"Dokter, tolong... Saya kena kanker." Inilah kalimat yang sering didengar Dr. Ang Peng Tiam selama kariernya. Dr. Ang bukan hanya dokter yang hebat, melainkan juga juru cerita yang luar biasa. Topik sulit dan "seram" seperti kanker, dipaparkannya dalam cerita-cerita kesembuhan yang memikat dan mudah dipahami. Dr. Ang juga menyampaikan berbagai hal lain, seperti pandangannya terhadap pengobatan …
Over recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian and North African studies. Most of the new research dealing with it concentrates on the ‘popular’ as opposed to an intellectual ‘high’ culture far from the harsh and hierarchically organized reality many Arabic-speaking societies face today. Popular cultural practices are thus seen as a rejection of the eli…
his interdisciplinary collection—spanning the disciplines of engineering, law and planning—draws helpfully on a range of practical and theoretical perspectives. It is the collaborative effort of leading experts in the fields of infrastructure project initiation and financing, and is based on international research conducted by the University of Melbourne, Universitas Indonesia and Universit…
Ada banyak kendala dan tantangan yang ditemukan dalam pembangunan sektor ketenagalistrikan di wilayah perdesaan, terutama di beberapa wilayah di Nusa Tenggara Timur. Buku Akses Listrik dan Kesejahteraan Masyarakat ini hadir untuk memberikan solusi terhadap berbagai kendala dan tantangan tersebut. Dengan fokus kajian di wilayah perdesaan terpencil di NTT, buku ini menjelaskan beberapa tantangan …
Fictional Practices of Spirituality provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds of fiction, be it interactive or non-interactive. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds - may that be the digital realms of video games and VR applications or the imaginary spaces of life action role-playing and soul-searching prac…
Contrary to the widespread perception that the‘spiritual dimension’of health isprimarily related to palliative care and has emerged relatively recently within theWHO, we show in this book that its history is considerably longer and morecomplex. The emergence of a‘spiritual dimension’in WHO discourse wasconnected to aspirations for universal primary healthcare, attempts to delivera more …
At first glance, this book deals with a dry, technical question. The issue of digital records sounds like an unremarkable aspect of our increasingly bureaucratic health-care systems rather than a topic for intriguing discussion. However, our experience of digital records tells a different story. In the academic and pastoral forums in which the issue has been discussed, it h…
The kitchen and cooking have emerged as important differentiated cultural fields in the 21st century. Alongside their important role in the natural and nutritional sciences, they are also in the focus of culinary studies, design, art, gastronomy and agriculture. The heyday of issues of nutrition to which this attests contrasts with the “crisis of food”1 some have discerned and a…
This book presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present. Bringing together international researchers from a wide variety of disciplines (including the history of science, museum anthropology, archaeology, geography and postcolonial history) to consider the mobility of collections, we aim to provi…