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The way that men perceive the women they encounter at work is often influenced by profession, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, temperament, and other such elements. It is important to note that men somehow feel uncomfortable working with women but they cannot explicitly articulate the reason for such discomfort. One of the prominent issues seen in various literatures about the perspective of men entails how the self-image of a man is determined by the work that he does, and thus may also be associated with the issue of underutilization. In this chapter, the author explains how the results of his telephone interviews have taken on the changing roles of both men and women or the gender flux. This chapter examines issues such as the loss of control and power, loss of self-esteem and male identity, and increasing levels of sexual static.

This introductory chapter discusses the author's treatment of the voluminous letters of Cicely Sauders, who was regarded as the founder of the modern hospice movement. A woman of resilience, vision, and dedication to the care of dying, she was often the subject of written accounts. This book presents a different view of Saunders through her letters. In it, the author allowed Saunders' letters to tell their own story of her life. The book concentrates on the 40 years of correspondence of Saunders from 1959 to 1999. Preference is given to letters that she personally wrote and preserved. The book offers a perspective on the life of Saunders through a selection of her correspondence. It begins by revealing her motivation to study the dilemmas of caring for dying people, and offers perspective on the achievements and developments that took place in St. Christopher's Hospice. The book provides insight into the expanding knowledge of the hospice and the transition to a wider perspective on palliative care. It also illustrates the changing role of Saunders in the hospice she founded, including her strong convictions, such as the importance of spirituality within the palliative setting. The book also discusses her antagonism against euthanasia, inadequate care, and lack of respect for personhood, and paints her relationships with three Polish men who had a great impact on her adult life. It book is divided into three parts: the years of establishing St. Christopher's Hospice; the years in which Saunders was Medical Director; and the years in which she was the Chairman, until 1999.

Chapter 1 presents an overview of the key issues and previous research relevant to changing gender roles and family formation. The chapter presents a review of the literature covering several inter-related topics. These include changing gender role attitudes and behaviour, as well as the relationship between women’s labour force participation and fertility. The effects of family policies on women’s labour force participation and fertility are also discussed. Special attention is paid to the demographic changes which have been occurring and the emergence of new family forms. Finally the chapter looks at the economic and social effects of these changes on society and the psychological effects of the changing nature of the family on individuals and on society. The approach is international, with a special focus on Ireland.

This chapter's analysis is derived from in-depth, longitudinal, collaborative and auto/biographical research among twenty five general practitioners (GPs) or family physicians, working in demanding inner-city contexts, including inner London. The research concentrates on the learning, role and wellbeing of the GPs during the period of changing roles and expectations including within the management of healthcare in Britain, and a period of growing criticism over performance and accountability. The research chronicles and theorises, through case study material and an interdisciplinary ‘cultural psychology’, the impact and meaning of social and cultural change among the diverse groups of physicians. The research presented in this chapter focuses as well on the role and nature of lifelong learning in the management of change and professional development. It records and documents some of the doctor's doubts and anxieties n training and biomedical model itself. It also explores the psychological stress and feelings of helplessness that the doctors experience including the difficulties of dealing with this in a medical culture in which doctors are taught that they should know and cope. This chapter focuses on two stories of two doctors, who because of multiple identities and experiences of oppression have felt on the margins of profession.

This chapter examines Hmong women's changing roles by examining their experiences in refugee camps and diasporic communities. It includes profiles of three well-educated female Hmong leaders and discusses the challenges they face as women, as raced women, and as subjects within the patriarchal culture of the Hmong American community. These women have been selected out of a survey of fourteen women due to limitations of space, and in order to briefly illustrate the tenacity of Hmong American women, their successes, contributions, and challenges: the profiles of Senator Mee Moua, Dr. Phua Xiong, and Mai Zong Vue. These women were chosen because they are well known in their communities and are viewed as significant role models for younger generations. Their profiles represent the vast experiences of Hmong American women in their efforts to make Hmong society a better place for future Hmong generations.

This chapter describes how Bateson’s efforts to connect with peers such as Konrad Lorenz and to make his thought assessable to a lay audience resulted in a breakthrough: the recognition of Mind as the central concept in the life sciences. This breakthrough also represents Bateson taking on his father William Bateson's scientific legacy. The chapter tells of the collapse of William Bateson's health and career in the aftermath of his son Martin's suicide. The chapter explicates the essay Bateson sent to Lorenz in the summer of 1966, "The Role of Somatic Change in Evolution." By proposing a "simulated Lamarckian inheritance," the essay served as a challenge to the modern synthesis as a fully adequate explanation of evolutionary change. Bateson believed the essay to rescue some of his father's disfavored ideas by using systems theory concepts to disturb conventional Darwinism. These events coincided in 1966 with a chance reading of an old Irish myth, "The Conversion of Tuan MacCairill." The story echoed ideas about descent in both On Aggression and The Sword in the Stone, and the coincidence marked an affirmation for Bateson of his thought.

This chapter begins where Chapter 1 ends. I portray myself teaching my first course on women and work, and the course’s contribution to my growing understanding that women’s economic disadvantages can be contested only by understanding their roles in the larger society, that studying women at work requires studying family life as well as the ways in which societal norms are created and transformed. I also discuss my education on the differences between liberal and radical feminism, and Carol Jacklin’s lecture on her work on sex differences in children. Jacklin argues that such sex differences are nota cause of occupational segregation. The scene then shifts to my life as wife and mother, including my struggle to run my daughter Liz’s playgroup for two-year-olds because I want to be a “good mom.” I’m invited to be one of the nine original members of the first Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), and accept the invitation despite my husband’s opposition. Sisterhood plays an interesting and unexpected role in my becoming one of the first two women faculty members at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (the GSB), but the power of the law is also a potent factor: Stanford is fearful that, like Berkeley, it will face a Labor Department investigation if it doesn’t begin hiring women into its many all male departments.

This chapter includes an overview of the role of the hospice and palliative care approach in advance care planning (ACP). Evidence, issues, challenges, and opportunities are discussed. The challenge of overlapping definitions and consensus about the hospice, palliative care, and advance care planning is highlighted as well as the changing role of the hospice and palliative care and implications for ACP is explored. New types of conversations are discussed e.g. living with dying, managing uncertainty, expectations, ceilings of treatment, investigations and dying in hospices. The way forward such as collaboration, co-ordination, and partnerships with other providers as well as a consistency of approach (within settings, roles, or person to person) is suggested.