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UNINA9910786897303321 |
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Autore |
Ferraris Maurizio |
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Where are you? : an ontology of the cell phone / / Maurizio Ferraris ; translated by Sarah De Sanctis |
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New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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0-8232-5619-7 |
0-8232-6132-8 |
0-8232-5617-0 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (247 p.) |
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Cell phones - Social aspects |
Cell phones |
Ontology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD: TRUTH AND THE MOBILE PHONE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TRANSLATOR’S NOTE -- INTRODUCTION: WHERE ARE YOU? -- 1. SPEAKING -- 2. WRITING -- 3. RECORDING -- 4. CONSTRUCTING -- THE BOTTLE IMP -- 5. STRONG REALISM -- 6. STRONG TEXTUALISM -- 7. WEAK REALISM -- 8. WEAK TEXTUALISM -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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This book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the cell phone. “Where are you?”—a question asked over cell phones myriad times each day—is arguably the most philosophical question of our age, given the transformation of presence the cell phone has wrought in contemporary social life and public space. Throughout all public spaces, cell phones are now a ubiquitous prosthesis of what Descartes and Hegel once considered the absolute tool: the hand. Their power comes in part from their ability to move about with us—they are like a computer, but we can carry them with us at all times—in part from what they attach to us (and how), as all that computational and connective power becomes both handy and hand-sized. Quite surprisingly, despite their name, one might argue, as |
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Ferraris does, that cell phones are not really all that good for sound and speaking. Instead, the main philosophical point of this book is that mobile phones have come into their own as writing machines—they function best for text messages, e-mail, and archives of all kinds. Their philosophical urgency lies in the manner in which they carry us from the effects of voice over into reliance upon the written traces that are, Ferraris argues, the basic stuff of human culture. Ontology is the study of what there is, and what there is in our age is a huge network of documents, papers, and texts of all kinds. Social reality is not constructed by collective intentionality; rather, it is made up of inscribed acts. As Derrida already prophesized, our world revolves around writing. Cell phones have attached writing to our fingers and dragged it into public spaces in a new way. This is why, with their power to obliterate or morph presence and replace voice with writing, the cell phone is such a philosophically interesting object. |
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UNINA9910437987103321 |
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Autore |
Hanna Magdi |
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Cancer pain / / Magdi Hanna, Zbigniew (Ben) Zylicz, editors |
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London ; ; New York, : Springer, c2013 |
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[1st ed. 2013.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (290 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Cancer pain |
Internal medicine |
Oncology |
Pain medicine |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographic references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1 Introduction -- 2 Epidemiology of Pain in Cancer -- 3 Recent Advances in Cancer Treatment -- 4 Pharmacogenetics of Pain in Cancer |
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-- 5 Mechanisms of Cancer Pain -- 6 Pre-clinical Cancer Pain Models -- 7 Pain Assessment, Recognizing Clinical Patterns and Cancer Pain Syndromes -- 8 Opioids, their Receptors and Pharmacology -- 9 Critical Appraisal of the Breakthrough Pain in Cancer -- 10 Opioid-induced Hyperalgesia -- 11 The Non-pharmacological and Local Pharmacological Methods of Pain Control -- 12 New Drugs in Management of Pain in Cancer -- 13 Neuropathic Component of Pain in Cancer -- 14 Non-cancer-related Pain in Daily Practice -- 15 Rehabilitation of Cancer Patients: a Forgotten Need? -- 16 Psychosocial Aspects of Cancer Pain -- 17 Spiritual Care and Pain in Cancer -- 18 Interventional Techniques in Cancer Pain: Critical Appraisal -- 19 Challenges for Pain Management in 21st Century. |
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Cancer remains a major challenge for medicine and it continues to claim lives and cause great suffering. Pain is a symptom experienced by most cancer patients regardless of disease stage, and less than 50% of cancer pain patients achieve effective pain and symptom control though available therapies. If these therapies are utilized correctly, many more patients can achieve effective control. While opioids are still seen as the mainstay of cancer pain treatment, it is necessary to examine whether this treatment strategy still holds true in the 21st century. Cancer Pain provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, practical guide to the management of pain in cancer patients. The book provides a clear, concise explanation of cancer pain syndromes, a modern understanding of the pathophysiological mechanism and an overview of recent developments in creating pre-clinical cancer pain models. It offers the reader the wide and improved options for management of cancer pain in clinical practice, including the use of opioid and non-opioid drugs, and defines the role of non-pharmacological methods for pain control. Cancer Pain also provides an overview of the latest developments in the management of cancer, which have major implications for the current and future thinking in cancer pain treatment strategy. This text is an invaluable resource for doctors, trainees and clinical nurse specialists in palliative medicine and oncology, and would be of interest to anyone who wishes to gain a better understanding of the complex nature of cancer pain and the tools available to alleviate it. |
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