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Geoffrey R Walker
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Reviews current methodology for assessing the health status of
patients - their "quality of life" - and shows how this methodology
can be applied to specific diseases such as cancer, rheumatoid
arthritis, angina and Parkinson's disease. The text includes
chapters on the Nottingham health profile, assessing quality of
life in major disease areas, the importance of quality of life in
policy decisions and development, testing and use of the sickness
impact profile.
The Daily Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship
introduces students to the tensions between labor and management
within the U.S. employment relationship and explores how workers,
operating in a socially and culturally structured system of
capitalism, are influenced and manipulated by economic institutions
and polity which exploit, devalue, and dehumanize workers in the
name of corporate profit. The text covers how the American work
ethic of the early nineteenth century helped shape the current
perspective on the labor-management relationship, and how, over
time, the Protestant and patriarchal influences of that period have
countered the collective actions of workers in profound ways. The
text further explores the effect of societal, cultural, and
economic structures, both global and local, which limit workers'
ability to achieve the "American Dream" and result in depressed
economic conditions and discouraged workers. The text's focus on
the current economic inequality and lack of social mobility
challenges the current neoliberal ideology that capitalism is the
best economic system. The overarching framework for The Daily
Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship is situated
in Labor Process Theory (LPT) which explores the control and
resistance dichotomy between labor and management, the systematic
deskilling of the workforce in order to increase production and
increase owners' profits, and examines conflict over control of the
labor process. An extension of Marxist theory about the
organization of work, LPT explores the employment relationship, the
control of work, the payment of work, the skills necessary for
work, and the facilitation of work.
This book offers a new and insightful analysis of the effectiveness of the public sector reforms that have been put in place in the UK over the last twenty years. It represents a different type of approach, in that it looks at the effects of reform by examining the actual social organization of the groups the various policy measures have impacted. It moves away from the emphasis of general writing on the New Public Managerialism which, in terms of overall assessment, either assumes that the reforms will work, or that they are entirely inappropriate and will produce changes that are uniformly poor. This book seeks a more careful appraisal in which important effects are distinguished and examined.
There is currently limited acceptance of foreign clinical data by
regulatory authorities, although the reasons for repeating studies
are poorly defined. There are some proven genetic differences in
drug metabolism and elimination which occur with varying
frequencies in different populations. In addition, there are
differences in culture, environment and medical practice which can
impact on drug reponsiveness. This book, a further edition in the
CMR Workshop Series, reviews the proceedings of a workshop held in
London in July 1993 to address these issues. The contributors
review the current situation, address the scientific basis for
repeating clinical trials in different ethnic groups, consider
specific examples, and assess the relevance of inter-ethnic and
environmental differences in responsiveness for drug development.
While the 21st century insulin crisis provokes protest and
political dialogue, public conception of diabetes remain firmly
unchanged. Popular media representations portray diabetes as a
condition couched in lifestyle choices. In the groundbreaking
volume (Un)doing Diabetes, authors destabilize depictions so
powerful, so subtle, and so unquestioned, that readers may find
assertions counterintuitive. (Un)doing Diabetes is the first
collection of essays to use disability studies to explore
representations of diabetes across a wide range of mediums- from
Twitter to TV and film, to theater, fiction, fanfiction, fashion
and more. This disability studies approach to diabetes locates
individual experiences of diabetes within historical and
contemporary social conditions. In undoing diabetes, authors
deconstruct assumptions the public commonly holds about diabetes,
while writers doing diabetes present counter-narratives community
members create to represent themselves. This collection will be of
interest to scholars, activists, caregivers, and those living with
diabetes.
Strategic management makes a difference to the performance of
public organizations. This book demonstrates that the most
appropriate response is "it all depends": on which aspects of
strategy content and processes are pursued together, and how these
are combined with organizational structure and the technical and
institutional environment.
At a time when it is becoming usual for medicines to be developed
for a global market and pharmaceutical companies are endeavouring
to expedite the drug development process, Regulatory authorities
are concentrating on improving their efficiency and effectiveness.
Therefore, it is not surprising that questions are being asked as
to how performance might be measured and compared between different
authorities who are now often in receipt of dossiers that have been
submitted to several agencies at the same time. Issues such as
"what target should be set for the review of new medicines?" and
"how can quality be assured?" are now considered to be of critical
importance. The 12th CMR International Workshop, held in January
1997, provided the opportunity for regulatory authority and
industry personnel from Europe, North America, Australia and Japan
to openly discuss experiences and exchange views on how to improve
the review process. The proceedings of this meeting provide a
comprehensive overview of the current review process in different
countries and the need for performance measures and targets. This
volume summarizes the many suggestions that were debated at the
workshop, and includes chapters on measuring performance, and on
the integration of quality into the review process.
