Medical Assisting or Painting Culture

Medical Assisting: Clinical Skills Manual

Author: Donna L Shea

Students can?t help but get absorbed in this new, comprehensive, hands-on clinical skills guide. Skills are presented from basic to complex, and the focus never strays from student development of Total Patient Care and critical thinking skills. The book?s flexible design allows for easy use in both modular and semester/quarter-based programs. ALSO AVAILABLE - INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor?s Guide
ISBN: 0-8273-5642-0

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Aknowledgments
	Introduction: How to Use this Manual
Ch. 1	Universal Precautions	2
Ch. 2	Preparing for Patient Care	14
Ch. 3	Mensuration - Adult	26
Ch. 4	Physical Examinations - Adult	50
Ch. 5	Pediatric Patients	79
Ch. 6	Patients with Special Needs	106
Ch. 7	Scenario - Putting It All Together	125
Ch. 8	Parenteral Medication	130
Ch. 9	Nonparenteral Medication	163
Ch. 10	Pharmacology	191
Ch. 11	Scenario - Putting It All Together	230
Ch. 12	Diagnostic Procedures	234
Ch. 13	Therapeutic Procedures	276
Ch. 14	Scenario - Putting It All Together	319
Ch. 15	Sterilization Procedure	324
Ch. 16	Instruments/Surgical Trays	337
Ch. 17	Sterile Surgical Procedures	372
Ch. 18	Scenario - Putting It All Together	401
Ch. 19	Bandaging Techniques	406
Ch. 20	Scenario - Putting It All Together	440
Ch. 21	Specimen Collection	445
Ch. 22	Diagnostic Laboratory	487
Ch. 23	Scenario - Putting It All Together	537
	Appendix A: Resources	541
	Appendix B: Nutrition	547
	Appendix C: Conversations and Calculations	553
	Glossary	561
	Index	577
	Instrument Flash Cards	583

New interesting textbook: The Imperial Britian or Managing Complex Systems

Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art

Author: Fred R Myers

Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upcale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied-often as a participant-observer-the Pintupi, one of several Aboriginal groups who paint the famous acrylic works. Describing their paintings and the complicated cultural issues they raise, Myers looks at the ways the paintings represent Aboriginal people and their culture, and how their heritage is translated into exchangeable values. He tracks the way these paintings become high art as they move outward from indigenous communities through and among other social institutions-the world of dealers, museums, and critics. At the same time, he shows how this change in the status of the acrylic paintings is directly related to the initiative of the painters themselves, representing their hopes for new levels of recognition.

Painting Culture describes in detail the actual practice of painting, insisting that such a focus is necessary to engage directly with the role of the art in the lives of contemporary Aboriginals. The book includes a unique "local art history, " a study of the complete corpus of two painters over a two-year period. It also explores the awkward local issues around the valuation and sale of the acrylic paintings, traces the shifting approaches of the Australian government and key organizations such as the Aboriginal Arts Board to the promotion of the work, and describes the early and subsequent phases of the works' inclusion in major Australian and international exhibitions. Myers provides an account of some of the events related to these exhibits, most notably the Asia Society's 1988 "Dreamings" show in New York, which was so pivotal in bringing the work to North American notice. He also traces the approaches and concerns of dealers, ranging from semi-tourist outlets in Alice Springs to more prestigious venues in Sydney and Melbourne.

With its innovative approach to the transnational circulation of culture, this book will appeal to art historians, as well as those in cultural anthropology, cultural studies, museum studies, and performance studies.

What People Are Saying

George Marcus
George Marcus, Rice University
Aside from being an extraordinary feat of scholarship at the intersection of art, anthropology, and the renewed interest in material culture, this long-awaited study is equally a fulfillment of the many recent envisionings of an ethnography of movement and circulation. Only an anthropologist with as keen a sensibility as Myers's for the present epoch of change in both anthropology itself and the peoples it has long studied could produce a work of such focus and scope.

Howard Morphy
Howard Morphy, Australian National University
Fred Myers has been in a unique position as a participant observer of an art movement from its local beginnings to its international recognition. This book is a work of enormous significance, relevant to debates in contemporary art theory and cultural studies as well as in anthropology.