Author: P. Wenzel Geissler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 085745093X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the “trial communities” produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
Evidence, Ethos and Experiment
Author: P. Wenzel Geissler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 085745093X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the “trial communities” produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 085745093X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the “trial communities” produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
Your Mindful Compass
Author: Andrea Maloney Schara
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615928791
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"Your Mindful Compass" takes us behind the emotional curtain to see the mechanisms regulating individuals in social systems. There is great comfort and wisdom in knowing we can increase our awareness to manage the swift and ancient mechanisms of social control. We can gain greater flexibility by seeing how social controls work in systems from ants to humans. To be less controlled by others, we learn how emotional systems influence our relationship-oriented brain. People want to know what goes on in families that give rise to amazing leaders and/or terrorists. For the first time in history we can understand the systems in which we live. The social sciences have been accumulating knowledge since the early fifties as to how we are regulated by others. S. Milgram, S. Ashe, P. Zimbardo and J. Calhoun, detail the vulnerability to being duped and deceived and the difficulty of cooperating when values differ. Murray Bowen, M.D., the first researcher to observe several live-in families, for up to three years, at the National Institute of Mental Health. Describing how family members overly influence one another and distribute stress unevenly, Bowen described both how symptoms and family leaders emerge in highly stressed families. Our brain is not organized to automatically perceive that each family has an emotional system, fine-tuned by evolution and "valuing" its survival as a whole, as much as the survival of any individual. It is easier to see this emotional system function in ants or mice but not in humans. The emotional system is organized to snooker us humans: encouraging us to take sides, run away from others, to pressure others, to get sick, to blame others, and to have great difficulty in seeing our part in problems. It is hard to see that we become anxious, stressed out and even that we are difficult to deal with. But "thinking systems" can open the doors of perception, allowing us to experience the world in a different way. This book offers both coaching ideas and stories from leaders as to strategies to break out from social control by de-triangling, using paradoxes, reversals and other types of interruptions of highly linked emotional processes. Time is needed to think clearly about the automatic nature of the two against one triangle. Time and experience is required as we learn strategies to put two people together and get self outside the control of the system. In addition, it takes time to clarify and define one's principles, to know what "I" will or will not do and to be able to take a stand with others with whom we are very involved. The good news is that systems' thinking is possible for anyone. It is always possible for an individual to understand feelings and to integrate them with their more rational brains. In so doing, an individual increases his or her ability to communicate despite misunderstandings or even rejection from important others. The effort involved in creating your Mindful Compass enables us to perceive the relationship system without experiencing it's threats. The four points on the Mindful Compass are: 1) Action for Self, 2) Resistance to Forward Progress, 3) Knowledge of Social Systems and the 4) The Ability to Stand Alone. Each gives us a view of the process one enters when making an effort to define a self and build an emotional backbone. It is not easy to find our way through the social jungle. The ability to know emotional systems well enough to take a position for self and to become more differentiated is part of the natural way humans cope with pressure. Now people can use available knowledge to build an emotional backbone, by thoughtfully altering their part in the relationship system. No one knows how far one can go by making an effort to be more of a self-defined individual in relationships to others. Through increasing emotional maturity, we can find greater individual freedom at the same time that we increase our ability to cooperate and to be close to others.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615928791
