Administering Affect

Administering Affect
Author: Daniel White
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1503632202

How do the worlds that state administrators manage become the feelings publics embody? In Administering Affect, Daniel White addresses this question by documenting the rise of a new national figure he calls "Pop-Culture Japan." Emerging in the wake of Japan's dramatic economic decline in the early 1990s, Pop-Culture Japan reflected the hopes of Japanese state bureaucrats and political elites seeking to recover their country's standing on the global stage. White argues that due to growing regional competitiveness and geopolitical tension in East Asia in recent decades, Japan's state bureaucrats increasingly targeted political anxiety as a national problem and built a new national image based on pop-culture branding as a remedy. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork among rarely accessible government bureaucrats, Administering Affect examines the fascinating connection between state administration and public sentiment. White analyzes various creative policy figures of Pop-Culture Japan, such as anime diplomats, "Cool Japan" branding campaigns, and the so-called "Ambassadors of Cute," in order to illustrate a powerful link between practices of managing national culture and the circulation of anxiety among Japanese publics. Invoking the term "administering affect" to illustrate how anxiety becomes a bureaucratic target, technique, and unintended consequence of promoting Japan's national popular culture, the book presents an ethnographic portrait of the at-times surprisingly emotional lives of Japan's state bureaucrats. In examining how anxious feelings come to drive policymaking, White delivers an intimate anthropological analysis of the affective forces interconnecting state governance, popular culture, and national identity.

Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture

Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture
Author: Akane Kanai
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2018-07-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319915150

This book explores the practices and the politics of relatable femininity in intimate digital social spaces. Examining a GIF-based digital culture on Tumblr, the author considers how young women produce relatability through humorous, generalisable representations of embarrassment, frustration, and resilience in everyday situations. Relatability is examined as an affective relation that offers the feeling of sameness and female friendship amongst young women. However, this relation is based on young women’s ability to competently negotiate the ‘feeling rules’ that govern youthful femininity. Such classed and racialised feeling rules require young women to perfect the performance of normalcy: they must mix self-deprecation with positivity; they must be relatably flawed but not actual ‘failures’. Situated in debates about postfeminism, self-representation and digital identity, this book connects understandings of digital visual culture to gender, race, and class, and neoliberal imperatives to perform the ‘right feelings’. Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, and media studies.

Elsevier's Comprehensive Review for the Canadian PN Examination - E-Book

Elsevier's Comprehensive Review for the Canadian PN Examination - E-Book
Author: Karen Katsademas
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 747
Release: 2024-01-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323872689

Thoroughly prepare for tests, exams, and clinical placements with Elsevier's Comprehensive Review for the Canadian PN Examination, 2nd Edition. This is the only CPNRE® and REx-PN® text with accompanying online practice material to provide an exhaustive content review and a wealth of practice questions to help you prepare for PN licensure anywhere in Canada! Thoroughly updated, this edition reflects all current Canadian Council for Practical Nurse Regulators National PN competencies, including those specifically for Ontario and British Columbia. It’s a great way to test yourself on all exam competencies, along with your understanding, application, and critical thinking abilities. Strategic overview of the REx-PN® and CPNRE® exams helps you prepare effectively for your specific Practical Nurse licensure examination. Client Needs categories are provided in the answers and rationales for all end-of-chapter practice questions and for the REx-PN® practice exams. Testing of all relevant cognitive levels helps ensure you can understand, apply, and think critically about all the information covered on the REx-PN® and CPNRE® and in clinical practice. Comprehensive content review covers all the core topic areas tested on the REx-PN® and CPNRE® Wide variety of practice questions helps you easily assess your own understanding. The only CPNRE® and REx-PN® review and practice resource which will help you prepare for PN licensure anywhere in Canada! Thoroughly updated content reflects and tests all current Canadian Council for Practical Nurse Regulators (CCPNR) National PN competencies, including those specifically for Ontario and British Columbia. NEW! 500+ additional questions in the text and online to help you prepare for PN licensure in any Canadian province or territory! NEW! More than 1,000 online practice questions, including four full online practice exams (two CPNRE® and two REx-PN®), on the companion Evolve website give you instant performance feedback.

Drug Therapy in Nursing

Drug Therapy in Nursing
Author: Diane S. Aschenbrenner
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 1348
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781765879

This text presents a totally nursing-focused framework for teaching and learning nursing pharmacology, and "places the patient" at the center of all drug administration decisions and considerations. The book presents core drug knowledge using prototypes of different drug classes and emphasizes core patient variables that influence the patient's response to therapy. This thoroughly updated Third Edition covers newly approved drugs, has separate chapters on drugs affecting fungal and viral infections, and includes more pathophysiology information. FDA Black Box warnings have been added to the discussion of each prototype when applicable, and safety alerts have been added to emphasize prevention of common medication errors. A companion Website offers student and instructor ancillaries including NCLEX®-style questions, pathophysiology animations, medication administration videos, and dosage calculation quizzes.

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1264
Release: 1940
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Principles and Practice of Clinical Trial Medicine

Principles and Practice of Clinical Trial Medicine
Author: Richard Chin
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2008-07-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0080557937

Clinical trials are an important part of medicine and healthcare today, deciding which treatments we use to treat patients. Anyone involved in healthcare today must know the basics of running and interpreting clinical trial data. Written in an easy-to-understand style by authors who have considerable expertise and experience in both academia and industry, Principles and Practice of Clinical Trial Medicine covers all of the basics of clinical trials, from legal and ethical issues to statistics, to patient recruitment and reporting results. - Jargon-free writing style enables those with less experience to run their own clinical trials and interpret data - Book contains an ideal mix of theory and practice so researchers will understand both the rationale and logistics to clinical trial medicine - Expert authorship whose experience includes running clinical trials in an academic as well as industry settings - Numerous illustrations reinforce and elucidate key concepts and add to the book's overall pedagogy

Critical Care Transport

Critical Care Transport
Author: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS),
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 1038
Release: 2017-03-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1284146197

Welcome to the gold standard in critical care transport training. Published in conjunction with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and endorsed by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and the International Association of Flight and Critical Care Providers (IAFCCP), Critical Care Transport, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge content relevant to any health care provider training in critical care transport. Authored by leading critical care professionals from across the country, Critical Care Transport, Second Edition, contains state-of-the-art information on ground and flight transport that aligns with the latest evidence-based medicine and practices. Content includes information specific to prehospital critical care transport, such as flight physiology, lab analysis, hemodynamic monitoring, and specialized devices such as the intra-aortic balloon pump. Standard topics such as airway management, tra