The Political and Social Contexts of Health: Politics of Sex in Medicine By Vicente Navarro (editor)
2004 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 0895032961 | PDF | 24 MB
This analysis of the political and social forces that shape the well-being and quality of life of populations in developed capitalist countries is written by scholars based in several different countries. The book shows how the varying political traditions in the developed world - social democratic, Christian democratic, conservative, and liberal traditions - have affected populations' health and quality of life in the western democracies. The contributors also analyze the public and social policies derived from each of these political traditions that have affected levels of social inequality (through changes in the welfare states and labor markets) and on health and quality of life.

Global Literacy in Local Learning Contexts: Connecting Home and School By Mary Faith Mount-Cors
2016 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 1138126128 | PDF | 4 MB
Based on qualitative research focused on literacy and health from three schools in coastal Kenya, this book examines country, school, and family contexts to develop a dual-generation maternal-child model for literacy learning and to connect local-specific phenomena with national and international policy arenas. In contrast to international development organizations' educational policies and programs that tend to ignore literacy as a social practice within diverse contexts, the author unpacks the relationship between education and health, and the role of family and mothers in particular, highlighting how mothers are key actors in children's literacy development and health outcomes.

The Eucharist - Its Origins and Contexts: Sacred Meal, Communal Meal, Table Fellowship in Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity By David Hellholm, Dieter Sänger
2017 | 2100 Pages | ISBN: 3161539184 | PDF | 46 MB
These three volumes are the results of two conferences on the Christian eucharist and its context in the traditions of sacred and communal meals; the first conference was held at the University of Kiel, the second at the University of Agder's Study Center at Metochi (Lesbos). Scholars from around the world form an international, interdisciplinary and interdenominational collaboration from various fields including History of Religion, Classics, Old and New Testament, Judaism, Patristics, Archeology, and History of Art. Images, illustrations and indexes complete the volume. The broad scope covered by these studies invites readers not only to a clearer interpretation of the origin of the Eucharist and its development in the early church, but also enables them to reach a better understanding of the religious and cultural background of sacred and communal meals in general in ancient societies. Contributors: Jostein Ådna, Peter Altmann, Gerhard Baudy, Anja Bettenworth, Hans Dieter Betz, Jerker Blomqvist, Karin Blomqvist, Vemund Blomkvist, Lukas Bormann, Rudolf Brändle, Samuel Byrskog, John Granger Cook, Juliette Day, Kees den Biesen, Bernhard Domagalski, Paul Duff, Benedikt Eckhardt, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Göran Eidevall, Anders Ekenberg, Gunnel Ekroth, Allan Fitzgerald, O.S.A., Jörg Frey, Fritz Graf, Gunnar af Hällström, Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen, David Hellholm, Jonas Holmstrand, Anders Hultgård, Naomi Jacobs, Felix John, Lutz Käppel, Thomas Kazen, James Kelhoffer, Dietrich-Alex Koch, Ulrich H. J. Körtner, Andrea Kucharek, Ulrich Kuder, Michael Lattke, Clemens Leonhard, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Hermann Lichtenberger, Andreas Lindemann, Hermut Löhr, Hugo Lundhaug, Judi Magness, Daniel Marguerat, Andrew McGowan, Candida Moss, Andreas M|ller, Peter M|ller, Christa M|ller-Kessler, Øyvind Norderval, Markus Öhler, Nils Arne Pedersen, Enno Edzard Popkes, Il aria Ramelli, Gerhard Rouwhorst, Jörg R|pke, Peter Ruggendorfer, Dieter Sänger, Karl Olav Sandnes, Reinhart Staats, Einar Thomassen, Håkan Ulfgard, Knut Usener, Tor Vegge, Joseph Verheyden, Konrad Vössing, Cecilia Wassén, J|rgen Wehnert, Lothar Wehr, Hans-Ulrich Weidemann, Mikael Winninge, Norbert Zimmermann

