Author: Markus S. Mueller File Type: pdf According to estimates of the World Health Organization, 80% of the world population is primarily reliant on such traditional methods of healing as medicinal plants. This timely text assesses 25 common plants from several countries, providing practical and evidence-based recommendations for their application.This book essential for all practitioners working in developing countries who must understand the characteristics of medicinal plants.**

Author: Alison G. Stewart File Type: pdf p margin padding 4px border outline 12px vertical-align baseline background- (255, 255, 255) line-height 15px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, serif orphans 2 widows 2 background-position initial initial background-repeat initial initialThis collection of works explores how Societies and Styles changed over the course of Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) from the time of the advent of printing on paper to the Industrial Revolution and beyond through little-seen printed masterpieces from the Sheldon Museum of Arts collection. Today, print continues to endure even as new forms of digital publications transform our world in previously unimaginable ways, just as printing did centuries ago.p margin padding 4px border outline 12px vertical-align baseline background- (255, 255, 255) line-height 15px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, serif orphans 2 widows 2 background-position initial initial background-repeat initial initialThis exhibition offers a view into the ways printed works of art on paper (mostly woodcuts, engravings, and etchings) showcase society and its various aspects, ranging from one Christian martyrdom of a saint to secular works focusing on fashion and death, portraits, and views of a sea serpent, Rome, and Monte Carlo. Half the prints feature William Hogarths satires of contemporary social practices surrounding election politics, beer drinking, and relations between the sexes. Although other notable artists designed prints hereAnthony Van Dyck, Hans Holbein the Younger, Giovanni Piranesi, and Alphonse Muchathe exhibitions organization was determined by the prints selected by the sixteen students in Prof. Alison Stewarts History of Prints New Media of the Renaissance class during fall 2013 in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of NebraskaLincoln.p margin padding 4px border outline 12px vertical-align baseline background- (255, 255, 255) line-height 15px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, serif orphans 2 widows 2 background-position initial initial background-repeat initial initialp margin padding 4px border outline 12px vertical-align baseline background- (255, 255, 255) line-height 15px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, serif orphans 2 widows 2 background-position initial initial background-repeat initial initialContributions from Rachel Moore, Lucy Windle, Anne Rimmington, Archana Verma, Ruben Mejia, Britiany Daugherty, Patrick Graybill, Eric Himmelberger, Christopher Dorwart, Kaylie Hogan-Schnittker, Kelly Wold, Amanda Mobley Guenther, Eder Jaramillo, Felicia Nehl, Paula Rotschafer, and Elizabeth Slonecker.

Author: Janet Marstine File Type: pdf Critical Practice is an ambitious work that blurs the boundaries between art history, museum studies, political science and applied ethics. Marstine demonstrates how convergences between institutional critique and socially engaged practice, as represented by the term critical practice, can create conditions for organisational change, particularly facilitating increased public agency and shared authority. The book analyses a range of museum interventions exploring such subjects as the ethical stewardship of collections, hybridity as a methodological approach to social justice and alternative forms of democracy. Discussing critical practice within the framework of peace and reconciliation studies, Marstine shows how artists interventions can redress exclusions, inequalities and relational frictions between museums and their publics. Elucidating the museological and ethical implications of institutional critique and socially engaged practice, Marstine has provided a timely and thoughtful resource for museum studies scholars, artists, museum professionals, art historians and graduate students worldwide who are interested in mapping and unpacking the intricate relationships among artists, museums and communities.

Author: David R. Johnson File Type: pdf The commercialization of research is one of the most significant contemporary features of US higher education, yet we know surprisingly little about how scientists perceive and experience commercial rewards. A Fractured Profession is the first book to systematically examine the implications of commercialization for both universities and faculty members from the perspective of academic scientists. Drawing on richly detailed interviews with sixty-one scientists at four universities across the United States, sociologist David R. Johnson explores how an ideology of commercialism produces intraprofessional conflict in academia.The words of scientists themselves reveal competing constructions of status, conflicting norms, and divergent career paths and professional identities. Commercialist scientists embrace a professional ideology that emphasizes the creation of technologies that control societal uncertainties and advancing knowledge toward particularand financialends. Traditionalist scientists, on the other hand, often find themselves embattled and threatened by university and federal emphasis on commercialization. They are less concerned about issues such as conflicts of interest and corruption than they are about unequal rewards, unequal conditions of work, and conflicts of commitment to university roles and basic science.Arguing that the division between commercialists and traditionalists represents a new form of inequality in the academic profession, this book offers an incisive look into the changing conditions of work in an era of academic capitalism. Focusing on how the profit motive is reshaping higher education and redefining what faculty are supposed to do, this book will appeal to scientists and academics, higher education scholars, university administrators and policy makers, and students considering a career in science. -- John M. Braxton, Vanderbilt University, coauthor of Professors Behaving Badly Faculty Misconduct in Graduate Education