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Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to be Gay on Screen

Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to be Gay on Screen

Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen examines cinematic depictions of pretending-to-be-gay assessing performances that not only reflect heteronormative and explicitly homophobic attitudes but also offer depictions of gay selfhood with more nuanced multidirectional identifications. The case of straight protagonists pretending to be gay on screen is the ideal context in which to study unanticipated progressivity and dissidence in regard to cultural construction of human sexualities in the face of theatricalized epistemological collapse. Teasing apart the dynamics of depictions of both sexual stability and fluidity in cinematic images of men pretending to be gay offers new insights into such salient issues as sexual vulnerability and dynamics and long-term queer visibility in a politically complicated mass culture which is mostly produced in a heteronormative and even hostile cultural environment. Additionally this book initially examines queer uses of sexuality masquerade in Alternate Gay World Cinema that allegorically features a world pretending to be gay in which straights are harassed and persecuted in order to expose the tragic consequences of sexual intolerance. Films and TV series examined as part of the analysis include The Gay Deceivers Victor/Victoria Happy Texas William Friedkin’s Cruising and many other straight and gay screens. This is a fascinating and important study relevant to students and researchers in Film Studies Media Studies Gender Studies Queer Studies Sexuality Studies Communication Studies and Cultural Studies. | Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to be Gay on Screen

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Love Under the Skin Interracial Marriages in the American South and France

Love Under the Skin Interracial Marriages in the American South and France

The rising visibility of interracial couples calls for increased attention to the overlapping of culture and race in safe spaces centered on small-group dynamics or in public spaces where peoples of African descent are under the public gaze. This comparative study seeks to de-center the U. S-centered viewpoint common to much of the literature on black/white relations. Based on nine years of fieldwork in the American South and in France Coquet shows many unexpected parallels between the two societies. Gendered perceptions of cultural authenticity and sexual ethics are a guiding thread being inseparable from the historical and political contingencies (re-)defining acceptable forms of dating marrying and parenting among cis-heterosexual couples in both societies. Her account emphasizes resilience and agency as couples seek to protect themselves and their children while their extended or symbolic kinship networks help white partners acknowledge the existence of racial privilege. | Love Under the Skin Interracial Marriages in the American South and France

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Physiological Psychology

Physiological Psychology

Physiological psychology deals with the interaction between ‘under the skin’ physiological variables and the personal and social context in which organisms live. Originally published in 1975 much of this book has relevance for the understanding of human action: knowledge of physiological mechanisms underlying psychological functions can throw light on conditions such as obesity schizophrenia and the emotional disorders and on procedures such as psychosurgery and drug therapy.

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Conservation of Leather and Related Materials

Conservation of Leather and Related Materials

The conservation of skin leather and related materials is an area that until now has had little representation by the written word in book form. Marion Kite and Roy Thomson of the Leather Conservation Centre have prepared a text which is both authoritative and comprehensive including contributions from the leading specialists in their fields such as Betty Haines Mary Lou Florian Ester Cameron and Jim Spriggs. The book covers all aspects of Skin and Leather preservation from Cuir Bouillie to Bookbindings. There is significant discussion of the technical and chemical elements necessary in conservation meaning that professional conservators will find the book a vital part of their collection. As part of the Butterworth-Heinemann Black series the book carries the stamp of approval of the leading figures in the world of Conservation and Museology and as such it is the only publication available on the topic carrying this immediate mark of authority. | Conservation of Leather and Related Materials

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Deep Learning in Computer Vision Principles and Applications

Deep Learning in Computer Vision Principles and Applications

Deep learning algorithms have brought a revolution to the computer vision community by introducing non-traditional and efficient solutions to several image-related problems that had long remained unsolved or partially addressed. This book presents a collection of eleven chapters where each individual chapter explains the deep learning principles of a specific topic introduces reviews of up-to-date techniques and presents research findings to the computer vision community. The book covers a broad scope of topics in deep learning concepts and applications such as accelerating the convolutional neural network inference on field-programmable gate arrays fire detection in surveillance applications face recognition action and activity recognition semantic segmentation for autonomous driving aerial imagery registration robot vision tumor detection and skin lesion segmentation as well as skin melanoma classification. The content of this book has been organized such that each chapter can be read independently from the others. The book is a valuable companion for researchers for postgraduate and possibly senior undergraduate students who are taking an advanced course in related topics and for those who are interested in deep learning with applications in computer vision image processing and pattern recognition. | Deep Learning in Computer Vision Principles and Applications

