charged confluence of a warnarrativeengendered a kind of symbiosis leading to the escalationof a mutual threat thatculminated in the Oklahoma City bombing.Wright offers a unique perspectiveon the events leading up to thebombing because he served as a consultant toTimothy McVeigh'sdefense team and draws on primary data based on face-to-faceinterviews with McVeigh. The book contends that McVeigh wasfirmlyentrenched in the Patriot movement and was part of a networkof "warriorcells" that planned and implemented the bombing. Assuch, the bombing mustbe viewed through the lens of a socialmovement framework in order to fullyunderstand the incident and therole played by McVeigh.
《劳动论》以人类劳动的社会性为基础，运用辩证唯物史观，以人类劳动的态势差别为核心，对人类社会经济的历史与现实作了相对系统全面的考察和研究。科学地认识劳动及其内部矛盾，是当代政治经济学研究创新的起点。由这一起点阐发的理论可明确地解决人类对自身认识的困惑，科学地认识资本主义社会存在、发展、死亡的必然性，以及未来全球实现社会主义的实质，即通过提升人类劳动智力，消除一切变态动力以完成人类劳动的完善。
Why are there so few prominent female physicists?Traditionally women have faced barriers in higher education,denying them access to higher learning and scientific laboratories.Today many of these barriers have been breached, but the femalepioneers who overcame discrimination and became major players intheir fields remain largely in the shadows. Their names deserve tobe known and the importance of their work, achievements andcontributions to science warrant recognition. Originally publishedin 2006, Out of the Shadows provides an accurate and authoritativede*ion of the women who made original and importantcontributions to physics in the twentieth century, documentingtheir major discoveries and putting their work into its historicalcontext. Each chapter concentrates on a different woman, and iswritten by a physicist with considerable experience in their field.The book is an ideal reference for anyone with an interest inscience and social history.
