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Medicine in the post-consumerist society
Evangelos Koumparoudis offers a unique philosophical perspective on various aspects of medical practices in our post-consumerist society.
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Vital conversations
A prescription for healing the broken relationship at the heart of American health care.
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The custom-made brain
Two leading neuroscientists introduce the concepts of "cerebral plasticity" and the "regenerating brain," describing what we know now about the processes through which the brain constantly reconstructs itself and the potential benefits this knowledge could have in addressing concerns for neurolog...
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Memories are made of this
Memory enables us to make experience meaningful and to form coherent identities for ourselves and intelligible perceptions of others. Indeed, our ability to imagine, anticipate, and create the future is directly commensurate with our ability to retrieve and recollect past experiences. But for all...
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The essential book of traditional chinese medicine
For more than four thousand years, Chinese scholars and medical practitioners have documented ways of maintaining health and treating illness, from theories of yin-yang and the zang-fu organs to the use of herbs and acupuncture. The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine marks the first t...
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Craving earth
Humans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than 2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice, chalk, and other unorthodox items of food. Some even claim they are addicted and "go crazy" without these items, but why?Sifting through extensive historical, ethnographic, and biomedical findings, Sera L...
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The yellow emperor’s inner transmission of acupuncture
This book features a passionate and clinically relevant synthesis of Dr. Liu Lihong’s discipleship with Yang Zhenhai, one of the last remaining master practitioners of Daoist acupuncture in mainland China.
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Diagnosis and management in primary care
This book is to provide clincial students with some basic principles of diagnosis and management, medico-legal pitfalls and roles of evidence in primary care. Using practical examples, the authors describe clearly the whole mental process in coming to a clinical diagnosis, with emphasis on import...
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Toxic exposures
The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people o...
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Memory and emotion
Most of us remember where we were and what we were doing on September 11, 2001. Why do most experiences leave little trace while some—even terrible ordeals that people wish they could forget—leave memories that last a lifetime? That is the mystery at the heart of this book.Drawing on fascinating ...
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Coaching intervention for psychosis
China’s ascent to the rank of the world’s second largest economic power has given its revolution a better image than that of its Russian counterpart. Yet the two have a great deal in common. Indeed, the Chinese revolution was a carbon copy of its predecessor, until Mao became aware, not so much o...
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Hyping health risks
The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and conf...
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Aids between science and politics
A social, political, and human history of the epidemic, with a look at its ongoing challenges, written by a scientist, physician, and pioneering world health leader.
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The making of intelligence
What do we mean when we describe a person as intelligent? The concept of intelligence wields a powerful influence on research dealing with the brain and on how individuals progress in society. Yet, remarkably, there is no scientific consensus about the meaning of intelligence. In The Making of In...
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Sexing the brain
How much of sexual diversity is the result of nature versus nurture? Prevailing theories today lean heavily toward nature. Now a leading researcher in neuroscience and animal behavior shows how, in recent history, scientific claims about sex and gender differences have reflected the culture of th...
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The quest for the cure
After more than fifty years of blockbuster drug development, skeptics are beginning to fear we are reaching the end of drug discovery to combat major diseases. In this engaging book, Brent R. Stockwell, a leading researcher in the exciting new science of chemical biology, describes this dilemma a...
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What to do when college is not the best time of your life
If college is supposed to be the best time of our lives, why are so many students unhappy? What causes a well-adjusted and academically successful high school graduate to suddenly flounder when he reaches college? Why might she start to skip classes, binge on alcohol, or engage in unsatisfying ho...
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A place to call home
Exploring a service too often viewed as a necessary evil best left invisible, this study takes on the sensitive topic of long-term residential care. Based on an understanding of what exists today, this breakthrough survey takes a different approach by theorizing about developing alternative forms...
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Vaccines and your family
This book is a go-to guide for all families seeking trustworthy information about the science and safety of vaccines.
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Social epidemiology
By tracking the distribution of disease and pinpointing relevant risk factors, social epidemiology reveals how social problems are intrinsically linked to the health of populations. The practice also takes into account the psychosocial, biological, and medical determinants of disease and health, ...
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The human genome as common heritage of mankind
In 1997, the UNESCO General Conference declared the human genome a common heritage of humankind. This declaration was followed by the Joint Statement of March 14, 2000, by US President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which they stated that the “fundamental data on the huma...
