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"The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives is an essential resource for anyone interested in health and health care. The new Ninth Edition tackles some of the most timely health issues of our day with coverage of eating disorders, the effects of inequality on health, how race, class, and gender affect health outcomes, the health politics of asthma and more. Further, new sections explore the effects of health care reform, ..."
Verdi and/or Wagner(1st Edition) Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by ProfessorPeterConrad Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2011 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-51593-8, ISBN: 0-500-51593-X
"An exploration of the lives and works of Verdi and Wagner as well as their respective legacies to the present day, written by a noted cultural critic.This is the first book to compare these two composers and cultural heroes, both of whom were born in 1813 and achieved huge national and inter- national renown in their lifetimes. Yet not only did they never meet, but the differences between them—in music, culture, environment, significanc ..."
"Finalist, Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, British Sociological AssociationOver a decade after medical sociologist Phil Brown called for a sociology of diagnosis, Putting a Name to It provides the first book-length, comprehensive framework for this emerging subdiscipline of medical sociology.Diagnosis is central to medicine. It creates social order, explains illness, identifies treatments, and predicts outc ..."
"Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by some of the outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include: social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital; disability; dying and ""the right to die"" ..."
"Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by some of the outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include: social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital; disability; dying and ""the right to die"" ..."
""It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century Br ..."
"This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often brings with it serious social problems. The ..."
The Medicalization of Society(1st Edition) On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders by Dr. PeterConrad Phd Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8585-3, ISBN: 0-8018-8585-X
"Ausgewählte Autoren geben einen Überblick über die aktuelle Forschung zum Thema Organisation und Umwelt. Sie betrachten dabei unter anderem Aspekte wie die Entstehung organisationaler Sachzwänge, organisationale Netzwerke und digitale Gemeinschaften, das Zusammenspiel zwischen extrinsischer und intrinsischer Motivation sowie das Problem der Knappheit natürlicher Ressourcen."
"In der zweiten Auflage des Sammelbandes geht es um Beiträge, mit denen unter Berücksichtigung bisheriger nationaler als auch internationaler Erfahrungen Gestaltungsvorschläge für die weiterhin notwendige Optimierung des Aufbaus und des Management des öffentlichen Dienstes präsentiert werden. Dabei geht es nicht nur um die Entwicklung planungs- und designtheoretisch zu optimierender Gestaltungsentwürfe, sonder ..."
"Der zweite Band der jährlich erscheinenden "Managementforschung" ent hält sieben alphabetisch geordnete Beiträge. Thematisch setzen sie sich mit zwei zentralen Problembereichen verhaltenswissenschaftlicher Mana gementforschung und Managementpraxis auseinander. Im ersten Bereich wird die Diskussion um die Erklärungsleistung verhaltenswissenschaftli cher und ökonomischer Konzepte aufgegriffen und weiterentwickelt. Dazu werden im einzel ..."
Orson Welles Historias De Su Vida/ Stories of His Life (Spanish Edition) by ProfessorPeterConrad, Maria Perez Martin Paperback, 398 Pages, Published 2005 by Ediciones Jaguar ISBN-13: 978-84-96423-03-9, ISBN: 84-96423-03-4
"Jaguar. Madrid. 2005. 23 cm. 398 p. il. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Traducido y anotado por María Pérez Martín. Filmografía: p. 368-382. Índice. Traducción de: Orson Welles. 1915-1985 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-96423-03-4"
"Unter dem Leitwort "Verändertes Denken" untersuchen Vertreter aus Wissenschaft, betrieblicher Praxis und Beratung, mit welcher strategischen Ausrichtung die weitere Entwicklung unseres öffentlichen Dienstes in die bereits gegebene Linie einer umfassenden Modernisierung von Staat und Verwaltung einzubringen ist."
"Managementforschung informiert jährlich über neueste Erkenntnisse und Trends der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion.Band 22 (2012) enthält Beiträge zu folgenden Themen:§ Formalisierung und Wohlbefinden am Arbeitsplatz§ Regulatorische Unsicherheit und private Standardisierung§ Die Bedeutung des institutionellen Gründungskontexts für die Übernahme der Richtlinien des Deutschen Corpora ..."
"Con una minuciosidad ágil y divertida, Peter Conrad nos pasea por la filmografía del " mago del suspense " combinando la apreciación analítica del erudito con la exaltación del fascinado para preguntarse por las grandes cuestiones que plantea el cine de ese estrafalario director de cine británico que nos sigue reservando sorpresas."