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Surveillance and Identity analyses the discourse of surveillance in
the contemporary United Kingdom, drawing upon public language from
central government, governmental agencies, activist movements, and
from finance and banking. Examining the logics of these discourses
and revealing the manner in which they construct problems of
governance in the light of the insecurity of identity, this book
shows how identity is fundamentally linked to surveillance, as
governmental discourses privilege surveillance as a response to
social problems. In drawing links between new technologies and
national surveillance projects or concerns surrounding phenomena
such as identity fraud, Surveillance and Identity presents a new
understanding of identity - the model of 'surveillance identity' -
demonstrating that this is often applied to individuals by powerful
organisations at the same time as the concept is being actively
contested in public language. The first comprehensive study of the
discursive politics of surveillance in the UK, this book makes
significant contributions to surveillance theory, governmentality
theory, and to political and social identity theories. As such, it
will be of interest to social scientists of all kinds working on
questions of public discourse and political communication,
identity, surveillance and the relationship between the individual
and the state.
Surveillance and Identity analyses the discourse of surveillance in
the contemporary United Kingdom, drawing upon public language from
central government, governmental agencies, activist movements, and
from finance and banking. Examining the logics of these discourses
and revealing the manner in which they construct problems of
governance in the light of the insecurity of identity, this book
shows how identity is fundamentally linked to surveillance, as
governmental discourses privilege surveillance as a response to
social problems. In drawing links between new technologies and
national surveillance projects or concerns surrounding phenomena
such as identity fraud, Surveillance and Identity presents a new
understanding of identity - the model of 'surveillance identity' -
demonstrating that this is often applied to individuals by powerful
organisations at the same time as the concept is being actively
contested in public language. The first comprehensive study of the
discursive politics of surveillance in the UK, this book makes
significant contributions to surveillance theory, governmentality
theory, and to political and social identity theories. As such, it
will be of interest to social scientists of all kinds working on
questions of public discourse and political communication,
identity, surveillance and the relationship between the individual
and the state.
This edited collection provides deep insights and varied
perspectives of innovative and courageous efforts to reconcile the
conflicts that have characterized the history of Indigenous people,
settlers, and their descendants in Canada. From the opening
chapter, the volume contextualizes why Canada is on a
reconciliation journey, and how that journey is far from over. It
is a multi-disciplinary treatise on decolonization, peacebuilding,
and conflict transformation that is a must-read for those scholars,
students, and practitioners of peacebuilding seeking a deeper
understanding of reconciliation, decolonization, and
community-building. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and
influencers from across Canada describe positive conflict
transformation through various lenses, including education,
economics, business, land sharing, and justice reform. The authors
describe their personal and professional journeys, offering
insights and research into how individuals and institutions are
responding to reconciliation. Each chapter provides readers with
windows into the tangible ways that Canadians are building a
peaceful shared future, together.
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Death in the Clinic (Hardcover, New)
Lynn A. Jansen; Contributions by David Barnard, Celia Berdes, James L. Bernat, Linda Emanuel, …
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Despite the best efforts of medical ethicists over the past quarter
century, the ethical challenges surrounding dying and death in the
clinical setting remain largely unresolved, and little sustained
attention has been paid to how thinking about death relates to and
affects clinical practice. The reality is that people die, and that
dying patients are not people for whom nothing can be done. Death
in the Clinic provides medical students, residents, and educators a
framework within which to explore and address this reality, while
existential and philosophical questions about death will recommend
the book to chaplains, social workers, palliative care clinicians,
nurses, and clinical ethicists. Death in the Clinic fills a gap in
contemporary medical education by explicitly addressing the
concrete clinical realities about death with which practitioners,
patients, and their families continue to wrestle.
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Death in the Clinic (Paperback)
Lynn A. Jansen; Contributions by David Barnard, Celia Berdes, James L. Bernat, Linda Emanuel, …
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Despite the best efforts of medical ethicists over the past quarter
century, the ethical challenges surrounding dying and death in the
clinical setting remain largely unresolved, and little sustained
attention has been paid to how thinking about death relates to and
affects clinical practice. The reality is that people die, and that
dying patients are not people for whom nothing can be done. Death
in the Clinic provides medical students, residents, and educators a
framework within which to explore and address this reality, while
existential and philosophical questions about death will recommend
the book to chaplains, social workers, palliative care clinicians,
nurses, and clinical ethicists. Death in the Clinic fills a gap in
contemporary medical education by explicitly addressing the
concrete clinical realities about death with which practitioners,
patients, and their families continue to wrestle.
This edited collection provides deep insights and varied
perspectives of innovative and courageous efforts to reconcile the
conflicts that have characterized the history of Indigenous people,
settlers, and their descendants in Canada. From the opening
chapter, the volume contextualizes why Canada is on a
reconciliation journey, and how that journey is far from over. It
is a multi-disciplinary treatise on decolonization, peacebuilding,
and conflict transformation that is a must-read for those scholars,
students, and practitioners of peacebuilding seeking a deeper
understanding of reconciliation, decolonization, and
community-building. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and
influencers from across Canada describe positive conflict
transformation through various lenses, including education,
economics, business, land sharing, and justice reform. The authors
describe their personal and professional journeys, offering
insights and research into how individuals and institutions are
responding to reconciliation. Each chapter provides readers with
windows into the tangible ways that Canadians are building a
peaceful shared future, together.
