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Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses: Evidence-based care for
children and their families provides accessible and up-to-date
information for nurses working in paediatric neurosurgery.
Referring throughout to the evidence-base for care and
interventions, this complex area is described and explained in a
meaningful and easily understandable way. The text includes
chapters on the underpinning knowledge and principles for the care
of children who need neurosurgery as well as the following common
neurological problems: Hydrocephalus Traumatic Brain Injury
Craniosynostosis Brain Tumours Surgical management of epilepsy in
children Cerebrovascular disorders Neural tube defects The
complexity of the nervous system and principles of care are
presented logically with points to consider and essential care
clearly highlighted and, where available, evidence-based practice
is presented. It includes a range of pedagogical features, such as
chapter overviews and summaries, diagrams, sample care plans, text
boxes and a glossary. This book is essential reading for
pre-registration nursing students and newly qualified nurses but
will also be of use to allied healthcare professionals working with
children and young people requiring neurosurgery.
Milton and the New Scientific Age represents significant advantages
over all previous volumes on the subject of Milton and science, as
it includes contributions from top scholars and prominent beginners
in a broad number of fields. Most of these fields have long
dominated work in both Milton and seventeenth-century studies, but
they have previously not included the relatively new and
revolutionary topic of early modern chemistry, physiology, and
medicine. Previously this subject was confined to the history of
science, with little if any attention to its literary development,
even though it prominently appears in John Milton's Paradise Lost,
which also includes early "science fiction" speculations on aliens
ignored by most readers. Both of these oversights are corrected in
this essay collection, while more traditional areas of research
have been updated. They include Milton's relationship both to Bacon
and the later or Royal Society Baconians, his views on astronomy,
and his "vitalist" views on biology and cosmology. In treating
these topics, our contributors are not mired in speculations about
whether or not Milton was on the cutting edge of early science or
science fiction, for, as nearly all of them show, the idea of a
"cutting edge" is deeply anachronistic at a time when most
scientists and scientific enthusiasts held both fully modern and
backward-looking beliefs. By treating these combinations
contextually, Milton's literary contributions to the "new science"
are significantly clarified along with his many contemporary
sources, all of which merit study in their own right.
Milton and the New Scientific Age represents significant advantages
over all previous volumes on the subject of Milton and science, as
it includes contributions from top scholars and prominent beginners
in a broad number of fields. Most of these fields have long
dominated work in both Milton and seventeenth-century studies, but
they have previously not included the relatively new and
revolutionary topic of early modern chemistry, physiology, and
medicine. Previously this subject was confined to the history of
science, with little if any attention to its literary development,
even though it prominently appears in John Milton's Paradise Lost,
which also includes early "science fiction" speculations on aliens
ignored by most readers. Both of these oversights are corrected in
this essay collection, while more traditional areas of research
have been updated. They include Milton's relationship both to Bacon
and the later or Royal Society Baconians, his views on astronomy,
and his "vitalist" views on biology and cosmology. In treating
these topics, our contributors are not mired in speculations about
whether or not Milton was on the cutting edge of early science or
science fiction, for, as nearly all of them show, the idea of a
"cutting edge" is deeply anachronistic at a time when most
scientists and scientific enthusiasts held both fully modern and
backward-looking beliefs. By treating these combinations
contextually, Milton's literary contributions to the "new science"
are significantly clarified along with his many contemporary
sources, all of which merit study in their own right.
This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary
studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian
scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions
that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and
work, it broadly surveys Milton's Italianate studies, travels,
poetics, politics, and religious convictions. While his debts to
Machiavelli and other classical republicans are often noted, few
contemporary critics have explored the Italian sources of his
anti-papal, anti-episcopal, and anti-formalist religious outlook.
Relying on Milton's own testimony, this book explores its roots in
Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, and that great "Venetian enemy of the
pope," Paolo Sarpi, thereby correcting a recent tendency to make
native English contexts dominate his development. This tendency is
partly due to a mistaken belief that Italy was in steep decline
during and after Milton's travels of 1638-1639, the period
immediately before he produced his prose critiques of the English
Church, its canon law, and its censorship. Yet these were also
fundamentally "Italian" issues that he skillfully adapted to meet
contemporary English needs, a practice enabled by his
extraordinarily positive experience of the Italian language,
cities, academies, and music, the latter of which ultimately
influenced Milton's "operatic" drama, Samson Agonistes. Besides
republicanism and theology (radical doctrines of free grace and
free will), equally strong influences treated here include Italian
Neoplatonism, cosmology, and romance epic. By making these
traditions his own, Milton became what John Steadman once described
as an "Italianate Englishman" whose classical "literary tastes and
critical orientation...were...to a considerable extent" molded by
Italian critics (1976), a view that is fully credited and updated
here.
This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary
studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian
scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions
that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and
work, it broadly surveys Milton's Italianate studies, travels,
poetics, politics, and religious convictions. While his debts to
Machiavelli and other classical republicans are often noted, few
contemporary critics have explored the Italian sources of his
anti-papal, anti-episcopal, and anti-formalist religious outlook.
Relying on Milton's own testimony, this book explores its roots in
Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, and that great "Venetian enemy of the
pope," Paolo Sarpi, thereby correcting a recent tendency to make
native English contexts dominate his development. This tendency is
partly due to a mistaken belief that Italy was in steep decline
during and after Milton's travels of 1638-1639, the period
immediately before he produced his prose critiques of the English
Church, its canon law, and its censorship. Yet these were also
fundamentally "Italian" issues that he skillfully adapted to meet
contemporary English needs, a practice enabled by his
extraordinarily positive experience of the Italian language,
cities, academies, and music, the latter of which ultimately
influenced Milton's "operatic" drama, Samson Agonistes. Besides
republicanism and theology (radical doctrines of free grace and
free will), equally strong influences treated here include Italian
Neoplatonism, cosmology, and romance epic. By making these
traditions his own, Milton became what John Steadman once described
as an "Italianate Englishman" whose classical "literary tastes and
critical orientation...were...to a considerable extent" molded by
Italian critics (1976), a view that is fully credited and updated
here.
Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses: Evidence-based care for
children and their families provides accessible and up-to-date
information for nurses working in paediatric neurosurgery.
Referring throughout to the evidence-base for care and
interventions, this complex area is described and explained in a
meaningful and easily understandable way. The text includes
chapters on the underpinning knowledge and principles for the care
of children who need neurosurgery as well as the following common
neurological problems: Hydrocephalus Traumatic Brain Injury
Craniosynostosis Brain Tumours Surgical management of epilepsy in
children Cerebrovascular disorders Neural tube defects The
complexity of the nervous system and principles of care are
presented logically with points to consider and essential care
clearly highlighted and, where available, evidence-based practice
is presented. It includes a range of pedagogical features, such as
chapter overviews and summaries, diagrams, sample care plans, text
boxes and a glossary. This book is essential reading for
pre-registration nursing students and newly qualified nurses but
will also be of use to allied healthcare professionals working with
children and young people requiring neurosurgery.
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