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Black Skins Black Masks Hybridity Dialogism Performativity

Black Skins Black Masks Hybridity Dialogism Performativity

Black Skin Black Masks: Hybridity Dialogism Performativity offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations between Black women: friends peers and family members. These conversations are discussed in the light of the work of Homi Bhabha Stuart Hall Gerd Baumann Claire Alexander and others on questions of hybridity identity otherness and the development of ’new ethnicities’. Tate aims to address what she sees as significant omissions in contemporary Black Cultural Studies. She argues that theorists have rarely looked at the process of identity construction in terms of lived-experience; and that they have tended to concentrate on the demise of the essential Black subject paying little attention to gender. The book points to a continuation of a ’politics of the skin’ in Black identities. As such it argues against Bhabha's claim that essence is not central to hybrid identities. The conversations recorded in the book reveal the ways in which women negotiate the category of Blackness in what Tate calls a 'hybridity-of- the-everyday'. The book introduces a new interpretative vocabulary to look at the ways in which hybridity is orchestrated and fashioned showing it to be performative dialogical and dependent on essentialism. | Black Skins Black Masks Hybridity Dialogism Performativity

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The Waterside Ape An Alternative Account of Human Evolution

The Waterside Ape An Alternative Account of Human Evolution

Why are humans so fond of water? Why is our skin colour so variable? Why aren’t we hairy like our close ape relatives? A savannah scenario of human evolution has been widely accepted primarily due to fossil evidence; and fossils do not offer insight into these questions. Other alternative evolutionary scenarios might but these models have been rejected. This book explores a controversial idea – that human evolution was intimately associated with watery habitats as much or more than typical savannahs. Written from a medical point of view the author presents evidence supporting a credible alternative explanation for how humans diverged from our primate ancestors. Anatomical and physiological evidence offer insight into hairlessness different coloured skin subcutaneous fat large brains a marine-type kidney a unique heat regulation system and speech. This evidence suggests that humans may well have evolved not just as savannah mammals as is generally believed but with more affinity for aquatic habitats – rivers streams lakes and coasts. Key Features: Presents the evidence for a close association between riparian habitats and the origin of humans Reviews the savannah ape hypothesis for human origins Describes various anatomical adaptations that are associated with hypotheses of human evolution Explores characteristics from the head and neck such as skull and sinus structures the larynx and ear structures and functions | The Waterside Ape An Alternative Account of Human Evolution

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Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

From Robert Lovelace’s uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to to Basil Hallward’s first encounter with Dorian Gray literary depictions of touching hands in British literature from the 1740s to the 1890s communicate emotional dimensions of sexual experience that reflect shifting cultural norms associated with gender roles sexuality​ and sexual expression. But what is the relationship between hands tactility and sexuality in Victorian literature? And how do we best interpret ​what those touches communicate between characters? This volume addresses these questions by asserting a connection between the prevalence of violent sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such as those by Eliza Haywood Samuel Richardson and Frances Burney and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century evident in works by ​Jane Austen the Brontës George Eliot Elizabeth Gaskell Thomas Hardy Oscar Wilde and Flora Annie Steel. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary analysis with close analyses of paintings musical compositions and nonfictional texts​ such as etiquette books and scientific treatises​ to make a case for the significance of tactility to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century perceptions of selfhood and sexuality. In doing so it draws attention to the communicative nature of skin-to-skin contact ​as represented in literature and traces a trajectory of meaning from the forceful grips that violate female characters in eighteenth-century novels to the consensual embraces common in Victorian ​and neo-Victorian literature. | Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

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Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

