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"Learning the leadership lessons of Patrick McGovern"--

Doc. Glenn Hægerstam har under sin medicinar- och forskargärning i huvudsak ägnat sig åt smärtlindring. Hans förra bok, 'Den lidande människan', handlade om lidandet hos den enskilda människan. Nu tar han i Den avhumaniserade människan upp mänsklig ondska och det lidande människan åsamkar andra. Boken omfattar en inledning, nio essäer och en efterskrift och diskuterar avhumaniseringens roll i krig och totalitära miljöer. Författaren gör också ett försök till analys av orsakerna bakom hedersmord och våldshämnd. När diskussionen kommer in på döendet och döden blir det också ofrånkomligt att ta upp ämnet dödshjälp. Författaren undersöker frågan om hur vi ska förhålla oss till onda handlingar utförda av mentalt sjuka människor. Men han konstaterar samtidigt att i de flesta fall är det mentalt fullt friska människor som begår mord och utför grovt våld. I den avslutande essän diskuteras varför det finns lidande och ondska. Här avfärdas tanken på att mänskligheten kan indelas i onda och goda människor: den skiljelinjen går nämligen inom var och en av oss

New Orleans and Latin America: Disparate Destinies and Shared Imaginaries in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Criminalizing Blackness: Liberals, Modernization, and the West Indian "Problem" in Honduras -- West Indians and the Call to Citizenship in Early-Twentieth-Century New Orleans -- Inventing a New Life in the Midst of Uncertainty: Navigating the Racial Divide in New Orleans -- Capitalists, Student Activists, and Everyday Citizens: Negotiating a Latin American Identity in a "Diverse" Jim Crow City.

As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century.Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia—love of life—for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene.With the current and coming generations, "Generation Symbiocene," Albrecht sees reason for optimism. The battle between the forces of destruction and the forces of creation will be won by Generation Symbiocene, and Earth Emotions presents an ethical and emotional odyssey for that victory

Cover -- Contents -- List of tables, figures and boxes -- Acknowledgements -- An overview of the book -- 1 Public health practice in context -- Introduction -- The evolution of empowerment in public health practice -- Why we are where we are today in public health practice -- Professional power and empowerment -- Public health practice and the interpretation of health -- 2 Power and empowerment -- What is power? -- Power-from-within -- Power-over -- Power-with -- Powerlessness -- Zero-sum and non-zero-sum power -- Empowerment: the means to attaining power -- 4 Helping individuals to become empowered -- Autonomy and empowerment -- Overcoming powerlessness -- Practitioners as more effective communicators -- Promoting problem-solving skills -- Harm reduction -- Fear-based interventions -- Moral suasion -- 6 Helping groups to become more critically aware -- Introduction -- Lay epidemiology -- Storytelling -- Self-help groups -- Photovoice -- Health literacy -- Strategies for collective decision-making -- 7 Helping communities to become empowered -- What is a 'community'? -- Engaging with communities -- Community empowerment as a 5-point continuum -- Personal action -- Small groups and empowerment -- Community-based organisations and empowerment -- Partnerships and empowerment -- Social and political action -- Health social movements -- Activism -- 8 Helping communities to become empowered in disease outbreaks -- Introduction -- Risk communication -- Health communication -- How communities empower themselves in disease outbreaks -- Community-led ebola action -- Community-led quarantines -- Community managed cross-border issues -- Addressing community rumours -- Effective rumour management -- Resolving community conflict -- 9 Helping migrant populations to become empowered -- Migration and migrants -- Raising the awareness of migrants.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: New Orleans and Latin America -- CHAPTER TWO: Criminalizing Blackness -- CHAPTER THREE: West Indians and the Call to Citizenship in Early-Twentieth-Century New Orleans -- CHAPTER FOUR: Inventing a New Life in the Midst of Uncertainty -- CHAPTER FIVE: Capitalists, Student Activists, and Everyday Citizens -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Prologue: Wrath Makes Him Deaf -- Part One: We have a Problem -- 1. Hello, My Name Is Glenn, and I Am Addicted to Outrage -- 2. The Story of Outrage -- 3. Here's Why Outrage "Works"-and Why It's More Addictive than Heroin -- 4. Chemistry Class -- 5. So What Makes You an Expert? -- 6. Samantha Bee -- 7. Divisions -- 8. The Pushers -- 9. Sorry, Not Sorry -- 10. The Mountain between Us -- 11. Fascism-the Logical Consequence of Postmodernism -- 12. Link by Link -- 13. Urban Proximity, a False Togetherness -- 14. Into the Arms of the Arrogant and Ignorant -- 15. The Enemy of My Friend . . . May Not Be My Friend but Should Be My Teacher -- 16. Worse and Getting Worser -- Part Two: Why We Must Fix this Now -- 17. The End of the Human(ity) Era -- 18. The Future State of the Future State -- 19. Take This Job and Shove It -- 20. We're in the Money -- 21. Judge, Jury & Executioner -- 22. Mitt Was Right -- 23. The Black Mirror -- Part Three: Finding Our Unum -- 24. And the Truth Shall Set You Free -- 25. How to Think, Not What to Think -- 26. THINK -- 27. Fake News? Fake History! -- 28. Who Are We as a Nation? -- 29. The Case for Good -- 30. Shaving Ockham -- 31. Our Self-Evident Rights and Seemingly Invisible Responsibility -- 32. The Cages of Our Addiction -- Part Four: Reconciliation -- 33. The Long Journey Back -- 34. The Only Thing Constant -- 35. God Is Expansive-Think Bigger -- 36. Line upon Line -- 37. Precept upon Precept -- 38. T. H. I. N. K. -- 39. On Saving the World -- Postscript -- About the Author -- Copyright.