With over 100,000 iPhone applications and 125,000 registered
iPhone developers, is it still possible to create a top-selling app
that stands apart from the six-figure crowd? Of course, but you'll
need more than a great idea and flawless codean eye-catching and
functional user interface design is essential. With this book,
you'll get practical advice on user interface design from 10
innovative developers who, like you, have sat wondering how to best
utilize the iPhone's minimal screen real estate. Their stories
illustrate precisely why, with more apps and more experienced,
creative developers, no iPhone app can succeed without a great user
interface.
Whatever type of iPhone project you have in mindsocial
networking app, game, or reference toolyou'll benefit from the
information presented in this book. More than just tips and
pointers, you'll learn from the authors' hands-on experiences,
including: Dave Barnard of App Cubby on how to use Apple's user
interface conventions and test for usability to assure better
results Joachim Bondo, creator of Deep Green Chess, beats a classic
design problem of navigating large dataset results in the realm of
the iPhone Former Apple employee Dan Burcaw tailors user interfaces
and adds the power of CoreLocation, Address Book, and Camera to the
social networking app, Brightkite David Kaneda takes his Basecamp
project management client, Outpost, from a blank page (literally)
to a model of dashboard clarity Craig Kemper focuses on the
smallest details to create his award-winning puzzle games TanZen
and Zentomino Tim Novikoff, a graduate student in applied math with
no programming experience, reduces a complex problem to simplicity
in Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab Long-time Mac developer Chris Parrish
goes into detail on the creation of the digital postcard app,
Postage, which won the 2009 Apple Design Award Flash developer
Keith Peters provides solutions for bringing games that were
designed for a desktop screen to the small, touch-sensitive world
of the iPhone Jurgen Siebert, creator of FontShuffle, outlines the
anatomy of letters and how to select the right fonts for maximum
readability on the iPhone screen Eddie Wilson, an interactive
designer, reveals the fine balance of excellent design and
trial-by-fire programming used to create his successful app Snow
Report
Combined with Apress' best-selling Beginning iPhone 3
Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK, you'll be prepared to match
great code with striking design and create the app that everyone is
talking about. What you'll learn How to optimize your design for
the iPhone's limited screen real estate and the mobile environment
How to create a user interface that is eye-catching and stands
apart from the crowd How to maximize your use of typographic
elements for style and readability How to perfect entry views and
display large amounts of data in an exciting way How to translate
games made for the desktop's big screen to the iPhone How to strike
the perfect balance between simplicity, beauty, and features Who
this book is for
iPhone application developers of all experience levels and
development platforms. Table of Contents App Cubby Yet Another
Google Reader Brightkite for the iPhone Outpost TanZen and
Zentomino Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab Postage Falling Balls and
Gravity Pods FontShuffle Snow Reports for the iPhone
This volume presents a series of case narratives, following individual patients and families throughout the course of illness and death in the context of hospice and palliative care. Using a variety of qualitative research methods, including participant-observation, interviews, and journal-keeping, the experiences, perceptions, and feelings of the patient, the family and a range of caregivers are recorded, providing the reader with rich, multi-textured narratives. Going beyond conventional case reports in Medicine, typically concentrating on symptoms and treatment, these narratives depict how individuals find personal meaning in illness, and how this influences the experience and outcome of care.
Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and
their caregivers in the face of incurable illness. Twenty
richly-detailed narratives bring vividly to life the experiences of
dying and bereavement, weaving together emotions, physical
symptoms, spiritual concerns, and the stresses of family life, as
well as the professional and personal challenges of providing
hospice and palliative care. Drawing on a variety of qualitative
research methods, including participant-observation, interviews,
and journal keeping, the narratives depict the sights, sounds,
tastes, and smells of daily life in patients' homes and in the
palliative care unit. Crossing Over moves far beyond conventional
case reports in medicine, which typically concentrate narrowly on
symptoms and treatments, and beyond cliches about "dying with
dignity." It provides intimate views of the anger and fear,
tenderness and reconciliation, jealousy and love, unexpected
courage and unshakable faith, social support and "falling through
the cracks," which are all part of facing death in North American
society. It provides an extraordinary portrait of the processes of
giving and receiving hospice and palliative care in the real world,
as opposed to idealized versions in many textbooks. This edition of
Crossing Over has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect
changes in hospice and palliative care and in North American
society since the first edition in 2000. Chief among these are the
expansion of hospice and palliative care as a field, the ravages of
the COVID-19 pandemic, the wider availability of medical aid in
dying, and a heightened awareness of how structural racism,
classism, and other forms of discrimination shape individuals' and
families' experiences right up to the close of life.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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