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    Pain Education Empowerment Program for people living with chronic pain
    (2022) Parker, Romy; Keet, Janet
    This workbook has been designed to be used as part of a clinician-led six-week chronic pain management program for people living with chronic pain. The program integrates the principles of behaviour change with pain science education, exercise and stress management strategies.
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    Open education week seminar
    (2019) Nyahodza, Lena
    The video is part of the open education week seminar.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 6 - Death and the corpse
    (2015-01-21) Levine, Susan
    In this video, Associate Professor Susan Levine introduces the topic of death and the corpse. She outlines how a multi-disciplinary approach will be used to address questions related to the topic and introduces the guest educators who will feature in subsequent videos: Professor Lorna Martin, a forensic pathologist. Professor Deborah Posel, a prominent sociologist. And Kathryn Smith, a fine and forensic artist from Stellenbosch University. This is the first video in Week 6 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 6 - The sociology of death
    (2015-01-21) Posel, Deborah
    In this video, sociologist Deborah Posel, discusses the philosophical implications of death, arguing that death is integral to what we understand by "life". She also discusses the symbolic investment in death in human societies and what the treatment of death can tell is about how societies function. She also focuses on how the corpse is used as a powerful, paradoxical, and sometimes taboo representation of both life and death. This is the second video in Week 6 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 6 - Forensic aesthetics
    (2015-01-21) Smith, Kathryn
    In this video, Kathryn Smith, a forensic artist, presents a philosophical exploration of photography, truth, evidence and indexicality as each one intersects with the corpse. In terms of photographing the dead as a forensic artist, Kathryn describes how she sees capturing the face in death as a way of giving respect and identity to a corpse. This is the third video in Week 6 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.