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The Anatomy of Time – Self-Management for Doctors

A Guide to Effectively Prepare Time Slots

by Alexander Ghanem

Doctors fnd themselves caught between the growing demands of having to learn more and more plus physical and mental stress, and the needs of a fulflling private life. Previously, there was no selfhelp guide focused on how to effectively improve the wellbeing of physicians (and patients). Doctors fnd themselves caught between the growing demands of having to learn more and more plus physical and mental stress, and the needs of a fulflling private life. Previously, there was no selfhelp guide focused on how to effectively improve the wellbeing of physicians (and patients). Over the course of their careers, physicians often lose momentum, become exhausted and subsequently lack meaning in their life. This can even culminate in burnout. To prevent this, it is important to continually refocus, adapting your goals to circumstances. With this in mind, time management for physicians becomes more than just normal planning.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2016

Health, medicine, and the sea

Australian voyages, c.1815–60

by Katherine Foxhall

During the nineteenth century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, medicine and the sea follows these people on a fascinating journey around half the globe to give a rich account of the creation of lay and professional medical knowledge in an ever-changing maritime environment. From consumptive convicts who pleaded that going to sea was their only chance of recovery, to sailors who performed macabre 'medical' rituals during equatorial ceremonies off the African coast, to surgeons' formal experiments with scurvy in the southern hemisphere oceans, to furious letters from quarantined emigrants just a few miles from Sydney, this wide-ranging and evocative study brings the experience and meaning of voyaging to life. Katherine Foxhall makes an important contribution to the history of medicine, imperialism and migration which will appeal to students and researchers alike. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2015

Histories of nursing practice

by Gerard Fealy, Christine Hallett, Christine E. Hallet, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz, Susanne Dietz

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October 2015

Histories of nursing practice

by Gerard Fealy, Christine Hallett, Christine E. Hallet, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz, Susanne Dietz

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2016

Deafness, community and culture in Britain

Leisure and cohesion, 1945–95

by Martin Atherton, Julie Anderson, Walton Schalick

Setting a case study of deaf people's leisure practices in north-west England within a wider examination of communal deaf leisure across Britain, this book offers new insights into a misunderstood and misrepresented community. Available for the first time in paperback, the book provides a detailed analysis of deaf people's leisure during the second half of the twentieth century, which questions perceptions of deafness as a disability, investigates the importance of shared leisure in community formation more generally and examines the ways in which changing patterns of socialisation are affecting British society. Although focusing on the British deaf community, the concepts and principles explored in this book can be applied across a wide range of social, cultural and ethnic groups. This book draws upon a wide range of subject areas and will consequently be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of disability, history, community and cultural minority studies, sport, leisure and regional studies. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2015

Insanity, identity and empire

Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910

by Catharine Coleborne, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

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December 2015

Beyond the state

The colonial medical service in British Africa

by Anna Greenwood, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

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Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2015

Insanity, identity and empire

Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910

by Catharine Coleborne, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2015

Beyond the state

The colonial medical service in British Africa

by Anna Greenwood, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

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September 2015

Colonial caring

A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing

by Christine Hallett, Helen Sweet, Sue Hawkins, Jane Schultz

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Medicine

February 2016

'Curing queers'

Mental nurses and their patients, 1935–74

by Tommy Dickinson, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them. It examines why the majority of the nurses followed orders in administering the treatment - in spite of the zero success-rate in 'straightening out' queer men - but also why a small number surreptitiously defied their superiors by engaging in fascinating subversive behaviours. 'Curing queers' makes a significant and substantial contribution to the history of nursing and the history of sexuality, bringing together two sub-disciplines that combine only infrequently. It will be of interest to general readers as well as scholars and students in nursing, history, gender studies, and health care ethics and law. ;

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February 1995

Ethics, law and nursing

by Nina Fletcher

An introduction to the ethical and legal dilemmas in nursing practice, this text is designed to provoke the nurse to reflect on the nature of his or her professional obligations and future practice. The authors firstly familiarise the reader with the basic principles of ethical debate and the overall structure of the legal system as it effects nurses. They then address the fundamental dilemmas of nursing practice, such as whether or not paternalism can ever be justified, if patients have the right to die, and what a nurse's response should be to poor professional practice by colleagues. The book aims to enhance the reader's understanding of the issues, and to educate nurses to develop their own skills of reasoning and judgement. ;

