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The link between health and human rights has been recognised for many years, but        the increasing visibility of the right to health in international law has been a        distinct feature of the last decade. It has been embraced by actors within civil        society, academics, health professionals, lawyers and courts in...

Nowadays we listen to music whenever and wherever we like. Never before has the        scope of what is available been so great and varied. The mass media and Internet        have given us unlimited paths into the world of music.Just like music is varied and        endless, so are our reactions to music. The very same piece of music can...

Global Public Health: a new era is a comprehensive updated account of the        international state of public health, including an agenda for improving the practice        of the discipline across the world. It addresses three major issues:- the changing        global context for public health- the state of public health theory and practice...

This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focuses on the eastern 'Greek' provinces in the first and second centuries A.D. - the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults exploded across the Roman Empire. His purpose is to show...

Storying Later Life demonstrates that the biographical side of human aging is every bit as critical to fathom as the biological side, and that aging is about meaning and growth as well as decline. This volume provides an overview of current thinking and new directions, including examples f narrative care as core care....

Takashi Yagisawa argues for a new version of modal realism, the view that non-actual possible worlds and individuals are as real as the actual ones. The notion of reality is primitive; existence is a relation between a thing and a domain; worlds are modal indices for truth; ordinary objects are extended in spatial, temporal, and modal dimensions....