Recipient of the 2006 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for the best project in the area of medicine.
The author, a second-generation Greek American, returned to Greece with her young daughter to do fieldwork over the course of a decade. Focusing on Rhodes, an island that blends continuity with the past and rapid social change in often unexpected ways, she interviewed over a hundred women, doctors, and midwives about issues of reproduction.
The result is a detailed portrait of how a longstanding system of "local" gynecological and obstetrical knowledge under the control of women was rapidly displaced in the the period following World War II, and how the technologically-intensive biomedical model that took its place in turn assumed its own distinctive signature.
Bodies of Knowledge is a vivid ethnographic study of how a presumably globalizing and homogenizing process like medicalization can be reshaped as women and medical experts alike selectively accept or reject new practices and technologies. Georges found, for example, that women in Rhodes have enthusiastically embraced some new technologies, like fetal imaging during pregnancy, but rejected others, like medical contraception. They are also avid consumers of popular childbirth manuals.
This book is the recipient of the 2006 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for the best project in the area of medicine.

Designed for easy reference by people with busy schedules, this concise manual provides hospital board members and executives with practical guidance on how to become actively engaged in the transformation of their organization. It focuses on how the healthcare industry as a whole is transforming and stresses the importance of having board members who are able to provide leadership. The manual is ideal for orienting new board members and for providing experienced members with insight on key issues. It supplies questions to ask stakeholders that will facilitate engagement. Each chapter is organized around action steps designed to build organizational quality and facilitate change.

Psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, counsellors and therapists are under growing pressure to develop ever more cost-efficient ways to provide effective, ethical and client-friendly therapy. These demands are met by cognitive therapy in groups. Michael Free has developed an effective, tried-and-tested course of group therapy for depression and other emotional disorders, which can be used and adapted by mental health professionals to meet the needs of a wide range of clients and treatment services.
This book is a complete manual for a 12-week program of group therapy based on the cognitive therapy of Beck, Ellis, and McMullin. It contains all the materials needed to conduct the group, including information sheets for referring agencies and prospective participants and suggestions for assessment. Each of the 12 therapy chapters contains guidelines for checking homework, fully scripted mini-lectures, exercises, specified homework, and also suggestions for dealing with problems that may arise in the session. An appendix contains masters for visual resources that can be directly photocopied, as can the handouts and forms for participants in the group therapy sessions. For the busy clinician, therapist or counsellor this book represents a conceptually powerful approach to dealing with depression and emotional problems a tested and well-developed group program, with full guidance on selecting participants and key aspects of the therapy process materials and resources for the therapist and clients that can be directly copied or adapted outcome evidence of effectiveness and descriptive materials for funding agencies and prospective clients.
‘This book is remarkable both for its clarity of theortical description and for the attention given to therapeutic details. These elements are efficiently and effectively combined in ways which will readily enable the reader to understand and implement the principles of cognitive therapy for depression as applied in a group format. Paul Salkovskis, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry.

This book provides a detailed analysis of U.S. economic transformation in the last 50 years, including the principal drivers for economic growth, U.S. demographic transformation, and the changing sector structure of the U.S. economy. Economic Transformation of the United States, 1950-2000 , provides contemporary and histori­cal contexts to illustrate how technological innovation and the changing American ideology play a role in the process of U.S. economic transformation. It describes the services sector in which one set of service industries is indentified as ""wealth providers"" and another set as ""job providers.""

A groundbreaking approach to selling to your customer's "pain"
PR guru Steve Cody and sales consultant Richard Harte team up to bring readers a revolutionary methodology for discovering what customers really need and using that knowledge to build stronger, more profitable relationships with them. The evolutionary next step in the "trusted adviser" approach to selling that has taken the sales world by storm, the system successfully combines public relations strategies with consultative sales techniques in a strategic framework.
Among other important lessons, salespeople learn to uncover a client's deepest concerns --"what keeps them up at night"-- and to position their products or services in light of those concerns, using message points and other traditional PR tactics to help them successfully sell to the customer's "pain."

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