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Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care

...to see what you would do and find out what others would do, as well as further information about care planning and decision-making. If you are interested in learning about death and dying, check out our free course on death, dying and grief or our module on death, dying and bereavement. You can learn more about my research and teaching on my Open University profile....
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How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...Open University's Education and Early Years courses and qualifications. Human nature [A group of children sitting on the floor looking up]Humans are not the strongest, fastest, or fiercest of creatures. And yet, put a group of us together and we have been able to inhabit every continent; develop science, law, art and medicine. The rise to our current position of influence...
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A sport transformed: Safety in motor-racing since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

A sport transformed: Safety in motor-racing since 1969

...to Stirling Moss in the early 1960s that he wear a crash helmet, instead of a cloth cap, his response that it would be a bit of a ‘cissy’ thing to do perhaps conveys the extent to which the sport has changed during the lifetime of the Open University. Read the other articles in this collection Now take a free related course The future of driving Study with the OU...
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Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Education & Development

Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others

...course and believe it is vital that parents think about their own culture, so they have the knowledge to empower their own children to feel confident and comfortable in their own bodies and lives. The system should be fair, but it isn’t, so we must stand up for ourselves and each other. I’ve shared our experiences at protests, Black History Month celebrations, Theatre...
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Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role

...Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications Psychological contract When we go to work, we have a set of expectations about how and what our employment relationship will be with our employer and colleagues, added to our employment contract. This is what psychologists call a psychological contract (Rousseau and Tijoriwala, 1998). These unwritten expectations...
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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...course on the Renaissance with The Open University. The full story Further reading Piety and Charity in late Medieval Florence J. Henderson (University of Chicago Press, 1997) The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: a Medical History from antiquity to the present R. Porter (Harper Collins, 1997) The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture J. Sawday...
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Getting to the heart of it: investigating side effects of anti-cancer treatments
Science, Maths & Technology

Getting to the heart of it: investigating side effects of anti-cancer treatments

...Open University's Biology courses and qualifications. Developments in anti-cancer treatments have significantly improved patient survival; however, there is evidence that a growing number of cancer patients present with impaired heart function as a consequence of their treatment. This phenomenon is known as cardiotoxicity. All anti-cancer treatments affect the heart to...
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‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?
History & The Arts

‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?

...Open University’s music courses_.  _ A small number of hymns are so familiar to many Welsh people that it might be tempting to say, for example, that ‘everyone knows ‘Bread of Heaven’’. However, examination of the textual and musical histories of many of the best-known Welsh hymns often reveals complicated stories that can be difficult to untangle. This...
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