Health promotion, disease outbreaks and health emergencies -- Collecting information effectively and quickly -- The public communication approach -- The risk communication approach -- Engaging with communities -- The global Ebola virus disease response -- Health promotion and person to person disease outbreaks -- Health promotion and vector borne disease outbreaks -- Addressing rumour, resistance and security issues -- The post outbreak and emergency response

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1: The First Rule: There Should Be the Possibility of Surprise in Social Research -- Selecting a Research Question -- Researchable Questions -- Interesting Questions -- Selecting a Sample -- Samples in Qualitative Studies -- Is Meaningful Social Research Possible? -- Summary -- Student Exercises on Rule 1 -- CHAPTER 2: The Second Rule: Look for Differences That Make a Difference, and Report Them -- You Can't Explain a Variable with a Constant -- Maximizing Variance to Find the Effect of a Cause -- Size versus Statistical Significance -- Comparing Effects Where There Is a Common Metric -- Calibration: Converting Explanatory Variables to a Common Metric -- Substantive Profiling: The Use of Telling Comparisons -- Visual Presentation of Results -- Policy Importance -- Importance for Theory -- Conclusion -- Student Exercises on Rule 2 -- CHAPTER 3: The Third Rule: Build Reality Checks into Your Research -- Internal Reality Checks -- Reality Checks on Data-Dubious Values and Incomplete Data -- Reality Checks on Measures-Aim for Consistency in Conceptualization and Measurement -- Reality Checks on Models-The Formal Equivalence Check -- External Reality Checks: Validation with Other Data and Methods -- Using Causal-Process Observations to Test Plausibility of Results -- Using Ethnographic Data to Help Interpret Survey Results -- Other Examples of Multiple-Method Research -- Concluding Remark -- Student Exercises on Rule 3 -- CHAPTER 4: The Fourth Rule: Replicate Where Possible -- Sources of Uncertainty in Social Research -- Overview: From Population to Sample and Back to Population -- Measurement Error as a Source of Uncertainty -- Illustration: Two Methods for Estimating Global Poverty -- Toward a Solution: Identical Analyses of Parallel Data Sets

This hybrid book examines the art and politics of 'The Nude' in various cultural contexts, featuring books of canonical western art pirated and either digitally- or hand-censored in Iran by anonymous government workers. Author Glenn Harcourt uses several case studies brought to the fore by American painter Pamela Joseph in her recent "Censored" series. Harcourt's rigorous, culturally-measured and art historical approach complements Joseph's appropriation of these censored images as feminist critique. Harcourt argues that her work serves as a window toward larger questions in art. These include an examination of the evolution of abstraction; the role of women in western society, as seen through the history of painting the body; the effects of western art on cultures outside the west (sometimes referred to in Iran as 'west-toxication'); and how artists in non-western countries, specifically those in Iran living under rules of censorship that specifically prohibit representation of the body, engage with the history of western art found in the censored books

Intro -- The Benefits of Peace: Private Peacemaking in Late Medieval Italy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Usage -- Introduction -- 1 Peace and Concord -- The Meanings of Peace -- The Attraction of Peace: Features of the Instrumentum Pacis -- Finding Conflict in a Peace -- The Importance of Peace: Statutory Penalties for Peace-Breaking -- 2 Peacemaking in the Criminal Courts -- Jurists and Statutes on Peacemaking and Procedure -- A Case Study: Peacemaking and Denunciations in the Sienese Contado -- Peacemaking in Inquests Launched by Fama -- The Use of Peace in Courts into the Quattrocento -- 3 Peacemaking and the Criminal Ban -- Peacemaking's Role in Rebannimentum -- Rebannimentum Petitions and Amnesties -- Peace and Prison Release -- 4 Placing the Public in Private Peacemaking -- Between Public and Private Peacemaking -- The Scene of Peace -- Procurators and Peacemaking -- Peacemaking through Friends -- Arbitration and Peacemaking -- 5 Ecclesiastical Involvement in Peacemaking -- Preaching Peace and Popular Peace Movements -- Chief Ecclesiastics and Institutions in Peacemaking -- Priests, Rectors, and Monks in Everyday Peacemaking -- 6 Performing Peace in Medieval Rome -- 7 Women and Minors in Peacemaking -- Marriage as an Element of Peacemaking -- Women in Peacemaking -- Minors and Peacemaking -- 8 Assessing Peacemaking -- The Motives for Peace -- The Effectiveness of Peacemaking -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Map -- Appendix B: Tables -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects.