1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460331703321

Titolo

Social aspects of care / / edited by Nessa Coyle, PhD, APRN, FAAN, Consultant, Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics in Oncology, New York, New York

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-19-024416-X

0-19-024414-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Collana

HPNA palliative nursing manuals ; ; volume 6

Disciplina

362.17/56

Soggetti

Hospice care

Palliative treatment

Terminal care

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sexuality / Marianne Matzo -- Bereavement / Inge B. Corless -- Supporting families in palliative care / Rose Steele and Betty Davies -- Planning for the actual death / Patricia Berry -- Cultural considerations in palliative care / Polly Mazanec and Joan T. Panke -- Self-assessment test questions.

Sommario/riassunto

'Social Aspects of Care' provides an overview of financial and mental stress illness places, not just on the patient, but on the family as well. This volume contains information on how to support families in palliative care, cultural considerations important in end-of-life care, sexuality and the impact of illness, planning for the actual death, and bereavement.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459373703321

Titolo

Interdisciplinarity and climate change : transforming knowledge and practice for our global future / / edited by Roy Bhaskar. [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-99669-9

1-136-99670-2

1-282-56987-2

9786612569876

0-203-85531-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BhaskarRoy <1944->

Disciplina

363.73874

551.6

Soggetti

Climatic changes

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge

Globalization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Contexts of interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinarity and climate change; 2 Critical realist interdisciplinarity: A research agenda to support action on global warming; 3 Seven theses on CO2- reductionism and its interdisciplinary counteraction; 4 The dangerous climate of disciplinary tunnel vision; 5 Consumption - a missing dimension in climate policy; 6 Global warming and cultural/media articulations of emerging and contending social imaginaries: A critical realist perspective

7 Climate change: Brokering interdisciplinarity across the physical and social sciences8 The need for a transdisciplinary understanding of development in a hot and crowded world; 9 Knowledge, democracy and action in response to climate change; 10 Technological idealism: The case of the thorium fuel cycle; 11 Food crises and global warming: Critical realism and the need to re-institutionalize science; 12 Towards a dialectics of knowledge and care in the global system; 13 Epilogue:



the travelling circus of climate change: A conference tourist and his confessions; Further reading

Biographical notes on contributorsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is a major new book addressing one of the most challenging questions of our time. Its unique standpoint is based on the recognition that effective and coherent interdisciplinarity is necessary to deal with the issue of climate change, and the multitude of linked phenomena which both constitute and connect to it. In the opening chapter, Roy Bhaskar makes use of the extensive resources of critical realism to articulate a comprehensive framework for multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and cross-disciplinary