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Mental health in the war on terror
An investigation into the unintended cultural and psychological consequences of our fight against terrorism.
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Contemplative science
Science has long treated religion as a set of personal beliefs that have little to do with a rational understanding of the mind and the universe. However, B. Alan Wallace, a respected Buddhist scholar, proposes that the contemplative methodologies of Buddhism and of Western science are capable of...
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The thirteenth step
A leading physician scientist explains why, despite major advances in our understanding of addiction, treatment continues to be ineffective--even harmful--and how we can achieve better outcomes.
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Medical philosophy
This innovative book clarifies the distinction between philosophy of medicine and medical philosophy, expanding the focus from the 'knowing that' of the first to the 'knowing how' of the latter. The idea of patient and provider self-discovery becomes the method and strategy at the basis of therap...
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Understanding emerging epidemics
Focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political contexts. This book examines emerging epidemics and offers a theoretical analysis of the use of epidemics and epidemiology as frame...
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Lost virtue
Discusses character formation, ethics, professional character, and other concepts and addresses the interpersonal aspects of physicians as well as the importance of character.
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Transforming healthcare with big data and ai
This book explores the convergence of healthcare and technology, focusing on AI, machine learning, wearable technologies, and data mining. It examines leveraging advanced technologies and developing data ecosystems in healthcare, offering insights from multidisciplinary experts on the future of B...
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Health management 2.0
With fresh insights for health professionals, this book promotes a modern interdisciplinary and dynamic approach to health leadership and management, and outlines international best practice for future teaching and training.
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Organization development in healthcare
This handbook fills the gap in evidence-based OD resources for healthcare leaders and practitioners. It covers OD's role in healthcare, from hospitals to corporations, offering research-based methods and real-world cases. It's a valuable resource for OD professionals, executives, and students.
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The role of demographics in occupational stress and well being
In much of the contemporary research on occupational stress and well-being, demographic factors such as gender, age, and race/ethnicity are evident in the background and controlled in statistical analysis. This volume asks whether that should be the case and the extent to which those demographics...
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Progress in psychobiology and physiological psychology
This volume presents essays in the area of the neurobiology of motivation. Contents include research in ingestive behaviour, dopamine and food reward, the effect of insulin in the brain, and mechanisms of thirst and salt appetite.
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Technology-enhanced healthcare education
Technology-Enhanced Healthcare Education promotes the best practices and lessons learnt from COVID-19 and highlights the importance and impact of using information systems to increase levels of health literacy.
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Biennial review of health care management
Reviews the advances on a variety of micro and macro health care management topics. Part of the "Advances in Health Care Management" series, this title showcases reviews of both empirical and conceptual research in specific areas of health care management.
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Using survey data to study disability
Embracing a range of social groups and age ranges, this volume comprises the findings of a number of researchers involved in the National Health Interview Survey on Disability, which began as an annual project in the United States in 1957.
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Idiographic approach to health
This book explores the complex concept of health within the idiographic framework, viewing health as a dynamic process rather than a static state. It discusses health as a resource for individuals and communities, emphasizing the importance of contextual and contingent dynamics.
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Casebook of exemplary evidence-informed programs that foster community participation after acquired brain injury
Acquired brain injury (ABI) refers to brain damage from traumatic or non-traumatic causes. Advances in care improve survival rates and rehabilitation supports community participation for survivors. This casebook compiles evidence-based programs that enhance community participation for people of a...
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Health disparities among under-served populations
An anthology that critically examines the devastating impact of race, class, and gender on the health and health care of African Americans, Latinos and American Indians, with particular focus on children and adolescents. It includes chapters that focus on issues such as: substance abuse, psycholo...
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The role of leadership in occupational stress
Volume 14 examines critical topics at the intersection of leadership, stress, and well being including: leaders’ networks, personality and development, workaholism, followership, the role of leaders in helping promote employees’ mental well being and taking a holistic view of a leader’s life at ...
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Painting
Easily digestible for even the busiest of readers, this book serves as a succinct, engaging, and informative guide on how the practice of painting can help improve or maintain health and wellbeing, both within and outside of professional settings.
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Human capital and health behavior
This Volume focuses on human capital and health behavior. Content is based on an International symposium on Human Capital and Health Behavior, held by The Centre for Health Economics at the University of Gothenburg. Content will cover both theoretical and empirical aspects of the topic.
