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This book tackles the infodemic—the rapid, widespread diffusion
of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease
and its ramifications—triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a
focus on four Asian societies, the book compares and analyzes the
spread of COVID-19 misinformation and its broad impacts on the
public in Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Singapore. Providing both
a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon of misinformation and
cross-societal analyses of patterns, the book features in-depth
analyses of the prevalence of COVID-19 misinformation and
engagement and explores its consequences in an Asian context. The
book sheds lights on these key questions: What types of infodemic
messages circulate widely on popular social media platforms? What
factors account for exposure to and engagement with debunked yet
popular COVID-19 misinformation? How does exposure to widely
circulated COVID-19 misinformation affect people’s beliefs,
attitudes, and adoption of preventive measures to cope with the
pandemic? How do macro social differences condition the diffusion
and impacts of COVID-19 misinformation? What intervention
strategies can counter the misinformation? Presenting scientific
insights and empirical findings on the pressing issues about
infodemic, this book will be of great interest to students and
researchers of communication studies, political science, public
health, crisis communication, and Asian Studies, as well as
policymakers and practitioners who wish to acquire cutting-edge,
evidence-based knowledge about combating misinformation during a
global pandemic.
This book summarizes the recent advances for the understanding of
circadian clock system in the regulation of drug metabolism and
pharmacokinetics. Basic knowledge in the field of circadian clock
and pharmacokinetics are systemically introduced to make it easier
for readers to understand the entire book's contents. The rhythmic
expression of DMEs (drug-metabolizing enzymes) and transporters are
summarized, and the underlying mechanisms thereof (i.e., regulation
by circadian oscillators) are discussed. Typically, evidence for
the DME- and transporter-mediated chronopharmacokinetics,
chronotoxicity and chronoefficacy are highlighted in this book.
This book summarizes the recent advances for the understanding of
circadian clock system in the regulation of drug metabolism and
pharmacokinetics. Basic knowledge in the field of circadian clock
and pharmacokinetics are systemically introduced to make it easier
for readers to understand the entire book's contents. The rhythmic
expression of DMEs (drug-metabolizing enzymes) and transporters are
summarized, and the underlying mechanisms thereof (i.e., regulation
by circadian oscillators) are discussed. Typically, evidence for
the DME- and transporter-mediated chronopharmacokinetics,
chronotoxicity and chronoefficacy are highlighted in this book.
Chinese medicine has a rich history that has only been made more
complex by its integration with `Western' biomedicine.
Legitimization of Chinese medicine in biomedicine-dominated health
systems, such as that in Hong Kong, has posed significant issues.
This anthology of articles explores relevant social issues related
to various Chinese medicine treatments, including acupuncture and
medicinal oils, as well as insight into practitioner licensing and
public perception. Each chapter tackles a topic related to the
complicated process of legitimizing knowledge and power within a
specific social and historical context. Written by professors and
researchers with extensive knowledge of Chinese medicine,
government regulation, and sociology, this collection provides an
overview of the challenges and current social context of Chinese
medicine that affect students and practitioners of Chinese
medicine, health and para-health biomedical professionals, and
patients alike. Traditional Chinese Medicine is the first book in
the Mediated Health Series, which focuses on the effects of media,
lifestyle, doctor-patient communication, and the economy on health
and aims to help inform medical decisions and enhance the wellbeing
of individuals.
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Beijing Time (Paperback)
Michael Dutton, Hsiu-Ju Stacy Lo, Dong Dong Wu
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R821
R771
Discovery Miles 7 710
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Where is the market? inquires the tourist one dark, chilly
morning. Follow the ghosts, responds the taxi driver, indicating a
shadowy parade of overloaded tricycles. It s not called the ghost
market for nothing And indeed, Beijing is nothing if not haunted.
Among the soaring skyscrapers, choking exhaust fumes, nonstop
traffic jams, and towering monuments, one discovers old Beijing
newly styled, perhaps, but no less present and powerful than in its
ancient incarnation. "Beijing Time" conducts us into this
mysterious world, at once familiar and yet alien to the
outsider.
The ancient Chinese understood the world as enchanted, its
shapes revealing the mythological order of the universe. In the
structure and detail of Tian anmen Square, the authors reveal the
city as a whole. In Beijing no pyramids stand as proud remnants of
the past; instead, the entire city symbolizes a vibrant
civilization. From Tian anmen Square, we proceed to the
neighborhoods for a glimpse of local color from the granny and the
young police officer to the rag picker and the flower vendor.
Wandering from the avant-garde art market to the clock towers, from
the Monumental Axis to Mao s Mausoleum, the book allows us to peer
into the lives of Beijingers, the rules and rituals that govern
their reality, and the mythologies that furnish their dreams.
Deeply immersed in the culture, everyday and otherworldly, this
anthropological tour, from ancient cosmology to Communist kitsch,
allows us to see as never before how the people of Beijing and
China work and live.
The main purpose of this book is to explore the influences of
reform on changes in China's economic relations with Japan after
the late 1970s. There are three reasons for investigating the links
between Chinese reform and bilateral economic relations at this
particular juncture in history. First, in the past two decades
reform has meant that China has enjoyed faster economic growth then
Japan. This has transformed the pattern of bilateral economic
relations, hitherto characterised by an industrial Japanese economy
and a resource-based Chinese economy, a result of Japan's
successful industrialisation and China's failure to industrialise
in the previous hundred years. Second, reform has brought about the
deepening of the interdependence between the Chinese economy and
the world economy. Through links with the world economy, the
Chinese economy has not only come to rely on foreign countries for
technology, capital, markets and management skills, but has itself
become a growth pole, exerting a strong impact on world economic
growth. In the reform era, economic relations between China and
Japan have been woven into regional and global economic networks of
trade an investment. Third, reform has transformed the management
of China's domestic and external economic activities.
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