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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2006
This report compares, analyses, and summarises findings from twelve case studies commissioned by the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in higher education institutions in Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Lebanon, Lesotho, Suriname,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Outreach Programs, Nonformal Education
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Appelt, Glenn D. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1984
Courses in intercultural drug use, tailored to individual cultures, are recommended to enhance pharmacy students' understanding of the influential role of cultural aspects of health care in patients' health care decisions. A course is described that highlights the cultural aspects of disease prevention and treatment of different populations. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Disease Control
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Cheetham, Mark A. – Paedagogica Historica, 1997
Analyzes the medical discourses of infection, purity, and impurity and how these relate to the manipulation of images and ideas inherent in modern art. Argues that various concepts of purity (both in form and as a metaphorical subject) continue to exert powerful influences on artists in the 20th century. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Artists, Creative Expression
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Campbell, Carole A. – College Teaching, 1992
A sociology course on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and its societal context, taught at California State University, Long Beach, is described. The background, content, organization, administrative and emotional demands, teaching methods (including input from patients with AIDS), texts, and impact of the interdisciplinary course are…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Communicable Diseases