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Doctor of Society Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

Doctor of Society Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

First published in 1992 this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern thinking about disease doctors and society. To illustrate this viewpoint he focuses on Thomas Beddoes a prominent doctor of the eighteenth century and examines his challenging pugnacious radical and often amusing views on a wide range of issues concerning the place of illness and medicine in society. Many modern debates in medicine continue to echo the topics which Beddoes himself discussed in his ever-trenchant and provocative manner. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of medicine social history and the Enlightenment. | Doctor of Society Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

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House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles and have been assiduously represented in scripture literature art and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture houses for their gods and house tombs for eternal life. Turning to more recent topics it discusses how writers often used simple huts as a means to address the essentials of existence; modernist architects envisioned the capacity of house and home to improve society; and the suburban house was positioned as a superior setting for culture and family. Throughout the book house and home are critically examined to illustrate the perennial role and capacity of architecture to articulate the human condition position it more meaningfully in the world and assist in our collective homecoming. | House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

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The Companion to 'Bleak House'

The Companion to 'Bleak House'

This book first published in 1988 is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken. It provides authoritative background information about the topical issues of the novel that interested Dickens as a social critic and activist. It also describes the novel’s literary antecedents and identifies the sources of its hundreds of literary and historical allusions. The annotation is based on a wide range of nineteenth-century sources – from newspapers periodicals and parliamentary papers to travel guides and cookery books – and gives the modern reader unprecedented access to both Bleak House – Dickens’s tract for the times – and the period when it was written. | The Companion to 'Bleak House'

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Lessons in Leadership from the White House to Your House

Lessons in Leadership from the White House to Your House

This book argues that we can learn a great deal about leadership from the experiences of eight US presidents who have served in the White House since Watergate. The eight presidents considered here differed widely in their family backgrounds wealth education age prior political experiences and motivations for power. But they all made the same promise—to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the US and … preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”—and they all faced considerable challenges in fulfilling that promise. While all eight presidents had policy successes and failures the author argues that we gain real insight on their leadership acumen by analyzing the deeper structures of leadership effectiveness that all leaders need to address: vision execution management and decision-making. The book assesses the performance of each president along these four dimensions of leadership and extends lessons learned to leaders in other sectors. | Lessons in Leadership from the White House to Your House

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Digital Health Technologies Law Ethics and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Digital Health Technologies Law Ethics and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Increasingly digital technologies are used in healthcare. This book explores eight digital health technologies situated the context of a life span from high-throughput genomic sequencing technologies and do-it-yourself (DIY) insulin delivery for diabetes management in paediatrics to the use of robotic care assistants for older adults and digital advance care decisions. A scene-setting case scenario at the start of each chapter describes the digital technology and identifies the sometimes competing interests of the key stakeholders. Broad themes of resource allocation access to technologies informed consent privacy of health data and ethical concerns are considered in context alongside analysis of legal duties owed by healthcare professionals to act in their patients’ best interests. This book addresses legal and ethical issues arising from the use of emerging digital health technologies and is of interest to academics clinicians and regulators and anyone interested in the development of health technologies and the challenges they may present. It focusses on the Australian legal framework with some comparison to other jurisdictions. | Digital Health Technologies Law Ethics and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

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Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Country houses were grand statements of power and status but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout the new technologies and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes were just one aspect of comfort in the country house: feeling comfortable was just as important as being comfortable. Achieving this involved the comfort and solace to be found in daily routines religious faith and above all relationships with family and friends. Such emotional comforts and the attachment to things and places that embodied and memorialized them made country houses into homes. | Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

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Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music The Reynolds Desert House

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music The Reynolds Desert House

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer Roger Reynolds musician Karen Reynolds and musically inspired composer engineer and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) to create a house design The Reynolds Desert House. The process combined aesthetics and intuition with mathematical systems showcasing how art and science are balanced—by way of music and architecture—to address the essential technical aspects of music along with the role of emotion and energy. The book analyzes three representative chamber works and presents a trove of primary sources: letters diaries notes photographs sketches and person-to-person conversations. What emerges are patterns of direct parallels between how Xenakis characterized the process of musical creation and his design of The Reynolds Desert House. Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music is a testament to the singularly innovative and creative mind of Iannis Xenakis. Supplementary materials—including color reproductions of black and white images in the book—can be found at: www. rogerreynolds. com/xenakisreynoldsroutledge. html | Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music The Reynolds Desert House

