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A Correlational Study of Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction of Secondary Teachers in the Sundarbans Open
This study investigates the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Job Satisfaction (JS) among secondary school teachers in the Sundarbans, a geographically and socio-economically challenged region of West Bengal, India. Empl…
Pharmaceutical Humanities and Narrative Pharmacy: An Emerging New Concept in Pharmacy Open
The complexity of our life experiences and the rapid progress in science and technology clearly necessitate reflections from the humanities. The ever-growing intersection between science and society fosters the emergence of novel interdisc…
3 Crossing the “Finish Line”: Celebrating the Centenarian’s 100th Birthday Open
This passage is remarkable for a number of reasons.First, like many centenarians, McBurney's narrative testifies to the notion of "lifelong learning."As I have suggested in Chapter 2, there is an intricate link between life sciences and li…
2 Centenarians’ Autobiographies between Life Sciences and Life Writing Open
is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical educationoutwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language.This . . .book argues that this is a misstep, and critically considers what embracing the use of metaphors an…
10 Conclusion: Centenarians’ Autobiographies as Master Narratives of Aging? Open
Conclusion: Centenarians' Autobiographies as Master Narratives of Aging?In this book, I have tried to read the contemporary discourse on aging and on extreme longevity in particular through the prism of centenarians' autobiographies.Such l…
6 The Role of Death and Dying in Centenarians’ Autobiographies Open
The Role of Death and Dying in Centenarians' AutobiographiesThis chapter 7 is concerned with the role which life writing narratives, and autobiographies in particular, can play for coming to terms with death, dying, grief and mourning.What…
Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century Open
In the early twenty-first century, the concept of citizenship is more contested than ever. As refugees set out to cross the Mediterranean, European nation-states refer to »cultural integrity« and »immigrant inassimilability,« revealing cit…
Hygiene, Whiteness and Immigration: Upton Sinclair and the “Jungle” of the American Health Care System Open
Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle has been read as a critique of unfettered capitalism in the urban space of Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. This essay argues that this capitalist critique may gain further depth when rea…
Migrant ethnography on YouTube Open
This chapter investigates a series of YouTube videos as a form of migrant autoethnography. Focusing on Abdul Abbasi's and Allaa Faham's "GermanLifeStyle," I argue that the YouTubers complicate established models of both ethnography and mig…
Self-Confidence Among Sabooj Sathi Scheme Recipient Students Of Purba Bardhaman District: A Study Open
Self-confidence is faith of one’s meeting demands successfully of a task. It is self-assurance of an individual and trust in his or her abilities, capacities, and judgment. To explore the status of self-confidence of Sabooj Sathi scheme re…
Review of: "A review of centenarian studies" Open
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Health(care) in the Crisis: Reflections in Science and Society on Opioid Addiction Open
Opioid abuse and misuse have led to an epidemic which is currently spreading worldwide. Since the number of opioid overdoses is still increasing, it is becoming obvious that current rather unsystematic approaches to tackle this health prob…
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Narratives and Their Impact on Students’ Information Seeking and Critical Online Reasoning in Higher Education Economics and Medicine Open
The digital and information age has fundamentally transformed the way in which students learn and the study material they have at their disposal, especially in higher education. Students need to possess a number of higher-order cognitive a…
“A Kaleidoscope of Color or the Agony of Race? Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father” Open
Excerpt from Developing Transnational American Studies, edited by Nadja Gernalzick and Heike C. Spickermann
The impact of attachment distress on affect-centered mentalization: An experimental study in psychosomatic patients and healthy adults Open
Our findings lend strong empirical support to the assumption that affect-centered mentalization is modulated by attachment-related distress. Several possible explanations for the differences between and within the clinical and the non-clin…