Author: Alicia Ely Yamin File Type: pdf Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health and development mean and why they matter, Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a solid foundation for comprehending what a human rights framework implies and the potential for social transformation it entails. Applying a human rights framework to health demands that we think about our own suffering and that of others, as well as the fundamental causes of that suffering. What is our agency as human subjects with rights and dignity, and what prevents us from acting in certain circumstances? What roles are played by others in decisions that affect our health? How do we determine whether what we may see as natural is actually the result of mutable, human policies and practices? Alicia Ely Yamin couples theory with personal examples of HRBAs at work and shows the impact they have had on peoples lives and health outcomes. Analyzing the successes of and challenges to using human rights frameworks for health, Yamin charts what can be learned from these experiences, from conceptualization to implementation, setting out explicit assumptions about how we can create social transformation. The ultimate concern of Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity is to promote movement from analysis to action, so that we can begin to use human rights frameworks to effect meaningful social change in global health, and beyond. **

Author: Tommy Robinson File Type: mobi Both harrowing and at times hilarious, this is the story of the persecution of a British patriot, by his own government and the judicial system. Just an ordinary Luton man, Stephen Lennon became Tommy Robinson after his attempts to highlight the dangers of radical Islam led to him being labelled a far right extremist and subjected to years of harassment, arrests and even attempts on his life. And when all else failed, Britains security services tried to blackmail into working for them. At times barely believable, this is the true story of how ordinary British men and women are seen as the enemy by their own police and politicians.

Author: Rebecca Lemov File Type: pdf Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights promised by Rorschach tests and other innovative scientific protocols. Kaplan, along with anthropologist A. I. Hallowell and a team of researchers, sought out a varied range of non-European subjects among remote and largely non-literate peoples around the globe. Recording their dreams, stories, and innermost thoughts in a vast database, Kaplan envisioned future researchers accessing the data through the cutting-edge Readex machine. Almost immediately, however, technological developments and the obsolescence of the theoretical framework rendered the project irrelevant, and eventually it was forgotten. **Review Unique, well-curated brain food for readers intrigued with the human psyche and how it can be recorded, indexed, and cross-referenced.Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus Reviews) Humane, hilarious, and smart . . . The book shows that, although some things are forgotten because they are unimportant, others lose importance because they are forgotten.Science (Science) Lemov, a professor of the History of Science at Harvard, recollects with flair, affection and dazzling detail, a post World War II project to do away with mornings after like this one those episodes of mourning that follow some lost telling of some last secret of some human heart. . . . Riveting.New Republic (New Republic) A compelling account.Wall Street Journal (Wall Street Journal) Lemovs contribution informs our understanding not only of how psychological research is managed but also of our own daily contributions, voluntary and otherwise, to a forever database already being probed in increasingly intimate fashion.Psychology Today (Psychology Today) About the Author Rebecca Lemovis associate professor of the history of science at Harvard University and past visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She is the author of World as Laboratory Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men, named a 2006 New York Times Editors Choice. She lives in Cambridge, MA.

Author: M. Sagman Kayatekin File Type: pdf Psychoanalytic Conversations From the Psychotherapeutic Hospital to the Couch offers fresh and engaging perspectives in psychoanalytic treatment and psychotherapy. Kayatekin draws on cases from his experiences both in hospital and office settings to examine how analysts and therapists can best foster honest and healthy communication in a variety of settings. Within the constructed atmosphere of a hospital, in particular, the support of nurses, medical consultants, and other therapeutic groups of staff and patients is crucial in helping patients understand and develop their mental health. Through the use of vivid case examples interwoven with a compelling and compassionate narrative, Psychoanalytic Conversations From the Psychotherapeutic Hospital to the Couch offers new insights into developing self-understanding and mutual responsibility between patient, therapist, and other staff. **