Tag: Health

Women’s Health Advocacy Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century


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2020 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0367192241 | PDF | 6 MB
Women’s Health Advocacy brings together academic studies and personal narratives to demonstrate how women use a variety of arguments, forms of writing, and communication strategies to effect change in a health system that is not only often difficult to participate in, but which can be actively harmful. It explicates the concept of rhetorical ingenuity―the creation of rhetorical means for specific and technical, yet extremely personal, situations. At a time when women’s health concerns are at the center of national debate, this rhetorical ingenuity provides means for women to uncover latent sources of oppression in women’s health and medicine and to influence matters of research, funding, policy, and everyday access to healthcare in the face of exclusion and disenfranchisement. This accessible collection will be inspiring reading for academics and students in health communication, medical humanities, and women’s studies, as well as for activists, patients, and professionals.

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Veteran and Military Mental Health A Clinical Manual


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031180089 | 448 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
This book addresses mental health treatment for veterans and active military personnel. In addition to examining foundational practices in the sub-field, it contains specifically tailored content concerning the recent collapse of the United States (US) installed Afghanistan government. The book is conscious of the myriad of complex emotions that veterans who fought for the past twenty years may be experiencing.

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Kabbalah for Health & Wellness


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2007 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0738709778 | EPUB | 4 MB
Too often our own health takes a back seat to the high priority of caretaking others, ultimately draining our energy and making personal wellness a distant goal. For healing practitioners and those seeking wellness for physical, emotional, and mental health, Kabbalah can be a powerful framework for employing energetic healing methods. With a simple, sustained practice-from fifteen minutes a day-health and wellness can be restored using: * guided imagery techniques * easy-to-implement exercises that build upon themselves * approachable meditations, prayers, and rituals With a Kabbalistic approach to wellness, you’ll find your search for a heightened state of consciousness happily balanced with the practical health and wholeness concerns of daily life. The practice of Kabbalah will enhance your entire life and can be used as an overall guiding force for body, mind, and spirit connection-essential for overall health and well-being.

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City of Health, Fields of Disease Revolutions in the Poetry, Medicine, and Philosophy of Romanticism


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2004 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0754635422 | PDF | 13 MB
The Romantic Era witnessed a series of conflicts concerning definitions of health and disease. In this book, Martin Wallen discusses those conflicts and the cultural values that drove them. The six chapters progress from the mainstream rejuvenation of the Socratic values by Wordsworth and Coleridge to the radical alternatives offered by the Scottish theorist, John Brown, and the speculative German philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling. Wallen shows how actual definitions of health and disease changed at the turn of the nineteenth century, and provides an analysis of the metaphorical uses to which romantic thinkers put these different definitions in their attempts to value or devalue competing concepts of individuality, poetic expression, and history.ÂKey to the redefinition of these concepts was the use of the rhetoric of medicine to add value to those statements considered desirable and to undermine those targeted for elimination from public discourse. By juxtaposing the well-known critical works of Wordsworth and Coleridge with lesser-known works such as Schelling’s Yearbooks of Medicine and Thomas Beddoes’ medical treatises, Wallen illuminates the central role medicine played in redefining the human being’s relationship to society and nature – part of the cultural revolution that began in the nineteenth century.

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When Was Arts in Health A History of the Present


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811936161 | 160 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB
This book critically appraises the field of Arts in Health in the light of the recent public health crisis and so-called culture wars. A new term was coined in Britain in 2017 for this area of work by an All-Party Parliamentary Group: "creative health". Williams sets this hopeful assertion against a darker backdrop of austerity, rising inequality and "Covid-nationalism". Understandings of the field as a (multi)national phenomenon are examined through contested narratives that surround its origin. Using genealogical methods, Williams shows how at supra, national and local policy levels, Arts in Health is presented as an idea that transcends place and time. Arguing against this premise, post-war decades are examined to reveal hidden, mutable arts-health expressions. Examples of practice, and their recognition as such, are context dependent it is concluded – produced by political economies as well as oppositional social movements.

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Trauma, Women’s Mental Health, and Social Justice Pitfalls and Possibilities


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English | ISBN: 1138091804 | 2019 | 126 pages | EPUB | 369 KB
This book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of women’s rights, the mainstreaming of trauma treatments and therapies has had mixed implications, sometimes replacing genuine social change efforts with new forms of female oppression by psychiatry. It contends that trauma interventions often represent a "business as usual" approach within psychiatry, with women being expected to comply with rigid treatment protocols, accepting the advice given by trauma "experts" that they are mentally unstable and that they must learn to manage the effects of violence in the absence of any real changes to their circumstances or resources. A critique of trauma treatment in its current form,

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Trauma and Mental Health Social Work With Urban Populations African-Centered Clinical Interventions


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English | ISBN: 0367227347 | 2021 | 220 pages | EPUB | 1366 KB
Addressing the social problems associated with trauma and mental health amongst African Americans in urban environments, this book uses an African-centered lens to critique the most common practice models and interventions currently employed by social workers in the field.

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The Era of Longevity Transformation of Aging, Health and Wealth


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811967830 | 403 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
This is an open access book under CC BY-NC-ND.This open access book is a comprehensive solution proposed by Dr. Chen Dongsheng for the issues of medical care, pension, and fund raising in the era of longevity. This book studies the relationship among aging population, economic development, and business model innovation. It integrates multi-disciplinary, multi-industry, and multi-professional research and thinking to focus on how to meet the challenge of aging population from business perspective. The author analyzes the keys and experience for Taikang to get successful in this area. The arrival of the "Era of Longevity" not only creates new business opportunities, but also changes the economy, governance, and cultural ecology of the society. It is of interest to the readers in business and policy-making.

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Safeguarding and Mental Health Support in Contemporary Childhood


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English | ISBN: 0367652447 | 2022 | 134 pages | EPUB | 215 KB
Approaches regarding safeguarding and mental health in childhood have been in constant flux. Framed within a critical realist ontology, this book provides insight into causal factors (individual, material, institutional) and social structures that impact on the continued legacy of the ‘deserving/undeserving’ paradigm.

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