Mental Health Ethics

Mental Health Ethics

Author: Phil Barker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-09

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1136881948

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Mental Health Ethics provides an overview of traditional and contemporary ethical perspectives and critically examines a range of ethical and moral challenges present in contemporary ‘psychiatric-mental’ health services.


How Can Physics Underlie the Mind?

How Can Physics Underlie the Mind?

Author: George Ellis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 366249809X

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Physics underlies all complexity, including our own existence: how is this possible? How can our own lives emerge from interactions of electrons, protons, and neutrons? This book considers the interaction of physical and non-physical causation in complex systems such as living beings, and in particular in the human brain, relating this to the emergence of higher levels of complexity with real causal powers. In particular it explores the idea of top-down causation, which is the key effect allowing the emergence of true complexity and also enables the causal efficacy of non-physical entities, including the value of money, social conventions, and ethical choices.


Beyond Science

Beyond Science

Author: J. C. Polkinghorne

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-09-17

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780521625081

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John Polkinghorne examines the nature of scientific inquiry itself and the human context in which science operates.


Psychology in Human Context

Psychology in Human Context

Author: Sigmund Koch

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999-07

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0226449319

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Sigmund Koch (1917-1996) was one of the twentieth century's most penetrating and wide-ranging critics of the scientistic ambitions of psychology. Writing in a style sometimes scathing, sometimes witty, always lucid, he decried any psychology that attempted to eradicate the human dimension from the study, scientific and otherwise, of human experience and action. A philosopher and humanist by nature, Koch also sought to change the multifaceted field of psychology by moving it closer to the humanities and arts. The broad scope of essays in Psychology in Human Context—which began as the basis for the eagerly anticipated postscript to Koch's seminal Psychology: A Study of a Science—reveals his writings to be as fresh and relevant today as ever. Carefully edited by two of Koch's close associates, this collection places psychological and philosophical issues in the context of twentieth-century thought and provides intellectual and moral signposts for future travelers in what Koch regarded as the irreducibly rich and human realm of the psychological studies. Sigmund Koch was University Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at Boston University, the editor of the landmark six-volume series Psychology: A Study of a Science (1959-1963) and coeditor of A Century of Psychology as Science. He served as the president of three divisions of the American Psychological Association and was director of the Ford Foundation program in the Humanities and the Arts (1964-1967).


Context and Consciousness

Context and Consciousness

Author: Bonnie A. Nardi

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780262140584

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This work brings together a collection of 13 contributions that apply activity theory - a psychological theory with a naturalistic emphasis - to problems of human-computer interaction. It presents activity theory as a means of structuring and guiding field studies of human-computer interaction.


Understanding Context

Understanding Context

Author: Andrew Hinton

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2014-12-02

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 1449326560

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To make sense of the world, we’re always trying to place things in context, whether our environment is physical, cultural, or something else altogether. Now that we live among digital, always-networked products, apps, and places, context is more complicated than ever—starting with "where" and "who" we are. This practical, insightful book provides a powerful toolset to help information architects, UX professionals, and web and app designers understand and solve the many challenges of contextual ambiguity in the products and services they create. You’ll discover not only how to design for a given context, but also how design participates in making context. Learn how people perceive context when touching and navigating digital environments See how labels, relationships, and rules work as building blocks for context Find out how to make better sense of cross-channel, multi-device products or services Discover how language creates infrastructure in organizations, software, and the Internet of Things Learn models for figuring out the contextual angles of any user experience


The Cultural Context of Human Resource Development

The Cultural Context of Human Resource Development

Author: C. Hansen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-05-21

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0230236669

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An insight into the understanding of human resource development (HRD) in various cultural contexts. This book looks at how culture shapes our expectations for what is appropriate in the workplace and aims to broaden the reader's knowledge of HRD by exploring the boundaries of existing theories.