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Kolcaba, Katharine. Comfort theory and practice: A vision for holistic health care and research. New York: Springer Pub. Co., 2003.
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Comfort theory and practice: A vision for holistic health care and research. New York: Springer Pub. Co., 2003.
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Nemiroff, Lyons Matthew, ed. Right-wing populism in America: Too close for comfort. New York: Guilford Press, 2000.
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Poisson, Benoît. Apprivoiser sa personnalité: Le respect de soi dans un monde de performance. Montréal: Méridien, 1999.
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Manfrida, Roberto, and Daniele Contini, eds. Proceedings of Physmod 2003 International Workshop on Physical Modelling of Flow and Dispersion Phenomena. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/88-8453-095-4.
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The various articles which make up this book concern both modelling (numerical and analytical) and experimental activities in relation to aspects of environmental fluid dynamics. Issues dealt with include the dispersion of pollutants in both urban and extra-urban areas, the effect of obstacles on the flow and dispersion in the turbulent boundary layer, and the simulation of the planetary boundary layer in proximity with the earth's surface. There is also a discussion of advanced issues which are also of interest in the sphere of urban planning, such as "wind comfort" and the effects of the shelter belt.
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Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism [EasyRead Comfort Edition]. ReadHowYouWant.com, 2006.
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Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method [EasyRead Comfort Edition]. ReadHowYouWant.com, 2007.
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Lyons, Matthew N., and Chip Berlet. Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. The Guilford Press, 2000.
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Lyons, Matthew N., and Chip Berlet. Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. The Guilford Press, 2000.
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Wittenberg, Elaine, Joy V. Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Terri Ann Parnell. Communication in Palliative Nursing. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190061326.001.0001.
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Communication in Palliative Nursing presents the COMFORT Model, a theoretically-grounded and empirically-based model of palliative care communication. Built on over a decade of communication research with patients, families, and interdisciplinary providers, and reworked based on feedback from hundreds of nurses nationwide, the chapters outline a revised COMFORT curriculum: Connect, Options, Making Meaning, Family caregivers, Openings, Relating, and Team communication. Based on a narrative approach to communication, which addresses communication skill development, this volume teaches nurses to consider a universal model of communication that aligns with the holistic nature of palliative care. This work moves beyond the traditional and singular view of the nurse as patient and family educator, to embrace highly complex communication challenges present in palliative care—namely, providing care and comfort through communication at a time when patients, families, and nurses themselves are suffering. In light of the vast changes in the palliative care landscape and the increasingly pivotal role of nurses in advancing those changes, this second edition provides an evidence-based approach to the practice of palliative nursing. This book integrates communication theory and health literacy constructs throughout, and provides clinical tools and teaching resources to help nurses enhance their own communication and create comfort for themselves, as well as for patients and their families.
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Mangrum, Benjamin. Southern Comfort. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909376.003.0005.
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Southern writers Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor present the collusion of the American welfare state and a consumer economy as a source of existential alienation. This chapter considers their objections to the social-democratic institutions created during the New Deal era. Percy and O’Connor present versions of Christian existentialism as an alternative to bureaucratic politics. In addition to joining the concert of intellectual challenges to the legacy of reform established during the New Deal, their related responses represent the splintering of American existentialism in the 1960s. The political vocabulary of the New Left represents a competing faction of American politics informed by existentialism. These differing responses share a common valorization of private judgments of value. Both responses are related to another phenomenon, which political scientists call the rise of an “independence regime,” or partisan disaffiliation, in the American electorate.
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Julier, Alice P. From Formality to Comfort. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037634.003.0002.
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This chapter explores how people's definitions of hospitality—and consequently their social meals—reflect cultural discourses about sociability. It first describes interviews of people about how they learned to cook, where they developed their ideas about parties, and what these events might have looked like in their families of origin. It asks people how they would define “hospitality”—how their definition was similar or different from that of other people or from the kind of sociable activities that went on in their families of origin. It then turns turn to textual sources from which such ideas develop. Concerns about how people construct their social lives emerge in debates about propriety, etiquette, formality, intimacy, comfort, style, and display. Such debates are never trivial, but rather illustrate how struggles for control over symbol and meaning are the real sites of conflict in contemporary society.
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Jones, Michael Owen, and Lucy M. Long, eds. Comfort Food. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496810847.001.0001.