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"Your Mindful Compass" takes us behind the emotional curtain to see the mechanisms regulating individuals in social systems. There is great comfort and wisdom in knowing we can increase our awareness to manage the swift and ancient mechanisms of social control. We can gain greater flexibility by seeing how social controls work in systems from ants to humans. To be less controlled by others, we learn how emotional systems influence our relationship-oriented brain. People want to know what goes on in families that give rise to amazing leaders and/or terrorists. For the first time in history we can understand the systems in which we live. The social sciences have been accumulating knowledge since the early fifties as to how we are regulated by others. S. Milgram, S. Ashe, P. Zimbardo and J. Calhoun, detail the vulnerability to being duped and deceived and the difficulty of cooperating when values differ. Murray Bowen, M.D., the first researcher to observe several live-in families, for up to three years, at the National Institute of Mental Health. Describing how family members overly influence one another and distribute stress unevenly, Bowen described both how symptoms and family leaders emerge in highly stressed families. Our brain is not organized to automatically perceive that each family has an emotional system, fine-tuned by evolution and "valuing" its survival as a whole, as much as the survival of any individual. It is easier to see this emotional system function in ants or mice but not in humans. The emotional system is organized to snooker us humans: encouraging us to take sides, run away from others, to pressure others, to get sick, to blame others, and to have great difficulty in seeing our part in problems. It is hard to see that we become anxious, stressed out and even that we are difficult to deal with. But "thinking systems" can open the doors of perception, allowing us to experience the world in a different way. This book offers both coaching ideas and stories from leaders as to strategies to break out from social control by de-triangling, using paradoxes, reversals and other types of interruptions of highly linked emotional processes. Time is needed to think clearly about the automatic nature of the two against one triangle. Time and experience is required as we learn strategies to put two people together and get self outside the control of the system. In addition, it takes time to clarify and define one's principles, to know what "I" will or will not do and to be able to take a stand with others with whom we are very involved. The good news is that systems' thinking is possible for anyone. It is always possible for an individual to understand feelings and to integrate them with their more rational brains. In so doing, an individual increases his or her ability to communicate despite misunderstandings or even rejection from important others. The effort involved in creating your Mindful Compass enables us to perceive the relationship system without experiencing it's threats. The four points on the Mindful Compass are: 1) Action for Self, 2) Resistance to Forward Progress, 3) Knowledge of Social Systems and the 4) The Ability to Stand Alone. Each gives us a view of the process one enters when making an effort to define a self and build an emotional backbone. It is not easy to find our way through the social jungle. The ability to know emotional systems well enough to take a position for self and to become more differentiated is part of the natural way humans cope with pressure. Now people can use available knowledge to build an emotional backbone, by thoughtfully altering their part in the relationship system. No one knows how far one can go by making an effort to be more of a self-defined individual in relationships to others. Through increasing emotional maturity, we can find greater individual freedom at the same time that we increase our ability to cooperate and to be close to others.
La formation à l'aide d'un quiz d'auto-évaluation améliore-t-elle les connaissances des médecins généralistes sur l'allaitement maternel ?
Author: Anne-Caroline Dubuissez-Joire
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Position du problème Malgré les bienfaits de l'allaitement maternel unanimement reconnus et les recommandations tant au niveau mondial que national, les données épidémiologiques montrent de grandes différences concernant le taux d'allaitement maternel en Europe, la France étant en retard par rapport aux pays scandinaves. Pour promouvoir et soutenir l'allaitement, il est essentiel d'améliorer la formation initiale et la formation continue des professionnels de santé. But de l'étude Déterminer l'effet d'une formation à l'aide d'AllaitementZ, quiz d'auto-évaluation et de formation, sur les connaissances en allaitement maternel des professionnels de santé et plus particulièrement des médecins généralistes, selon la méthode d'évaluation des pratiques professionnelles. Matériel et méthodes Etude prospective, descriptive effectuée grâce à trois séances formation réalisées selon la méthode d'évaluation des pratiques professionnelles, regroupant des professionnels de santé de différentes catégories. L'évolution des connaissances était évaluée grâce à un pré-test et un post-test. Résultats 65 professionnels de santé ont été inclus. Le score moyen du pré-test était de 9,8/15 toutes catégories confondues. Le score moyen du post-test était de 14,5/15. En moyenne, les participants se sont améliorés de 4,7 points sur 15. Une différence significative était mise en évidence entre le score au pré-test et le score au post-test Conclusion La formation à l'aide du quiz AllaitementZ a nettement amélioré les connaissances des participants sur l'allaitement maternel, ceci pouvant s'expliquer par leur niveau insuffisant d'une part, mais aussi d'autre part, par la qualité du quiz. Nous pouvons imaginer que le quiz AllaitementZ puisse être un outil utilisé pour le Développement Professionnel Continu des médecins.