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Ecological Indicators
Today environmental problems of unprecedented magnitude confront planet earth. The sobering fact is that a whole range of human activities is affecting our global environment as profoundly as the billions of years of evolution that preceded our tenure on Earth. The pressure on vital natural resources in the developing world and elsewhere is intense, and the destruction of tropical forests, wildlife habitat, and other irreplaceable resources, is alarming. Climate change, ozone depletion, loss of genetic diversity, and marine pollution are critical global environmental concerns. Their cumulative impact threatens to destroy the planet's natural resources. The need to address this situation is u...
Health and Health Care In Developing Countries
In this seminal collection of articles on health care in the Third World, sociological perspectives are applied to medical issues in revealing ways. Fourteen essays (all but two of which are original to this volume) examine the social production of health, disease, and systems of care throughout the developing world. The volume covers a range of areas—central Africa, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Nepal, China, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Mexico—and a broad scope of topics, from emergency care, the AIDS epidemic, and women's health care, to public health programs and national health care policies. Contributors address the central question of whether health systems in developi...
Mesoamerican Healers
Healing practices in Mesoamerica span a wide range, from traditional folk medicine with roots reaching back into the prehispanic era to westernized biomedicine. These sometimes cooperating, sometimes competing practices have attracted attention from researchers and the public alike, as interest in alternative medicine and holistic healing continues to grow. Responding to this interest, the essays in this book offer a comprehensive, state-of-the-art survey of Mesoamerican healers and medical practices in Mexico and Guatemala. The first two essays describe the work of prehispanic and colonial healers and show how their roles changed over time. The remaining essays look at contemporary healers,...
IoT and Data Science in Engineering Management
This book presents the selected research works from the 16th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management in 2022. The conference was promoted by ADINGOR (Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Ingeniería de Organización), organized by Ingenium Research Group at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, and it took place on July 7th and 8th, 2022, in Toledo, Spain. The book highlights some of the latest research advances and cutting-edge analyses of real-world case studies on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management from a wide range of international contexts. It also identifies business applications and the latest findings and innovations in Operations Management and in Decision Sciences.
