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The social sciences are still predominantly modernist disciplines
and, as such, products of the Enlightenment. Recent challenges to
Enlightenment thinking thus carry with them the potential or threat
to transform the social sciences radically. Postmodernism and the
Social Sciences examines the nature and potential of this
postmodernist challenge in each of the major social sciences.
Starting with the practices of particular disciplines and
proceeding to matters of shared concern, the essays provide an
accessible discussion of the contemporary impact of postmodernism
on social scientific thought.
The significant feature of homelessness in Europe over the past 25
years has been its persistence. Traditional policies have
increasingly been found wanting in the light of the changed
economic and demographic circumstances of the last quarter of the
20th century. A reappraisal of the nature of European homelessness
by academics and practitioners demonstrates the need for the
development of innovatory policies and practice that take account
of these changed circumstances and explicitly address the current
needs of Europe's homeless people. This highly topical report
provides a synthesis of reported developments in innovative service
provision for homeless people in the member countries of the
European Union. Setting their arguments within a context of
changing welfare provision and welfare/housing regimes, the authors
reappraise the nature of homelessness and its causes, chart the
main dimensions of the composition of homeless populations and of
policy instruments and examine in detail the nature and diversity
of emerging innovative practices in the provision of services to
the homeless of Europe. Select examples of innovative services for
homeless people are provided in the comprehensive Appendix to the
report. The report draws on the 1998 national reports of the 15
correspondents of the European Observatory on Homelessness who
conduct research on behalf of FEANTSA (the European Federation of
National Organisations working with the Homeless). It provides a
genuinely comprehensive coverage of EU member states and should
stimulate debate regarding housing policy issues across Europe and
encourage transnational cooperation between non-governmental
organisations as well as act as a stimulus for further research. In
bringing together a wealth of material on policy and practice
throughout Europe the report adds considerably to our knowledge of
the dynamics of European homelessness and housing policy. Services
for homeless people is therefore important reading for academics
across Europe, practitioners in non-governmental organisations
dealing with the homeless, housing agencies and government
departments, and students of comparative housing studies. The
research of the European Observatory on Homelessness is supported
financially by DG V of the European Commission.
The purpose of this book is not to discuss in depth various topics
in medicine nor to describe in detail all possible controversial
subjects in car diology. The primary intention is to describe
common cardiac problems with significant controversial viewpoints
frequently encountered in our daily practice. This book presents 19
chapters, including the Coronary Arteries in Fatal Coronary Events,
Prophylactic Antiarrhythmic Therapy in Acute Myocar dial
Infarction, Mobile Coronary Care-Is It Really Needed?, The Use of
Artificial Pacemakers in Acute Myocardial Infarction, Treatment of
Car diogenic Shock, Serum Digitalis Level-Practical Value, Factors
Modifying the Efficacy of Digitalis, Hyperlipidemia and Vascular
Disease, Antianginal Agents for Coronary Heart Disease,
Anticoagulation Therapy for Coronary Heart Disease, When to Operate
on Congenital Heart Diseases, Indications for Coronary Artery
Surgery and Patient Selection, Car diomyopathy: Diagnostic Criteria
and Classification, Therapeutic Approach to Idiopathic Hypertrophic
Sub aortic Stenosis, Current Concepts of Hemiblocks, Physical
Activity and Coronary Heart Disease, His Bundle
Electrocardiography-Its Clinical Value, Computerized Electrocar
diography-Its Practical Value, and Echocardiography-Its Practical
Value. As the title of the book indicates, the "pro and con"
viewpoints are described in each chapter, and the authors final
conclusions are expressed at the end of each. It is hoped that the
book will be provocative as well as educational and practical. The
contents are intended to be clinical, concise, and practical, so
that this book will provide all physicians with up-to-date
materials that will assist them directly in the daily care of their
patients with common cardiac problems."
The social sciences are still predominantly developments of the
Enlightenment, extensions of the conceptions and methods of
Newtonian science. Recently a number of social theorists have
brought the presuppositions of Enlightenment thinking under
critical scrutiny and have called into question the basis of much
social scientific thinking. Despite the seriousness of this
postmodernist challenge, its nature and dimensions remain unclear
especially to those in the modernist mainstream. The essays in this
book are designed to call attention to the challenge and in a
manner accessible to those not so familiar with the more
theoretical writings of postmodernism. The essays range over the
social sciences and ask what the implications of postmodernism
thinking are for the modernist disciplines of social anthropology,
sociology, geography, social psychology, international relations
and economics. An introductory essay provides a survey of the
beginnings of postmodernism in literary theory and in the study of
art and architecture and raises questions about the translation of
the vocabulary of postmodernism into the social sciences.
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