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Social sources of disparities in health and health care and linkages to policy, population concerns and providers of care
Deals with Social Sources of Disparities in Health and Health Care. This title reviews basic material on the topic. It includes five articles, three focused on racial and ethnic factors in disparities and two on those factors and other social factors such as SES.
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Strategic human resource management in health care
Strategic management of HR in health care is important in delivering high-quality patient care. This volume of Advances in Health Care Management which focuses on Human Resource Management aims to explore the strategic role that HRM can play in delivering high quality and affordable health care.
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Patient safety and health care management
Contains four sections that include, theoretical perspectives on managing patient safety, top management perspectives on patient safety, health information technology perspectives on patient safety, and organizational behavior and change perspectives on patient safety.
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Body art
Providing a radical rethink that integrates tattoos and other body modifications within health, wellbeing, and positive psychology, this book disrupts the narrative of stigmatisation that so often surrounds these practices to welcome a broader discussion of the benefits they can offer.
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Safety in medicine
Studies in the US suggest that about 4 per cent of hospital patients are unintentionally harmed by treatment. This book assumes that medicine may benefit and learn from approaches to safety in other areas. It addresses the role of new technologies, both as hazards and in improving safety.
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Biennial review of health care management
Features reviews of health care management, linking concerns about health care workforce management with health care organization management issues. This book focuses on health care workforce management issues, including allied health professionals, nurses, and physicians, and on health care orga...
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Social determinants, health disparities and linkages to health and health care
This volume looks at the key links between social determinants, health disparities and health and health care. There is a particular focus on macro-level systems and micro-level issues, including the examination of issues for patients, carers and providers of care.
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Reading
Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why,not by instruction or prescription, but by emotion and exploration. Offering case histories of individual readers and reading groups, the authors showcase the health and wellbeing benefits which come from our access...
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New perspectives in healthcare
A mixture of original research and thought leadership pieces combine to examine the changing landscape of the US healthcare system. This book provides researchers, professionals, managers and policy makers with a summary of how the US healthcare system has evolved and provides food for thought on...
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Annual review of health care management
This volume will interest healthcare researchers and health system designers alike. It revisits the evolution of health systems organization in light of regulatory and organizational evolution in health care, as well as assessing the latest evidence on physician integration, complexity, and syste...
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Proven solutions for improving health and lowering health care costs
This book aims to convince healthcare administrators and providers that scientific research offers effective tools and techniques for managing health services. It presents easy-to-understand summaries of research from scientific journals to demonstrate these methods' effectiveness and efficiency.
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Beyond health insurance
Much of the debate about health policy in the US has focused on the availability of health insurance coverage and the number of individuals who are uninsured. It is known that the United States spends approximately twice as much per capita on health care, but there is little difference in populat...
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Dancing
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Channelling a new application for an ancient, beloved creative practice, dance experts and advocates Noyale Colin and Kathryn Stamp challenge all of us, no matter our age, circumstances or ability, to get our bodi...
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Social factors in mental health and illness
Social Factors in Mental Health and Illness
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50 years after deinstitutionalization
This volume will examine deinstitutionalization’s legacies approximately 50 years after reintegration began. It will highlight pressing issues around mental health treatment, social and health policy, and the lived experiences of those coping with mental illness that were or continue to be signif...
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Reorganizing health care delivery systems
The 11 papers that comprise this volume cover managed care issues and organizational features, special groups of patients and health issues, lessons from countries around the world and broader policy concerns and health insurance reform.
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Strategic thinking and entrepreneurial action in the health care industry
Examines the health care and hospital industries and their relation to entrepreneurial action and strategy. This work helps to recognize and address the often elusive phenomenon of successful strategic choice over environmental determinism, which is aided by quality strategic thinking and decisiv...
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Healthcare and culture
This book explores the evolving relationship between medicine and society, addressing bioethical, social, political, economic, and psychological issues. It examines how psychology interacts with medicine, focusing on the dialogical encounter between doctor and patient.
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International health care management
Examines international health care management. This work consists of 12 papers, and explores the delivery and organization of care in health systems from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, encompassing more than 20 countries in their comparisons.
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Historical and current perspectives on stress and health
The papers in this collection cover diverse disciplines in examining approaches to improve job stress research. The contributors explore historical and current perspectives on stress and its impact on health.