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As a subject of study, “comfort food” is relevant to a number of scholarly disciplines, most obviously food studies, folkloristics, and anthropology, but also American culture studies, cultural studies, global and international studies, tourism, marketing, and public health. This volume explores the concept of “comfort food” primarily within a western context with examples from Atlantic Canada, Indonesia, England, and various ethnic, regional, and religious populations as well as rural and urban residents in the U.S. It includes studies of a wide range of dishes—bologna to chocolate, sweet and savory puddings, fried bread with an egg in the center, dairy products, fried rice, cafeteria fare, sugary fried dough, soul food, and others—exploring ways in which they comfort or in some instances cause discomfort and how they are connected to a sense of emotional well-being. Some essays analyze the phenomenon in daily life; others consider comfort food in the context of cookbooks, films, Internet blogs, literature, marketing, and tourism. Recognizing that what heartens one person might discomfort another, the collection is organized accordingly, from pleasant and comforting to unpleasant or discomforting food experiences. Those foods and food experiences are then related to concepts and issues such as identity, family, community, nationality, ethnicity, class, sense of place, tradition, stress, health, discomfort, guilt, betrayal, and loss, contributing to a deeper understanding of comfort food as a significant social category of human behavior.
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Tai, Eika. Comfort Women Activism. Hong Kong University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528455.001.0001.
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Based on extensive ethnographic work, Comfort Women Activism examines how women activists in Japan, Japanese and Koreans, have come to understand the comfort women issue. The movement in Japan has evolved as part of transnational activism, in which the activists in Japan play a crucial role in lobbying legislators and generating public opinion conducive to the state’s compensation. By presenting the activists’ narratives, the book illuminates the nuanced understandings of the issue they have developed through face-to-face communication with survivors. Their diverse voices shed light on the multifaceted aspects of the movement. The book also provides an account of the movement’s thirty-year history and an overview of scholarly arguments presented in Japanese. Many of the activists’ thoughts are relevant to scholarly debates on the comfort women issue, exemplifying, substantiating, and commenting on what researchers have said. By measuring the activist narratives against scholarly debates, the book argues that comfort women activism in Japan is a new form of feminism characterized by critical historical consciousness; the intersectionality of gender, ethnicity, and class; mutual transformation; and transnational solidarity. Most importantly, it argues that women activists in Japan, a former colonial empire, have avoided falling into imperialist feminism through the act of listening to survivors wholeheartedly.
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Shove, Elizabeth. Comfort and Convenience: Temporality and Practice. Edited by Frank Trentmann. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561216.013.0015.
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Despite being embedded in the practices and discourses of daily life, comfort and convenience are not terms around which theories and studies of consumption have traditionally revolved. Over the last decade or so, the tides of intellectual fashion have begun to turn, bringing the mundane into view and highlighting previously invisible dimensions of consumer culture. In reviewing changing interpretations of comfort and convenience, this article captures some of the processes through which the contours of social life are simultaneously sustained and transformed. It also examines how interpretations of comfort and convenience come to be as they are today, and in understanding the types of consumption and demand they entail. This more substantive angle is important in that contemporary definitions of physical well-being and temporal order imply and rely upon forms of resource consumption which are unsustainable in the longer run or on a global scale. The article concludes by considering time and timing, convenience and compromise, convenience and the time–space profiles of practice, and changing patterns of consumption in relation to comfort and convenience.
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Lamberti, Edward. Performing Ethics Through Film Style. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474444002.001.0001.
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Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. This book proposes a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style. It argues that films can convey Levinasian ethics not just through their subject matter but also through their use of style. The book brings this relationship between ethics and style into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, such as J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory, Jacques Derrida’s notion of originary performativity and Judith Butler’s reconfiguration of performativity within the socio-political sphere. It explores Levinas’s influence on film through the study of three directorial bodies of work: those of the Dardenne brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader. The book focuses on a range of films, including the Dardennes’ Je Pense à Vous (1992), La Promesse (1996), Le Fils (2002) and The Kid with a Bike (2011), Schroeder’s Maîtresse (1975), Reversal of Fortune (1990), Terror’s Advocate (2007) and Our Lady of the Assassins (2000) and Schrader’s American Gigolo (1980), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), The Comfort of Strangers (1990), Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005) and Adam Resurrected (2008). In doing so, it demonstrates how films can perform a Levinasian ethics through different styles.
