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Film and the Chinese medical humanities
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ISBN: 0429507461 0429017405 1138580295 9780429017391 0429017391 9780429507465 9780429017407 9780429017384 0429017383 9781138580299 Year: 2020 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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"Chinese Film and the Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical and health discourse in China in both the past and the present, as well as in shaping its future. Drawing on both feature and documentary films from mainland China, the chapters each engage with the field of medicine through the visual arts. They cover themes such as the history of doctors and their concepts of disease and therapies, understanding the patient experience of illness and death, and establishing empathy and compassion in medical practice, as well as the HIV/AIDs epidemic during the 1980s and 90s and changing attitudes towards disability. Inherently interdisciplinary in nature, the contributors therefore provide different perspectives from the fields of history, psychiatry, film studies, anthropology, linguistics, public health and occupational therapy, as they relate to China and people who identify as Chinese. Their combined approaches are united by a passion for improving the cross-cultural understanding of the body and ultimately healthcare itself. A key resource for educators in the Medical Humanities, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese Studies and Film Studies as well as global health, medical anthropology and medical history"--


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Breaking the silence : South African representations of HIV/AIDS
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ISBN: 1782041923 1847010709 1299852327 Year: 2013 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey,

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South Africa is one of the countries in the world most affected by HIV/AIDS, and yet, until recently, the epidemic was barely visible in South African literature. Much can be gained from approaching the South African epidemic through creative texts such as novels, photographs, films, cartoons and murals because they produce and circulate meanings of HIV/AIDS and its various facets such as its 'origin', 'transmission routes' and 'physical manifestations'. Other aspects explored are the denial of HIV/AIDS, its stigmatisation, discriminatory practices, modes of disclosure, access to anti-retroviral medication, as well as the role of alternative treatment. Creative texts, which are open to different and possibly contradictory readings, can serve as a starting point to increase the cultural visibility of the virus and to challenge dominant ideas about the epidemic. The cultural constructions of HIV/AIDS should be carefully examined because the meanings are pervasive and have very 'real' consequences: they play a powerful role both in determining which issues receive attention and in shaping public understanding of the virus. Ellen Grünkemeier is a lecturer and researcher in the English Department at Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany. Her publications include two co-edited volumes on postcolonial literatures and cultures, 'Listening to Africa. Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures' (2012), and 'Postcolonial Studies across the Disciplines' (ASNEL Papers 19, forthcoming).


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Applications of Information Theory to Epidemiology
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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• Applications of Information Theory to Epidemiology collects recent research findings on the analysis of diagnostic information and epidemic dynamics. • The collection includes an outstanding new review article by William Benish, providing both a historical overview and new insights. • In research articles, disease diagnosis and disease dynamics are viewed from both clinical medicine and plant pathology perspectives. Both theory and applications are discussed. • New theory is presented, particularly in the area of diagnostic decision-making taking account of predictive values, via developments of the predictive receiver operating characteristic curve. • New applications of information theory to the analysis of observational studies of disease dynamics in both human and plant populations are presented.

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Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Ebola model --- Caputo derivative --- Caputo-Fabrizio derivative --- Atangana-Baleanu derivative --- numerical results --- entropy --- information theory --- multiple diagnostic tests --- mutual information --- relative entropy --- balance --- Jensen-Shannon divergence --- observational study --- selection bias --- probability --- forecast --- likelihood ratio --- positive predictive value --- negative predictive value --- diagnostic information --- Shannon entropy --- epidemic model --- transient behavior --- vaccination and treatment intervention controls --- diagnostic test --- evaluation --- ROC curve --- PROC curve --- binormal --- prevalence --- Bayes' rule --- leaf plot --- expected mutual information --- predictive ROC curve --- PV-ROC curve --- SS-ROC curve --- SS/PV-ROC plot --- empirical --- urinary bladder cancer --- sensitivity --- specificity --- HIV/AIDS epidemic --- regression model --- Newton-Raphson procedure --- Fisher scoring algorithm --- time series --- early detection --- Asiatic citrus canker --- latent class --- field diagnostic --- scent signature --- direct assay --- deployment --- average mutual information --- stochastic processes --- deterministic dynamics --- Ebola model --- Caputo derivative --- Caputo-Fabrizio derivative --- Atangana-Baleanu derivative --- numerical results --- entropy --- information theory --- multiple diagnostic tests --- mutual information --- relative entropy --- balance --- Jensen-Shannon divergence --- observational study --- selection bias --- probability --- forecast --- likelihood ratio --- positive predictive value --- negative predictive value --- diagnostic information --- Shannon entropy --- epidemic model --- transient behavior --- vaccination and treatment intervention controls --- diagnostic test --- evaluation --- ROC curve --- PROC curve --- binormal --- prevalence --- Bayes' rule --- leaf plot --- expected mutual information --- predictive ROC curve --- PV-ROC curve --- SS-ROC curve --- SS/PV-ROC plot --- empirical --- urinary bladder cancer --- sensitivity --- specificity --- HIV/AIDS epidemic --- regression model --- Newton-Raphson procedure --- Fisher scoring algorithm --- time series --- early detection --- Asiatic citrus canker --- latent class --- field diagnostic --- scent signature --- direct assay --- deployment --- average mutual information --- stochastic processes --- deterministic dynamics


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Applications of Information Theory to Epidemiology
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• Applications of Information Theory to Epidemiology collects recent research findings on the analysis of diagnostic information and epidemic dynamics. • The collection includes an outstanding new review article by William Benish, providing both a historical overview and new insights. • In research articles, disease diagnosis and disease dynamics are viewed from both clinical medicine and plant pathology perspectives. Both theory and applications are discussed. • New theory is presented, particularly in the area of diagnostic decision-making taking account of predictive values, via developments of the predictive receiver operating characteristic curve. • New applications of information theory to the analysis of observational studies of disease dynamics in both human and plant populations are presented.

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