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UNINA9910450059303321 |
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Observing organisations : anxiety, defence and culture in health care / / edited by R.D. Hinshelwood and Wilhelm Skogstad ; with a forward by Anton Obholzer |
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Philadelphia, Pa. : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
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9786610328475 |
0-203-19047-5 |
1-134-64425-6 |
1-280-32847-9 |
0-203-13515-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (192 p.) |
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HinshelwoodR. D |
SkogstadWilhelm <1952-> |
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Health facilities - Administration - Psychological aspects |
Health services administration - Psychological aspects |
Health care teams - Psychological aspects |
Attitude of Health Personnel |
Medical Staff - psychology |
Organizational Culture |
Professional-Patient Relations |
Stress, Psychological - prevention & control |
Health Facility Administration |
Health Facility Environment |
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United Kingdom |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminaries; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The dynamics of health care institutions; 2 The method of observing organisations; 3 Madness and morale: a chronic psychiatric ward; 4 Food for thought the canteen of a mental hospital; 5 At a crossroad |
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between institutional and community psychiatry an acute psychiatric admission ward; 6 Mental and physical space a long stay psychiatric ward; 7 Tyrannical equality: a mental health hostel; 8 Working in a world of bodies a medical ward; 9 Nowhere to hide a day case centre; 10 Sitting close to death a palliative care unit |
11 Reflections on health care culturesBibliography; Index |
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Provides a psychonanalytically informed examination of the cultures that arise within health care organisations, and shows how findings can be used to overcome difficulties that arise, |
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UNISA996466407803316 |
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Ellerman David P. |
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New foundations of information theory : logical entropy and Shannon entropy / / David Ellerman |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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1 online resource (121 pages) |
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SpringerBriefs in philosophy |
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Entropy (Information theory) |
Entropia (Teoria de la informació) |
Llibres electrònics |
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About this book -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Logical Entropy -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Logical Information as the Measure of Distinctions -- 1.3 Classical Logical Probability and Logical Entropy -- 1.4 Information Algebras and Joint Distributions -- 1.5 Brief History of the Logical Entropy Formula -- References -- 2 The Relationship Between Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy -- 2.1 Shannon Entropy -- 2.2 Logical Entropy, Not Shannon Entropy, Is a (Non-negative) Measure -- 2.3 The Dit-Bit Transform -- References -- 3 The Compound Notions for Logical and Shannon |
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Entropies -- 3.1 Conditional Logical Entropy -- 3.2 Shannon Conditional Entropy -- 3.3 Logical Mutual Information -- 3.4 Shannon Mutual Information -- 3.5 Independent Joint Distributions -- 3.6 Cross-Entropies, Divergences, and Hamming Distance -- 3.6.1 Cross-Entropies -- 3.6.2 Divergences -- 3.6.3 Hamming Distance -- 3.7 Summary of Formulas and Dit-Bit Transforms -- References -- 4 Further Developments of Logical Entropy -- 4.1 Entropies for Multivariate Joint Distributions -- 4.2 An Example of Negative Mutual Information for Shannon Entropy -- 4.3 Entropies for Countable Probability Distributions -- 4.4 Metrical Logical Entropy = (Twice) Variance -- 4.5 Boltzmann and Shannon Entropies: A Conceptual Connection? -- 4.6 MaxEntropies for Discrete Distributions -- 4.7 The Transition to Coding Theory -- 4.8 Logical Entropy on Rooted Trees -- References -- 5 Quantum Logical Information Theory -- 5.1 Density Matrix Treatment of Logical Entropy -- 5.2 Linearizing Logical Entropy to Quantum Logical Entropy -- 5.3 Theorems About Quantum Logical Entropy -- 5.4 Quantum Logical Entropies with Density Matrices as Observables -- 5.5 The Logical Hamming Distance Between Two Partitions -- 5.6 The Quantum Logical Hamming Distance -- References -- 6 Conclusion. |
6.1 Information Theory Re-founded and Re-envisioned -- 6.2 Quantum Information Theory Re-envisioned -- 6.3 What Is to Be Done? -- References -- A Basics of Partition Logic -- A.1 Subset Logic and Partition Logic -- A.2 The Lattice Operations on Partitions -- A.3 Implication and Negation in Partition Logic -- A.4 Relative Negation in Partition Logic and the Boolean Core -- A.5 Partition Tautologies -- References -- Index. |
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