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Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: A Practical Guide for Clinicians
by Sophia A. HussenThis book is designed to present a comprehensive and state-of the-art update that covers the pathophysiology, epidemiology, and clinical presentation of the most frequently encountered STIs in adolescence and young adulthood. The introductory sections discuss more general themes including approaches to obtaining a sexual history and exam, concerns of sexual minority youth, ethical and legal considerations, and health disparities in STIs in this population. Subsequent chapters are organized by pathogen such as herpes simplex virus, and human immunodeficiency virus, or clinical syndrome including pelvic inflammatory disease, and vaginitis. Each chapter begins with a case study to illustrate key characteristics of the disease process in question and includes rich illustrations, resources, and guidelines. Written by experts in the field, the text includes a review of epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment, prevention, and adolescent-specific considerations that is vital to working with this important population. With its transdisciplinary perspective, Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescence and Young Adulthood is a unique text that is valuable to infectious disease specialists, adolescent medicine specialists, gynecologists, primary care physicians, advanced practice providers, medical administrative staff, school nurses, sexual health educators, social workers, and public health officials.
Sexually Transmitted Infections: Advances in Understanding and Management
by Antonio Cristaudo Massimo GiulianiThis comprehensive, well-illustrated, and easily accessible book documents the latest research outcomes concerning sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and describes important advances in their prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The changes in the epidemiology and clinical aspects of STIs that have occurred over the past decade are fully explored, with special attention to core groups and patients with immunological disorders. The emerging challenges associated with particular sexually transmitted pathogens, including C. trachomatis, N. gonorrhoeae, HPV, and HIV, are identified and discussed. Readers will find detailed information on modern preventive strategies, new laboratory and diagnostic techniques, and a range of innovative treatments, including vaccines, continuous antiretroviral therapy, and new drugs against hepatitis viruses. Attention is also drawn to new directions in biomedical research that promise clinical benefits for the patients and communities. The combination of a detailed clinical and research approach, with emphasis on new knowledge and innovative aspects, ensures that the book will be of value to a wide readership comprising both clinicians and researchers.
Sexually Violent Predators: A Clinical Science Handbook
by William T. O’Donohue Daniel S. BrombergThis information-rich volume expands current knowledge about sexually violent predators and critiques SVP laws with the goal of fostering improvements in clinical practice and public policy. It offers a finely detailed evidence base on this problematic class of offenders, including the complex interactions of biophysiological and environmental factors that contribute to criminal sexual behavior. Chapters discuss a wide range of assessment issues and instruments central to SVP evaluation, and the possibilities for developing interventions that address individual motivations and behaviors to reduce the risk of reoffending. And throughout, careful attention is paid to ongoing legal, ethical, and logical concerns regarding sexually violent offenders, their treatment and confinement, and their post-confinement placement. Among the topics covered:· Civil commitment of sex offenders.· The physiological basis of problematic sexual interests and behaviors.· Sexually violent predator evaluations: problems and proposals.· Cultural considerations in the assessment of sexually violent predators.· Management of sex offenders in community settings.· Effective use of an expert in sexually violent predator commitment hearings. Offering numerous issues for discussion and debate with considerable implications for clinical practice, policy, and the judicial system, Sexually Violent Predators will interest and enlighten forensic psychologists and psychiatrists as well as social workers, policy-makers, and legal professionals.
