Bringing together papers presented at the 2nd Symposium on Advances in Geospatial, this collection deals with the new scientific field of medical geology used to address a variety of human health issues and diseases related to geological materials and earth-system processes.
Risk and Regulation at the Interface of Medicine and the Arts
This conference proceedings investigates how innovative performing arts can help to develop medical education and practice. It also offers an archive of a visual arts exhibition focused on surgical themes that ran alongside the conference.
This study, filling a gap in the qualitative literature on Reiki practice, provides an ethnographic portrayal of a particular group’s construction of well-being. Contributing to medical anthropology, the findings reveal health-related culturally situated ideas and practices.
Deriving from a medicine history conference, this set of proceedings comprises topics from areas such as the history of health care systems, medical sciences and public health. It is also well-illustrated with diagrams and images pertaining to the history of medicine.
The Future of Post-Human Language
Does language delimit our mental world? Conventional views are misleading. This book provides a new way to understand the nature of learning that transcends the debate, with seminal implications for the future of how we think, feel, and do.