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Position du problème Malgré les bienfaits de l'allaitement maternel unanimement reconnus et les recommandations tant au niveau mondial que national, les données épidémiologiques montrent de grandes différences concernant le taux d'allaitement maternel en Europe, la France étant en retard par rapport aux pays scandinaves. Pour promouvoir et soutenir l'allaitement, il est essentiel d'améliorer la formation initiale et la formation continue des professionnels de santé. But de l'étude Déterminer l'effet d'une formation à l'aide d'AllaitementZ, quiz d'auto-évaluation et de formation, sur les connaissances en allaitement maternel des professionnels de santé et plus particulièrement des médecins généralistes, selon la méthode d'évaluation des pratiques professionnelles. Matériel et méthodes Etude prospective, descriptive effectuée grâce à trois séances formation réalisées selon la méthode d'évaluation des pratiques professionnelles, regroupant des professionnels de santé de différentes catégories. L'évolution des connaissances était évaluée grâce à un pré-test et un post-test. Résultats 65 professionnels de santé ont été inclus. Le score moyen du pré-test était de 9,8/15 toutes catégories confondues. Le score moyen du post-test était de 14,5/15. En moyenne, les participants se sont améliorés de 4,7 points sur 15. Une différence significative était mise en évidence entre le score au pré-test et le score au post-test Conclusion La formation à l'aide du quiz AllaitementZ a nettement amélioré les connaissances des participants sur l'allaitement maternel, ceci pouvant s'expliquer par leur niveau insuffisant d'une part, mais aussi d'autre part, par la qualité du quiz. Nous pouvons imaginer que le quiz AllaitementZ puisse être un outil utilisé pour le Développement Professionnel Continu des médecins.
Roads and Rivals
Author: Mahnaz Ispahani
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501745913
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Over the past two centuries, the borderlands of Central, South, and West Asia have been transformed from the remote peripheries into areas of intense regional and international interest. In Roads and Rivals, Mahnaz Ispahani explores the crucial but unacknowledged role that land routes have played in the strategic, political, and economic evolution of those borderlands.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501745913
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Over the past two centuries, the borderlands of Central, South, and West Asia have been transformed from the remote peripheries into areas of intense regional and international interest. In Roads and Rivals, Mahnaz Ispahani explores the crucial but unacknowledged role that land routes have played in the strategic, political, and economic evolution of those borderlands.
Yaa Baa
Author: Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9789971692780
Category : Drug traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The abuse of methamphetamines in Southeast Asia has become a major problem over the past decade. Thailand has been particularly hard hit, and methamphetamines abuse now affects all sectors of Thai society. In the early 1990s, manufacturers set up laboratories across the border in Burma and began large-scale production. The new and inexpensive product, known in Thailand as yaa baa or madness medicine, flooded the local market, and has also been found in the United States and Europe. Published in French in 2002 and now made available in an English translation, this book is the first to deal with the rapid spread of methamphetamines in the region and in Thailand in particular, and their impact it has had on local society."
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9789971692780
Category : Drug traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The abuse of methamphetamines in Southeast Asia has become a major problem over the past decade. Thailand has been particularly hard hit, and methamphetamines abuse now affects all sectors of Thai society. In the early 1990s, manufacturers set up laboratories across the border in Burma and began large-scale production. The new and inexpensive product, known in Thailand as yaa baa or madness medicine, flooded the local market, and has also been found in the United States and Europe. Published in French in 2002 and now made available in an English translation, this book is the first to deal with the rapid spread of methamphetamines in the region and in Thailand in particular, and their impact it has had on local society."