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Ivanhoe, Philip J. Virtues, Inclinations, and Oneness. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840518.003.0005.
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This chapter develops various implications of the oneness hypothesis when applied to theories of virtue, drawing on several claims that are closely related to the hypothesis. Many of the views introduced and defended are inspired by neo-Confucianism and so the chapter offers an example of constructive philosophy bridging cultures and traditions. It focuses on Foot’s theory, which holds that virtues correct excesses or deficiencies in human nature. The alternative maintains that vices often arise not from an excess or deficiency in motivation but from a mistaken conception of self, one that sees oneself as somehow more important than others. The chapter goes on to argue that such a view helps address the “self-centeredness objection” to virtue ethics and that the effortlessness, joy, and wholeheartedness that characterizes fully virtuous action are best conceived as a kind of spontaneity that affords a special feeling of happiness dubbed “metaphysical comfort.”
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Reid, Philippa. Music Therapy for Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Cancer. Edited by Jane Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199639755.013.45.
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Receiving a cancer diagnosis and undergoing the subsequent treatment challenges coping and equilibrium for children and adolescents and their families. This chapter describes how music therapists work with children, adolescents, and family members in cancer care contexts. A range of musical experiences can provide adjunct support to medical treatments to support coping, reduce distress, and provide comfort. The music therapist works as a member of the interdisciplinary team to provide opportunities fornormaland fun musical experiences to support the experience of hospitalization, as well as offering comfort and support for children in pain or distress. Research evidence supports the role of the music therapist in providing effective services with children and adolescents in cancer care.
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Kibelbek, Michael J., and Lori A. Aronson. Egg and Soy Allergies and Propofol Use. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199764495.003.0011.
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Pediatric gastroenterologists are increasingly requesting the services of anesthesiologists for the comfort, safety, and peace of mind of their patients and their families. Although outpatient endoscopic procedures are usually brief, these patients often have histories of reflux, multiple drug and food allergies, and delayed gastric emptying.
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Michael, Furmston, Tolhurst G J, and Mik Eliza. 10 Denial of Legally Binding Effect. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198724032.003.0010.
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An agreement is legally enforceable only if it is supported by valuable consideration and there is an intention to contract. This chapter focuses on this requirement of an intention to contract which must exist in all the parties. It discusses the use of presumptions; the presumptions and threshold intention; consideration and intention to contract; family and social agreements; and commercial agreements. The final section deals with letters of comfort. When a bank is approached for finance by a subsidiary of a large company, any initial offer of finance usually will be subject to security being provided by the parent company. Where the parent company is not prepared to provide security, it may provide the bank with a letter of comfort. These letters take three principal forms. The first type acknowledges the subsidiary's loan application and states that it is the policy of the parent company to ensure that its subsidiaries meet their loan obligations. The second type acknowledges the subsidiary's loan application and states that it intends to maintain its shareholding in the subsidiary. The third type simply acknowledges the loan application.
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Llano, Samuel. The Persecution of Organilleros. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199392469.003.0009.
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This chapter provides an account of how, from the 1860s on, organilleros challenged some of the foundations of a middle-class lifestyle in Madrid, including comfort and aural hygiene. For that reason, city authorities intensified the legal and police persecution of these musicians toward the end of the nineteenth century. In 1889, the media orchestrated a campaign against organilleros in which they were accused of committing a crime that was never verified. This frame-up mobilized public opinion against organilleros and paved the way for the string of legal measures that targeted them from the 1890s on. While not all the media and residents in Madrid agreed that this persecution was fair, most of them celebrated it for bringing peace to Madrid, an attitude that illustrates how comfort prevailed over social justice.
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Ramos-Sánchez, Jesús Ricardo. Ahorro económico, eficiencia energética y proyección inferencial. Análisis de series de tiempo en celdas fotovoltaicas. ECORFAN, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35429/b.2020.7.1.116.