Sexualmedizin für die Praxis: Sexualberatung und Kurzinterventionen bei sexuellen Störungen
by Uwe Hartmann Tillmann Krüger Viola Kürbitz Christian NeuhofDas Buch vermittelt klinisch tätigen Ärzten verschiedener Fachbereiche das nötige Praxiswissen und die Fertigkeiten, die dazu befähigen:· Sexuelle Störungen zu erkennen und diagnostisch zu erfassen, inkl. der dazu notwendigen Gesprächsführungskompetenzen· Eine Sexualanamnese durchzuführen· Patienten mit sexuellen Störungen fachgerecht zu beraten· Patienten mit sexuellen Störungen unter systematischer Nutzung der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung und mit Fokus auf der Paardimension sexualmedizinisch zu behandeln und sexualtherapeutische Kurzinterventionen durchzuführen.Das Vorgehen der Gesprächsführung, Beratung und Behandlung beruht auf dem Hannover-Ansatz der Sexualtherapie. Er bietet einen allgemeinen, störungsübergreifenden Rahmen von beratenden und therapeutischen Fertigkeiten und Werkzeugen, die bei allen Patienten mit Sexualstörungen angewendet werden können. Darüber hinaus erhält der Leser die notwendigen spezifischen Kenntnisse über die verschiedenen Sexualstörungen inklusive der für diese verfügbaren aktuellen sexualmedizinischen und sexualtherapeutischen Behandlungsoptionen.Auch ärztliche und psychologische Psychotherapeuten sowie andere Berufsgruppen, die mit sexuellen Problemen konfrontierten Klienten arbeiten, finden in diesem Praxisleitfaden vieles für die tägliche Beratungspraxis. Das Buch deckt die Inhalte der Zusatzweiterbildung „Sexualmedizin“ der Bundesärztekammer sowie des Diploms „Sexualmedizin“ der Österreichischen Ärztekammer ab und vermittelt die dort festgelegten Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten. Für die Prüfungsvorbereitung stehen dem Leser zahlreiche Flashcards zur Verfügung.
Sexualpädagogische (Re)Visionen: Sexualpädagogik als Diskriminierungsschutz für Schule und außerschulische Bildungsarbeit
by Annette VanagasIn dem Band werden sexualpädagogische Inhalte und deren Potenzial als Antidiskriminierungspädagogik verbunden. Thematisiert werden Homo- sowie Transfeindlichkeit, Geschlechterstereotype und deren Wirkung auf Körperlichkeit, Sexting und Bodyshaming. In ihren Beiträgen nähern sich die Autorinnen und Autoren aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Diskursen und ethischen wie moralischen Fragen und reflektieren deren pädagogische Implikationen.
Sexualstrafrecht in Medizin und Pflege: Grundlagen für die Pflegeausbildung (essentials)
by Ulf Haakon DammannDieses essential ist eine wertvolle Orientierungshilfe zum Thema Sexualstrafrecht f#65533;r Menschen in Pflegeberufen in der Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung. Ulf Haakon Dammann liefert eine kompakte #65533;bersicht #65533;ber Erkenntnismerkmale, Definitionen und Beispiele sowie Verhaltensweisen im Umgang mit Opfern (sexueller) Gewalt. Der Autor erl#65533;utert wesentliche Aspekte des Sexualstrafrechts in Deutschland und bereitet diese als Praxistipps f#65533;r Menschen in Pflegeberufen auf.
Sexuelle Freiheit aufgedeckt
by Thérèse Hargot Jakob Pastötter Lydia LundbeckWas haben wir aus der sexuellen Befreiung gemacht? Nach 50 Jahren sexueller Revolution ist so viel Sex im öffentlichen Raum wie seit der Antike nicht mehr. Doch wie beeinflusst dies die heutigen Jugendlichen? Dieses Buch deckt Auswirkungen und Zusammenhänge der sexuellen Befreiung auf. Basierend auf langjähriger Erfahrung in der schulischen Sexualaufklärung und gestützt durch viele anschauliche Beispiele schildert die Autorin minutiös und bisweilen erfrischend maliziös, was und wie Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene heute über Sexualität denken. Obwohl sich diese sexuell befreit fühlen, unterliegen sie doch vielfältigen Zwängen. Ohne ein Blatt vor den Mund zu nehmen vermittelt die Autorin anhand von vielen Beispielen, welche Auswirkungen Faktoren wie eine Bagatellisierung der Porno-Kultur, permanentes Leistungsstreben, hormonelle Verhütung und eine zwanghafte Suche nach sexueller Orientierung nach sich ziehen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass es ein Irrglaube ist, dass sich die Sexualität als Konsumgut instrumentalisieren und beherrschen, pädagogisch vermitteln, sozial konstruieren sowie pharmazeutisch und chirurgisch optimieren lässt. Das reale Liebesleben könnte sonst viel Leere, Frustration, Verunsicherung und Einsamkeit erfahren. Das Buch regt dazu an, das Wagnis einzugehen, sich den damit verbundenen Fragen des Lebens zu stellen und den Lernprozess der Sozialisierung im Bereich von Liebe, Sex und Beziehungen neu zu überdenken.