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May 2016

Beyond the state

The colonial medical service in British Africa

by Anna Greenwood, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating, formally and informally, with a range of other non-governmental groups. This collection of essays on the Colonial Medical Service of Africa illustrates the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar. They reveal many new insights into the enactments of colonial policy and the ways in which colonial doctors negotiated the day-to-day reality during the height of imperial rule in Africa. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and colonial administration. ;

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May 2016

Colonial caring

A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing

by Christine Hallett, Helen Sweet, Sue Hawkins, Jane Schultz

From the height of colonialism in the mid-nineteenth century, through to the aftermath of the Second World War, nurses have been at the heart of colonial projects. They were ideally placed to insinuate the 'improving' culture of their employers into the local communities they served, and travelled in droves to far-flung parts of the globe to serve their country. Issues of gender, class and race permeate this book, as the complex relationships between nurses, their medical colleagues, governments and the populations they nursed are examined in detail, using case studies which draw on exciting new sources. Many of the chapters are based on first-hand accounts of nurses and reveal that not all were motivated by patriotic vigour or altruism, but went out in search of adventure. The book will be an essential read for colonial historians, as well as historians of gender and ethnicity. ;

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May 2016

Insanity, identity and empire

Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910

by Catharine Coleborne, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of this inquiry. ;

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May 2016

Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750–2015

by Waltraud Ernst

This book offers the first systematic critical appraisal of the uses of work and work therapy in psychiatric institutions across the globe, from the late eighteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Contributors explore the daily routine in psychiatric institutions and ask whether work was therapy, part of a regime of punishment or a means of exploiting free labour. By focusing on mental patients' day-to-day life in closed institutions, the authors fill a gap in the history of psychiatric regimes. The geographical scope is wide, ranging from Northern America to Japan, India and Western as well as Eastern Europe, and the authors engage with broad historical questions, such as the impact of colonialism and communism and the effect of the World Wars. The book presents an alternative history of the emergence of occupational therapy and will be of interest not only to academics in the fields of history and sociology but also to health professionals. ;

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February 2016

Fools and idiots?

Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages

by Irina Metzler, Julie Anderson, Walton Schalick

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February 2016

Fools and idiots?

Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages

by Irina Metzler, Julie Anderson, Walton Schalick

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September 2015

Colonial caring

A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing

by Christine Hallett, Helen Sweet, Sue Hawkins, Jane Schultz

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February 2016

Fools and idiots?

Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages

by Irina Metzler, Julie Anderson, Walton Schalick

Fools and idiots? is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, Irina Metzler considers a neglected field of social and medical history and makes an original contribution to the problem of a shifting concept such as 'idiocy'. Medieval physicians, lawyers and the schoolmen of the emerging universities wrote the texts which shaped medieval definitions of intellectual ability and its counterpart, disability. In studying such texts, which form part of our contemporary scientific and cultural heritage, we gain a better understanding of which people were considered to be intellectually disabled, and how their participation and inclusion in society differed from the situation today. This book will be required reading for anyone studying or working in disability studies, history of medicine, social history and the history of ideas. ;

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A Guide to Effectively Prepare Time Slots

by Alexander Ghanem

Australian voyages, c.1815–60

by Katherine Foxhall

by Gerard Fealy, Christine Hallett, Christine E. Hallet, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz, Susanne Dietz

by Gerard Fealy, Christine Hallett, Christine E. Hallet, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz, Susanne Dietz

Leisure and cohesion, 1945–95

by Martin Atherton, Julie Anderson, Walton Schalick

Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910

by Catharine Coleborne, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

The colonial medical service in British Africa

by Anna Greenwood, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910

by Catharine Coleborne, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

The colonial medical service in British Africa

by Anna Greenwood, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing

by Christine Hallett, Helen Sweet, Sue Hawkins, Jane Schultz

Mental nurses and their patients, 1935–74

by Tommy Dickinson, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz

by Nina Fletcher

The colonial medical service in British Africa

by Anna Greenwood, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing

by Christine Hallett, Helen Sweet, Sue Hawkins, Jane Schultz

Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910

by Catharine Coleborne, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

by Waltraud Ernst

Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages

by Irina Metzler, Julie Anderson, Walton Schalick

Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages

by Irina Metzler, Julie Anderson, Walton Schalick

A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing

by Christine Hallett, Helen Sweet, Sue Hawkins, Jane Schultz

Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages

by Irina Metzler, Julie Anderson, Walton Schalick

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