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This literature work includes the phenomenon of the socioeconomic situation of the residents of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, who have solar panels as a savings mechanism for their homes and as a tool that contributes to their well-being. The research focuses on the economic flow of residents in relation to energy expenditure and surplus. The approach to the problem is due to the lack of an economic and social measurement system in relation to the energy expenditure of the housewith solar panels in extreme weather in the city of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Therefore, the research question was established: How much energy savings does the use of solar panels represent in the families of Victoria, Tamaulipas? For the elaboration of the hypothesis, the Cruz-Ardilla theory (2013), was necessary, which maintains that energy plays an important role in society since it allows access to technological and social advances in resources that provide greater comfort; In this same tenor, Díaz (2015), ensures that technological strategies for sustainability have an economic purpose transforming the territory and; as a last assumption according to Elías and Bordas (2012), which indicates that 44% of primary energy worldwide becomes useless. Thus, the hypothesis is: Energy savings with the use of solar panels in the homes of families in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico is equivalent to 40 percent.
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Backman Rogers, Anna. Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden's "Wanda" (1970). punctum books, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.53288/0326.1.00.
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There is indeed a "miracle" in the 1970 film Wanda. This film has survived, despite decades of neglect, to emerge into the fuliginous light of an era that may just be ready to strain at grasping its harsh and brutal truths -- truths that reveal the imbrication of the psychic in the social and the experiential in political structures. Barbara Loden's film dares to suggest that the social and ethical functions of art should not necessarily be redemptive – that salvation is a cheap and spurious form of consolation that few can afford in this world. This film, made by a woman who knew all too well what it means to be defined through and by her material circumstances (and her relationships to men), and that is so relentlessly ferocious in its refusal to assuage and comfort the viewer, has always been a form of future feminism. Wanda does not brook the comforts of positivity, of aspiration, or even the luxury of selfhood. This film, Still Life contends, is so radical in its feminist-anti-capitalist politics of refusal that we are still struggling to keep up with it. It delineates precisely how the personal is political and why this matters now more than ever. Wanda, a film about a woman who refuses to be saved or to save herself, who lacks the means and energy to alter anything in her life, who lives in a permanent state of blockage, impasse and failure is, as this publication suggests, the film of our contemporary moment.
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Ezell, Margaret J. M. Life Writing and Domestic Papers. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780191849572.003.0006.
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Perhaps because of the turbulent and unsettled times, many men and women recorded their experiences in forms of life writing, including memoirs, diaries, autobiographies and biographies, meditations, and narratives of events. Among the most prolific publishers of life writings were the early Quakers, who published their accounts to offer comfort to others. Other texts such as those by John Evelyn, Margaret Cavendish, and Robert Boyle recorded events and impressions, as well as creating personal narratives.
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Ivanhoe, Philip J. Oneness. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840518.001.0001.
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At the core of this work lie the oneness hypothesis, which is not a single theory but a family of views found in different forms in a wide variety of disciplines, and its implications for theories of virtue and human happiness. The oneness hypothesis concerns the nature of the world, but it entails a view about the nature of the self and its relationship to other people, creatures, and things. Its core assertion is that we are inextricably intertwined with other people, creatures, and things. The connections the oneness hypothesis advocates are specifically those that conduce to the health, benefit, and improvement of both individuals and the larger wholes of which they are parts. The relational view of the self at the heart of the oneness hypothesis offers an alternative to more individualistic accounts. This new view of the self is a more expansive conception of the self, a self that is less self-centered and instead is seen as intimately connected with other people, creatures, and things. A central claim of this work is that a proper understanding of the underlying oneness of the world will lead one to a greater awareness and appreciation of innate inclinations and resources that when fully developed generate a distinctive set of virtues. A life guided by such virtues enables one to locate oneself within grand natural and social orders that facilitate greater spontaneity, security, and metaphysical comfort, resulting in a special, resilient, and enduring form of happiness.
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Moran, John, and Rebecca Doyle. Cow Talk. CSIRO Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486301621.
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The aim of this manual is to improve the welfare of dairy cattle in tropical developing countries, and by doing so, optimise cow and herd performance. It gives the stockmen and farmers directly concerned with the cattle a better understanding of animal behaviour and the ways cattle communicate their comfort or distress. The book discusses normal cattle behaviour and shows how domestication and breeding can affect behaviour to achieve high levels of production of milk, live weight gain and fertility.
Animal welfare is important for producers because it can affect the health, production and contentment of cows. Animal welfare practices which adversely affect cow and herd performance on tropical small holder dairy farms are identified. Advice is then given to change the animal's environment or modify a handler's technique to ensure cattle have the degree of comfort needed to achieve more profitable and sustainable systems of livestock farming.