The Art of Being a Parasite
Author: Claude Combes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022677872X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Parasites are a masterful work of evolutionary art. The tiny mite Histiostoma laboratorium, a parasite of Drosophila, launches itself, in an incredible display of evolutionary engineering, like a surface-to-air missile at a fruit fly far above its head. Gravid mussels such as Lampsilis ventricosa undulate excitedly as they release their parasitic larval offspring, conning greedy predators in search of a tasty meal into hosting the parasite. The Art of Being a Parasite is an extensive collection of these and other wonderful and weird stories that illuminate the ecology and evolution of interactions between species. Claude Combes illustrates what it means to be a parasite by considering every stage of its interactions, from invading to reproducing and leaving the host. An accessible and engaging follow-up to Combes's Parasitism, this book will be of interest to both scholars and nonspecialists in the fields of biodiversity, natural history, ecology, public health, and evolution.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022677872X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Parasites are a masterful work of evolutionary art. The tiny mite Histiostoma laboratorium, a parasite of Drosophila, launches itself, in an incredible display of evolutionary engineering, like a surface-to-air missile at a fruit fly far above its head. Gravid mussels such as Lampsilis ventricosa undulate excitedly as they release their parasitic larval offspring, conning greedy predators in search of a tasty meal into hosting the parasite. The Art of Being a Parasite is an extensive collection of these and other wonderful and weird stories that illuminate the ecology and evolution of interactions between species. Claude Combes illustrates what it means to be a parasite by considering every stage of its interactions, from invading to reproducing and leaving the host. An accessible and engaging follow-up to Combes's Parasitism, this book will be of interest to both scholars and nonspecialists in the fields of biodiversity, natural history, ecology, public health, and evolution.
Motherhood and Mental Health
Author: I. F. Brockington
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This text examines the great variey of mental health disorders that can affect women during pregnancy and after giving birth. Issues such as infertility and child abuse are covered and case descriptions and personal accounts are also provided.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This text examines the great variey of mental health disorders that can affect women during pregnancy and after giving birth. Issues such as infertility and child abuse are covered and case descriptions and personal accounts are also provided.
The African Shore
Author: Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300196105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Originally published as La Orilla Africana. F&G Editores.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300196105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Originally published as La Orilla Africana. F&G Editores.
Current Research in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Author: Piotr Romanowski
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331992396X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This book covers research topics in bilingual education, language policies, language contact, identity of bilingual speakers, early bilingualism, heritage languages, and more, and provides an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field of bilingualism. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the field. Part I focuses on the numerous and heterogeneous relations between languages as well as the implications arising from bilingual speech processing. In Part II, a series of contextualized studies on bilingual classrooms are presented, with diverse research designs applied in different educational settings being a key feature of these studies. Part III bridges theory and practice by offering an insight into mono- and multilingual school settings showcasing examples of educational institutions where bilingualism successfully soared and depicts the needs related to language education.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331992396X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This book covers research topics in bilingual education, language policies, language contact, identity of bilingual speakers, early bilingualism, heritage languages, and more, and provides an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field of bilingualism. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the field. Part I focuses on the numerous and heterogeneous relations between languages as well as the implications arising from bilingual speech processing. In Part II, a series of contextualized studies on bilingual classrooms are presented, with diverse research designs applied in different educational settings being a key feature of these studies. Part III bridges theory and practice by offering an insight into mono- and multilingual school settings showcasing examples of educational institutions where bilingualism successfully soared and depicts the needs related to language education.
Eat Sleep Bagpipes Repeat
Author: Mirako Press
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781723229053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This adorable music notebook is perfect for staffs, kids and musicians. The high-quality manuscript book includes 110 pages of 12 staves. Let exercise your composing skills with this well-designed music sketchbook! Enjoy!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781723229053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This adorable music notebook is perfect for staffs, kids and musicians. The high-quality manuscript book includes 110 pages of 12 staves. Let exercise your composing skills with this well-designed music sketchbook! Enjoy!