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Touch may well be one of the least understood or talked about subjects in the helping professions. A discussion on the importance and ethics of positive, caring, and appropriate touch in professions such as teaching, nursing and counselling is long overdue. Touch in the Helping Professions delivers just that, weaving together scholarly evidence, research and clinical practice from a wide range of perspectives encompassing philosophy, theology, psychology, and anthropology to challenge assumptions about the role of touch in the helping professions. The contributors to the volume focus not only on the overarching roles of gender, age, culture and life experience, but go beyond to encompass canine-assisted therapy, touch deprivation, sacred objects, as well as key ethical considerations. The prevailing lack of dialogue, due to fear of contravening ethical boundaries, has stood in the way of an open and responsible discussion on the use of touch in therapy. Touch in the Helping Professions is a welcome and much needed contribution to the field-a window onto a fundamental need.

Medical ethics. --- Touch --- Therapeutic use.

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Neurophysiology --- Senses and sensation. --- Touch. --- Vision. --- Hearing.

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"Unlike the other senses, touch ranges beyond a single sense organ, encompassing not only the skin but also the interior of the body. It mediates almost every aspect of interpresonal relations in antiquity, from the everyday to the erotic, just as it also procides a primary point of contact between the individual and the outside world. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which touch plays a defining role in science, art, philosophy and medicine and shapes our understanding of topics ranging from aesthetics and poetics to various religious and ritual practices. Whether we locate the sense of touch on the surface of the skin, within the body or - less tangibly still - within the emotions, the sensory impact of touching raises a broad range of interpretive and phenomenological questions. This is the first volume of its kind to explore the sense of touch in antiquty, bringing a variety of disciplinary approaches to bear on the sense that is usually disregarded as the least refined of the five. In thse pages, by contrast, we find in touch a complex and fascinating indicator of the body's relation to object, environment and self." -- back cover

Touch --- Touch. --- Senses and sensation --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Psychological aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Sentits. --- Tacte. --- Grècia. --- Roma.

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Human-machine systems --- Touch screens. --- Haptic devices. --- Manual control. --- Haptic interfaces --- Haptic technology --- Computer input-output equipment --- Robotics --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Panels, Touch --- Screens, Touch --- Touch panels --- Touch screen panels --- Touchscreen panels --- Touchscreens --- Manual control systems --- Feedback control systems