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The popularization of the Internet, due in larger part to the advent of multifunctional cell phones, poses new challenges for health professionals, patients, and caregivers as well as creates new possibilities for all of us. This comprehensive volume analyzes how this social phenomenon is transforming long-established healthcare practices and perceptions in a country with one of the highest numbers of Internet users: Brazil. After an opening text that analyzes the Internet and E-Health Care as a field of study, the book comprises six parts. The first part introduces the emergence and development of the internet in Brazil, its pioneering experience in internet governance, digital inclusion, a...
Organizador(a): Graziela Frainer Knoll e Fabrício Tonetto Londero A obra é uma coletânea de textos acadêmicos sobre jogos digitais ou analógicos utilizados ou desenvolvidos em diferentes contextos socioculturais, com finalidades diversas, tais como educação e entretenimento. ISBN: 978-65-5939-075-5 (brochura) 978-65-5939-074-8 (eBook) DOI: 10.31560/pimentacultural/2021.748
This book aims to be a collection of different topics in the field of palliative care, designed for a broad audience - not only healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, psychologists, therapists, social workers, etc.), but also healthcare managers and those responsible for carrying out public policies. Given the suggested form - an encyclopaedia - the different topics are covered in a way that is sufficiently clear and precise, but also succinct and objective, and is intended for a very diverse range of professionals, as well as students from different areas of knowledge. Topics such as ethics, the law and management in palliative care are covered, along with psychological and spiritual issues, as well as the domains of medicine and nursing.
Esta obra traz trabalhos selecionados que foram apresentados no evento, os quais tratam de políticas e gestão da educação superior, com temas ligados a políticas públicas, resultados de pesquisas sobre o Programa Ciência sem Fronteira, Formação Docente, Permanência Estudantil, Estudantes com Transtornos de Espectro do Autismo e Cotas Étnico Raciais, bem como sobre gestão universitária com um olhar para as mulheres e para reitores de universidades públicas.
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Cancer control is the term applied to the development of integrated population-based approaches to reduce the incidence and mortality from cancer and to minimize its impact on affected individuals and on the community. The integrated nature of cancer control is reflected in this multi-disciplinary text, the first in this rapidly developing field.
Pain 2012: Refresher Courses, 14th World Congress on Pain, is based on IASP's refresher courses on pain research and treatment. Includes techniques (neuroimaging, genetics), treatments (interventional, psychological, pharmacological, complementary/alternative), and disorders (neuropathic pain, headache, cancer pain, musculoskeletal pain, CRPS, orofacial pain, postoperative pain, pediatric pain, abdominopelvic pain).
Do not be afraid, join us, come back! You've had your anti-communist fun, and you are pardoned for it-time to get serious once again!-Slavoj Zizek Responding to Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', the leading political philosophers of the Left convened in London in 2009 to take part in a landmark conference to discuss the perpetual, persistent notion that, in a truly emancipated society, all things should be owned in common. This volume brings together their discussions on the philosophical and political import of the communist idea, highlighting both its continuing significance and the need to reconfigure the concept within a world marked by havoc and crisis.
Famous Brazilian educational and social theorist Paulo Freire presents his ideas on the importance of community solidarity in moving toward social justice in schools and society. In a set of talks and interviews shortly before his death, Freire addresses issues not often highlighted in his work, such as globalization, post-modern fatalism, and the qualities of educators for the 21st century. His illuminating comments are supplemented with commentaries by other well-known scholars, such as Ana Maria Araujo Freire, Walter de Oliveira, Norman Denzin, Henry Giroux, and Donaldo Macedo.
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is the authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. The classic edition includes a new preface from the lead editors discussing advances in the field since the book’s initial publication. The book’s chapters synthesize the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most important topics in the field. The volume’s contributors come from around the world, and their work reflects a level of cultural awareness of the diversity and universality of bereavement and its challenges that has rarely been approximated by other volumes. This is a readable, engaging, and comprehensive book that shares the most important scientific and applied work on the contemporary scene with a broad international audience. It’s an essential addition to anyone with a serious interest in death, dying, and bereavement.