Sexuelles Grooming: Integration von Forschung, Praxis, Prävention und Politik
by Elizabeth L. Jeglic Georgia M. WintersDieses Buch bietet einen ausführlichen Überblick über den aktuellen Forschungsstand zum Thema Sexual Grooming. Es untersucht den Prozess, durch den eine Person, die eine sexuelle Straftat begehen will, ein potenzielles Opfer geschickt in Situationen manipuliert, in denen der Missbrauch leichter begangen werden kann, während gleichzeitig die Offenlegung und Entdeckung verhindert wird. Dieser Band befasst sich mit diesem wenig erforschten Phänomen und untersucht umfassend, was derzeit über dieses Konstrukt bekannt ist. Es bietet eine gründliche Einführung in die Literatur über sexuelles Grooming, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf der Geschichte des Begriffs liegt und darauf, wie sexuelle Grooming-Strategien durch öffentlichkeitswirksame Fälle und solche in Organisationen, die Kinder betreuen (z. B. katholische Kirche, Boy Scouts of America), öffentlich bekannt geworden sind. Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die verschiedenen vorgeschlagenen Modelle des sexuellen Groomings - einschließlich des Sexual Grooming Model (SGM) -, in denen die übergreifenden Schritte oder Phasen des Prozesses beschrieben werden. Es diskutiert Versuche, das Konstrukt des sexuellen Groomings zu definieren, und befasst sich mit den möglichen Folgen des sexuellen Groomings, wobei der Schwerpunkt darauf liegt, wie Opfer, Familien und Gemeinden im Allgemeinen betroffen sein können. Zu den wichtigsten Themenbereichen gehören: Einzigartige Kontexte und Facetten, in denen sexuelles Grooming-Verhalten beobachtet wurde, einschließlich Online-Grooming, persönliches/Self-Grooming, familiäres Grooming, institutionelles Grooming und Grooming-Verhalten von weiblichen Personen. Die Art und Weise, in der sich sexuelle Grooming-Strategien in Fällen von Sexhandel und sexuellem Missbrauch von Erwachsenen manifestieren können. Bewertung und Behandlung von sexuellem Grooming sowie Präventionsstrategien. Durchführung von Grooming-Forschungen als Grundlage für Strafverfolgungsmaßnahmen und gerichtliche Entscheidungen. Die Ausarbeitung und Verabschiedung von Gesetzen und Strategien zur Verhinderung von sexuellem Grooming. Child Sexual Grooming ist ein unverzichtbares Hilfsmittel für Forscher, Professoren, Studenten, Kliniker, Psychotherapeuten, Juristen, politische Entscheidungsträger, Strafverfolgungsbehörden und verwandte Berufsgruppen in den Bereichen Entwicklungspsychologie, Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie, Sozialarbeit, öffentliches Gesundheitswesen, Kriminologie/Strafjustiz, forensische Psychologie sowie Verhaltenstherapie und Rehabilitation.
Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships
by Marty CrumpThis book captures the bizarre and befuddling aspects of the behavior of animals, plants, and microbes.
Señoras: Una guía integral de la salud en la menopausia
by Elena Del Estal Perez Alberta Maria Fabris Adriana Fernandez Caamaño Tania Rodriguez Manglano«Un libro eminentemente práctico y útil para transitar con elegancia por la temida menopausia». —Anna Freixas, autora bestseller de Nuestra menopausia¿Qué hacer con los sofocos? ¿Es normal que vuelva la regla después de tanto tiempo (¡y justo el día que usas pantalones blancos!)? ¿Se puede prevenir la osteoporosis? ¿Adónde se fue el deseo?Para muchas mujeres, la menopausia es un terreno incierto, más cercano a una enfermedad o una tortura que una etapa vital digna de ser disfrutada. Sin embargo, cuando disponemos de las herramientas y la orientación adecuadas, es posible transformar radicalmente esta experiencia.Señoras es una guía práctica y compasiva, escrita por cuatro profesionales de la salud con una perspectiva feminista, donde encontrarás todo lo que necesitas saber y escuchar sobre la menopausia y el climaterio. Desde explicaciones científicas y rutinas de ejercicios ilustradas, hasta reflexiones en torno a los prejuicios médicos y sociales que invisibilizan los «asuntos de mujeres».Sin importar si ya estás transitando o no este camino, estas páginas serán tus mejores aliadas para vivir una madurez plena, libre de miedos y prejuicios. Como una verdadera señora. -----A comprehensive guide to celebrate and embrace maturity without fear or prejudice. What to do about hot flashes? Is it normal for your period to come back after so long (and on the day you’re wearing white pants, no less!)? Can osteoporosis be prevented? Where did your sex drive go?For many women, menopause is an uncertain terrain, more like an illness or torture than a vital stage worth enjoying. However, with the right tools and guidance, this experience can be radically transformed.Señoras is a practical and compassionate guide, written by four health professionals from a feminist perspective, where you’ll find everything you need to know and hear about menopause and the climacteric. From scientific explanations and illustrated exercise routines to reflections on the medical and social biases that render “women’s issues” invisible.Whether or not you’re already on this journey, these pages will be your best allies in living a full maturity, free from fear and prejudice. Like a true señora.