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Research on community-based mental health services for children and adolescents
Research on mental health services for children and adolescents has become a vibrant subspecialty within the larger field of mental health services research.
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Singing
This book provides an overview of the current evidence demonstrating the positive impact singing has on our physical and mental health and wellbeing. Including case studies that illustrate the power of singing, it also discusses potential barriers for singing and the strategies needed to overcome...
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Collapse of the global order on drugs
The 2016 UNGASS on drug policy resulted in an Outcome Document detailing profound differences of opinion and practice between different states polarising public health and human rights themes. This book examines the different positions, the underlying problems, and the options open for the next i...
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Stress and quality of working life
This book highlights job stress as a primary source of stress for American adults, linking it to health issues and economic costs. It emphasizes the importance of proper diagnosis and preventive actions to manage stress, aiming to help workers live better and more balanced lives.
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Chronic care, health care systems and services integration
The theme of this volume is chronic care, health care systems and services integration. Focusing on issues that relate to health care providers, dealing with home and community based services for the elderly and provides lessons from countries outside the United States related to the overall them...
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Resilient health systems
Since February 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has strained health systems worldwide. This book explores the factors determining the ability of health systems to cope with and recover from a crisis, and therefore their level of resilience.
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Leading in health care organizations
The 14th volume of the Advances in Health Care Management research series addresses the links between leadership and safety, satisfaction or financial performance in health care management.
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Investing in health
This volume presents studies contributing to the enhancement of the outcomes research paradigm on public health by incorporating economic and social interactions within the health care delivery, clinical decision-making and outcomes systems.
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Organization development in healthcare
This collection of critical ideas relating organization science to operations and accomplishments in the health care environment provides a thematic guide for leaders, practitioners, academics and administrators. It pulls in a broad cross-section of perspectives on the important linkage of schola...
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Health, illness and use of care
Explores the impact of social factors on health, illness and the use of care. Contributors examine a number of social factors including sex, gender and socio-economic status on the healthcare experience and focus on both patients within the care process and the providers of care.
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Through the eyes of the child
Through the Eyes of the Child
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Technology, communication, disparities and government options in health and health care services
This volume includes papers related to issues of technology, communication, health disparities and government options in health and health care services. It fills an existing gap by providing a clear sociological overview and focus on these topics.
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Inequalities and disparities in health care and health
Deals with the topic of health inequalities and health disparities. This book examines racial and ethnic inequalities and disparities. It focuses on consumers and topics of health care disparities. It also focuses on issues related to substance abuse, mental health and related concerns.
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Marketing in healthcare-related industries
This book explores healthcare marketing complexities. It offers insights for scholars and practitioners, with mini-cases and a marketing tool kit. The book addresses challenges like changing disease patterns and technology-driven interventions, emphasizing strategic marketing to deliver value and...
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Health care services, racial and ethnic minorities and underserved populations
Discusses the overall issue of health care disparities and undeserved populations. This book focuses on issues that relate to gender and provides papers on some other specific examples of undeserved populations: those with mental health concerns, those with concerns related to emotional well bein...
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Making healthcare care
In this volume, Hugo Letiche questions if there is true "care" in healthcare, arguing that patients should not be seen merely as problems to be solved. He advocates for mindful listening and engaged dialogue to address the complexity of individual healthcare situations, suggesting that this appro...
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Ethics and epidemics
Contains three sections that cover, Human Rights, Public Safety, and Public Policy; Practitioner Responsibilities During Times of Epidemics; and Global Dimensions of Epidemics.
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Covid-19, frontline responders and mental health
Realizing the harsh potential realities such as a shortage of qualified workers and questions around funding and workforce development needed to ensure preparedness for the next public health emergency, this playbook for delivering resilient public health systems post-pandemic provides a timely o...
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Challenges and opportunities in healthcare leadership
This book addresses the challenges faced by healthcare leaders, such as managing interprofessional teams, payment reform, homelessness & the opioid crisis. It features authentic reflections & professional stories from leaders, offering insights, perspectives & lessons. Each chapter in...
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Photography
Photography is ubiquitous. The visual image is the predominant form of communication. This book explores the myriad ways in which photographs can be used: to document events, places or things; to consolidate personal identity; to pose a challenge to an idea or regime; to animate the inanimate.
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