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Ultimate Insiders White House Photographers and How They Shape History

Ultimate Insiders White House Photographers and How They Shape History

Virtually unknown to the public or historians White House photographers have developed amazing access to the presidents of the United States over the past half-century. In this book long-time White House correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh tells their stories emphasizing observations about the presidents the photographers got to know so well along with other key figures close to those presidents—including the first ladies members of Congress and important world leaders. This book shows how official White House photographers have morphed into ultimate insiders within the American presidency allowed to observe and take pictures of nearly everything Chief Executives do related to their job. The photogs have often become close friends with the presidents they have served. Using these bonds of trust and their own powers of observation they created fundamental impressions and public images of the presidents through the art of photography. Acting not only as image makers but as visual historians they have built pictorial chronicles of the presidency—intimate narratives of America’s leaders in public and private showing how they dealt with everyday life as well as moments of great crisis and opportunity. From children playing in the Oval Office to decisions to send troops into harm’s way images created by White House photographers can make or break a presidential administration as well as define an era. | Ultimate Insiders White House Photographers and How They Shape History

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Passive House Details Solutions for High-Performance Design

Passive House Details Solutions for High-Performance Design

Passive House Details introduces the concepts principles and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals research analysis systems details and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient carbon-neutral healthy and satisfying buildings currently built in the region. Other topics included: heat transfer moisture management performance targets and climatic zones. Illustrated with more than 375 color images the book is a visual catalog of construction details materials and systems drawn from projects contributed from forty firms. Fourteen in-depth case studies demonstrate the most energy-efficient systems for foundations walls floors roofs windows doors and more. | Passive House Details Solutions for High-Performance Design

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Dynastic Colonialism Gender Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

Dynastic Colonialism Gender Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. Using the concept of dynastic colonialism they explore strategic behaviours undertaken on behalf of the House of Orange-Nassau through material culture in a variety of sites of interpretation from palaces and gardens to prints and teapots in Europe and beyond. Using over 140 carefully selected images the authors consider a wide range of visual material and textual sources including portraits glassware tiles letters architecture and global spaces in order to rethink dynastic power and identity in gendered terms. Through the House of Orange-Nassau Broomhall and Van Gent demonstrate how dynasties could assert status and power by enacting a range of colonising strategies. Dynastic Colonialism offers an exciting new interpretation of the complex story of the House of Orange-Nassau‘s rise to power in the early modern period through material means that will make fascinating reading for students and scholars of early modern European history material culture and gender. This book is highly illustrated throughout. The print edition features the images in black and white whereas the eBook edition contains the illustrations in colour. | Dynastic Colonialism Gender Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

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Marco Frascari's Dream House A Theory of Imagination

Marco Frascari's Dream House A Theory of Imagination

This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari’s scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination; instead he teaches how to build one’s own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places the text in a wider context providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work. Frascari's sketchbooks are reproduced faithfully in full colour to provide the reader with a remarkable insight into the design process of this influential mind. | Marco Frascari's Dream House A Theory of Imagination

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Burning Down the House Latin American Comics in the 21st Century

Burning Down the House Latin American Comics in the 21st Century

Burning Down the House explores the political economic and cultural landscape of 21st-century Latin America through comics. It examines works from Argentina Brazil Bolivia Chile Uruguay Perú Colombia México and Spain and the resurgence of comics in recent decades spurred by the ubiquity of the Internet and reminiscent of the complex political experiences and realities of the region. The volume analyses experimentations in themes and formats and how Latin American comics have become deeply plural in its inspirations subjects drawing styles and political concerns while also underlining the hybrid and diverse cultures they represent. It examines the representative and historical images in a state of emergency and political upheaval; decolonial perspectives and social struggles linked to ethnic and sexual minorities. It looks at how Latin American comics are made right now – from a diverse and autochthonous Latin American perspective. With a wide array of illustrations this book in the Global Perspectives in Comics Studies series will be an important resource for scholars and researchers of comic studies Latin American studies cultural studies English literature political history and post-colonial studies. | Burning Down the House Latin American Comics in the 21st Century

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Education for the Mercantile Counting House Critical and Constructive Essays by Nine British Writers 1716-1794

Education for the Mercantile Counting House Critical and Constructive Essays by Nine British Writers 1716-1794

