Taking Care of Our Own
Taking Care of Our Own

Author: Sherry N. Mong

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1501751468

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Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work. Taking Care of Our Own is based on sixty-two in-depth interviews with family caregivers, home and community health care nurses, and other expert observers to provide a lens through which in-home care processes are analyzed, while also exploring how caregivers learn necessary procedures. Further, Mong examines the emotional labor of caregiving, as well as the identities of caregivers and nurses who are key players in the labor process, and gives attention to the ways in which the labor is transferred from medical professionals to family caregivers.

We Take Care of Our Own
We Take Care of Our Own

Author: Sarah Flowers

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-12-31

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1300584432

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In walked a handsome young man, sized up Giaand Ron. His Dad said Gia's beautiful he's crazyshe's damn gorgeous! He's been sent to keep an eyeout for the two, can't tell them yet. His Dad said, takeit nice and easy. This is a big favor to the big guy, Matteo De Ventino, seeing Gia it will be easy.a double wow and him a confirmed bachelor.Then went into his act, "May I ask what the hell you're doing in my lodge?"Whew! What a grouch thought Gia, answeredhonestly. "We have permission from Scott Curtis-Jones, Sr.! Here's his key! May I ask who the hellare you?"He grinned, she's a spunky one, dangled his key, "I'm Scott Curtis-Jones, Jr.!""Ron lets get our bags, hit the road quick! He's trouble seeing he doesn't know about us!"Scott stopped them. "Wait a minute! Not RonRonchetti and Gia DeVentino?""Let's get the hell out of here Ron, quick!" Gia yelled."Stop this minute!" Scot shouted. "I won't harm you. Dad and Matt told me about

Taking Care of Youth and the Generations
Taking Care of Youth and the Generations

Author: Bernard Stiegler

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0804762724

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The book presents a powerful reminder of adults' responsibility for the development of long-term attention (and thus of maturity) in children, particularly in the face of the techniques of attention-destruction practiced by the programming industries.

Taking Care of Myself
Taking Care of Myself

Author: Mary Wrobel

Publisher: Future Horizons

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781885477941

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This book is designed to address the health and safety needs of students aged five and up with autism spectrum disorders.

Take Care of Them Like My Own
Take Care of Them Like My Own

Author: Ala Stanford

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2024-08-06

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1668004062

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The founder of the Black Doctors Consortium highlights the devastating racial injustices in our healthcare system in this inspirational memoir and empowering call to action. Dr. Ala Stanford knew she wanted to be a doctor by the time she was eight years old. But role models were few and far between in her working-class North Philly neighborhood. Her teachers were dismissive, and the realities of racism, sexism, and poverty threatened to derail her at every turn. Nevertheless, thanks to her faith, family, and the sheer strength of her will, today she is one of the vanishingly small number of Black women surgeons in America—and an unrelenting force in the fight for health justice. In Take Care of Them Like My Own, Dr. Stanford shares an unflinching account of her story, explaining how her experiences on both sides of the scalpel have informed her understanding of America’s racial health gap, an insidious and lethal form of inequality that exacts a devastating toll on Black communities across the country, affluent and underserved alike. When Covid-19 arrived in her hometown of Philadelphia, she knew it would disproportionately affect the Black population. As the city stood idly by, unwilling or unable to protect its most vulnerable citizens, Dr. Stanford took matters into her own hands. She rented a van, made some calls, and began administering tests in church parking lots. Soon, she found herself at the helm of a powerful grassroots campaign that successfully vaccinated tens of thousands of Philadelphians. She and her movement are living proof that by drawing on faith, community, and inner strength, everyday people can affect tremendous change. Part memoir, part manifesto for health equality and justice, Take Care of Them Like My Own offers urgent lessons about the power of communities working together to take care of one another and the importance of fighting for a healthcare system that truly fulfills its promise to all Americans.

Caring for Our Own
Caring for Our Own

Author: Sandra R. Levitsky

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0199993149

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Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics. Rather than ask why the American state hasn't responded to unmet social welfare needs by expanding social entitlements, this book asks: Why don't American families view unmet social welfare needs as the basis for demands for new state entitlements? The answer, Sandra Levitsky argues, lies in a better understanding of how individuals imagine solutions to the social welfare problems they confront and what prevents new understandings of social welfare provision from developing into political demand for alternative social arrangements. Caring for Our Own considers the powerful ways in which existing social policies shape the political imagination, reinforcing longstanding values about family responsibility, subverting grievances grounded in notions of social responsibility, and in some rare cases, constructing new models of social provision that transcend existing ideological divisions in American social politics.

Ego Is the Enemy
Ego Is the Enemy

Author: Ryan Holiday

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-06-14

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 069819215X

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The instant Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and international bestseller “While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their higher goals above their desire for recognition.” —from the prologue Many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Early in our careers, it impedes learning and the cultivation of talent. With success, it can blind us to our faults and sow future problems. In failure, it magnifies each blow and makes recovery more difficult. At every stage, ego holds us back. Ego Is the Enemy draws on a vast array of stories and examples, from literature to philosophy to his­tory. We meet fascinating figures such as George Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Katharine Graham, Bill Belichick, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who all reached the highest levels of power and success by con­quering their own egos. Their strategies and tactics can be ours as well. In an era that glorifies social media, reality TV, and other forms of shameless self-promotion, the battle against ego must be fought on many fronts. Armed with the lessons in this book, as Holiday writes, “you will be less invested in the story you tell about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to accomplish the world-changing work you’ve set out to achieve.”

Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory
Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory

Author: Roger J. Sullivan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780521369084

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This book, sure to become a standard reference work, is a comprehensive, lucid, and systematic commentary on Kant's practical (or moral) philosophy. Kant is arguably the most important moral philosopher of the modern period; yet, prior to this area in a single volume. Using as nontechnical a language as possible, Professor Sullivan offers a detailed, authoritative account of Kant's moral philosophy - including his ethical theory, his philosophy of history, his political philosophy, his philosophy of religion, and his philosophy of education - and demonstrates the historical, Kantian origins of such important notions as â€~autonomy', â€~respect for persons', â€~rights', and â€~duties'. An invaluable resource, this book will be extremely useful to advanced undergraduates, graduates, and professional philosophers alike.