Simona Mihaiu's book makes a unique scientific contribution to the knowledge, explanation and prevention of violent crime, phenomenon with serious destructive consequences on life physical integrity individuals society which we are part of. It is result author's constant preoccupations topic supported by long period documentation fundamental research, began 10 years ago, during her doctoral int...

Humanistic psychology historically defined itself in part by its opposition to behavioral psychology, but the conditions now exist for a fundamental reconsideration of the relationship between these two traditions. Behavioral psychology includes contextualistic variants and is no longer limited to principles drawn from animal learning. Behavioral and cognitive therapies commonly address humanis...

Healthcare has hecome one of the hot issues in 21st century, not only in computer science and information technology, hut also in sociology, medical science and public services management. To provide convenient and efficient healthcare service, u-healthcare (ubiquitous healthcare) systems, which reshape the traditional healthcare systems and enhance ehealthcare (electronic healthcare) systems w...

There has been considerable interest in images of medicine in popular science fiction and in representations of doctors in television fiction. Surprisingly little attention has been paid to doctors administering space medicine in science fiction. This article redresses this gap. We analyse the evolving figure of 'the doctor' in different popular science fiction television series. Building upon ...

This article is about a transdisciplinary project between the social, human and life sciences, and the felt experiences of the researchers involved. 'Transdisciplinary' and 'interdisciplinary' research-modes have been the subject of much attention lately--especially as they cross boundaries between the social/humanistic and natural sciences. However, there has been less attention, from within s...

“Different theories about the nature of language and how languages are learned (the approach) imply different ways of teaching language (the method) and different methods make use of different kinds of classroom activity (techniques)” (Richards et al. 1985). This paper aims to define approaches and methods and also to draft a detailed account of the development of humanistic approach in English...

OBJECTIVE to investigate and analyze communication in palliative care contexts from the perspective of nurses, based on Humanistic Nursing Theory. METHOD this is a field study with a qualitative approach, in which ten nurses working in the pediatric oncology unit of a Brazilian public hospital participated. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. The testimonies were qualitative...

This issue of SER contains three articles on public sociology and economic sociology, which all have their origin in a session on this theme that was held at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2006 in Montreal. The reason for organizing this session was a sense that ‘new economic sociology’ has ignored many of the issues that are associated with the term ‘publ...