Health And The Human Condition

Author : Arthur Kleinman
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781541674608

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The Illness Narratives by Arthur Kleinman Pdf

From one of America's most celebrated psychiatrists, the book that has taught generations of healers why healing the sick is about more than just diagnosing their illness. Modern medicine treats sick patients like broken machines -- figure out what is physically wrong, fix it, and send the patient on their way. But humans are not machines. When we are ill, we experience our illness: we become scared, distressed, tired, weary. Our illnesses are not just biological conditions, but human ones. It was Arthur Kleinman, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist, who saw this truth when most of his fellow doctors did not. Based on decades of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, The Illness Narratives makes a case for interpreting the illness experience of patients as a core feature of doctoring. Before Being Mortal, there was The Illness Narratives. It remains today a prescient and passionate case for bridging the gap between patient and practitioner.

Author : Larry Ogalthorpe Gostin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311479951

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A Human Condition by Larry Ogalthorpe Gostin Pdf

Author : Marja-Liisa Honkasalo,Miira Tuominen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782382355

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Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition by Marja-Liisa Honkasalo,Miira Tuominen Pdf

Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection is that suicide should not be understood as a separate realm of pathological behavior but as a form of human action. As such it is always dependent on the decision that the individual makes in a cultural, ethical and socio-economic context, but the context never completely determines the decision. This book also argues that cultural narratives concerning suicide have a problematic double function: in addition to enabling the community to make sense of self-inflicted death, they also constitute a blueprint depicting suicide as a solution to common human problems.

Author : Richard Williams,Verity Kemp,S. Alexander Haslam,Catherine Haslam,Kamaldeep S. Bhui,Sue Bailey,Daniel Maughan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781911623045

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Social Scaffolding by Richard Williams,Verity Kemp,S. Alexander Haslam,Catherine Haslam,Kamaldeep S. Bhui,Sue Bailey,Daniel Maughan Pdf

An approach to designing health care that explores how social factors and social identity determine health and recovery.

Author : Arthur Kleinman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781541674608

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The Illness Narratives by Arthur Kleinman Pdf

From one of America's most celebrated psychiatrists, the book that has taught generations of healers why healing the sick is about more than just diagnosing their illness. Modern medicine treats sick patients like broken machines -- figure out what is physically wrong, fix it, and send the patient on their way. But humans are not machines. When we are ill, we experience our illness: we become scared, distressed, tired, weary. Our illnesses are not just biological conditions, but human ones. It was Arthur Kleinman, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist, who saw this truth when most of his fellow doctors did not. Based on decades of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, The Illness Narratives makes a case for interpreting the illness experience of patients as a core feature of doctoring. Before Being Mortal, there was The Illness Narratives. It remains today a prescient and passionate case for bridging the gap between patient and practitioner.

Author : Luc De Schepper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Consumer education
ISBN : 0942501004

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Human Condition by Luc De Schepper Pdf

Author : William Hardy McNeill
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400885107

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The Global Condition by William Hardy McNeill Pdf

William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass. Now with a new foreword by J. R. McNeill, this book brings together two of William Hardy McNeill's popular short books and an essay. The Human Condition provides a provocative interpretation of history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human; The Great Frontier questions the notion of "frontier freedom" through an examination of European expansion; the concluding essay speculates on the role of catastrophe in our lives.

Author : John Kekes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191615375

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The Human Condition by John Kekes Pdf

The Human Condition is a response to the growing disenchantment in the Western world with contemporary life. John Kekes provides rationally justified answers to questions about the meaning of life, the basis of morality, the contingencies of human lives, the prevalence of evil, the nature and extent of human responsibility, and the sources of values we prize. He offers a realistic view of the human condition that rejects both facile optimism and gloomy pessimism; acknowledges that we are vulnerable to contingencies we cannot fully control; defends a humanistic understanding of our condition; recognizes that the values worth pursuing are plural, often conflicting, and that there are many reasonable conceptions of well-being. Kekes emphasizes the importance of facing the fact that man's inhumanity to man is widespread. He rejects as simple-minded both the view that human nature is basically good and that it is basically bad, and argues that our well-being depends on coping with the complex truth that human nature is basically complicated. Finally, Kekes argues that the scheme of things is indifferent to our fortunes and that we can rely only on our own resources to make what we can of our lives.

Author : Bob Yari
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781665522281

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The Human Condition by Bob Yari Pdf

”In his philosophical treatise, THE HUMAN CONDITION, author Bob Yari offers a pathway to fulfillment and happiness -- based on a balanced lifestyle, a positive attitude, and gratitude for the world's abundance.”

