Making Sense Of Diseases And Disasters

Author : Lee Trepanier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000637373

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Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters by Lee Trepanier Pdf

This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways in which political leaders, social activists, historians, philosophers, and writers have tried to make sense of the catastrophes that have plagued humankind from Thucydides to the present COVID pandemic. By adopting the perspective of political theory, it sheds light on what these individuals and events can teach us about politics, society, and human nature, as well as the insights and limitations of political theory. Including thinkers such as Thucydides, Sophocles, Augustine, Bacon, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Publius, Bartolomé de las Casas, Jane Addams, Camus, Saramago, Baudrillard, Weber, Schmitt, Voegelin and Agamben, it considers a diverse range of events including the plagues of Byzantium and 14th century Europe, 9/11, the hurricanes of Fukushima, Boxing Day, and New Orleans, and the current COVID pandemic. An examination of past, present, and future diseases and disasters, and the ways in which individuals and societies react to them, this volume will appeal to scholars of politics, sociology, anthropology and philosophy with interests in disaster and the social body.

Author : Alan Hawley,James Matheson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781482212808

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Making Sense of Disaster Medicine: A Hands-on Guide for Medics by Alan Hawley,James Matheson Pdf

Disaster medicine is a broad and dynamic field that encompasses the medical and surgical response to mass casualty incidents including rail, air, and road traffic accidents; domestic terrorism; and pandemic outbreaks. It also encompasses the global issues of conflict and natural catastrophe. Specialists in disaster medicine provide insight, guidanc

Author : Robert A. Aronowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521558255

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Making Sense of Illness by Robert A. Aronowitz Pdf

This 1998 book contains historical essays about how diseases change their meaning.

Author : Alan Hawley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0429166699

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Making Sense of Disaster Medicine by Alan Hawley Pdf

Disaster Medicine: Evolution of a SpecialtyThe Medical Response to Domestic Terrorism and Major Incident ManagementManaging National Mass Casualty IncidentsClassification of DisastersPre- and Post-DeploymentMedicine in the FieldSurgery in DisastersPsychological Aspects of Conflict and CatastropheMarginalized Groups in DisastersHealthcare in Refugee PopulationsThe Realities of WarThe Hazards of the JobThe Ethics of Disaster MedicineElectives in the Developing World.

Author : James Dobson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781418560058

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When God Doesn't Make Sense by James Dobson Pdf

Author : Ken Dignan
Publisher : WestBowPress
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449792848

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Making Sense of a Suffering World by Ken Dignan Pdf

The goal of this book is to help you understand and make the most out of your times of hurt and pain. God uses suffering as a powerful tool to develop character, compassion, humility, faith, perseverance, and even prepare you for how you may serve God in heaven. It is my prayer that you will be encouraged, enlightened, and educated, so you can make sense out of why God allows suffering. Get ready to discover the vast scriptural details in the lives of the biblical characters, the truths God revealed to them in the Bible that deal with suffering and what they were inspired to say about their trials and tribulations. Along with that youll see the way suffering has influenced my perspective and how my faith in God and His Word has prepared me to live a blessed and productive life. Ken Dignan is an ordained minister involved in vocational ministry since 1976. He and his wife, Joni, have 4 sons: Andrew (wife Jodi), Patrick (wife Jennifer), the late Ryan, and Britt Stephen, and two granddaughters. He is a polio survivor, author, and founder of Til Healing Comes Ministries.

Author : Daniel Jonathan Clarke,Stefan Dercon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198785576

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Dull Disasters? by Daniel Jonathan Clarke,Stefan Dercon Pdf

Economic losses from disasters are now reaching an average of US$250--$300 billion a year. In the last 20 years, more than 530,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather events; millions more were seriously injured. Most of the deaths and serious injuries were in developing countries. Meanwhile, highly infectious diseases will continue to emerge or re-emerge, and natural hazards will not disappear. But these extreme events do not need to turn into large-scale disasters. Better and faster responses are possible. The authors contend that even though there is much generosity in the world to support the responses to and recovery from natural disasters, the current funding model, based on mobilizing financial resources after disasters take place, is flawed and makes responses late, fragmented, unreliable, and poorly targeted, while providing poor incentives for preparedness or risk reduction. The way forward centres around reforming the funding model for disasters, moving towards plans with simple rules for early action and that are locked in before disasters through credible funding strategies while resisting the allure of post-disaster discretionary funding and the threat it poses for those seeking to ensure that disasters have a less severe impact. -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780593297384

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Doom by Niall Ferguson Pdf

"All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet in 2020 the responses of many developed countries, including the United States, to a new virus from China were badly bungled. Why? Why did only a few Asian countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? While populist leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work--pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. In books going back nearly twenty years, including Colossus, The Great Degeneration, and The Square and the Tower, Ferguson has studied the foibles of modern America, from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online fragmentation. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics, and network science, Doom offers not just a history but a general theory of disasters, showing why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling them. Doom is the lesson of history that this country--indeed the West as a whole--urgently needs to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline.