Color Theory for the Make-up Artist: Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects (Second Edition) analyzes and explains traditional color theory for fine artists and applies it to make-up artistry. This beautifully illustrated guide begins with the basics of color theory – why we see color how to categorize and identify color and relationships between colors – and relates these concepts to beauty and special effects make-up. The book provides a wealth of information including how to mix flesh tones by using only primary colors how these colors in paints and make-up are sourced and created the reason for variations in skin colors and undertones and how to identify and match these using make-up while choosing flattering colors for the eyes lips and cheeks. Colors found inside the body are explained for special effects make-up like why we bruise bleed or appear sick. Ideas and techniques are also described for painting prosthetics in addition to using color as inspiration in make-up designs. The book also discusses how lighting affects color on film television theater and photography sets and how to properly light a workspace for successful applications. The second edition features: A brand-new chapter on color inspiration in make-up and design Additional and updated diagrams More real-life application photos and demonstrations including new examples of tattoo covering and prosthetic painting using optical mixtures airbrush and stippling Expanded discussion on undertones skin variations color correction pigments colored gels and more Filled with stunning photography and practical information Color Theory for the Make-up Artist provides guidance and inspiration for both professionals and beginners who wish to train their eye further to understand and recognize distinctions in color. | Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

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The Biological Basis of Clinical Observations

The Biological Basis of Clinical Observations

Fully updated for its fourth edition The Biological Basis of Clinical Observations provides readers with the understanding needed to perform clinical observations make accurate judgements about the patient’s condition and make good decisions concerning patient care. This essential textbook supports safe and effective clinical practice by explaining the techniques involved in making clinical observations alongside the biological knowledge which gives them meaning. For each topic it explains the pathological basis for variations in observed results focusing on relevant anatomy and physiology genetics and pharmacology and the basic principles of care. A greatly expanded chapter on pharmacology reflects the increased importance of this subject in the nursing curriculum. Topics discussed include: temperature cardiovascular observations respiratory observations urinary and bowel observations neurological observations • nutrition fluid balance skin pharmacology pregnancy. The Biological Basis of Clinical Observations is a unique text which integrates explanations of essential procedures with the biological knowledge that underpins practice. It is essential reading for all nursing and healthcare students preparing for clinical practice.

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Fingerprints Analysis and Understanding the Science

Fingerprints Analysis and Understanding the Science

Fingerprints: Analysis and Understanding the Science Second Edition is a thorough update of Mark Hawthorne’s classic written by two professionals with combined experience not only in crime scene investigations but also as court-recognized experts in latent print examination. Designed as a concise text to cover the fundamental techniques and principles of obtaining and analyzing latent fingerprint evidence the book is laid out and written in an easy to understand format for those front-line professionals collecting and analyzing fingerprint evidence. Over time the degree of sophistication and education on fingerprints and friction ridge analysis has increased. Ultimately through scientific study by pioneers in the field the composition of friction skin soon became evident: that it could be used as a unique identifier of individuals. Now fingerprints and footprints as unique identifiers—and their use in criminal cases—have become commonplace and an essential component of criminal investigation with most cases involving some component of fingerprint evidence. Divided into two parts the book begins with the basics of analysis providing a brief history systematic methods of identification fingerprint pattern types and their associated terminologies and current classifications. The second part of the book discusses the identification and presentation of evidence in the courtroom demonstrating both the traditional manual method of lifting prints and the newer techniques for automated and live scans. Coverage provides instruction on searching and developing latent prints storage and comparison of prints. New to this edition are updated techniques on collecting and preserving fingerprint evidence—including packaging and maintaining chain of custody. More detailed documentation processes and additional chemical and lifting techniques are described including use of light sources latent backing cards and lifting material casting material ten print cards and the enhancement of prints in blood. A discussion of laboratory equipment and comparison tools the addition of photography techniques and recent courtroom challenges to fingerprint evidence is also presented. Fingerprints Second Edition will provide a hands-on fresh look at the most commonly utilized evidence found at crime scenes: fingerprints. The book will provide law enforcement crime scene personnel and students just such an opportunity to easily understand and grasp the concepts and relevant issues associated with friction skin and fingerprint evidence. | Fingerprints Analysis and Understanding the Science

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Moriello’s Small Animal Dermatology Fundamental Cases and Concepts Self-Assessment Color Review

Moriello’s Small Animal Dermatology Fundamental Cases and Concepts Self-Assessment Color Review

