The Social Meaning of Midwifery (Book).

A Text-Book of Midwifery

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Cultural Reception and Production: The Social Construction of Meaning in Book Clubs

Investigation of the reception of textual objects has alternately emphasized structural, demographically-conditioned patterns of evaluation and taste, or the agency of viewers, readers and listeners in constructing their own interpretations of cultural texts. In the present article we advance an empirical and formal analysis of the cultural reception of texts in which interpretations of the mul...

Practical Text-Book of Midwifery for Nurses and Students

The Meaning of Social Medicine

The author is impatient with a Medicine that cures disease but does not bestow health, and urges a reorientation to concern with life and its fulfillment rather than with death and disease. The current dilemma is blamed upon a faulty philosophy of medicine traced to the influence of Pasteur and von Behring, who led into the search for single causes of disease and disregarded broader concepts of...