Cow Talk will be a beneficial resource for farmers who want to improve animal welfare, farm advisers who can assist farmers to improve their welfare practices, educators who develop training programs for farmers and dairy advisers, and other stakeholders in tropical dairy production such as local agribusiness, policy makers and research scientists.
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Schrijvers, Dirk. Disease-modifying therapies in advanced cancer. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199656097.003.0122.
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In many situations, anti-cancer therapies may be critical components of a palliative care plan to optimize patient comfort, function, quality of life, and duration of survival. Optimal care often requires the integration of oncological and palliative care and it is important for palliative care clinicians to be familiar with oncological approaches to improve patient well-being, and also the limitations of such approaches. This integrative role requires that palliative care clinicians have a basic literacy regarding anti-cancer therapies and that they be familiar with information resources to update them on new and developing therapeutic options which may be of benefit to their patients.
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Borch, Fred L. Trials for Forced Prostitution. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777168.003.0008.
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For the first time in legal history, the Dutch prosecuted forced prostitution (also called “enforced prostitution”) as a war crime. They were the only Allied Power to prosecute the offense at a military tribunal. Consequently, their efforts to punish sexual violence against women and girls, especially in the “Semarang forced prostitution affair,” are important in the evolution of the law of armed conflict. This chapter explores how the Japanese forced European civilian girls and women in internment camps to work as prostitutes (“comfort women”) in brothels licensed by the Japanese military. It also examines recent efforts to obtain redress for the victims of Japanese sexual slavery.
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Sayal, Puneet, and Jianren Mao. Opioids in Spine Pain: Indications, Challenges, and Controversies. Edited by Mehul J. Desai. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199350940.003.0029.
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Opioid medications are commonly used in the treatment of spine-mediated pain. They are used on a chronic, long-term basis, and their use is on the rise. The available evidence supports their use for short periods if much effort is put into patient and opioid selection, and with close monitoring. Challenges include numerous adverse effects, aberrant behaviors, and the comfort and skill set of providers. Controversies surrounding the chronic use of opioids center on the inconclusive evidence regarding long-term efficacy and safety. More research is necessary to determine whether these medications are appropriate, efficacious, and safe over the long term, and also to aid providers in managing patients on chronic opioids in terms of patient and opioid selection, risk stratification, monitoring, and discontinuation/weaning.
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Heiner, Prof, Bielefeldt, Ghanea Nazila, Dr, and Wiener Michael, Dr. Part 3 Vulnerable Groups, 3.2 Persons Deprived of Their Liberty. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198703983.003.0020.
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This chapter addresses the right to freedom of religion or belief, which all detainees should enjoy regardless of the reasons of their detention. Freedom of religion or belief can be deeply significant for detainees, since it can offer them comfort, rehabilitation, and hope at a time when they are experiencing a paucity of social interaction. The chapter highlights the positive duties upon the State in relation to detention due to the heightened risk of religious violations such as indoctrination, forced conversion or involuntary access to prison chaplains. Moreover, imprisonment imposes particular risks on limitations being imposed on manifestations of religion or belief such as fasting, access to religious materials, diet, clothing, and headdress.
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Moppett, Iain. Management of anaesthesia. Edited by Jonathan G. Hardman. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642045.003.0042.
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Successful management of anaesthesia requires expertise in the triad of knowledge, technical skills, and non-technical skills. The decision-making and techniques chosen should all be focused on patient safety, followed by patient comfort and efficiency. There is increasing evidence that anaesthesia management has an influence on patient outcome beyond the first couple of postoperative days. This chapter provides an overview of some of the key aspects of management of anaesthesia: the importance of proper preparation at all stages; the evidence—or lack thereof—for choices between techniques and drugs; and the key role of effective communication by the anaesthetist.
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Vig, Sanjana, and Steven Boggs. Financial Analysis and Competitive Strategies for NORA. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190495756.003.0007.
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The scientific and technical principles that form the basis of anesthesia practice are transferrable to any location where patients require monitoring, analgesia, and hypnosis. Most growth seen in anesthesia services in the past decade has occurred in non–operating room anesthesia locations. Anesthesiologists are critical for the safe and efficient functioning of these locations. However, with the ever-increasing pressure to reduce total health care delivery costs, anesthesiologists need to understand some of the financial metrics that will be used to measure their contribution to these locations. Moreover, anesthesiologists must be willing to articulate the rationale for their presence in these areas: patient safety, patient comfort, and increased throughput, to name a few.