This book first published in 1989 surveys higher education in preparation for business careers particularly the fledgling profession of accounting. Examining the origins of English schooling for merchants it brings to light articles and writers from the eighteenth century who proposed a liberal education for business – a key part of the development of the history of accounting. | Education for the Mercantile Counting House Critical and Constructive Essays by Nine British Writers 1716-1794

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Black Everyday Lives Material Culture and Narrative Tings in de House

Black Everyday Lives Material Culture and Narrative Tings in de House

This book is a ground-breaking exploration of everyday life as experienced through the lens of Black British cultural history and creative practice through a multiplicity of voices and writing styles. The structure of Black Everyday Lives Material Culture and Narrative examines life through a personal study of the family home – room by room object by object – as a portal through which to examine the intricacies and nuances of daily considerations of African heritage people living in Britain in the modern era (post-1950). Using Small Anthropology methodology this book foregrounds the experiences of Black British lives by bringing the threads of history and culture into the relevancy of the present day and demonstrates how the personal sphere directly links to wider public and political concerns. This book will be of interest to a wide range of disciplines including Black studies anthropology cultural studies history visual culture photography media communication sociology community development art and design and by any course that studies ethnographic methodologies material culture migration everyday life and British society. | Black Everyday Lives Material Culture and Narrative Tings in de House

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The Presidential Character Predicting Performance in the White House With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III

The Presidential Character Predicting Performance in the White House With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III

A book entitled The Presidential Character is more timely and necessary than ever. This new issue of James David Barber’s classic work appears almost 50 years after its first publication and yet reads like a roadmap to the 2020 presidential election. Its subtitle “Predicting Performance in the White House ” is an apt reflection on the election of 2016. With a revised and updated foreword by George C. Edwards III that brings in the Trump Administration this book argues that patterns in a person’s character world view and political style can allow us to anticipate his or her performance as president. How would Barber have categorized Donald J. Trump who appears to defy every presidential type and norm? This question suggests one of the most provocative and appealing reasons for students scholars and voters to re-read The Presidential Character at this particular juncture. What should we look for in a president? This text offers explanations and predictions of the performance of past presidents and presidential candidates with many cautionary tales looking forward. Features Presents a revised and updated foreword by presidential scholar George C. Edwards III Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University that includes the advent of the Trump Administration and highlights the book’s classic and enduring contributions. Includes predictions of presidential performance from Nixon to Bush. Analyzes the media’s role in providing information about the political candidates and in shaping public opinion of them. Draws on historical biographical and psychological research to help voters make judicious choices in determining the country’s highest leaders. Encourages citizens to be actively involved scholars critics and participants in their government. | The Presidential Character Predicting Performance in the White House With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III

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Physicians At Work Patients In Pain Biomedical Practice And Patient Response In Mexico

Physicians At Work Patients In Pain Biomedical Practice And Patient Response In Mexico

This ethnographic study offers a detailed picture of how modern biomedicine is altered when practised in a developing country. Addressing the question of therapeutic outcome Dr Finkler examines various aspects of biomedicine that influence patient response. The doctor-patient relationship is seen as especially important. Physicians and patients sp | Physicians At Work Patients In Pain Biomedical Practice And Patient Response In Mexico

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Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut Golden Apples of the Monkey House

Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut Golden Apples of the Monkey House

In this book Steve Gronert Ellerhoff explores short stories by Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut written between 1943 and 1968 with a post-Jungian approach. Drawing upon archetypal theories of myth from Joseph Campbell James Hillman and their forbearer C. G. Jung Ellerhoff demonstrates how short fiction follows archetypal patterns that can illuminate our understanding of the authors their times and their culture. In practice a post-Jungian ‘mythodology’ is shown to yield great insights for the literary criticism of short fiction. Chapters in this volume carefully contextualise and historicize each story including Bradbury and Vonnegut’s earliest and most imaginatively fantastic works. The archetypal constellations shaping Vonnegut’s early works are shown to be war and fragmentation while those in Bradbury’s are family and the wholeness of the sun. Analysis is complemented by the explored significance of illustrations that featured alongside the stories in their first publications. By uncovering the ways these popular writers redressed old myths in new tropes—and coined new narrative elements for hopes and fears born of their era—the book reveals a fresh method which can be applied to all imaginative short stories increasing understanding and critical engagement. Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut is an important text for a number of fields from Jungian and Post-Jungian studies to short story theoriesand American studies to Bradbury and Vonnegut studies. Scholars and students of literature will come away with a renewed appreciation for an archetypal approach to criticism while the book will also be of great interest to practising depth psychologists seeking to incorporate short stories into therapy. | Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut Golden Apples of the Monkey House

