http://hdl.handle.net/10453/228 2013-05-20T19:52:35Z 2013-05-20T19:52:35Z Iedema Roderick http://hdl.handle.net/10453/7773 2010-05-28T09:36:46Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization Iedema Roderick This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change. The book outlines the tensions that arise for people having to enact change, and analyzes the ways in which they position themselves in changing organizational environments. The book takes a social semiotic perspective on discourse, organization and change. Here, discourse encompasses not only the multi-modal resources that people mobilize in organizational (inter)action, but also the practices and transformative dynamics afforded by those resources. The organizational changes highlighted in the book revolve around three dimensions of work that are increasingly coming to the fore: participation, boundary-spanning and knowledging.

2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Barclay Lesley Aiavao Fulisia Fenwick Jennifer Tooloa Papua Kaisarina http://hdl.handle.net/10453/7771 2010-05-28T09:36:45Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Midwives' Tales. Stories of traditional and professional birthing in Samoa Barclay Lesley; Aiavao Fulisia; Fenwick Jennifer; Tooloa Papua Kaisarina Our goal in publishing Midwives' Tales: Stories of Traditional and Professional Birthing in Samoa is to share with health care leaders Samoa's experience of moving maternity services into its own unique and sustainable system. The volume provides experience that can be used two ways; first, to challenge the assumptions stilI held in many postcolonial countries that a simple migration of Western-style, hospital-focused health care is necessarily a desirable or achievable goal; and, second, to demonstrate how one group has made considerable progress in reconceptualizing and developing a "postcolonial" or postmodern model of maternity care that works. (Davis-Floyd describes the midwife of the future, the postmodern midwife, in an unpublished paper. Lesley discusses this concept in chapter 1.) This model is moving towards integrating traditional systems and practitioners with the advantages of professional health care. We have designed this volume to allow the stories to communicate with the reader with minimal interpretation. The book is based on research that includes extensive discussions with professional leaders.

2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Walsh Sean King Emma http://hdl.handle.net/10453/7772 2010-05-28T09:36:45Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pulse Diagnosis - A clinical guide Walsh Sean; King Emma This exciting new book, Pulse Diagnosis: A Clinical Guide describes a reliable method of pulse assessment. The authors' style and approach to pulse diagnosis provides a unique insight into this often ambiguous system of diagnosis drawing upon the traditions of Chinese medicine, the knowledge of biomedical constructs and the relationship of each to contemporary TCM clinical practice. Subjects covered include exploration of the concept of 'pulse' and establishment of it within the context of health, current limitations of current pulse literature in relation to clinical practice, pulse diagnosis within contemporary TCM clinical practice and pulse taking procedures.

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