Sh!thouse: A Memoir
by Lauren Dollie DukeSh!thouse: A Memoir is a story of brutal girlhood. Lauren was seven when she helped her step-father boost rum bottles from the local liquor store. The next year, her biological father took her to a hotel room and shot up heroin in the bathroom. The next day he robbed a bank with a finger gun! When he was released from prison, he moved into Lauren’s basement. They spent the weekends smoking cartons of cigarettes, diving into dumpsters and swindling used cars. Lauren’s upbringing provided her with only one lens through which she saw herself – shame. And that shame overflowed into every aspect of her life. In this compassionate and gritty real-life fairytale the author, Lauren Dollie Duke, shows how it’s possible for good people to do bad things and what it takes to create peace with where you come from in order to find true happiness. This raw and humorous account about trauma, transcendence and resilience challenges the binary of good vs. evil. It lays out the evolution of shame psychology and intergenerational trauma seeking to answer the question of how we unravel ourselves from the history and patterns of our families. Sh!thouse will make you want to investigate your own historical patterns, examine all of your relationships, and forgive everyone, including yourself. It’s a tether to our shared humanity which reminds us there is belonging in the world no matter how horrific it was to start. It is a beautifully written map that draws back to the personal root of where sabotaging behavior, shame and limitation is born.
Shadow Medicine: The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies
by Jr. John HallerCan Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) find common ground? A distinguished historian of medicine, John S. Haller Jr., explores the epistemological foundations of EBM and the challenges these conceptual tools present for both conventional and alternative therapies. As he explores a possible reconciliation between their conflicting approaches, Haller maintains a healthy, scientific skepticism yet finds promise in select complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies. Haller elucidates recent research on the placebo effect and shows how a new engagement between EBM and CAM might lead to a more productive medical practice that includes both the objectivity of evidence-based medicine and the subjective truth of the physician-patient relationship. Haller's book tours key topics in the standoff between EBM and CAM: how and why the double blinded, randomized clinical trial (RCT) came to be considered the gold standard in modern medicine; the challenge of postmodern medicine as it counters the positivism of evidence-based medicine; and the politics of modern CAM and the rise of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He conducts an in-depth case study of homeopathy, explaining why it has emerged as a poster-child for CAM, and assesses CAM's popularity despite its poor performance in clinical trials. Haller concludes with hope, showing how new experimental protocols might tease out the evidentiary basis for the placebo effect and establish a foundation for some reconciliation between EBM and CAM.
Shadow of a Doubt: The twisty psychological thriller inspired by a real life story that will keep you reading long into the night
by Michelle Davies'Pure suspense, where past and present collide with chilling results' Erin Kelly'A hugely entertaining, fast-paced thriller' Caz Frear'It's a pitch-perfect blend of ghostly terror and pacey thriller' Catherine Ryan Howard'Dark, spooky and brilliantly plotted, the perfect read for dark winter nights' Harriet TyceTwenty-six years ago my brother was murdered in my family home.I was sent to a psychiatric unit for killing him.The truth is, I didn't do it.The whole world believed eight-year-old Cara killed her younger brother on that fateful night. But she blamed it on a paranormal entity she swears was haunting her house.No one believed her and after two years of treatment in a psychiatric unit for delusional disorder, Cara was shunned by her remaining family and put into foster care.Now she's being forced to return to the family home for the first time since her brother's death, but what if she's about to re-discover the evil that was lurking inside its walls?
Shadow of the Mountains (Cheney Duval, MD #2)
by Lynn MorrisCHENEY DUVALL has proved herself a true doctor to those two hundred brides with whom she traveled to the West by sea. But a string of medical successes during the voyage does not open any doors for her upon her arrival in Seattle. In this frontier town, she's "jest a woman." Dejected, she returns home to Philadelphia. When she receives a letter with an invitation to a remote spot in the Ozark Mountains where there are no doctors at all, Cheney feels compelled to go. But the local people are less than welcoming. Cheney runs into walls of illiteracy, superstition, and immovable distrust of Yankees--especially an "edjicated female [who] thinks she's a real doc." How will she overcome centuries of hate and mistrust?
Shadows Bright as Glass
by Amy E NuttOn a sunny fall afternoon in 1988, Jon Sarkin was playing golf when, without a whisper of warning, his life changed forever. As he bent down to pick up his golf ball, something strange and massive happened inside his head; part of his brain seemed to unhinge, to split apart and float away. For an utterly inexplicable reason, a tiny blood vessel, thin as a thread, deep inside the folds of his gray matter had suddenly shifted ever so slightly, rubbing up against his acoustic nerve. Any noise now caused him excruciating pain. After months of seeking treatment to no avail, in desperation Sarkin resorted to radical deep-brain surgery, which seemed to go well until during recovery his brain began to bleed and he suffered a major stroke. When he awoke, he was a different man. Before the stroke, he was a calm, disciplined chiropractor, a happily married husband and father of a newborn son. Now he was transformed into a volatile and wildly exuberant obsessive, seized by a manic desire to create art, devoting virtually all his waking hours to furiously drawing, painting, and writing poems and letters to himself, strangely detached from his wife and child, and unable to return to his normal working life. His sense of self had been shattered, his intellect intact but his way of being drastically altered. His art became a relentless quest for the right words and pictures to unlock the secrets of how to live this strange new life. And what was even stranger was that he remembered his former self. In a beautifully crafted narrative, award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Ellis Nutt interweaves Sarkin's remarkable story with a fascinating tour of the history of and latest findings in neuroscience and evolution that illuminate how the brain produces, from its web of billions of neurons and chaos of liquid electrical pulses, the richness of human experience that makes us who we are. Nutt brings vividly to life pivotal moments of discovery in neuroscience, from the shocking "rebirth" of a young girl hanged in 1650 to the first autopsy of an autistic savant's brain, and the extraordinary true stories of people whose personalities and cognitive abilities were dramatically altered by brain trauma, often in shocking ways. Probing recent revelations about the workings of creativity in the brain and the role of art in the evolution of human intelligence, she reveals how Jon Sarkin's obsessive need to create mirrors the earliest function of art in the brain. Introducing major findings about how our sense of self transcends the bounds of our own bodies, she explores how it is that the brain generates an individual "self" and how, if damage to our brains can so alter who we are, we can nonetheless be said to have a soul. For Jon Sarkin, with his personality and sense of self permanently altered, making art became his bridge back to life, a means of reassembling from the shards of his former self a new man who could rejoin his family and fashion a viable life. He is now an acclaimed artist who exhibits at some of the country's most prestigious venues, as well as a devoted husband to his wife, Kim, and father to their three children. At once wrenching and inspiring, this is a story of the remarkable human capacity to overcome the most daunting obstacles and of the extraordinary workings of the human mind.
Shaken Baby Syndrome: Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy
by Leila Schneps Cyrille Rossant Knut Wester Keith Findley Kana Sasakura Waney SquierSince the early 2000s, a growing body of scientific studies in neuropathology, neurology, neurosurgery, biomechanics, statistics, criminology and psychology has cast doubt on the forensic reliability of medical determinations of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), more recently termed Abusive Head Trauma (AHT). Studies have increasingly documented that accidental short falls and a wide range of medical conditions, can cause the same symptoms and findings associated with this syndrome. Nevertheless, inaccurate diagnoses, unrealistic confidence expression, and wrongful convictions continue to this day. Bringing together contributions from a multidisciplinary expert panel of 32 professionals across 8 countries in 16 different specialties, this landmark book tackles the highly controversial topic of SBS, which lies at the intersection of medicine, science, and law. With comprehensive coverage across multiple disciplines, it explains the scientific evidence challenging SBS and advances efforts to evaluate how deaths and serious brain injuries in infants should be analysed and investigated.
