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Stories of Dignity within Healthcare: Research, narratives and theories
Dignity is fundamental to every single person’s life and history; and every interaction with another human being can potentially influence a person’s sense of identity and self-esteem. In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of ‘dignity in care’. When healthcare organisations and individuals prioritise dignity, service users, carers and staff are treated with respect, compassion and understanding, and safe, good-quality healthcare services are delivered. In contrast, when dignity and respect are neglected or violated, people experience poor-quality care and may even suffer neglect and abuse. For all these reasons, it is clearly vital that all healthcare ...
Smoking and Pregnancy
Examines smoking as a public health concern focusing on harm to the fetus, and fetal personhood, and also challenges moral policing of smoking women who are pregnant.
Leaving America
Today more than ever, large numbers of Americans are leaving the United States. It is estimated that by the end of the decade, some 10 million of the brightest and most talented Americans, representing an estimated $136 billion in wages, will be living and working overseas. This emigration trend contradicts the internalized myth of America as the land of affluence, opportunity, and freedom. What is behind this trend? Wennersten argues that many people these days, from college students to retirees, are uncertain or ambivalent about what it means to be an American. For example, many are uncomfortable with that they believe America has come to represent to the rest of the world. At the same tim...
This Mortal Coil
"Hamlet's "mortal coil" - which eventually and inevitably we "shuffle off" when we enter the sleep of death, as he puts it - has never been static. Indeed how the human body and its component parts have been understood, individually and collectively, has shifted across time, shaped by culture, religion, and technology. In this probing and provocative new book, Fay Bound Alberti uses the global histories of medicine, pathology, and emotions to explore these changing notions. Each chapter uses a different focus - bones, skin, sexual organs, spine, tongue, heart - revealing how each body part connects to a peculiarly Western notion of expertise, one which appropriates one element from the other...
Alberta Law Review
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Generations of Littlefield Tracks Across America
Edmund Littlefield was born in Titchfield, Hampshire County, England and was baptized June 27, 1592. He was the son of Francis and Mary Littlefield. He married Annis(also called Agnes, and Anne) Austin on October 16, 1614 at Titchfield. They had ten children all in Titchfield. The family emigrated ca. 1637. They were first in Boston but moved to Exeter, New Hampshire in 1638 and to Wells, Maine in 1641. Edmund died in 1661 in Wells. Descendants lived in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and elsewhere.
