Most rapes of men occur in prison. But even outside of prison, about 9 percent of reported rapes are against men (probably mostly by men, but no one knows for sure).57 Even rape outside of prison, then, is about as significant an issue for men as AIDS is for women — about 10 percent of […]
День: 18.10.2015
Who also that drinks in America?
Gallup – the American institute of public opinion – carried out the next poll to find out, who from Americans as it is frequent also what takes alcoholic drinks. For telephone interviews were casually chosen 1009 adult people living in all 50 American states
Survivors: The Grieving Process
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • How do people experience the grief process? • What feelings do grieving people have? • What is the difference between normal and prolonged grief? • How do adults of different ages deal with loss? A fter 67 years of marriage, Bertha recently lost her husband. At 90, Bertha knew that neither she […]
How many it is necessary to drink waters?
The body of the person, as we know, on two thirds consists of water. Are especially rich with water of a fabric of a young organism. With age its quantity gradually decreases: so, for example, in a body of a three-months fruit – 95 percent of water, five-months
THE CLOCKWORK OF THE CAREER SYSTEM
It is not easy to clip and press what I am talking about inside the square boundaries of an “administrative problem.” The context has to do with the very clockwork of a career system that seems to eliminate women not so much through malevolent disobedience to good rules as through making up rules to suit […]
THE CLOCKWORK OF THE CAREER SYSTEM
It is not easy to clip and press what I am talking about inside the square boundaries of an “administrative problem.” The context has to do with the very clockwork of a career system that seems to eliminate women not so much through malevolent disobedience to good rules as through making up rules to suit […]
Making Your End-of-Life Intentions Known
As has been clearly shown in this section and earlier in the chapter, decisions relating to the end of life raise complex legal, political, and ethical issues. In most jurisdictions, for example, euthanasia is legal only when a person has made known his or her wishes concerning medical intervention. Even a person’s preference for hospice […]
GLOSSARY
Aesthetics A set of principles of good taste and the appreciation of beauty (Oxford English Dictionary). It is used to describe and evaluate the form and style in which representations are embodied — in semiotic terms the ‘signifiers’ as opposed to the ‘signified’. In cultural studies the emphasis is on how these criteria of aesthetic […]
The Hospice Option
As we have seen, most people would like to die at home among family and friends. An important barrier to this choice is the availability of support systems when the person has a terminal disease. Most people believe that they have no choice but to go to a hospital or nursing home. However, another alternative […]
TESTIMONY 7: NOREEN MICHAEL MARIANO. THE REHABILITATION OF HARGEISA GROUP HOSPITAL
Editors’ note In 1988 the population of Somalia’s north west region was estimated at between 1.78 and 2.05 million, excluding Ethiopian refugees who had been there since the 1978 Ogaden War: Following the massive aerial bombardment and destruction of Hargeisa and Burao by Siad Barre’s forces in May 1988, up to 1 million people had […]