Shaken Brain: The Science, Care, and Treatment of Concussion
by Elizabeth SandelSports concussions make headlines, but you don’t have to be an NFL star to suffer traumatic brain injury. In Shaken Brain, Elizabeth Sandel, MD, shares stories and research from her decades treating and studying brain injuries. She explains what concussions do to our bodies, how to avoid them, and how to recover.
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
by John J. Ross“The stories of the wounded storytellers unfold smoothly on the page, as mesmerizing as any they themselves might have told.” —The New York TimesThe Bard meets House, M.D. in this fascinating untold story of the impact of disease on the lives and works of some the finest writers in the English language. John Ross cheerfully debunks old biographical myths and suggests fresh diagnoses for these writers' real-life medical mysteries.Were Shakespeare's shaky handwriting, his obsession with venereal disease, and his premature retirement connected? Did Jonathan Swift's preoccupation with sex and filth result from a neurological condition that might also explain his late-life surge in creativity? Was Jack London a suicide, or was his death the product of a series of self-induced medical misadventures? Why did W. B. Yeats's doctors dose him with toxic amounts of arsenic? Did writing Nineteen Eighty-Four actually kill George Orwell?With a healthy dose of gross descriptions—from a time when leeches were used for bleeding and cupping was a common method of cure, a time before vaccinations, sterilized scalpels, or real drug regimens—and a deep love for the literary output of these ten greats, Ross is the doctor these writers should have had in their time of need.“Engrossing . . . witty and deeply humane.” —The Wall Street Journal“Into a satisfying series of medical mysteries [Ross] injects notes of wry humor and obvious affection.” —The Boston Globe“A rollicking good story.” —The Washington Post“A fascinating, surprising, and at times hilarious compilation.” —New Scientist
Shaman
by Noah GordonRobert Jeremy Cole, the legendary doctor and hero of "The Physician," left an enduring legacy. From the 11th century on, the eldest son in each generation of the Cole family has borne the same first name and middle initial and many of these men have followed the medical profession. A few have been blessed with their ancestor's diagnostic skill and the "sixth sense" they call The Gift, the ability to know instinctively when death is impending. The tragedy of Rob J.'s life is the deafness of his son, Robert Jefferson Cole, who is called Shaman by everyone who knows him. Shaman's life is difficult. First, he must learn to speak so that he can take his place in the hearing world, and then he must fight against the prejudices of a society where physical differences matter. As Shaman struggles to achieve his identity, the Coles, along with the rest of America, are drawn into the conflict between the North and the South.
Shaman: The Physician, Shaman, And Matters Of Choice (The Cole Trilogy #2)
by Noah GordonThis New York Times Notable Book is a &“sweeping historical drama&” of a physician and his family on the Illinois frontier in the nineteenth century (The New York Times Book Review).Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness. The details of how their deaf son manages to become a physician also, despite his handicap, and the story of how the Cole family is sucked into the bloody vortex of the Civil War and survives, makes an exceptional reading experience.
Shamanism
by Merete Demant JakobsenShamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, among people contacted late by Western missionaries and settlers. On the basis of material only available in Danish, and presented herein English for the first time, the author questions Mircea Eliade's well-known definition of the shaman as the master of ecstasy and suggests that his role has to be seen as that of a master of spirits. The ambivalent nature of the shaman and the spirit world in the tough Arctic environment is then contrasted with the more benign attitude to shamanism in the New Age movement. After presenting descriptions of their organizations and accounts by participants, the author critically analyses the role of neo-shamanic courses and concludes that it is doubtful to consider what isoffered as shamanism.
