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The Little Handbook of Palliative Care

The Little Handbook of Palliative Care is a bullet-point handbook written for medical students, doctors and nurses. The book explores multiple aspects of palliative care, from symptom control, psychosocial care, and spiritual care to self-care. It is aimed to provide a brief introduction of palliative care to students and a practical reference for professionals who are involved in the care of the dying. Love, mindfulness, happiness and kindness are highlighted in the book as core elements fundamental to the practice of medicine and...

The Chinese overseas have long been relevant to China, especially to qiaoxiang, and vice-versa. Qiaoxiang refers to regions from where emigrants migrated overseas, where there are therefore ties with Chinese communities overseas. Unlike most other works, which cover either China or the Chinese overseas, this book examines both China and the Chinese overseas in relation to qioaxiang.

With clearly presented chapters that examine the ancestral homeland, Chinese overseas, China and transnational networks, and the diversity of settlements and homelands, the...

The Little Handbook of Palliative Care

The Little Handbook of Palliative Care is a bullet-point handbook written for medical students, doctors and nurses. The book explores multiple aspects of palliative care, from symptom control, psychosocial care, and spiritual care to self-care. It is aimed to provide a brief introduction of palliative care to students and a practical reference for professionals who are involved in the care of the dying. Love, mindfulness, happiness and kindness are highlighted in the book as core elements fundamental to the practice of medicine and...

Since the 1978 opening up of China and her active engagement in economic reformation and modernization, China has become a truly global economic power. These developments have, consequently, had an impact on ethnic Chinese people living across the world.

Traditionally, the study of immigrant communities has focused on internal factors, such as the leadership and social organization of the actors inside the communities. This book, however, turns attention to the exogenous factors, which have helped shape the lives of the Chinese diaspora. In doing so, it provides a valuable...

Through the lens of Chinese food, the authors address recent theories in social science concerning cultural identity, ethnicity, boundary formation, consumerism and globalization, and the invention of local cuisine in the context of rapid culture change in East and Southeast Asia.

Governments, local authorities, school leaders, and teachers all over the world want to improve the educational attainment and participation of all students, and to minimise any systematic differences in outcomes for social and economic groups. A particular concern is for those students from backgrounds that may objectively disadvantage them at school and beyond. However, considerable effort and money is currently being wasted on policies, practices and interventions that have very little hope of success, and that may indeed endanger the progress that is being made otherwise. The poor...