Karen Moriello's seminal book has been completely updated to create a true two-volume set highlighting fundamental and advanced concepts. This revised edition by Dr. Darren Berger Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Iowa State University includes all new cases on the essential concepts of small animal dermatology accompanied by nearly 300 new images. The guide uses a case-based format to deliver a general overview of dermatology of the dog and cat providing a reference that mirrors the way veterinarians will encounter different scenarios at random in real-life practice. It uses self-assessment problems to review the most common skin diseases encountered every day plus some more obscure diseases that a veterinarian will face. The cases vary in complexity with coverage ranging from those confronted daily to the most difficult and serious cases. Answers fully explore the disease/disorder in question. The book will appeal to candidates preparing for examinations and to practitioners in their continuing education. | Moriello’s Small Animal Dermatology Fundamental Cases and Concepts Self-Assessment Color Review

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The Politics and Performance of Mestizaje in Latin America Mestizo Acts

The Politics and Performance of Mestizaje in Latin America Mestizo Acts

The term mestizaje is generally translated as race mixture with races typically understood as groups differentiated by skin color or other physical characteristics. Yet such understandings seem contradicted by contemporary understandings of race as a cultural construct or idea rather than as a biological entity. How might one then approach mestizaje in a way that is not definitionally predicated on ‘race ’ or at least on a modernist formulation of race as phenotypically expressed biological difference? The contributors to this volume provide explorations of this question in varied Latin American contexts (Mexico Guatemala Bolivia Colombia Peru) from the16th century to the present. They treat ‘mestizo acts’ neither as expressions of pre-existing social identities nor as ideologies enforced from above but as cultural performances enacted in the in-between spaces of social and political life. Moreover they show how ‘mestizo acts’ not only express or reinforce social hierarchies but institute or change them – seeking to prove – or to dismantle – genealogies of race blood sex and language in public and political ways. The chapters in this book originally published as a special issue of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. | The Politics and Performance of Mestizaje in Latin America Mestizo Acts

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Parametric Methods for Beginners Architecture Applications

Parametric Methods for Beginners Architecture Applications

This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design drawing direct connections between each phase of the architectural design process with relevant parametric approaches. Readers will find applications of parametric methods with straightforward explanations of concepts commands as well as applicable examples for each phase of the architectural design process. In addition to learning about the historical and conceptual background of parametric design readers can use this book as a go-to source during their day-to-day design practice. Chapters are organized according to different phases of the architectural design process such as site analysis spatial organization skin systems and environmental performance analyses. Together they deliver concepts applications and examples utilizing in-depth visual guides that explain commands their outcomes and their interrelationships. With over 350 images this book includes examples from the author’s own design studio and parametric design teaching in elective classes. Based on the Rhinoceros and Grasshopper platforms this book is an accessible yet in-depth resource for architecture students and early professionals who are considering integrating parametric applications into their design processes. | Parametric Methods for Beginners Architecture Applications

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FABRIC[ated] Fabric Innovation and Material Responsibility in Architecture

FABRIC[ated] Fabric Innovation and Material Responsibility in Architecture

FABRIC[ated] examines fabric as a catalyst for innovation reflection change and transformation in architecture. This book explores the ways in which research and development of fabric can and historically has influenced and revolutionized architecture teaching and design. Responsive flexible impermanent fluid and adaptive—fabric interacts with and influences architecture offering innovative solutions and increased material responsibility. Foundation and theory chapters establish clear precedent and futures for fabric’s position in architectural discourse. The case study section examines 14 international projects through three different threads: Veiling Compression and Tension. Case studies include a diverse range of projects from the HiLo unit at Nest and CAST’s fabric formed concrete projects to a discussion of the impact of fabric on SO-IL and Kennedy Violich Architect’s professional work demonstrating new and fresh methods for addressing sustainability and social justice through the use of fabric in architecture. Through the work of the many authors of this book we see fabric as drape skin veil mold concept and inspiration. Fabric in its broadest definition is an important and innovative material in the development of socially conscious architecture. Offering readers pedagogical and practical models for international projects highlighting fabric’s use in architecture this book will appeal to the novice and the expert architecture students and practitioners alike. | FABRIC[ated] Fabric Innovation and Material Responsibility in Architecture

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The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege

