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This guide is designed to help physiotherapy students prepare for
their placements. Physiotherapy placements can be daunting - you'll
be working in a variety of settings and supporting individuals with
a range of conditions. There are new colleagues to work with, and
newly learnt theory to put into practice. This pocket guide is
designed to make your placements much more enjoyable and less
stressful. From absence policy to SOAP notes, via moving and
handling, it's full of practical detail, hints and tips. Written by
a team of experienced physiotherapy lecturers and with critical
input from their students - this guidance is really produced with
you in mind. Pocket-sized format - carry it with you at all times.
Space to make your own notes - be it uniform policy, new
terminology, or just the names of your new colleagues! Reduce your
stress and make the most of your placements by having this book to
hand from the start. Pocket Guides is a series of handy,
pocket-sized books designed to help students make the most of their
practice learning experiences.
Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is
especially so today. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
collects 21 newly commissioned essays that cover current
philosophical thinking of death-related topics across the entire
range of the discipline. These include metaphysical topics-such as
the nature of death, the possibility of an afterlife, the nature of
persons, and how our thinking about time affects what we think
about death-as well as axiological topics, such as whether death is
bad for its victim, what makes it bad to die, what attitude it is
fitting to take towards death, the possibility of posthumous harm,
and the desirability of immortality. The contributors also explore
the views of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato and
Epicurus on topics related to the philosophy of death, and
questions in normative ethics, such as what makes killing wrong
when it is wrong, and whether it is wrong to kill fetuses,
non-human animals, combatants in war, and convicted murderers. With
chapters written by a wide range of experts in metaphysics, ethics,
and conceptual analysis, and designed to give the reader a
comprehensive view of recent developments in the philosophical
study of death, this Handbook will appeal to a broad audience in
philosophy, particularly in ethics and metaphysics.
The concept of well-being plays a central role in moral and
political theory. Policies and actions are justified or criticized
on the grounds that they make people better or worse off. But is
there really such a thing as well-being, and if so, what is it? Is
it pleasure, desire-satisfaction, knowledge, virtue, achievement,
some combination of these, or something else entirely? How can we
measure well-being, amongst individuals and society? And how can we
use it to make moral judgements about people, policies and
institutions? In this entertaining and accessible new book, Ben
Bradley guides readers through the various philosophical theories
of well-being, such as hedonism, perfectionism and pluralism,
showing the benefits and drawbacks of each theory. He explores the
role of well-being in moral and political theory, and the
limitations of welfare-based approaches to ethics such as
utilitarianism and welfare egalitarianism. Finally, he introduces
puzzles about well-being that arise in moral and prudential
deliberations about procreation and death. Well-Being is an ideal
introduction to these topics for those with no philosophical
background, or for philosophers looking for an overview of current
thinking about the subject.
Well-Being and Death addresses philosophical questions about death
and the good life: what makes a life go well? Is death bad for the
one who dies? How is this possible if we go out of existence when
we die? Is it worse to die as an infant or as a young adult? Is it
bad for animals and fetuses to die? Can the dead be harmed? Is
there any way to make death less bad for us? Ben Bradley defends
the following views: pleasure, rather than achievement or the
satisfaction of desire, is what makes life go well; death is
generally bad for its victim, in virtue of depriving the victim of
more of a good life; death is bad for its victim at times after
death, in particular at all those times at which the victim would
have been living well; death is worse the earlier it occurs, and
hence it is worse to die as an infant than as an adult; death is
usually bad for animals and fetuses, in just the same way it is bad
for adult humans; things that happen after someone has died cannot
harm that person; the only sensible way to make death less bad is
to live so long that no more good life is possible.
Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is
especially so today. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
collects 21 newly commissioned essays that cover current
philosophical thinking of death-related topics across the entire
range of the discipline. These include metaphysical topics-such as
the nature of death, the possibility of an afterlife, the nature of
persons, and how our thinking about time affects what we think
about death-as well as axiological topics, such as whether death is
bad for its victim, what makes it bad to die, what attitude it is
fitting to take towards death, the possibility of posthumous harm,
and the desirability of immortality. The contributors also explore
the views of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato and
Epicurus on topics related to the philosophy of death, and
questions in normative ethics, such as what makes killing wrong
when it is wrong, and whether it is wrong to kill fetuses,
non-human animals, combatants in war, and convicted murderers. With
chapters written by a wide range of experts in metaphysics, ethics,
and conceptual analysis, and designed to give the reader a
comprehensive view of recent developments in the philosophical
study of death, this Handbook will appeal to a broad audience in
philosophy, particularly in ethics and metaphysics.
Well-Being and Death addresses philosophical questions about death
and the good life: what makes a life go well? Is death bad for the
one who dies? How is this possible if we go out of existence when
we die? Is it worse to die as an infant or as a young adult? Is it
bad for animals and fetuses to die? Can the dead be harmed? Is
there any way to make death less bad for us? Ben Bradley defends
the following views: pleasure, rather than achievement or the
satisfaction of desire, is what makes life go well; death is
generally bad for its victim, in virtue of depriving the victim of
more of a good life; death is bad for its victim at times after
death, in particular at all those times at which the victim would
have been living well; death is worse the earlier it occurs, and
hence it is worse to die as an infant than as an adult; death is
usually bad for animals and fetuses, in just the same way it is bad
for adult humans; things that happen after someone has died cannot
harm that person; the only sensible way to make death less bad is
to live so long that no more good life is possible.
In British Columbia by the Road, Ben Bradley takes readers on an
unprecedented journey through the history of roads, highways, and
motoring in British Columbia’s Interior, a remote landscape
composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys, soaring mountains
and treacherous passes. Challenging the idea that the automobile
offered travellers the freedom of the road and a view of
unadulterated nature, Bradley shows that boosters, businessmen,
conservationists, and public servants manipulated what drivers and
passengers could and should view from the comfort of their
vehicles. Although cars and roads promised freedom, they offered
drivers a curated view of the landscape that shaped the
province’s image in the eyes of residents and visitors alike.
Darwin has long been hailed as forefather to behavioural science,
especially nowadays, with the growing popularity of evolutionary
psychologies. Yet, until now, his contribution to the field of
psychology has been somewhat understated. This is the first book
ever to examine the riches of what Darwin himself wrote about
psychological matters. It unearths a Darwin new to contemporary
science, whose first concern is the agency of organisms - from
which he derives both his psychology, and his theory of evolution.
A deep reading of Darwin's writings on climbing plants and babies,
blushing and bower-birds, worms and facial movements, shows that,
for Darwin, evolution does not explain everything about human
action. Group-life and culture are also keys, whether we discuss
the dynamics of conscience or the dramas of desire. Thus his
treatment of facial actions sets out from the anatomy and
physiology of human facial movements, and shows how these gain
meanings through their recognition by others. A discussion of
blushing extends his theory to the way reading others' expressions
rebounds on ourselves - I care about how I think you read me. This
dynamic proves central to how Darwin understands sexual desire, the
production of conscience and of social standards through group
dynamics, and the role of culture in human agency. Presenting a new
Darwin to science, and showing how widely Darwin's understanding of
evolution and agency has been misunderstood and misrepresented in
biology and the social sciences, this important new book lights a
new way forward for those who want to build psychology on the
foundation of evolutionary biology
In British Columbia by the Road, Ben Bradley takes readers on an
unprecedented journey through the history of roads, highways, and
motoring in British Columbia’s Interior, a remote landscape
composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys, soaring mountains
and treacherous passes. Challenging the idea that the automobile
offered travellers the freedom of the road and a view of
unadulterated nature, Bradley shows that boosters, businessmen,
conservationists, and public servants manipulated what drivers and
passengers could and should view from the comfort of their
vehicles. Although cars and roads promised freedom, they offered
drivers a curated view of the landscape that shaped the
province’s image in the eyes of residents and visitors alike.
When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the
first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to
managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now
Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates about the
place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between
Canada's diverse ecosystems and its communities. Today, Parks
Canada manages over forty parks and reserves totalling over 200,000
square kilometres and featuring a dazzling variety of landscapes,
and is recognized as a global leader in the environmental
challenges of protected places. Its history is a rich repository of
experience, of lessons learned-critical for making informed
decisions about how to sustain the environmental and social health
of our national parks.
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