Author : K. Bradley Penuel,Matt Statler
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452266398

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Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief by K. Bradley Penuel,Matt Statler Pdf

This encyclopedia covers response to disasters around the world, from governments to NGOs, from charities to politics, from refugees to health, and from economics to international relations, covering issues in both historical and contemporary context. The volumes include information relevant to students of sociology, national security, economics, health sciences, political science, emergency preparedness, history, agriculture, and many other subjects. The goal is to help readers appreciate the importance of the effects, responsibilities, and ethics of disaster relief, and to initiate educational discussion brought forth by the specific cultural, scientific, and topical articles contained within the work. Including 425 signed entries in a two-volume set presented in A-to-Z format, and drawing contributors from varied academic disciplines, this encyclopedia also features a preface by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton of the 9/11 Commission. This reference resource examines disaster response and relief in a manner that is authoritative yet accessible, jargon-free, and balanced to help readers better understand issues from varied perspectives. Key Themes - Geography - Government and International Agencies - History - Human-induced Disasters - Infrastructure - Local Response - Major Disasters (Relief Case Studies) - Medicine and Psychology - Methods and Practices - Mitigation - Natural Disasters (Overviews) - Politics and Funding - Preparedness - Recovery - Response - Science and Prediction - Sociology - U.S. Geographical Response

Author : Nigel Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Narrative therapy
ISBN : 1847091474

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Making Sense of Trauma by Nigel Hunt Pdf

"This book is aimed at people who have experienced distressful and traumatising experiences such as war, sexual abuse or rape, natural and manmade disasters, car accidents, or the death of a loved one. There is ample evidence to show that people recover from traumatic or distressful events by telling their story, by making sense of what happened." --Publisher description.

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780593320730

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The Plague Year by Lawrence Wright Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” —The New York Times Book Review From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic. Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time . . . inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism . . . into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina . . . into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs . . . into Broadway’s darkened theaters and Austin’s struggling music venues . . . inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function—with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential. In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew.

Author : Robert J. Ursano,Carol S. Fullerton,Lars Weisaeth,Beverley Raphael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107138490

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Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry by Robert J. Ursano,Carol S. Fullerton,Lars Weisaeth,Beverley Raphael Pdf

This book presents a decade of advances in the psychological, biological and social responses to disasters, helping medics and leaders prepare and react.

Author : Gregory R. Ciottone
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323032537

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Disaster Medicine by Gregory R. Ciottone Pdf

"This new volume includes Individual Concepts and Events sections that provide information on the general approach to disaster medicine and practical information on specific disasters. You'll also find an exhaustive list of chapters on the conceivable chemical and biologic weapons known today, as well as strategies for the management of future events, or possible scenarios, for which there is no precedent."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Colin Renfrew,Iain Morley,McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Publisher : McDonald Institute Monographs
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822035405208

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Image and Imagination by Colin Renfrew,Iain Morley,McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Pdf

The dawn of art is sometimes equated with the birth of the human spirit. But when and how did figuration - sculpture, painting, drawing - actually begin? And did these first figurative creations coincide with the emergence of our own species, Homo sapiens ? Is figuration a general and fundamental feature of the human condition? In this challenging volume leading experts review the evidence now available from the worldwide practice of prehistoric archaeology, and go on to formulate some important conclusions. The scope of this work is global. It sets out to explore the first stirrings of artistic endeavour and of figurative imagery on each continent, and to consider the social context in which they arose. It will be a fundamental resource for all those seeking to understand the origins of art and the beginnings of human spirituality.

Author : William Mitcham D. Min. LMFT
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664274846

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Marriage and a Glass of Wine by William Mitcham D. Min. LMFT Pdf

Marriage and a Glass of Wine—Plus 180 Marital Enhancers provides pointers on how to nurture a healthy marriage. William Mitcham, an ordained Lutheran pastor and longtime, family and couple’s therapist, reveals how to boost the quality of your marriage or your relationship with a significant other who may become your spouse. The title alludes to the fact that when they sit to talk, many couples sip a glass of wine. Sometimes, however, they fail to appreciate that the words they exchange can make a big difference in the quality of their marriage. The enhancers in this book will help you: • talk openly about all aspects of married life; • manage conflict effectively; • navigate the awesome task of parenting; • keep the marital fire of marriage burning. The author also examines why two people may be attracted to each other in the first place, why many marriages become unglued, why living together before marriage increases the risk of divorce, the characteristics of a strong marriage, and to watch out for various ways to kill a marriage. Nurture a healthy marriage that is pleasing to the eyes of God with the lessons and insights in this guide to enjoying a permanent union.