The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege

Investigating the emergence of a specific mestiza/mestizo whiteness that facilitates relations between the Philippines and Western nations this book examines the ways in which the construction of a particular form of Philippine whiteness serves to deploy positions of exclusion privilege and solidarity. Through Filipino Filipino-Australian and Filipino-American experiences the author explores the operation of whiteness showing how a mixed-race identity becomes the means through which racialised privileges authority and power are embodied in the Philippine context and examines the ways in which colonial and imperial technologies of the past frame contemporary practices such as skin-bleaching the use of different languages discourses of bilateral relations secularism development and the movement of Filipino Australian and American bodies between and within nations. Drawing on key ideas expressed in critical race and whiteness studies together with the theoretical concepts of somatechnics biopolitics and governmentality The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race sheds light on the impact of colonial and imperial histories on contemporary international relations and calls for a 'queering' or resignification of whiteness which acknowledges permutations of whiteness fostered within national boundaries as well as through various nation-state alliances and fractures. As such it will appeal to scholars of cultural studies sociology and politics with interests in whiteness postcolonialism and race. | The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege

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Our Bodies Not Ourselves WOMEN AGING FROM MENOPAUSE TO ONE HUNDRED

Our Bodies Not Ourselves WOMEN AGING FROM MENOPAUSE TO ONE HUNDRED

In 1970 the best-seller Our Bodies Ourselves was published. The focus of the authors the Boston Health Collective was on the youthful female body: on reproduction sexuality genitalia intimacy and relationships in the context of North American cultural expectations. Our Bodies Not Ourselves is also about the female body—but on women aging from menopause to 100. Like its predecessor Our Bodies Not Ourselves covers sexuality genitalia intimacy gender norms and relationships. But the aging woman's body has many other issues from head to toe from skeleton to skin and from sleep to motion. The book an ethnography and Western cultural history of aging and gender draws upon history culture and social media the authors’ own experiences as women of 70 and conversations and correspondence with more than two hundred women aged from 60-ish to 100. They consider the cultural and structural frameworks for contemporary aging: the long sweep of history gendered cultural norms and the vast commercial and medical marketplaces for maintaining and altering the aging body. Part I The Private Body focuses on the embodied experiences of aging within our private households. Part II The Public Body explores weight height and adornment as old women appear among others. Part III The Body With Others sets the embodied experiences of aging women within their sexual and social relationships. | Our Bodies Not Ourselves WOMEN AGING FROM MENOPAUSE TO ONE HUNDRED

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Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen

Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen

Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music and in particular early music to evoke and recompose a distant past. Culture popular and otherwise is awash with a stylise - sometimes contradictory - musical history. And yet for all its complexities these representations of the past through music are integral to how our contemporary and collective imaginations understand history. More importantly they offer a valuable insight into how we understand our musical present. Such representative strategies the book argues cross generic boundaries and as such it brings together a range of multimedia discussion on the subjects of film (Lord of the Rings Dangerous Liasions) television (Game of Thrones The Borgias) videogame (Dragon Warrior Gauntlet) and opera (Written on Skin Taverner English ‘dramatick opera’). This collection constitutes a significant and interdisciplinary contribution to a growing literature which is unpacking our ongoing creative dialogue with the past. Divided into three complementary sections grouped not by genre or media but by theme it considers: ‘Authenticity Appropriateness and Recomposing the Past’ ‘Music Space and Place: Geography as History’ and ‘Presentness and the Past: Dialogues between Old and New’. Like the musical collage that is our shared multimedia historical soundscape it is hoped that this collection is in its eclecticism more than the sum of its parts. | Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen

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The Boundaries of Mixedness A Global Perspective

The Boundaries of Mixedness A Global Perspective

The Boundaries of Mixedness tackles the burgeoning field of critical mixed race studies bringing together research that spans five continents and more than ten countries. Research on mixedness is growing yet there is still much debate over what exactly mixed race means and whether it is a useful term. Despite a growing focus on and celebration of mixedness globally particularly in the media societies around the world are grappling with how and why crossing socially constructed boundaries of race ethnicity and other markers of difference matter when considering those who date marry raise families or navigate their identities across these boundaries. What we find collectively through the ten studies in this book is that in every context there is a hierarchy of mixedness both in terms of intimacy and identity. This hierarchy of intimacy renders certain groups as more or less marriable socially constructed around race ethnicity caste religion skin color and/or region. Relatedly there is also a hierarchy of identities where certain races languages ethnicities and religions are privileged and valued differently. These differences emerge out of particular local histories and contemporary contexts yet there are also global realities that transcend place and space. The Boundaries of Mixedness is a significant new contribution to mixed race studies for academics researchers and advanced students of Ethnic and Racial Studies Sociology History and Public Policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies. | The Boundaries of Mixedness A Global Perspective

