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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This book aims to determine UNESCO's capability to facilitate
heritage protection measures pre-conflict, emergency response
measures during conflict and reconstruction efforts post-conflict.
The book employs document analysis to ascertain UNESCO's legal
obligations when it comes to facilitating cultural heritage
protection in its Member States' territories in the condition of
armed conflict, while drawing comparisons with the reality of the
organisation's presence and involvement in Yemen, Syria and Iraq.
This study maps shifts in UNESCO's level of communication with each
country's respective government and civil authorities; allocation
of financial, human and material resources; and implementation of
heritage safeguarding and reconstruction initiatives. Both
quantitative and qualitative data shows UNESCO to exhibit great
inequity in engagement, at times, closing communications entirely
with Syria, due to the political standpoints of other UNESCO Member
States. This political gridlock is often shown to result in the
organisation overstating its ability to safeguard or restore
heritage, with promises not being followed up with action. Since
2015, UNESCO has expressed a stronger intent to be a key player in
heritage protection during armed conflict, however as long as
cultural heritage protection is not considered a humanitarian
concern, UNESCO will not be able to circumvent much of the
political and bureaucratic barriers facing intergovernmental
organisations during conflict, which prevent emergency action from
being implemented. In order to ensure heritage safeguarding is
permitted during periods of significant unrest, regardless of
political discord, it is crucial that UNESCO promote a
people-centred approach to its cultural heritage protection
initiatives. This book evidences that focusing on livelihoods and
meaningful and practical connections between populations and their
local heritage to be UNESCO's optimal methodological approach for
justifying cultural heritage protection as a humanitarian
necessity. The book's readership includes academics, researchers,
and practitioners in the fields of political science, law and
heritage studies.
The first major biography of the award winning Scottish
singer/songwriter. John Dingwall has talked to Emeli, her parents,
her sister, schoolteachers and those who have been involved with
her career to bring the first biography of Britain's hottest female
singer/songwriter at the moment.
Over the past 30 years Robert Dingwall has published an influential
series of articles on the professions, especially law and medicine.
This represents a substantial and coherent body of work in an
important sub-discipline of sociology. This volume assembles the
best of these writings in one single accessible place. The ten
essays are republished in their original form, each bearing the
traces of the time and place it was written. In sum, they provide a
fascinating account of an academic journey. They are introduced
with a foreword from the author, who places the work in context and
offers some thoughts about how the work might be used by scholars
in developing the field, to evaluate, for example, the effects of
the New Labour period on professional autonomy. The essays will be
indispensable to sociologists with a general interest in the
professions and to scholars of law, medicine and business.
Originally published in 1978, Health and the Division of Labour
examines problems and tensions experienced in health work. The
papers analyse inter- and intra-occupational rivalry and consider
the impact of new forms of managerial rationality upon the
traditional divisions of tasks and prestige in health work. The
issues raised here affect public policy in both Britain and the
USA: Americans can profit from British work on the position of
women in medicine, on unionisation and on managerialism, Britons
can learn from Americans work on the political context of both
social science and medicine, in looking at renal dialysis policy
and at the problems of fieldwork in Latin America.
First published in 1992, Quality and Regulation in Health Care
employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to examine the
methods used to influence the quality of health care in the US, UK,
and Western Europe. Throughout the Western world, health care
systems, both public and private, are grappling with the problems
of assuring quality while containing costs. On the one hand,
governments and insurers argue that there must be some limit to the
apparently endless growth of health care expenditures. On the
other, patient groups and consumer advocates, already dissatisfied
by the problems in holding doctors accountable for their actions,
protest that such limits must not result in sick people getting
inferior treatment. This book examines in detail the debate
surrounding the question: How can the professional expertise of the
clinicians be reconciled with the preferences of their patients and
the economic concerns of taxpayers or insurers? It will be
essential reading for graduate and undergraduate courses in health
policy, medical sociology, and health law.
