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This book offers an accessible introduction to the U.S. military as
an institution and provides insights into the military's structure
and norms. Designed for undergraduate students, the book offers an
interdisciplinary overview of America's armed forces through three
critical lenses. First, it introduces the military's constitutional
and historical context. Second, it presents concise factual
information chosen for its relevance to the military's structures,
procedures, norms, and varied activities. Finally, it intersperses
these facts with debates, theories, and questions to spark student
interest, class discussion, and further research. The text is
written for the beginner but covers complex topics such as force
structure and the defense budget. With contributions informed by
both scholarly approaches and long military careers, the book will
prepare students for further studies in international relations,
civil-military relations, or U.S. foreign policy. It also
encourages critical thinking, elucidating an institution that
undergraduates and other civilians too often perceive as both
baffling and above reproach. This book will be of much interest to
students of the U.S. military, civil-military relations, U.S.
politics, and public policy.
This book offers an accessible introduction to the U.S. military as
an institution and provides insights into the military's structure
and norms. Designed for undergraduate students, the book offers an
interdisciplinary overview of America's armed forces through three
critical lenses. First, it introduces the military's constitutional
and historical context. Second, it presents concise factual
information chosen for its relevance to the military's structures,
procedures, norms, and varied activities. Finally, it intersperses
these facts with debates, theories, and questions to spark student
interest, class discussion, and further research. The text is
written for the beginner but covers complex topics such as force
structure and the defense budget. With contributions informed by
both scholarly approaches and long military careers, the book will
prepare students for further studies in international relations,
civil-military relations, or U.S. foreign policy. It also
encourages critical thinking, elucidating an institution that
undergraduates and other civilians too often perceive as both
baffling and above reproach. This book will be of much interest to
students of the U.S. military, civil-military relations, U.S.
politics, and public policy.
This innovative, practical guide introduces researchers to the use
of the video reflexive ethnography in health and health services
research. This methodology has enjoyed increasing popularity among
researchers internationally and has been inspired by developments
across a range of disciplines: ethnography, visual and applied
anthropology, medical sociology, health services research, medical
and nursing education, adult education, community development, and
qualitative research ethics.
This innovative, practical guide introduces researchers to the use
of the video reflexive ethnography in health and health services
research. This methodology has enjoyed increasing popularity among
researchers internationally and has been inspired by developments
across a range of disciplines: ethnography, visual and applied
anthropology, medical sociology, health services research, medical
and nursing education, adult education, community development, and
qualitative research ethics.
Why is it that in spite of all the health policy reforms, clinical
practice innovations, increasing intersectoral interdependencies
and new medical and information technologies, so little has changed
in the way we research and evaluate health care? Don't these
changes cry out for new ways of being studied and appraised? And
don't our approaches to clinical practice innovation cry out for
being reinvented too? Surely, we cannot continue to wheel out
research and evaluation paradigms, improvement approaches and
methods that were designed for 20th century problems and 20th
century health care, and assume they will be able to make sense of
the problems we experience and the care we provide in the 21st
century? These changes necessitate a new paradigm of health service
research, evaluation and improvement and this new model adopts
approaches and methods that embrace complexity. The approaches and
methods can account for the vicissitudes of front-line care, the
activities of front-line staff and the experiences of patients and
families - where care happens. Visualising Health Care Practice
Improvement draws on years of video feedback research shaping an
approach that enables not only a retrospective understanding but
also a view into the future, of what might be possible. It presents
the argument that change is not principally about adopting
solutions from elsewhere but that it is conditional on people
exploring whether proposed solutions suit existing habituations. It
involves a process of exploration, discovery, secession and
renewal. Health care managers, policy makers and shapers will find
this book enlightening. It will also be empowering to all health
care professionals and front-line staff.
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