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Lost to Desire The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive

Lost to Desire The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive

This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life and how their concept of opératoire continues to inform the theory and practice of working with patients in crisis. The author explores what the new concept has elicited in a community of practitioners – close to the École Psychosomatique de Paris – over a period of some sixty years. As a 'skin for thought' it facilitated change while preserving coherence gradually beginning to attract further considerations. Important themes have included: the early groundwork necessary for the configuration of fantasy the importance of a shared imaginary the role of denial and obliterated memories as a bond between people emergency measures of a Me cut off from revitalisation the effects of the rhythms and atmosphere at the workplace on family life and the consequences of a crisis suppressed for lack of a holding frame. As psychoanalytic discourse adapted to the challenges the original perspective changed aspect moving from a systematic evaluation of what the patients did not produce to what the analyst had to fill in to make sense of the situation. Clashing with the terrain French psychoanalysts raised important problems about psychic anaemia that are stimulating and deserve cross-cultural discussion. This book will appeal to psychoanalysts in practice and training who wish to learn more about this ground-breaking work on memory and trauma and how to apply it to their own practice. | Lost to Desire The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive

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Casting a Movement The Welcome Table Initiative

Casting a Movement The Welcome Table Initiative

Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors directors educators playwrights and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting. Drawing on the notion of a welcome table—a space where artists of all backgrounds can come together as equals to create theatre—the book’s contributors discuss casting practices as they relate to varying communities and contexts including Middle Eastern American theatre Disability culture multilingual performance Native American theatre color- and culturally-conscious casting and casting as a means to dismantle stereotypes. Syler and Banks suggest that casting is a way to invite more people to the table so that the full breadth of US identities can be reflected onstage and that casting is inherently a political act; because an actor’s embodied presence both communicates a dramatic narrative and evokes cultural assumptions associated with appearance skin color gender sexuality and ability casting choices are never neutral. By bringing together a variety of artistic perspectives to discuss common goals and particular concerns related to casting this volume features the insights and experiences of a broad range of practitioners and experts across the field. As a resource-driven text suitable for both practitioners and academics Casting a Movement seeks to frame and mobilize a social movement focused on casting access and representation. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Casting a Movement The Welcome Table Initiative

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Dermoscopy Image Analysis

Dermoscopy Image Analysis

Dermoscopy is a noninvasive skin imaging technique that uses optical magnification and either liquid immersion or cross-polarized lighting to make subsurface structures more easily visible when compared to conventional clinical images. It allows for the identification of dozens of morphological features that are particularly important in identifying malignant melanoma. Dermoscopy Image Analysis summarizes the state of the art of the computerized analysis of dermoscopy images. The book begins by discussing the influence of color normalization on classification accuracy and then: Investigates gray-world max-RGB and shades-of-gray color constancy algorithms showing significant gains in sensitivity and specificity on a heterogeneous set of images Proposes a new color space that highlights the distribution of underlying melanin and hemoglobin color pigments leading to more accurate classification and border detection results Determines that the latest border detection algorithms can achieve a level of agreement that is only slightly lower than the level of agreement among experienced dermatologists Provides a comprehensive review of various methods for border detection pigment network extraction global pattern extraction streak detection and perceptually significant color detection Details a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for melanomas that features an inexpensive acquisition tool clinically meaningful features and interpretable classification feedback Presents a highly scalable CAD system implemented in the MapReduce framework a novel CAD system for melanomas and an overview of dermatological image databases Describes projects that made use of a publicly available database of dermoscopy images which contains 200 high-quality images along with their medical annotations Dermoscopy Image Analysis not only showcases recent advances but also explores future directions for this exciting subfield of medical image analysis covering dermoscopy image analysis from preprocessing to classification.