Originally published in 1978, Health and the Division of Labour
examines problems and tensions experienced in health work. The
papers analyse inter- and intra-occupational rivalry and consider
the impact of new forms of managerial rationality upon the
traditional divisions of tasks and prestige in health work. The
issues raised here affect public policy in both Britain and the
USA: Americans can profit from British work on the position of
women in medicine, on unionisation and on managerialism, Britons
can learn from Americans work on the political context of both
social science and medicine, in looking at renal dialysis policy
and at the problems of fieldwork in Latin America.
Originally published in 1977, Health Care and Health Knowledge
presents some of the best new work being done in the field of
medical sociology. Developments in the field have been prompted by
both intellectual and social stimuli, and this book addresses the
issue of medicine as an element in the maintenance of social order.
The book studies how in the social context of medicine, health care
is now a substantial element of most countries gross national
product, and states that given this, there are inevitably strong
pressures for state interest and stare intervention to regulate the
allocation of national resources to secure the maximum social and
economic returns. This has drawn the sociologist into studying
medicine both as an institution and as a critical factor in the
development of social policy.
Can the criminal justice system achieve justice based on its
ability to determine the truth? Drawing on a variety of
disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book
investigates the concept of truth - its complexities and nuances -
and scrutinizes how well the criminal justice process facilitates
truth-finding. From allegation to sentencing, the chapters take the
reader on a journey through the criminal justice system, exposing
the marginalization of truth-finding in favour of other
jurisprudential or systemic values, such as expediency, procedural
fairness and the presumption of innocence. This important work
bridges the gap between what people expect from the criminal
justice system and what it can legitimately deliver.
In recent years the study of nursing history in Britain has been
transformed by the application of concepts and methods from the
social sciences to original sources. The myths and legends which
have grown up through a century of anecdotal writing have been
chipped away to reveal the complex story of an occupation shaped
and reshaped by social and technological change. Most of the work
has been scattered in monographs, journals and edited collections.
The skills of a social historian, a sociologist and a graduate
nurse have been brought together to rethink the history of modern
nursing in the light of the latest scholarship. The account starts
by looking at the type of nursing care available in 1800. This was
usually provided by the sick person's family or household servants.
It traces the interdependent growth of general nursing and the
modern hospital and examines the separate origins and eventual
integration of mental nursing, district nursing, health visiting
and midwifery. It concludes with reflections on the prospects for
nursing in the year 2000.
A social science which has become so remote from the society which
pays for its upkeep is ultimately doomed, threatened less by
repression than by intellectual contempt and financial neglect.
This is the message of the authors of this book in this
reassessment of the evolution and present state of British
sociology. Their investigation analyses the discipline as a social
institution, whose product is inexorably shaped by the everyday
circumstances of its producers; it is the concrete outcome of
people's work, rather than a body of abstract ideas. Drawing upon
their varied experience as teachers and researchers, they identify
three major trends in contemporary sociology. First, that the
discipline's rapid expansion has led to a retreat from rigorous
research into Utopian and introspective theorising. Second, that
the concept of sociological research is being taught in a totally
false way because of this, and encourages 'research' within a
wholly academic environment. Third, that the current unpopularity
of sociology with academics, prospective students and politicians
is no coincidence, but a reflection of the conditions under which
sociology is now produced and practised. In Sociology and Social
Research the authors suggest substantial changes in sociological
research, the way in which it is carried out and the conditions
under which it is undertaken. Their book is a timely warning to
fellow sociologists when the profession is under attack as a result
of public expenditure cuts.
The British National Health Service celebrated its thirtieth
birthday in 1978. A Royal Commission was set up to consider the
role of the National Health Service, and it is the debates that
surrounded this Royal Commission that form the basis for the twelve
topics covered by this book. The economic difficulties that the
country was facing when this book was published in 1979 highlighted
the widely publicised malaise in the health service, and exposed
the limitation of a set of ideals developed by the NHS in the years
after the Second World War. These limitations, reflected in the
economic recession of all industrial countries, presented a
challenge and thus an opportunity to re-examine the nature and
purpose of our health service. Although this work offered no easy
solutions, it did present significant implications for public
debate and public appraisal of the prospects of the National Health
Service, and greatly mirrors the debates that have been stirring in
more recent years. This title will be of interest to students of
sociology.
