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Communication is an essential skill for nurses, midwives and allied
health professionals when delivering care to patients and their
families. With its unique and practical approach, this new textbook
will support students throughout the three years of their degree
programme and on into practice, focussing on how to develop
person-centredness and compassionate and collaborative care. Key
features include: * students' experiences and stories from service
users and patients to help readers relate theory to practice *
reflective exercises to help students think critically about their
communication skills * learning objectives and chapter summaries
for revision * interactive activities directly linked to the Values
Exchange Community website
Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on
`the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the
boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers
from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number
from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as
preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this
book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives
construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. In his contribution, Jacques
Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse
worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from
forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather
than the past. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree
to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new
possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for
archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an
early manual for a time that has already begun.
Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on
the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the
boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers
from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number
from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as
preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this
book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives
construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. In his contribution, Jacques
Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse
worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from
forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather
than the past. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree
to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new
possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for
archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an
early manual for a time that has already begun.
Why are more women than men in South Africa HIV positive? What
explains the exponential growth of AIDS in the country? How is
HIV/AIDS understood in various cultural belief systems? What can be
done about the epidemic? This powerful book - incorporating
evocative photographs and the voices of scholars, practitioners,
and victims of the epidemic - looks at the social, cultural, and
historical aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
Communication is an essential skill for nurses, midwives and allied
health professionals when delivering care to patients and their
families. With its unique and practical approach, this new textbook
will support students throughout the three years of their degree
programme and on into practice, focussing on how to develop
person-centredness and compassionate and collaborative care. Key
features include: * students' experiences and stories from service
users and patients to help readers relate theory to practice *
reflective exercises to help students think critically about their
communication skills * learning objectives and chapter summaries
for revision * interactive activities directly linked to the Values
Exchange Community website
How To Be a Real Gay takes its title from a series of workshops
organized by gay activists in the small town of Ermelo, South
Africa. Focusing on everyday practices of gayness in hair salons,
churches, taverns, and meeting halls, the book explores the
ambivalent space that homosexuality occupies in the newly
democratic South Africa: on the one hand, protection of gay rights
is a litmus test for the country's constitutional democracy, yet on
the other, homosexuality is seen to threaten traditional values,
customs, and beliefs. The book is the first to emerge that recounts
how gays in small-town South Africa negotiate this difficult
symbolic terrain. How do discourses on international gay and
lesbian social movements and gay equality hang together with local
views on identity, gender, and relationships? Why do small-town
gays harness fashion, style, and glamour in the making and
sustaining of identity? How do economically vulnerable gays
organize, access resources, and create networks linking small towns
to cities? How To Be a Real Gay delves to the core of what it means
to be 'the other' in contexts of risk, exclusion, and inclusion. In
its richly textured way, the book also speaks to the tremendous
capacity of gays to imagine and create life-worlds in a harsh
environment.
In 1994, the year of South Africa's transition to democracy, a
church was launched - the first of its kind in Africa. The Hope and
Unity Metropolitan Community Church, led by the charismatic
Reverend Tsietsi Thandekiso, appealed to lesbian and gay Africans
in search of a spiritual home. Above the Skyline provides a
detailed ethnographic study of this unique church community. Graeme
Reid shows how the church created the possibility of an integrated
cultural identity for gay and lesbian Christians in an African
context. By adopting the rhetoric, style and rituals of Pentecostal
worship, the church provides a powerful counter-narrative to
persistent claims that homosexuality is 'un-Christian' and
'un-African'.
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