Anna Filipi, "Storytelling Practices in Home and Educational Contexts: Perspectives from Conversation Analysis"
English | ISBN: 9811699542 | 2022 | 451 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This book brings together researchers from across the globe to share their work on the micro-analyses of storytelling. By doing so, the book helps to deepen the understanding of, and track storytelling practices cross-culturally and longitudinally in the home, at school, and in higher education. Through the unique focus on education and learning, this book provides a lens with which to identify how children's and adolescents' language development and sense of self in storytelling are supported in various contexts: the home, classroom, playground or in the higher education context. It explores the work, identity and practices of friends, teachers and lecturers in teaching, learning, reflection and supervision. Importantly, in identifying these practices, the book presents opportunities to assist parents and teachers, to inform pedagogy in teacher education, and to support effective doctoral supervision. The focus on storytelling in homes, education, and for learning, and the practical applications of the findings, contribute to the ongoing research in both education and conversation analysis.

Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts By Deborah L. Madsen (editor), A. Robert Lee (editor)
2010 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 0826349153 | PDF | 2 MB
Novelist, autobiographer, poet, dramatist, essayist, and cultural critic of rare and radical boldness, Gerald Vizenor has long stood at the very forefront of Native writing. His challenges to received thinking, along with signature phrases like postindian, survivance, storier, double-other, and terminal creed, have uniquely influenced the discourse of Native life and art.

Piers Pennington, Matthew Sperling, "Geoffrey Hill and his Contexts"
English | 2011 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 3034301855 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Geoffrey Hill is one of the most significant poets currently at work in the English language. The essays gathered in this book present a number of new contexts in which to explore a wide range of his writings, from the poems he wrote as an undergraduate to the recent volumes A Treatise of Civil Power (2007) and Collected Critical Writings (2008). Connections are made between the early and the later poetry, and between the poetry and the criticism, and archival materials are considered along with the published texts. The essays also make comparisons across disciplines, discussing Hill's work in relation to theology, philosophy and intellectual history, to literature from other languages, and to the other arts. In doing so, they cast fresh light upon Hill's dense, original and sometimes challenging writings, opening them up in new ways for all readers of his work.

Mark Poster, "The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Contexts"
English | 1991 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0745603270 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
In this path-breaking work, Mark Poster highlights the nature of the newly emerging forms of social life, in the current era. The flexibility of language which the computer allows makes the written word less certain and less concrete. The result of these changes, Poster argues, is a new communication experience, an interaction between humankind and a new kind of reality.

Sandra Ponzanesi, "Postcolonial Transitions in Europe: Contexts, Practices and Politics "
English | ISBN: 1783484454 | 2015 | 436 pages | EPUB | 1403 KB
Is the notion of postcolonial Europe an oxymoron? How do colonial pasts inform the emergence of new subjectivities and political frontiers in contemporary Europe? Postcolonial Transitions in Europe explores these questions from different theoretical, geopolitical and media perspectives.

Health Care in Contexts of Risk, Uncertainty, and Hybridity by Daniel Messelken
English | EPUB | 2022 | 278 Pages | ISBN : 3030804429 | 2.5 MB
This book sheds light on various ethical challenges military and humanitarian health care personnel (HCP) face while working in adverse conditions. Contexts of armed conflict, hybrid wars or other forms of violence short of war, as well as natural disasters, all have in common that ordinary circumstances can no longer be taken for granted. Hence, the provision of health care has to adapt, for example, to a different level of risk, to scarce resources, or uncommon approaches due to external incentives or requirements. This affects the practice of health care as well as its ethics. This book offers a panoramic overview on various challenges healthcare faces in extraordinary situations and provides new insights from practitioners' as well as from academic scholars' perspectives.

Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas) edited by Rivka Feldhay, F. Jamil Ragep
English | June 12, 2017 | ISBN: 0773550097, 0773550100 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 3.1 MB
In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally developed by Islamic astronomers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Was this a parallel development, or did Copernicus somehow learn of the work of his predecessors, and if so, how? And if Copernicus did use material from the Islamic world, how then should we understand the European context of his innovative cosmology?