Alcohol is massively associated with crime. Evidence from the
British Medical Association found that alcohol use is associated
with 60-70 per cent of murders, 70 per cent of stabbings, 50 per
cent of fights or assaults in the home. For non-violent offences
the association is very strong as well: 88 per cent of those
arrested for criminal damage, 83 per cent for breach of the peace,
41 per cent for theft and 26 per cent for burglary, had drunk in
the four hours prior to their arrest. At the same time there has
been intense concern about public drunkenness in town and city
centres, especially on the part of young people, and the cost and
damage this causes. This book seeks to understand the nature of the
connection between alcohol and crime, and the way the criminal
justice system responds to the problem, providing a clear and
accessible account and analysis of the subject. It draws upon a
wide range of sources and research findings, and also sets the
subject within a broader comparative context. It takes an
interdisciplinary approach, and includes a sociological account of
the role of alcohol in British society, a criminological analysis
of the link between alcohol and crime and a philosophical
consideration of individual responsibility for harm caused whilst
intoxicated, and a legal analysis of different approaches that can
be adopted as a response to alcohol-related offending.
A social science which has become so remote from the society which
pays for its upkeep is ultimately doomed, threatened less by
repression than by intellectual contempt and financial neglect.
This is the message of the authors of this book in this
reassessment of the evolution and present state of British
sociology. Their investigation analyses the discipline as a social
institution, whose product is inexorably shaped by the everyday
circumstances of its producers; it is the concrete outcome of
people's work, rather than a body of abstract ideas. Drawing upon
their varied experience as teachers and researchers, they identify
three major trends in contemporary sociology. First, that the
discipline's rapid expansion has led to a retreat from rigorous
research into Utopian and introspective theorising. Second, that
the concept of sociological research is being taught in a totally
false way because of this, and encourages 'research' within a
wholly academic environment. Third, that the current unpopularity
of sociology with academics, prospective students and politicians
is no coincidence, but a reflection of the conditions under which
sociology is now produced and practised. In Sociology and Social
Research the authors suggest substantial changes in sociological
research, the way in which it is carried out and the conditions
under which it is undertaken. Their book is a timely warning to
fellow sociologists when the profession is under attack as a result
of public expenditure cuts.
If prison regimes had continued as normal during the COVID-19
lockdown, social distancing would have been impossible. Therefore,
sweeping restrictions were imposed confining prisoners to their
cells, cancelling communal activity and prohibiting visits from
family and friends. This insightful book identifies the risks posed
by prison lockdowns to minority ethnic prisoners, foreign national
prisoners and prisoners from Traveller and Roma communities across
the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It documents the
unequal impacts on their mental and physical health, feelings of
isolation and fear, access to services and contact with visitors.
The legacy of the lockdown will be profound. This book exposes the
long-term significance and impact on minority ethnic prisoners.
Over the past 30 years Robert Dingwall has published an influential
series of articles on the professions, especially law and medicine.
This represents a substantial and coherent body of work in an
important sub-discipline of sociology. This volume assembles the
best of these writings in one single accessible place. The ten
essays are republished in their original form, each bearing the
traces of the time and place it was written. In sum, they provide a
fascinating account of an academic journey. They are introduced
with a foreword from the author, who places the work in context and
offers some thoughts about how the work might be used by scholars
in developing the field, to evaluate, for example, the effects of
the New Labour period on professional autonomy. The essays will be
indispensable to sociologists with a general interest in the
professions and to scholars of law, medicine and business.
First published in 1998, this edited volume reflected on the role
of universities and aimed to improve the preparation of social
welfare professionals by the University of Warsaw for employment in
the new market-oriented society that was being created in Poland
after the end of 'real socialism' in 1989. Many of its articles
were previously published in Polish and were published, revised and
updated, in English for the first time in this collection. The
contributors discuss two key issues. First, should universities
worry about the employment of their graduates and the skills that
are needed by the wider economy and society or just focus on
transmitting advanced learning? Second, they considered the
modernisation of the welfare state. The Polish experience, and the
Western partners' reaction to it, has proved an excellent case
study for these issues.
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