Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Beyond Caring or Tomorrows Technology and You Complete

Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics

Author: Daniel F Chambliss

Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals.
Based on more than ten years' field research, Beyond Caring is filled with eyewitness accounts and personal stories demonstrating how nurses turn the awesome into the routine. It shows how patients, many weak and helpless, too often become objects of the bureaucratic machinery of the health care system and how ethics decisions, once the dilemmas of troubled individuals, become the setting for political turf battles between occupational interest groups. The result is a compelling combination of realism and a powerful theoretical argument about moral life in large organizations.

Booknews

A study of nurses' frustration with their work and working conditions, and the role of ethics in nursing, drawing on research conducted in three American hospitals between 1979 and 1990 and interviews with nurses. Looks at nurses' experiences in ethically challenging situations, and their methods of coping with hospital conditions and the nursing role. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



Interesting textbook: Product Liability Litigation or Sales Management

Tomorrow's Technology and You, Complete

Author: George Beekman

When Information Technology Enters our Lives…

 

Today we’re standing at the junction of three powerful and rapidly evolving technological forces: computers, communications, and digital entertainment. Computer technology is showing up in everything from automobiles to home appliances to telephones to televisions, and the lines that separate these machines are fading. This digital convergence is rapidly–and radically–altering the world in which we live.

Completely updated the latest technologies, Tomorrow’s Technology and You, Eighth Edition provides you with an understanding of information technology so you can successfully navigate change and advance into the future. To accomplish this computers and information technology are presented on three levels:

  1. Explanations–Clearlyexplains what a computer is and what it can (and can’t) do, along with the basics of information technology, from digital media to the Internet and beyond.
  2. Applications–Illustrates how computers and networks are–and will be–used as practical tools to solve a wide variety of problems.
  3. Implication–Putscomputers in a human context, illustrating how information technology affects our lives, our world, and our future.

Tomorrow’s Technology and You, Eighth Edition goes beyond simply describing the latest technology. It explains the many benefits we derive and risks we accept when information technology enters our lives.

 

Previous Edition: Computer Confluence: Tomorrow’s Technology and You, Seventh Edition



Table of Contents:

About this Book

Visual Walk-through

Chapter 1: Our Digital Planet

Chapter 2: Hardware Basics: Inside the Box

Chapter 3: Hardware Basics: Peripherals

Chapter 4: Software Basics: The Ghost in the Machine

Chapter 5: Productivity Applications

Chapter 6: Graphics, Digital Media, and Multimedia

Chapter 7: Database Applications and Privacy Implications

Chapter 8: Networking and Digital Communication

Chapter 9: The Evolving Internet

Chapter 10: Computer Security and Risks

Chapter 11: Computers at Work, School, and Home

Chapter 12: Information Systems in Business

Chapter 13: Electronic Commerce and E-business

Chapter 14: Systems Design and Development

Chapter 15: Is Artificial Intelligence Real?

Appendix A: Basic

Appendix B: ACM

Glossary

Credits

Index

 

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