360 Social problems and social services
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360 Social problems and social services
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The Rise of Mental Health Nursing : A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums, 1890-1920
Examining the relations between the rise of scientific psychiatry and the emergence of mental health nursing in Dutch asylums, this study analyses the social relationships of class, gender and religion that structured asylum care in the Netherlands…
Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management
Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of…
Care Home Stories : Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care
Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poor house still persist, creating…
Documenting Death : Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania
"Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne…
Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space : Best Practices for Educators in Multi-User Virtual Environments
Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space is the first “how-to” manual for health educators on the instructional use of three-dimensional, computer-generated virtual environments, called “multi-user virtual learning environments” or MUVE. Dr. Estelle…
Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality: Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism
This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation…
Migration and Discrimination
This open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which discrimination is defined and…
The Demography of Disasters: Impacts for Population and Place
This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of…
The Power of Morality in Movements
Explores the role of morality in social movements. Discusses timely topics such as movements focusing on refugee solidarity, male privilege. Provides methodologically and theoretically diverse contributions from multiple social science…
Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures
Advertising has played a central role in shaping the history of modern media. While often identified with American consumerism and the rise of the 'Information Society', motion picture advertising has been part of European visual culture since the…
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- 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology
- 360 Social problems and social services