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Shapiro, Matthew. Emerging Adult Essay. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190260637.003.0049.
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Throughout life, transitions can create some of the most daunting experiences anyone will encounter. Leaving school, finding a job, moving out on your own, finding someone to share your life with—these all constitute life transitions and events that force everyone to look outside of their comfort zone to formulate a solution. Everyone dreads the change, but we all must face it head-on and accept the challenge of something different. For people with disabilities these changes may be overwhelming and, at times, debilitating. The key to success while transitioning is having attained the proper skill set to help overcome whatever transitional barrier(s) your particular disability mandates....
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Norland, Patricia D. The Saigon Sisters. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749735.001.0001.
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This book offers the narratives of a group of privileged women who were immersed in a French lycée and later rebelled and fought for independence, starting with France's occupation of Vietnam and continuing through US involvement and life after war ends in 1975. Tracing the lives of nine women, the book reveals these women's stories as they forsook safety and comfort to struggle for independence, and describes how they adapted to life in the jungle, whether facing bombing raids, malaria, deadly snakes, or other trials. How did they juggle double lives working for the resistance in Saigon? How could they endure having to rely on family members to raise their own children? Why, after being sent to study abroad by anxious parents, did several women choose to return to serve their country? How could they bear open-ended separation from their husbands? How did they cope with sending their children to villages to escape the bombings of Hanoi? In spite of the maelstrom of war, how did they forge careers? And how, in spite of dislocation and distrust following the end of the war in 1975, did these women find each other and rekindle their friendships? This book answers these questions and more in this powerful and personal approach to history.
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Sokol, Bryan W., Katie Gauthier Donnelly, Justin M. Vilbig, and Katie Monsky. Cultural Immersion as a Context for Promoting Global Citizenship and Personal Agency in Young Adults. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190260637.003.0024.
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Immersive educational experiences are a form of experiential learning that typically involve intensive instruction, reflection, and exposure to complex social issues, often taking participants outside of their “comfort zones” to critically examine their own preconceived notions and biases. This chapter argues that well-designed, intercultural immersion experiences capitalize on key developmental areas in emerging young adults who are navigating diverse perspectives, exploring new identities, and searching for deeper meaning and responsibility. Emerging adults are primed to take advantage of such intercultural immersion opportunities, making even short-term experiences a viable option for intense personal reflection and growth. In addition to promoting healthy developmental pathways in young people, such experiences also benefit the civic well-being of communities by encouraging youth to become agents of social change.
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Nash, Robert J. Teaching About Religion Outside of Religious Studies. Edited by Michael D. Waggoner and Nathan C. Walker. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199386819.013.34.
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Regardless of major or minor areas of disciplinary concentration, faculty members must think about the role that the study of religion and spirituality plays in the education of students who, in the future, will serve others in a variety of work settings. Educators must think seriously and systematically about the risks and benefits, the disadvantages and advantages, of dealing with such sensitive material. To ignore issues of religion and spirituality is to miss what is vitally important to educators everywhere. All professionals in higher education, as well as in other public service settings, should learn how to talk respectfully and compassionately with one another, and with their constituencies, about a topic that, throughout history, has caused as much pain, suffering, and division as it has comfort, joy, and reconciliation. In today’s complex world of difference, there is simply no other way for us to coexist without destroying one another.
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Figley, Charles R., and Kathleen Regan Figley. Compassion Fatigue Resilience. Edited by Emma M. Seppälä, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Stephanie L. Brown, Monica C. Worline, C. Daryl Cameron, and James R. Doty. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190464684.013.28.
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Drawing on more than 48 years of experience working with compassionate people who were suffering, the authors discuss and illustrate the useful applications of the new Compassion Fatigue Resilience Model. Briefly reviewing the relevant research and theoretical literature, they point to the common findings that human service workers frequently forget about their own workplace comforts and are often unaware of the heavy price they pay in giving service to others. Several case studies illustrate what prompts efforts to build compassion fatigue resilience, and the life improvements that result when these efforts are successful. These improvements not only enhance the quality of human services by the workers; attention to their mental health needs leads to better worker health and morale, and sense of mutual support that extends their careers.
