1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910470158603321

Autore

Caianiello, Silvia

Titolo

Catalogo vichiano internazionale : censimento delle prime edizioni di Vico nelle biblioteche al di fuori d'Italia / Silvia Caianiello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli, : A. Guida, \2000!

ISBN

88-7188-344-6

Descrizione fisica

181 p. ; 21 cm.

Collana

Studi vichiani. Nuova serie ; 30

Disciplina

016.195

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

DFT A91.25 VICG/S 019 (30)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782974403321

Autore

Gøtzsche Peter C

Titolo

Rational diagnosis and treatment [[electronic resource] ] : evidence-based clinical decision-making / / Peter C. Gøtzsche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2007

ISBN

1-282-34880-9

9786612348808

0-470-72368-8

Edizione

[4th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WulffHenrik R

Disciplina

616.07/5

616.075

Soggetti

Clinical medicine - Decision making

Evidence-based medicine

Diagnosis - Philosophy

Therapeutics - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. ed. of: Rational diagnosis and treatment / Henrik R. Wulff and Peter C. Gøtzsche. 3rd ed. 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rational Diagnosis and Treatment; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Foundation of Clinical Decisions; The Clinical Decision Process; Clinical Data; Scales of Measurement; Taking the History; The Physical Examination; Paraclinical Findings; Global Assessments; 2 Reliability and Relevance of Clinical Data; Clinical Data on an Interval Scale; Clinical Data on an Ordinal Scale; Clinical Data on a Binary Scale; Descriptive Paraclinical Findings; Descriptive Physical Signs; The Statistical Concept of Normality; The Concept of Disease; Interpretation and Relevance; Indicators

3 The Disease Classification The Historical Perspective; The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; The Theoretical Perspective; The Mechanical Model of Disease; Molecular Biology; Disease and the Environment; The Practical Perspective; Name of Disease; Definition; Causes of Disease (Aetiology and Pathogenesis); The Clinical Picture; Diagnosis and Treatment; 4 Diagnosis; The Diagnostic Universe; Diagnosis of Diseases with an



Accessible Defining Criterion; The Direct Method for Assessing the Accuracy of Test Results

The Indirect Method for Assessing the Accuracy of Test Results Terminological Confusion; Quantitative Data; Diagnosis of Diseases with a Concealed Defining Criterion; Syndrome Diagnosis; Three Patients; Diagnosis in Practice; Frequential and Subjective Probabilities; Diagnostic Strategy; 5 Uncontrolled Experience; Uncontrolled Experience in a Pre-Scientific Era; The Numerical Method; The Era of Laboratory Research; The Spontaneous Course of the Disease; Regression Towards the Mean; Run of Luck; Bias; The Placebo Effect; The Need for Controlled Experience

Alternative Medicine: Pseudo-scientific Thinking 6 The Randomized Clinical Trial; Selection of Patients; Randomization; Choice of Treatment in the Control Group; Principles of Blinding; Cross-Over Trials; Measures of Benefits and Harms; Stopping Rules; Assessment of the Results; Statistical Analysis; Hypothesis Testing; Estimation; Other Statistical Measures of Effect; Subgroup Analyses; Systematic Reviews; From Trials to Practice; Evidence-Based Medicine and Commercial Pressures; 7 Medicine and the Humanities; The Four Components of Clinical Reasoning; The Empathic-Hermeneutic Component

The Ethical Component Three Kinds of Norms; The Foundation of Health Care Ethics; The Structure of Ethical Reasoning; Assessment of the Facts of the Case; Consequential Considerations; Deontological Considerations; The Ethical Decision; Quality of Life; Autonomy and Paternalism; Clinical Examples; Clinical Research Ethics; 8 Critical Reading of Medical Journals; Logical Analysis of Medical Papers; Assets and Limitations of Cohort Studies; Assets and Limitations of Case-Control Studies; Other Designs; Descriptive Statistics; Estimation; Testing Hypotheses; Pseudohypothetico-Deductive Logic

Wrong Sampling Unit

Sommario/riassunto

Now in its fourth edition, Rational Diagnosis and Treatment: Evidence-Based Clinical Decision-Making is a unique book to look at evidence-based medicine and the difficulty of applying evidence from group studies to individual patients.  The book analyses the successive stages of the decision process and deals with topics such as the examination of the patient, the reliability of clinical data, the logic of diagnosis, the fallacies of uncontrolled therapeutic experience and the need for randomised clinical trials and meta-analyses. It is the main theme of the book that, whenever



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791037503321

Titolo

Arts activism, education, and therapies : transforming communities across Africa / / edited by Hazel Barnes ; contributors Gordon Collier [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Rodopi, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

94-012-1054-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Matatu ; ; Number 44

Journal for African Culture and Society

Disciplina

792.022

Soggetti

Ethnic theater

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; Art for Social Change; Imagination and Agency: Facilitating Social Change through the Visual Arts; Theatre in Combat with Violence: The University of Zimbabwe Department of Theatre Arts and Amani Trust Popular Travelling Theatre Project on Political Violence and Torture - Some Basic and Non-Basic Contradictions; Dance as a Communication Tool: AddressingInter-Generational Trauma for a Healthier Psycho-SocialEnvironment in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Exploring Conflict Management Strategies throughApplied Drama: A Wits University Case StudyDancing Drumming and Drawing the Unspeakable:An Exploration of an Arts-Based Programme as ComplementaryInterventions in the Diversion of Youth Sex Offenders; Arty, Africa, and Healing; Music, Musicality, and Musicking:Between Therapy and Everyday Life; Catharsis and Critical Reflection in IsiZulu Prison Theatre:A Case Study from Westville Correctional Facility in Durban; In Between Activism and Education: Intervention Theatre in Kenya; Washa Mollo: Theatre as a Milieu for Conversations and Healing

The Keep Them Safe 2010 Project: Using Story to Structurea Programme with Sustainable Impact for 7,000 ChildrenElephant in the Theatre: The Ethics and Politics ofNarration in an International



Collaboration; Supporting Educators to Support Learners: An ArtCounselling Intervention with Educators; Performing Cultural Memory and the Symbolic: The MusicalTheatre Traditions of the Basarwa in the Ghanzi District, Botswana; Christine's Room: Re/Voicing the Document; Arts and Aesthetics; Applied Art Is Still Art, and By AnyOther Name Would Smell As Sweet

Dramatic Art at the Frontiers of Ontology:Reconsidering AestheticsPostcards on the Aesthetic of Hope in Applied Theatre; Researching the Theatricality and Aesthetics of Applied Theatre; Notes on Contributors; Onomastic Index; Notes for Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This second volume of research emanating from Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand, explores the transformative and healing qualities of the arts in South Africa, Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Essays on arts for social change illuminate the difficulties of conflict-resolution (in war-scarred countries, tertiary institutions, and child-offender programmes) to promote broader understanding of diversity and difference. Further essays focus on arts and healing, in which music therapy diagnoses, repairs, sustains, and enhances collective health. Intervention theatre -