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100 Cases in General Practice

100 Cases in General Practice

The new edition of this best-selling title from the popular 100 cases series explores common scenarios that will be encountered by the medical student and junior doctor when working in the community setting and which are likely to feature in qualifying examinations. The book covers a comprehensive range of presentations from tiredness to tremor. Comprehensive answers highlight key take home points from each case and provide practical advice on how to deal with the challenges that occur in general practice at all levels. | 100 Cases in General Practice

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Foods

Foods

What is food? This volume written by a doctor contains all the ways in which the question might be answered. First published in 1883 and reissued because there is nothing quite like it today this unique study was undertaken at a time when foreign produce and new foods were becoming more widely available and rising living standards were making familiar foods more accessible to all prompting an interest in their origins and their nutritive qualities as revealed by scientific research into their chemical composition preparation and physiological effects.

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100 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine

100 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine

100 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine presents 100 real-life scenarios seen in the hospital and community setting. A succinct summary of the patient's history examination and any initial investigations is followed by a detailed consideration of the diagnosis and management of each case in the short medium and where appropriate long-term. Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions and choosing the best course of action to take as a result is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a doctor. These true-to-life cases will teach students and junior doctors to recognize important medical conditions and to develop their diagnostic and management skills.

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100 Cases in Paediatrics

100 Cases in Paediatrics

The new edition of this best-selling title from the popular 100 cases series explores common paediatric scenarios that will be encountered by the medical student and junior doctor during practical training on the ward in the emergency department in outpatient clinics and in the community and which are likely to feature in qualifying examinations. The book covers a comprehensive range of presentations from cough to constipation organized by sub-specialty area for ease of reference. Comprehensive answers highlight key take home points from each case and provide practical advice on how to deal with the challenges that occur when practising paediatric medicine at all levels. | 100 Cases in Paediatrics

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100 Cases in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care

100 Cases in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care

This new addition to the popular 100 cases series explores common clinical scenarios that will be encountered by the medical student and junior doctor during practical training in the emergency department in the community and in intensive and critical care settings and which are likely to feature in qualifying examinations. The book covers a broad range of presentations organized by sub-specialty area for ease of reference. Comprehensive answers highlight key take home points from each case and provide practical advice on how to deal with the challenges that occur when practising emergency and critical care medicine at all levels. | 100 Cases in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care

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Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine The State of the Art

Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine The State of the Art

While medical language is soaked in metaphor and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work medicine – that is medical culture clinical practice and medical education – outwardly rejects metaphor for objective literal scientific language. This thought-provoking book argues that this is a misstep and critically considers what embracing the use of metaphors and similes might mean for shaping medical culture and especially the doctor–patient relationship in a healthy way. Thinking With Metaphors in Medicine explores: how metaphors inhabit medicine – sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse – and how these metaphors can be revealed appreciated and understood; how diagnostic work utilizes thinking with metaphors; how patient–doctor communication can be better understood and enhanced as a metaphorical exchange; how the landscape of medicine is historically shaped by leading or didactic metaphors such as ‘the body as machine’ and ‘medicine as war’ which may conflict with other values or perspectives on healthcare for instance person-centred care. Outlining the kinds of metaphors and resemblances that inhabit medicine and how they shape practices and identities of doctors colleagues and patients this book demonstrates how the landscape of medicine may be reshaped through metaphor shift. It is an important work for all those interested in the use of language and rhetoric in medicine whether hailing from a humanities social science or healthcare background. | Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine The State of the Art

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The American System Speeches on the Tariff Question and on Internal Improvements

The American System Speeches on the Tariff Question and on Internal Improvements

Andrew Stewart (1791-1872) advocated protectionist policies for nearly two decades in the House of Representatives gaining national renown as Chairman of the House Committees on the Tariff and Internal Improvements in the 1820s. Many of Stewart’s congressional speeches on economic doctrine were reproduced in full by newspapers and he himself collected into one volume reproduced here all his speeches relating to tariffs. They demonstrate his belief in protectionism in the necessity in his eyes of protective tariffs so as to enable American capitalists catch up with their British counterparts. | The American System Speeches on the Tariff Question and on Internal Improvements

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