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Watson, Max, and Mark Thomas. Spiritual and ethical aspects of advance care planning. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802136.003.0006.
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This chapter describes linking spirituality and Advanced Care Planning (ACP); fear and ACP; how thinking about death changes people; religious views of ACP; denial and ACP; personal control and ACP; ethical principles and ACP; the spiritual work of ACP, including objective asessment; adaptation and ACP; and ritual, sacrament, and ACP. The discussion holds that dying is not primarily a medical event. The process of thinking about end-of-life issues can significantly impact on an individual’s attitudes, values, and belief systems. Dying patients can challenge the cultural illusion that life is going to last forever. This can be hard for families and professionals to accept and challenges their own fears around mortality. The importance and wisdom of religious rituals and religious symbolism cannot be ignored even in the most secular of contexts as they bring comfort to many. ACP is about life before death and can foster resilience and hope.
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Brown, Andrew, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Review Performance Honestly and Compassionately. Edited by Andrew Brown, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190697068.003.0008.
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This chapter demonstrates how well-managed performance evaluations can deepen the sense of engagement with the company and restore healthy workplace relationships. Technology, litigation, and globalization disrupt the psychological contract and drive the earnest and capable employee apart from the organization. Managing these concerns is generally outside the typical manager’s comfort zone and formal education, but it is a core competency that most organizations should expect of their managers. How can the integrity of the contract be maintained over time? How can the insidious misunderstandings be uncovered? There is perhaps no better point of intervention than performance discussions. People with performance gaps preoccupy the manager. Commonly one or two people make up a significant amount of the manager’s performance concerns and is therefore a significant distraction. Using a well-developed case example of a performance review is provided to explain how a manager can unearth and address issues that threaten to damage the psychological contract.
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Empson, Laura. Leading Insecure Overachievers. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744788.003.0006.
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This chapter focuses on the rank-and-file fee-earning professionals. It examines the origins of insecurity among professionals and explains how their organizations amplify and exploit it. Elite professional organizations provide insecure overachieving individuals with the security of exceptional psychic as well as financial rewards through offers of employment. This chapter explains how and why professionals enjoy the comforts of being associated with an elite organization and how they are able to incorporate its elite status into their own identity. ‘Comforting’ social control mechanisms embodied in strong cultures can translate into cult-like conformity among senior professionals. This chapter, therefore, also explores the dark side of social control and its most typical manifestation—overwork. It asks: why do senior professionals ‘choose’ to exercise their autonomy by overworking to such an extent that they risk their personal relationships and physical and mental health? It concludes by examining the responsibilities of leaders in this context.
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Borch, Fred L. An Unfortunate Sideshow. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777168.003.0012.
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There have always been men and women who collaborate—provide aid, comfort, and support—to the enemy in time of war. In the Indies, both Europeans and nonEuropeans collaborated with the Japanese during the occupation. This chapter examines five war crimes tribunals involving Europeans, with the focus on the prosecution of a Japanese-speaking Dutchman who made radio propaganda broadcasts for the enemy and the trial of Head Police Commissioner P. J. H. M. Maseland, the highest-ranking official to collaborate with the enemy. The former was the NEI equivalent of “Lord Haw-Haw” and “Tokyo Rose,” and demonstrates that the Dutch took the impact of enemy propaganda on the war effort seriously. The latter was a Japanese-speaking police official who compromised his integrity during the occupation.
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O'Callaghan, Clare, and Natasha Michael. Music Therapy in Grief and Mourning. Edited by Jane Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199639755.013.42.
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Music therapists endeavour to understand music’s significance for people who are mourning unfulfilled hopes and a life once lived; who are trying to deal with uncertainty, altered identities, saying farewells, or impending death. Through music-based interventions in therapeutic relationships, music therapists extend the opportunities for music to enable and express mourning which can be congruent with helpful emotional release and coping. Participants are assisted to find comfort and fellowship through identifications with lyrics and sonorities, and the improved expressive capacity offered in music. Expanded awareness and renewed identities can occur through music-based counseling, imagery, improvisation, and song writing. Decedents’ legacies from music therapy may help their mourners to continue and rework bonds with them in bereavement. Such legacies include song recordings, and visual, kinesthetic, and sound memories of shared music therapy sessions.
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Gerard, McMeel. Part II Related Doctrines, 14 Formation and Certainty. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198755166.003.0014.
