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“soumitra pathare”

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  • Life, Interrupted

    Understanding India's Suicide Crisis

    by Amrita Tripathi, Dr Abhijit Nadkarni, Dr Soumitra Pathare ...
    "A timely book that can help us have potentially life-saving conversations" - DEEPIKA PADUKONE, Actor & Founder, LiveLoveLaugh“A shocking fact and huge wake-up call is that suicide is the leading cause of death for young Indians. As a country — across all our expertise and fields of interest — we need to pay closer attention, and this book urges us to do just that, with clear policy level ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • India’s Mental Healthcare Act, 2017

    Building Laws, Protecting Rights

    by Richard M. Duffy, Brendan D. Kelly, Soumitra Pathare, Arjun Kapoor ...
    This book comprehensively discusses the background to the passing of India's revolutionary Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, offering a detailed description of the Act itself and a rigorous analysis in the context of the CRPD and the World Health Organization (WHO) standards for mental health law. It examines the fine balance, between complying with the CRPD while still delivering practical, humane, ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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    As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for the different approaches it encounters towards illness, the body, gender, mental health and death.Based upon training courses taught by the author to staff at hospitals, mental health professionals, and on degree courses, this complete resource provides ... Read more

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  • The Yoruba Traditional Healers of Nigeria

    by Mary Adekson ...
    Series series African Studies
    This work examines the counseling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed by Yoruba traditional healers when they work within the Yoruba cultural milieu. The information elicited from Yoruba traditional healers through videotape and interviews was analyzed by a Nigerian woma ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Understanding Death and Dying

    Encountering Death, Dying, and the Afterlife

    by Frank E. Eyetsemitan ...
    Understanding Death and Dying teaches students about death, dying, bereavement, and afterlife beliefs by asking them to apply this content to their lives and to the world around them. Students see differing cultural experiences discussed in context with key theories and research. The text’s pedagogy delivers relevant multi- and cross-cultural applications and connections across topics. This helps ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • African Traditional Medicine at the Cross Roads in South Africa Challenges faced by its institutionalisation

    by Nceba Gqaleniand and Nompumelelo Mbatha ...
    This book explores the views of a cross-section of the KwaZulu-Natal Traditional Health Practitioner (THP) community regarding the transformation of the traditional medicine sector necessitated by legislation: the Constitution, the Health Act and the Traditional Health Practitioners (THP) Act. The changes have implications for the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and Human Resource Officials ... Read more

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  • Inside Indian Schools

    The Enigma of Equity and Quality

    by Vimala Ramachandran ...
    After 70 years after independence, the tragic reality of Indian schools is that who we are, where we live, how much we earn and our gender influences the kind of education we will get. In this collection of essays the author explores the contours of a school system that is facing a crisis of legitimacy. While India aspires to march towards a knowledge driven society and economy, millions of young ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Journey for Inclusive Education in the Indian Sub-Continent

    by Mithu Alur, Michael Bach ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Despite national and international commitments to Education for All, and the Millennium Development Goals to assure universal primary education by 2015, over 90% of children with disabilities remain excluded from regular education in countries of the south. This book describes a three decade-long change initiative in India to enable children with disabilities to move from segregation and exclusion ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Disability in Japan

    by Carolyn Stevens ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "other" to "normal" able-bodiedness. Most studies of disability consider disability in North American or European contexts; and studies of diversity in Japan consider ethnic and cultural diversity, but not the differences arising from disability. This book therefore breaks new ground, both for scholars of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Childhood Betrayed

    Child Abuse and Neglect in India

    by Loveleen Kacker ...
    No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child. No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent. Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child. - Maria MontessoriIn India, where even stones and trees are worshipped, children are routinely beaten, neglected and abused. The daily news is rife with stories of abuse ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Displacees and Health: Issues and Challenges.

    by Norvy Paul ...
    Displacees and Health: Issues and Challenges deals with issues of health and challenges in the life of displaced people of the world. This is a collective work of the experts in this field aiming at sketching the life of the displacees either caused by development, armed conflict, racial conflict or disasters.Some of the areas it deals with are:• Health issues, constrains and emerging diseases ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • COVID-19 and India’s Northeast

    Psychological and Social Imprints

    Edited by Indranee Phookan Borooah, Sabiha Alam Choudhury, Bidita Das ...
    This book explores the experiences of managing the COVID-19 pandemic in North East India across different areas of life and work.It offers insights into the challenges and adaptability of communities and stakeholders by including the experiences of psychologists, students, administrators, the police and children among others. The book provides an account of the turmoil—psychological, social and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD