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Holism : possibilities and problems
\"Holism: Possibilities and Problems brings together leading contributors in a ground-breaking discussion of holism. The terms 'holism' and 'holistic' arouse strong emotional responses in contemporary culture, whether this be negative or positive, and the essays in this interdisciplinary collection probe, each in its own way, the possibilities and problems inherent in thinking holistically\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Holism and holistic
Holistic is a term widely applied in science in general, including medicine, where it refers to managing the \"whole person,\" not just the symptoms or a disease.
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Clinical trials
This comprehensive, unified text on the principles and practice of clinical trials presents a detailed account of how to conduct the trials. It describes the design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical trials in a non-technical manner and provides a general perspective on their historical development, current status, and future strategy. Features examples derived from the author's personal experience.
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Posthumanism
\"Designed to bring the excitement of posthumanist discussions to the undergraduate classroom, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of \"more than human.\" Smart and Smart return to the holism of classic ethnographies where cattle, pigs, yams, and sorcerers were central to the lives that were narrated by anthropologists, but they extend the discussion to include contemporary issues such as microbiomes, the Anthropocene, and nano-machines, which take holism beyond locally bounded spaces. They outline what a holism without boundaries could look like, and what anthropology could offer to the knowledge of more-than-human nature in the past, present, and future.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Seeing More than Orange: Organizational Respect and Positive Identity Transformation in a Prison Context
This paper develops grounded theory on how receiving respect at work enables individuals to engage in positive identity transformation and the resulting personal and work-related outcomes. A company that employs inmates at a state prison to perform professional business-to-business marketing services provided a unique context for data collection. Our data indicate that inmates experienced respect in two distinct ways, generalized and particularized, which initiated an identity decoupling process that allowed them to distinguish between their inmate identity and their desired future selves and to construct transitional identities that facilitated positive change. The social context of the organization provided opportunities for personal and social identities to be claimed, respected, and granted, producing social validation and enabling individuals to feel secure in their transitional identities. We find that security in personal identities produces primarily performance-related outcomes, whereas security in the company identity produces primarily well-being-related outcomes. Further, these two types of security together foster an integration of seemingly incompatible identities—\"identity holism''—as employees progress toward becoming their desired selves. Our work suggests that organizations can play a generative role in improving the lives of their members through respect-based processes.
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Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation's Health Needs
Today's physician education system produces trained doctors with strong scientific underpinnings in biological and physical sciences as well as supervised practical experience in delivering care. Significant financial public support underlies the graduate-level training of the nation's physicians. Two federal programs-Medicare and Medicaid-distribute billions each year to support teaching hospitals and other training sites that provide graduate medical education.
Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation's Health Needs is an independent review of the goals, governance, and financing of the graduate medical education system. This report focuses on the extent to which the current system supports or creates barriers to producing a physician workforce ready to provide high-quality, patient-centered, and affordable health care and identifies opportunities to maximize the leverage of federal funding toward these goals. Graduate Medical Education examines the residency pipeline, geographic distribution of generalist and specialist clinicians, types of training sites, and roles of teaching and academic health centers.
The recommendations of Graduate Medical Education will contribute to the production of a better prepared physician workforce, innovative graduate medical education programs, transparency and accountability in programs, and stronger planning and oversight of the use of public funds to support training. Teaching hospitals, funders, policy makers, institutions, and health care organizations will use this report as a resource to assess and improve the graduate medical education system in the United States.
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Themes of Holism and Reductionism in the Quest for the Cause of Tuberculosis
The first was “holistic,” focused principally on the host (susceptibility of the exposed individual) and the environment (extrinsic factors that affect the opportunity for exposure and development of disease); its leading proponent was Virchow, a German physician whose seminal work in cellular pathology, social medicine, and public health contributed substantially to the development of modern medicine. In modern-day TB elimination efforts, effective prevention and control programs have several priority strategies that include identifying and completing treatment of TB disease; finding and screening persons who have been recent contacts of TB patients; and screening, testing, and treating populations at greater risk of having latent TB infection and of developing TB disease. [...]components of Virchow’s holistic approach are essential for identifying, testing, and treating populations at greater risk and for whom testing and treatment are most defensible in a resource-limited environment (e.g., persons from high-burden countries; those who lived or worked with persons with TB disease; or those with immune compromise resulting from diabetes, smoking, alcohol use disorder, cancer, or HIV infection).
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