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This chapter surveys some modern approaches to the formation of contracts which illustrate the close similarity in the principles used in some formation cases and construction cases. Given that many formation cases turn upon the meaning and effect of language of correspondence, other documentary exchanges, so-called ‘letters of comfort’, and ‘letters of intent’, it is unsurprising that the techniques are closely related. In construing documentary exchanges to ascertain whether negotiations have crystallized into a binding contract, the principles of objectivity and contextualism are in evidence. The approach to background is wider as there is no restriction on the evidence which the court may consider. Whilst axiomatically the exercise in interpretation is one of ascertaining the content of contractual obligations, a similar technique is deployed where the question relates to the formation of a contract.
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Balboni, Michael J., and Tracy A. Balboni. A Spirituality of Immanence. Edited by Michael J. Balboni and Tracy A. Balboni. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199325764.003.0012.
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This chapter argues that by secular medicine’s repudiation of religious partners, it ironically establishes itself as a religious-like phenomenon. Medicine is dangerously close to aligning itself with a spirituality of immanence centered on bodily cure and comfort as chief affection or ultimate concern. This realignment away from Western religions and toward a spirituality of immanence monopolizes the structures of medicine, marginalizing the Abrahamic religious traditions, and animating a rival spiritual power. Contemporary medicine is not freed from spirituality or religion. Medicine in its contemporary secular institutions and professions is both intrinsically spiritual in its ultimate concerns and loves and infused with a veiled, quasi-religious structure embedded in its systems. Clinicians are deeply socialized into immanence, leading them to unconsciously avoid or neglect their patients’ spiritual needs.
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Moller, David Wendell. Notes from the Trenches. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199760145.003.0010.
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Being in the trenches with patients and other caregivers while working collaboratively toward a patient’s goals is a fantastic experience. However, it is equally important to be cognizant of the many difficulties to be encountered while working in the trenches. When caring for patients who are marginalized, the highs and lows of being a medical provider for this population can be extreme because of the circumstances surrounding both their medical and social situations. Practicing principles of collaborative decision-making, along with seeking to understand and empathize with others, serves to complement the other tools that are required to navigate this profession successfully. Educating the next generation of medical providers on how to step out of their comfort zone and engage a diversified population of patients will ensure that patients have providers who are willing to be in the trenches with them for the days to come.
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Lacey, Judith. Management of the actively dying patient. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199656097.003.0181.
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The period leading to death is characterized by increasing prevalence and intensity of physical, psychological, existential, and social concerns, and it is often a challenging time for patients, their families, and health-care providers. This chapter specifically addresses the most prevalent symptoms and concerns encountered when managing the actively dying patient. Symptoms affecting dying patients’ comfort, including pain, dyspnoea, delirium, terminal secretions, and refractory symptoms and suffering require different clinical management as death approaches. Other topics included are recognizing the dying phase; communication with and preparation of patient, family, and staff; anticipating dying-advanced care planning and approach to resuscitation; addressing psychosocial and existential concerns; and approach to difficult end-of-life scenarios. This chapter aims to provide the health-care practitioner with a good overview and approach to the whole-person care needs of the dying patient and their family and carers to enable health practitioners to feel comfortable in providing this important care with confidence.
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Bauman, Kristy A., and Robert C. Hyzy. Volume-controlled mechanical ventilation. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0095.
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The goal of mechanical ventilation is to achieve adequate gas exchange while minimizing haemodynamic compromise and ventilator-associated lung injury. Volume-controlled ventilation can be delivered via several modes, including controlled mechanical ventilation, assist control (AC) and synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV). .In volume-controlled modes, the clinician sets the flow pattern, flow rate, trigger sensitivity, tidal volume, respiratory rate, positive end-expiratory pressure, and fraction of inspired oxygen. Patient ventilator synchrony can be enhanced by setting appropriate trigger sensitivity and inspiratory flow rate. I:E ratio can be adjusted to improve oxygenation, avoid air trapping and enhance patient comfort. There is little data regarding the benefits of one volume-controlled mode over another. In acute respiratory distress syndrome, low tidal volume ventilation in conjunction with plateau pressure limitation should be employed as there is a reduction in mortality with this strategy. This chapter addresses respiratory mechanics, modes and settings, clinical applications, and limitations of volume-controlled ventilation.