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Health Data Privacy under the GDPR Big Data Challenges and Regulatory Responses

Health Data Privacy under the GDPR Big Data Challenges and Regulatory Responses

The growth of data-collecting goods and services such as ehealth and mhealth apps smart watches mobile fitness and dieting apps electronic skin and ingestible tech combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage artificial intelligence and smart algorithms has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data. Recently the COVID-19 pandemic has foregrounded a variety of data privacy issues. The collection storage sharing and analysis of health- related data raises major legal and ethical questions relating to privacy data protection profiling discrimination surveillance personal autonomy and dignity. This book examines health privacy questions in light of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the general data privacy legal framework of the European Union (EU). The GDPR is a complex and evolving body of law that aims to deal with several technological and societal health data privacy problems while safeguarding public health interests and addressing its internal gaps and uncertainties. The book answers a diverse range of questions including: What role can the GDPR play in regulating health surveillance and big (health) data analytics? Can it catch up with internet-age developments? Are the solutions to the challenges posed by big health data to be found in the law? Does the GDPR provide adequate tools and mechanisms to ensure public health objectives and the effective protection of privacy? How does the GDPR deal with data that concern children’s health and academic research? By analysing a number of diverse questions concerning big health data under the GDPR from various perspectives this book will appeal to those interested in privacy data protection big data health sciences information technology the GDPR EU and human rights law. | Health Data Privacy under the GDPR Big Data Challenges and Regulatory Responses

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Ethics Goes to the Movies An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Ethics Goes to the Movies An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Movies hold a mirror up to us portraying the complexities of human reality through their characters and stories. And they vividly illustrate moral theories that address questions about how we are to live and what sort of people we ought to be. In this book Christopher Falzon uses movies to provide a rich survey of moral positions as they have emerged through history. These include the ethics of the ancient world medieval ethics Enlightenment and Kantian ethics existentialist ethics and the ethics of the other. Each theory is explained in detail using a number of examples from the book’s wide selection of movies. The discussion draws on a range of recent and not-so-recent films from Hollywood blockbusters to art-house cinema. Key Features: In addition to covering thinkers one would expect in an introduction to ethics (e. g. Plato Aristotle Kant) the book discusses less canonical figures in detail as well (e. g. Marcuse Foucault Habermas). Similarly the book examines both major ethical theories (e. g. Kantianism utilitarianism virtue ethics) and theories too often glossed over in introductory texts (e. g. Stoicism Epicureanism Habermas's discourse ethics and Nietzschean ethics). A wide range of movies are discussed from Hollywood blockbusters and classics like The Dark Knight Casablanca and Dirty Harry to lesser known films like Force Majeure and Under the Skin. Atthe end of each chapter a focus on two feature films is included with a plot summary and interpretations of several key scenes with a time marker indicating when in the film the scenes occur. A Filmography includes all movies discussed in the book and a Glossary covers key philosophical terms and figures; both with corresponding page numbers. | Ethics Goes to the Movies An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

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An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood Things I Tell My Daughter

An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood Things I Tell My Daughter

This is the first full-length explicitly identified autoethnographic text on African American motherhood. It shows the lived experiences of Black motherhood when mothering is shaped by race gender and class and mothers must navigate not only their own but also their children's positions in society. Ferdinand takes an intimate look at her mothering strategies spanning ten years (from 2007 to 2017) preparing her daughter to traverse a racist and sexist society. It is a multi-generational text that blends the author’s experience with that of her own mother grandmother and her daughter to engage in a larger discussion of African American/Black mother/womanhood. It is grounded within Black Feminist Theory which centers the experiences of Black women within the domains of intersecting oppressions. It is from a very personal position that Ferdinand provides a glimpse into the minutiae of mothering that reveal the everyday intricacies of Black women as mothers. It highlights specific strategies Black mothers use to combat discrimination and oppression from teaching their children about the n-word to choosing positive representations of Black identity in movies books dolls daycares elementary schools and even extra-curricular activities. It shows the impact that stereotypical manifestations of Black femininity have on Black women’s experience of motherhood and how this affects Black women and girls' understanding of themselves especially their skin color body shape and hair texture. As an interdisciplinary text this book will be reading for academics and students in a broad range of fields including Education African American Studies Communication Studies Women Studies Psychology and Health Studies. It is also a handbook of lived experience for Black mothers grandmothers and daughters and for all mothers grandmothers and daughters irrespective of color. | An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood Things I Tell My Daughter

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