1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812221203321

Autore

Faull Christina

Titolo

Palliative care / / Christina Faull and Kerry Blankley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-100680-7

0-19-177209-7

1-336-09914-3

0-19-100679-3

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford core texts Palliative care

Disciplina

616/.029

Soggetti

Palliative treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Intended primarily for students in the clinical years of the medical course, this text will also appeal to junior doctors, nurses and anybody needing to know about caring for the terminally ill.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910619452903321

Titolo

The Age of the Soybean : An Environmental History of Soy During the Great Acceleration / / Claiton Marcio da Silva, Claudio de Majo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The White Horse Press, 2022

Winwick, Cambs. : , : The White Horse Press, , 2022

ISBN

9781912186655

1912186659

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (387 pages)

Disciplina

633.3/4

Soggetti

Conservation of the environment

Trees, wildflowers & plants

Humanities

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"The soybean is far more than just a versatile crop whose derivates serve the protein needs of a meatless diet. One of the world's most important commodities, soy represents the embodiment of mechanised industrial agriculture and is one of the main actors behind the socioeconomic, political and ecological transformations of industrial farming in several world regions. Despite the crop's potential as a cheap source of vegetal protein for human consumers, most industrial soybean production has fuelled the global meat industrial complex, as animal feed. Soybean is thus, paradoxically, still a relatively 'invisible' crop to the public at large, although its global yields continue to increase at stupendous rates, lining the pockets of agribusiness and to the detriment of traditional agriculture.  The transnational socio-ecological and economic entanglements characterising this versatile legume's global expansion have prompted scholarly attention as researchers around the world have begun to unveil the main historical drivers behind the rise of the soybean in the global food chain. This book aims to expand the analysis, offering the most significant effort



so far at an environmental history of soybeans. Interrogating the socioeconomic and ecological transformations determined by (and determining) the rise of soy in international food chains during the Great Acceleration, the volume gathers contributions from an international cast of researchers, working in numerous geographical contexts, from Japan and China, to India, African nations, the Southern Cone of Latin America, Northern Europe and the United States. Soybean farming, breeding, processing and marketing have bound together the histories of these diverse regions and altered beyond recognition their ecological and socio-economic contexts."