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Hearing Doctor, Deaf Patient: Problematic Health Care Interactions
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Abstract Physician–patient communication is central to the field of health communication, with recent work in this area highlighting problems some patients experience during physician–patient interactions. This chapter presents a case about problematic interactions Deaf patients report having wit...
Family Matters: An Autoethnographic Narrative of Addicted Selves and Addicted Others with/in the Family.
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Abstract This chapter explores the negotiation of family relationships in the context of addiction, based on my experiences living with and through family addiction. I use autoethnography to recall the ways in which a sister, her sister, and the family experienced addiction in the home. Within th...
Christian Intercultural Communication: Sharing God's Love with People of Other Cultures
By: Tim Chang, Ashley Chang
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Christian Intercultural Communication: Sharing God's Love with People of Other Cultures
Author(s): Tim Chang, Ashley Chang
Designed for anyone considering moving overseas to complete a global church mission, Christian Intercultural Communication: Sharing God’s Love with People of Other Cultures includes meditations on the way one’s faith can help overcome culture shock. Written by a current professor and veteran missio...
The Sociological Vision
Author(s): Christopher Pieper
New Edition Now Available! What is sociology? Will I like it? Does it matter in the world? Can it help me? The Sociological Vision is designed to answer these questions and cultivate a new way of seeing social life. Geared primarily toward students beginning a journey into the social sciences,...
Anonymous Relationships: Alcoholics Anonymous and Mediated Communication
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Sample Despite the historical importance of anonymity as a form of free speech, the relevance of anonymous communication has flourished in more recent decades, with the development of computer mediated communication, which provides a wide range of options to communicate without being identified (...
Modern Music Appreciation
Author(s): Robert Brosh
Modern Music Appreciation takes a new direction to the study of music appreciation in today’s college classroom. Traditionally, most music appreciation textbooks (and supplemental teaching materials) have approached music history through the lens of Western classical music traditions. Standard music...
Economics and the Sports Industry: Theory and Applications
Author(s): Corey H. Van de Waal
Most industries provide a workable context for teaching the core concepts of economic theory. As an instructor for core microeconomic theory classes throughout my teaching career, I have found that students respond favorably to examples and contexts that they can readily relate to. This text offe...
Eric Shinseki's Image Repair for the Veteran's Administration Health Care Scandal
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Sample Concerns that veterans were not receiving timely medical care swirled about the Veterans Affairs (VA). In May of 2014, the Inspector General’s office issued a report confirming the scandal. Bronstein and Griffin (2014) reported that the VA had kept a secret list of veterans seeking medical...
Christian Ethics: How Distinctive Features of Christianity Shape Ethics
Author(s): Dennis L Sansom
Even though a Christian ethicist shares moral commitments with other ethical approaches (for example, justice, fairness, health, and so on), Christian ethics has distinctive moral imperatives based upon the unique doctrinal beliefs of Creation, Covenant, Commands, Christ, and the Church. The primary...