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by Karl T. Sr. Benedict, John D. Blum, Rick J. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Excerpt from Conference Address One of the most complex and significant social issues facing our nation is reform of our national health system. I am personally committed, and Goodyear Tire & Rubber is committed, to doing everything we can to help improve that system while simultaneously gaining...
Ancient Borinquen
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Native American cultures of Puerto Rico prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1493.
A book on the prehistory of a modern geopolitical entity is artificial. It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants recognized the same boundaries and responded to the same political forces that operated in...
Iatrogenicity
Causes and Consequences of Iatrogenesis in Cardiovascular Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Iatrogenesis is the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors. This is a huge...
Supporting Students with Special Health Care Needs
Guidelines and Procedures for Schools, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Essential for every school health office, this fully illustrated reference is the ultimate guide to caring for and supporting children with special health care needs in educational settings. A comprehensive update of the classic guide school nurses trust, this authoritative book compiles the latest...
The The Social Construction of Technological Systems
New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry--social construction of technology, or SCOT--that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape...
Drugs and Justice
Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
This compact and innovative book tackles one of the central issues in drug policy: the lack of a coherent conceptual structure for thinking about drugs. Drugs generally fall into one of seven categories: prescription, over the counter, alternative medicine, common-use drugs like alcohol, tobacco and...
Subjects and Simulations
Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and JeanLuc Nancy, sixteen authors study how the real...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
Latin American Perspectives on Globalization
Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover...
The Sociology of Katrina
Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.
This new edition explores...
by H.J.M. Bowen, T. Frevert, W.D. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power generation by way of a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The construction...
MRI of the Fetal Brain
Normal Development and Cerebral Pathologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years, Fetal MR has grown continually in importance, and the brain has become the main focus of investigation. However, we lack established standards and a good knowledge of the normal MR appearance. To fill this gap is the purpose of the first part of this book, which is an MR atlas of...
by V. Santiago Arias, Megan Bassick, Jennifer L. Bevan
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships is the communication field’s most major, comprehensive volume of the study of social media and romantic relationship development. It is the first volume in the discipline of communication studies intended to provide an overview of romantic...