Author : Braden R. Allenby,Daniel Sarewitz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262294409

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The Techno-Human Condition by Braden R. Allenby,Daniel Sarewitz Pdf

A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. They argue that if we are to have any prospect of managing that complexity, we will need to escape the shackles of current assumptions about rationality, progress, and certainty, even as we maintain a commitment to fundamental human values. Humans have been co-evolving with their technologies since the dawn of prehistory. What is different now is that we have moved beyond external technological interventions to transform ourselves from the inside out—even as we also remake the Earth system itself. Coping with this new reality, say Allenby and Sarewitz, means liberating ourselves from such categories as “human,” “technological,” and “natural” to embrace a new techno-human relationship. Contributors Boris Barbour, Mario Biagioli, Paul S. Brookes, Finn Brunton, Alex Csiszar, Alessandro Delfanti, Emmanuel Didier, Sarah de Rijcke, Daniele Fanelli, Yves Gingras, James R. Griesemer, Catherine Guaspare, Marie-Andrée Jacob, Barbara M. Kehm, Cyril Labbé, Jennifer Lin, Alexandra Lippman, Burkhard Morganstern, Ivan Oransky, Michael Power, Sergio Sismondo, Brandon Stell, Tereza Stöckelová, Elizabeth Wager, Paul Wouters

Author : Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Dangerously mentally ill
ISBN : IND:39000007590446

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A Human Condition by Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin Pdf

Author : Paul Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317189596

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Human Nature and Suffering by Paul Gilbert Pdf

Human Nature and Suffering is a profound comment on the human condition, from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. Paul Gilbert explores the implications of humans as evolved social animals, suggesting that evolution has given rise to a varied set of social competencies, which form the basis of our personal knowledge and understanding. Gilbert shows how our primitive competencies become modified by experience - both satisfactorily and unsatisfactorily. He highlights how cultural factors may modify and activate many of these primitive competencies, leading to pathology proneness and behaviours that are collectively survival threatening. These varied themes are brought together to indicate how the social construction of self arises from the organization of knowledge encoded within the competencies. This Classic Edition features a new introduction from the author, bringing Gilbert's early work to a new audience. The book will be of interest to clinicians, researchers and historians in the field of psychology.

Author : Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781793604897

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Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition by Hans A. Baer Pdf

The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of the capitalist world system. In addition to highlighting many of the environmental, social, and health, environmental consequences of humanity’s increasing reliance on motor vehicles, particularly private automobiles, this book argues that ultimately we need as a species to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible but that such an effort will have be part and parcel of creating an alternative world system based on social justice, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate, one termed democratic eco-socialism.

Author : Kristin Asdal,Tone Druglitro,Steve Hinchliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317119432

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Humans, Animals and Biopolitics by Kristin Asdal,Tone Druglitro,Steve Hinchliffe Pdf

Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who ’we’ humans think ’we’ are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoples’ everyday lives. By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed and politicized. Instead of asking only how control and knowledge are and have been extended over life, the chapters in this book also look at what happens when control fails, at practices which defy orders, escape detection, fail to produce or only loosely hang together. In doing so the book problematises and extends the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics that has been such a central analytical concept in studies of human-animal relations and provides a unique resource of cases and theoretical refinements regarding the ways in which we live together with more than human others .

Author : John Lukacs
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497636323

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History and the Human Condition by John Lukacs Pdf

In a career spanning more than sixty-five years, John Lukacs has established himself as one of our most accomplished historians. Now, in the stimulating book History and the Human Condition, Lukacs offers his profound reflections on the very nature of history, the role of the historian, the limits of knowledge, and more. Guiding us on a quest for knowledge, Lukacs ranges far and wide over the past two centuries. The pursuit takes us from Alexis de Tocqueville to the atomic bomb, from American “exceptionalism” to Nazi expansionism, from the closing of the American frontier to the passing of the modern age. Lukacs’s insights about the past have important implications for the present and future. In chronicling the twentieth-century decline of liberalism and rise of conservatism, for example, he forces us to rethink the terms of the liberal-versus-conservative debate. In particular, he shows that what passes for “conservative” in the twenty-first century often bears little connection to true conservatism. Lukacs concludes by shifting his gaze from the broad currents of history to the world immediately around him. His reflections on his home, his town, his career, and his experiences as an immigrant to the United States illuminate deeper truths about America, the unique challenges of modernity, the sense of displacement and atomization that increasingly characterizes twenty-first-century life, and much more. Moving and insightful, this closing section focuses on the human in history, masterfully displaying how right Lukacs is in his contention that history, at its best, is personal and participatory. History and the Human Condition is a fascinating work by one of the finest historians of our time. More than that, it is perhaps John Lukacs’s final word on the great themes that have defined him as a historian and a writer.