Intellect jan 2024 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An argument for attentive and personal care within the bureaucracy of health care systems. In Fighting for the Soul of General Practice, two practicing doctors share their experiences of working within the underfunded and highly bureaucratic health system in the United Kingdom. Drawing on years of experience treating a wide range of patients from all backgrounds, they show what is lost when regulation overrules relationships, standard practice eliminates discretion, and algorithms displace personal attention. While acknowledging that bureaucracy is inevitable and important, they argue for an approach to medicine that is about creating meaning for doctor and patient and that privileges connection, attention, and care within each encounter.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A comprehensive conceptual and scholarly overview of a/r/tography. A/r/tography is an interdisciplinary art practice that blends visual, narrative, performance, and other modes of inquiry with qualitative research methods such as ethnography and autobiography. This collection is designed to provoke conceptual conversations between early a/r/tographic publications and the contemporary scholarship of a/r/tographers publishing and producing today. In doing so, it advances concepts that have permeated a/r/tographic literature to date, while also making key historical works readily available. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An analysis of boundaries and boundary-making. This collection explores alternative definitions of bounded identities, facilitating new approaches to spatial and architectural forms. Taking as its starting point the emergence of a new definition of 'boundary' in the wake of the twentieth-century transformation of large, heterogeneous empires into a mosaic of nation-states in the Islamic world, it shows how that new sense of boundaries not only determines the ways we imagine and construct the idea of modern citizenship, but also redefines relationships among the nation, citizenship, cities, and architecture. The contributors investigate how architecture mediates the creation and deployment of boundaries and boundedness and how architecture might be considered as a means to understand the relationship between flows and boundaries and its implications for how we define the modern self.…