Clinical Negligence: A Practitioner's Handbook, Second Edition is an accessible guide to investigating and litigating clinical negligence claims. Written by two leading practitioners in the field, with contributions from members of 1 Crown Office Row, it gives a solicitor's and barrister's perspective on the practical issues that arise during a clinical negligence claim. The book gives a general overview of the law relating to clinical negligence (breach of duty, causation, and quantum) and practical guidance on every aspect of a claim. For ease of navigation, the handbook is organised in an order that follows the typical chronological sequence of a case from initial instruction, risk assessment of prospects of success, NHS and local complaint processes, steps required during the pre-action protocol stage, issue and service of proceedings, exchange of factual and expert evidence, quantification, ADR, and trial. Difficult issues such as fatal cases, secondary victims, and the cost of upbringing (wrongful birth and wrongful life) claims are also covered. Practical guidance is given throughout on matters such as client care, file management, case management (maintaining effective relationships between solicitors, counsel, witnesses, and experts), and funding and running cases profitably (including billing on account and the costs recovery process.) The text features a useful set of precedents; templates, useful websites, and further reading specific to clinical negligence practice are also included.
Between 1765 and 1836 the household economy of São Paulo was transformed from a subsistence to a market-oriented economy. This transformation was paralleled by dramatic changes within society, existing kinship systems, and the organization of the household. The author suggests that this fundamental change in the mode of production was intentional, engineered by an interested elite of merchants and plantation owners who utilized local government bodies to promote the construction of centralized markets, roads, warehouses, and port facilities. The same group sponsored changes in local administration and land law in order to increase and control the resultant commerce in sugar and coffee. This book, based on household-level census data, looks at economic development at the micro level and analyzes how the change took place at a juncture in history when prior options seemed to disappear.
This book attempts to relate changes in household economy, composition and size to the larger changes in the economy and society of Sao Paulo in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It looks at economic development at the micro level.
Stress has become a near-universal experience as well as a rising public health concern. According to many measures, people today are dealing with stressors that are greater in number and severity than in the past several decades, and this stress is taking a toll on our collective wellness. Bringing considerable content from her popular stress management Web site on About.com, Elizabeth Scott distills information about stress management into central ideas and strategies for consumers. These include learning to reduce the stress response and stressors, practicing long-term resilience habits, and putting positive psychology research into action. These various perspectives provide a multilayered framework for understanding stress and approaching stress management that is inspirational, action-oriented, and backed by foundational and recent knowledge in the field. The quick-to-read “8 keys” format of the book can be utilized on many levels so that busy readers can quickly find relief from stress.
Colorable illustrations of 46 common mammals: armadillo, badger, bobcat, kit fox, kangaroo rat, raccoon, pika, peccary, yellowbelly marmot, marten, ferret, weasel, mink, and many more. Full-color renderings appear on the cover, and captions offer scientific names, family classification, size, range, and more information.
Janie returns to Fluberbia to help the Princesses Claire and Julia on another quest. With her brother Jake in tow, Janie and the others embark on an adventure to save two worlds, Fluberbia and earth, from an ancient curse that is robbing the moisture from all of the water and threatening life as they know it.Along the way, the fearless four encounter Orges, fairies, dragons, giant spiders and rare half-berbies. They fight epic battles and find that, no matter what the eventual outcome, friendship conquers all.
The book you hold in your hand is aptly titled An Amazing Journey. Elizabeth Anne Brechter has written an honest and revealing account of what it is like to live with a serious mental illness. After you read it, you will be amazed at what she has overcome. I hope many people will read her story and appreciate the message of persistence, hope, and courage that she offers. - Nancy Tomes, Professor of History, SUNY
Oscar's grandfather tells him that remnant Ancient Spirits which created the world still live in the rock formations on his farm. Their faces are in the stone for those who know how to look. Grandfather Grumps has cared for the Spirits all his life and now needs to hand over their custody to someone with the superpowers required to understand the Spirits' wisdom. Oscar believes he has the powers, and this is confirmed by Grumps and Bart, the fierce dog. Eight-year-old Oscar, accompanied by Bart, bravely treks among the boulders at night to hear the Ancient Spirits' message: that all living and non-living parts of the Earth are connected; that Ancient Spirits in rocks made soil for plants to grow; that wind in the trees and birds talk to seeds under the ground; that bark fallen to the earth unites with microbes that link it with all other trees in a forest. Oscar understands that we must look after and respect every aspect of our natural world.
Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve provides an ethnographic account of a group of indigenous people living in a natural resource protected area in west central Mexico. The political, economic, and social history of these indigenous Nahua people is related to their cultural knowledge. As an anthropological study, the analysis presented in this book is based on household level socioeconomic data and cultural knowledge measured through the use of both structured and semi-structured interviews. The study presented here moves back and forth between the macro- and micro- to explore the relationships between three central axes—health, livelihood and cultural knowledge. The Sierra of Manantlán Biosphere Reserve is the fieldsite where this study was carried out during 2007 and 2008. This Reserve is governed by explicit goals of cultural and natural resource preservation. Exhaustive household censuses give a comprehensive view of livelihood activities, and individual health experiences are measured using a structured interview. Demonstrated through the economic activity profiles present in the study sample, the indigenous people in the Reserve subsist through low-intensity agriculture, animal husbandry, and paid labor. Political histories of Mexico and the Reserve, specifically, continually shape subsistence strategies and the agrarian communities. Medical pluralism and the health profile in Mexico influence the local-level health status and access to health care services in the Reserve, demonstrated by the persistence of medicinal plant knowledge. The interviews with medicinal plant experts and biomedical practitioners are used to illustrate the spectrum of opinions regarding usage of medicinal plants across the three study communities in the Reserve. Significantly, there is neither a direct nor linear relationship between the loss of cultural knowledge and increasing modernity. This research contributes to ethnographic knowledge about conservation and cultural heritage on protected areas in Mexico.
While gender equality has progressed in many sports since the second wave of the feminist movement in terms of women’s inclusion, participation, and success, harness horse racing has been recalcitrant to change. Gender, Work, and Harness Racing: Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania investigates the stories of women involved in harness racing to expose how they use the uniqueness of their situation to work for positive change. With stirring accounts of the strong women who are surviving, and sometimes succeeding, in harness horse racing, Elizabeth Anne Larsen’s analysis provides insight for studies of gender and work, occupational sex segregation, and women’s studies.
Bad Souls is an ethnographic study of responsibility among psychiatric patients and their caregivers in Thrace, the northeastern borderland of Greece. Elizabeth Anne Davis examines responsibility in this rural region through the lens of national psychiatric reform, a process designed to shift treatment from custodial hospitals to outpatient settings. Challenged to help care for themselves, patients struggled to function in communities that often seemed as much sources of mental pathology as sites of refuge. Davis documents these patients' singular experience of community, and their ambivalent aspirations to health, as they grappled with new forms of autonomy and dependency introduced by psychiatric reform. Planned, funded, and overseen largely by the European Union, this "democratic experiment," one of many reforms adopted by Greece since its accession to the EU in the early 1980s, has led Greek citizens to question the state and its administration of human rights, social welfare, and education. Exploring the therapeutic dynamics of diagnosis, persuasion, healing, and failure in Greek psychiatry, Davis traces the terrains of truth, culture, and freedom that emerge from this questioning of the state at the borders of Europe.
