Asymmetrical Conversations

Asymmetrical ConversationsIdeas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume

In a society that has traditionally assumed respect for age

leisure and dining

This book tells the story of the land and the people who made their homes there from its earliest habitation to the present day

Though Ishmael intends to marry Ellen to his oldest son

the Supreme Court has been reluctant to replace legislative judgements on matters of economic regulation with its own

This chapter charts the development and progressive broadening of sustainability as a concept

first of its kind resource in its field

This book explores the circumstances of at-risk students and argues that well-intentioned policymakers and educators run the risk of making matters worse rather than better for these students

and by doing so feel part of something much bigger than the everyday

an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century

Issues of acculturation

Justifying their use of murder through a dedicated application of morality