Shamanism in Chinese Medicine: Applying Ancient Wisdom to Health and Healing
by CT HolmanThis engaging, highly anticipated book compellingly describes healing techniques of Chinese shamanism while respecting the tradition.CT Holman, a medically trained and licensed clinician of over 20 years, clearly explains how Chinese shamanism can be seamlessly woven into modern lifestyle and contemporary medical practices. He explores effective methods to address physical pathologies and emotional imbalances by applying shamanic-influenced techniques including visualizations, verbal healing and shamanic drumming, among others for self-care and medical treatment. The primary resource for the material presented originates from the author's intensive decade-long study under shamanic teacher, Master Zhongxian Wu.Several color illustrations and before-and-after patient photos are included that beautifully depict the spirit-based diagnostics and treatments. Incorporating numerous clinical examples and thoroughly researched procedures, this book teaches practitioners how to combine treatments - concentrating on the spirit and soul - with modern medicine to treat the whole person and enrich their practice. This enlightening book is a must-read for Chinese medicine practitioners, other medical professionals and non-professionals interested in the subject.
Shame 4.0: Investigating an Emotion in Digital Worlds and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
by Elisabeth Vanderheiden Claude-Hélène Mayer Paul T. P. WongThis edited volume provides new perspectives on how shame is experienced and transformed within digital worlds and Industry 4.0. The editors and authors discuss how individuals and organisations can constructively transform shame at work, in professional and private contexts, and with regard to socio-cultural lifestyle changes, founded in digitalisation and Industry 4.0. The contributions in this volume enable researchers and practitioners alike to unlock the topic of shame and its specifics in the highly dynamic and rapidly changing times to explore this emotion in depth in connection with remote workplaces, home office, automated realities and smart systems, or digitalised life- and working styles. By employing transdisciplinary and transcultural perspectives, the volume further discusses shame in the context of new lifestyles, religion, gender, sexual suppression, mental illness, and the nature of citizenship. Researchers, practitioners and students in the fields of industrial and organisational psychology, positive psychology, organisational studies, future studies, health and occupational science and therapy, emotion sciences, management, leadership and human resources will find the contributions highly topical, insightful and applicable to practice. Fresh, timely, thought-provoking with each turn of the page, this impressive volume explores shame in today’s world. Moving beyond the simple “guilt is good; shame is bad” perspective, authors from diverse disciplines examine adaptive and maladaptive aspects of shame in the context of contemporary issues (e.g., social media use, COVID-19) via multiple cultural and social lenses. Aptly named, Shame 4.0 is a treasure trove of rich ideas ripe for empirical study – a blueprint for the next generation of research on this complex and ubiquitous emotion. Bravo! --June Tangney, PhD, University Professor and Professor of Psychology, George Mason University, USA Uncovering Shame - To a much greater extent than other emotions like anger, grief, and fear, until recently most shame in modern societies has been hidden from sight. The text you see in this book is one of the steps that is being taken to make it more visible and therefore controllable. -- Thomas Scheff, Prof. Emeritus Department of Sociology, UCSB, Santa Bararbara, Ca.
Shape Analysis in Medical Image Analysis
by Shuo Li João Manuel R. S. TavaresThis book contains thirteen contributions from invited experts of international recognition addressing important issues in shape analysis in medical image analysis, including techniques for image segmentation, registration, modelling and classification and applications in biology, as well as in cardiac, brain, spine, chest, lung and clinical practice. This volume treats topics such as for example, anatomic and functional shape representation and matching; shape-based medical image segmentation; shape registration; statistical shape analysis; shape deformation; shape-based abnormity detection; shape tracking and longitudinal shape analysis; machine learning for shape modeling and analysis; shape-based computer-aided-diagnosis; shape-based medical navigation; benchmark and validation of shape representation, analysis and modeling algorithms. This work will be of interest to researchers, students and manufacturers in the fields of artificial intelligence, bioengineering, biomechanics, computational mechanics, computational vision, computer sciences, human motion, mathematics, medical imaging, medicine, pattern recognition and physics.
Shape in Medical Imaging: International Workshop, ShapeMI 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Granada, Spain, September 20, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11167)
by Martin Reuter Christian Wachinger Hervé Lombaert Beatriz Paniagua Marcel Lüthi Bernhard EggerThis book constitutes the proceedings of the Workshop on Shape in Medical Imaging, ShapeMI 2018, held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing, MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018. The 26 full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The papers discuss novel approaches and applications in shape and geometry processing and their use in research and clinical studies and explore novel, cutting-edge theoretical methods and their usefulness for medical applications, e.g., from the fields of geometric learning or spectral shape analysis.