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Body Art
Brian Brown, Virginia Kuulei Berndt
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R572
Discovery Miles 5 720
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Body art, especially tattoos and piercings, has enjoyed an
explosion of interest in recent years. However, the response of
many health professionals and researchers to this phenomenon is
often negative, as body art continues to be associated with issues
ranging from ill mental health to offending behaviors. Arguing for
a reappraisal of the diverse range of practices that fall under
this heading, Brian Brown and Virginia Kuulei Berndt reconsider
body art as an underappreciated yet accessible source for mental
and physical wellbeing. How, they ask, does body art open up new
sources of community, sociality, and aesthetics? How is it used for
the reclamation of one’s body, as a marker of success or
accomplishment, or for building friendships? How does participation
in these practices impact the health and wellbeing of body artists
themselves? Providing a radical rethink that integrates tattoos and
other body modifications within health, wellbeing, and positive
psychology, Body Art disrupts the narrative of stigmatisation that
so often surrounds these practices to welcome a broader discussion
of the benefits they can offer.
This is one of the first books to comprehensively explore
representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction.
The five authors come from diverse backgrounds - literary studies,
social psychology, medical psychiatry and psychiatric nursing - and
as such the book's perspectives are informed through several
discourses, making it a unique co-authored text in the discipline
of Health Humanities. The book looks at representations of madness
in a range of texts by postwar writers (such as Ken Kesey, Marge
Piercy, Patrick McGrath, Leslie Marmon Silko, William Golding,
Patrick Gale, William Burroughs and J.G. Ballard, to name a few),
and explores the ways in which these representations help to shape
public perceptions and experiences of mental disorder.
This book is relevant to both those with interests in literary
studies and a vital read for psychiatric clinicians and
professionals who are interested in how literature can inform and
enhance clinical practices.
The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an
inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and
culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being
through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of
interdisciplinary research, knowledge, and communities of practice
globally. It has also acted to bring greater coherence and
political force to contributions across a range of related
disciplines and traditions. In this volume, a formidable set of
authors explore the history, current state, and future of the
health humanities, in particular how its vision of the arts and
humanities: Promotes creative public health. Opens new routes to
health and well-being. Informs and drives better health care.
Interrogates relationships between ill health and social equality.
Develops humanist theory in relation to health and social care
practice. Foregrounds cultural difference as a resource for
positive change in society. Tests the humanity of an increasingly
globalized health-care system. Looks to overcome structural and
process obstacles to cross-disciplinary ventures. Champions
co-construction, co-design, and mutuality in solving health and
well-being challenges. Showcases less familiar, prominent, or
celebrated creative practices. Includes multiple perspectives on
the value and health benefits of the arts and humanities not
limited to or dominated by medicine. Divided into two main
sections, the Companion looks at "Reflections and Critical
Perspectives," offering current thinking and definitions within
health humanities, and "Applications," comprising a wide selection
of applied arts and humanities practices from comedy, writing, and
dancing to yoga, cooking, and horticultural display.
Brian Browne Walker's beloved translations of the I Ching, Tao te
Ching, and Hua hu Ching are published by Harper and St. Martin's
Press and translated into over a dozen languages around the world.
This new rendition of "The Art of War" brings his clear voice to
the world's most time-honored teachings on leadership, strategy,
and conflict. The book includes a provocative and powerful
commentary on Barack Obama and our time that reminds America and
the world of our most pressing moral responsibilities, touches on
the perils of a Sarah Palin, and looks forward with a sense of both
gravity and light.
For centuries THE I CHING OR BOOK OF CHANGES has been consulted for
wise advice. Its enduring popularity lies in the lessons it teaches
about how to attain life's greatest rewards - prosperity,
understanding and peace of mind. On the surface, it is merely a
book that has survived for thousands of years in many different
forms. Underneath, however, THE I CHING is a living breathing
oracle, a patient and all-seeing teacher who can be relied upon for
flawless advice at every turning point in our lives. Briant Browne
Walker's highly accessible translation of THE I CHING OR BOOK OF
CHANGES allows you to make the wisdom of the ancient Chinese sages
your own. Whether you need specific advice or general guidance, THE
I CHING will help to promote success and good fortune and impart
balance and perspective to your life.
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Shadow Valley (Paperback)
Alan Brown, Brian Brown
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R497
R438
Discovery Miles 4 380
Save R59 (12%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
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