From the UN Security Council and the European Union's Council of
Ministers to obscure committees on food labelling or the scheduling
of World Fairs, several thousand multilateral conferences are held
each year. Why do governments deploy so much effort in these
activities? What goes on behind the scenes at these meetings? How
are their outcomes determined and what are the real-world
consequences? Ronald A. Walker reveals the inner workings of such
conferences, the result-oriented strategies that are pursued behind
a facade of formal ritual and their impact on the behavior of
sovereign states.
This book showcases the inequalities experienced between the Global
North and the Global South by exploring the production and
distribution model of goods and services worldwide through an
analysis of why the structure, framework, and interconnectedness of
global supply chains increases the persistence of worker rights'
violations. The narrative explains the power relationships between
multinational corporations, their subcontractors, governments,
non-governmental organizations, labor unions, and workers. The text
focuses primarily on competition between workers in the Global
South and the Global North who are compelled to work in global
supply chains for their survival and takes a macro-look at how
global supply chains operate, how they are governed, who invests
and why, and who wins and who loses. From the workers' perspective,
the text highlights the millions of low-wage workers who suffer
exploitation and abuse at the hands of greedy multi-national
corporations who are able to distance themselves from any liability
for workers' welfare through an institutional system created by
national/state governments, trade agreements, and tax and
investment strategies which protect property rights over workers'
rights. The fragile plight of workers crescendos through examples
of exploitation and abuse in the fishing, mining, apparel,
electronic and manufacturing industries, focusing events of
workplace disasters, and slave-like working conditions, then
climaxes by providing strategies to help strengthen workers through
legislative and policy initiatives, collective action, and social
and public pressure.
This collection analyzes women’s narratives on the workplace.
These narratives speak to the daily struggles women face in the
workforce, such as inflexible and long work hours, masculine
workplace cultures, employers’ stereotypical attitudes, and the
absence of work-life balance initiatives. Viewed from a
sociological perspective, the authors emphasize the reoccurring
themes of devaluation, exploitation, and dehumanization of female
workers resulting from unconscious or implicit bias and which
directly impacts women’s quality of life.
This innovative book integrates practical information from
restoration projects around the world with the latest developments
in successional theory. It recognizes the critical roles of
disturbance ecology, landscape ecology, ecological assembly,
invasion biology, ecosystem health, and historical ecology in
habitat restoration. It argues that restoration within a
successional context will best utilize the lessons from each of
these disciplines.
In 1962 Dean Acheson famously described Britain as having lost an
Empire but not yet found a role. Perhaps nowhere is this more
apparent than in the realms of nuclear weapons. An increasingly
marginal world power, successive post-war British governments felt
that an independent nuclear deterrent was essential if the country
was to remain at the top table of world diplomacy. Focusing on a
key twenty-year period, this study explores Britain's role in
efforts to bring about a nuclear test ban treaty between 1954 and
1973. Taking a broadly chronological approach, it examines the
nature of defence planning, the scientific goals that nuclear tests
were designed to secure, Anglo-American relationships, the efficacy
of British diplomacy and its contribution to arms control and
disarmament. A key theme of the study is to show how the UK managed
to balance the conflicting pressures created by its determination
to remain a credible nuclear power whilst wanting to pursue
disarmament objectives, and how these pressures shifted over the
period in question. Based on a wealth of primary sources this book
opens up the largely ignored subject of the impact of arms control
on the UK nuclear weapons programme. Its appraisal of the
relationship between the requirements and developments of the UK
nuclear weapons programme against international and domestic
pressures for a test ban treaty will be of interest to anyone
studying post-war British defence and foreign policy, history of
science, arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation and
international relations. It also provides important background
information on current events involving nuclear proliferation and
disarmament.
Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As
the world's main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide
range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase
significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces
input use, does not damage the environment and is resilient to
climate change. This collection reviews the wealth of research
addressing this challenge. Volume 2 reviews advances in
understanding and managing the range of diseases and pests that
continue to cause significant crop losses. Part 1 discusses fungal,
viral and bacterial diseases as well as developments in
disease-resistant varieties, integrated pest and weed management.
Part 2 summaries research on developing the food and non-food uses
of soybean, from improving nutritional properties to uses in animal
feed. With its distinguished editor and international team of
authors, this will be a standard reference for soybean scientists,
growers, government and non-government agencies supporting soybean
cultivation. It is accompanied by a companion volume that reviews
advances in breeding and cultivation techniques.
The Daily Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship
introduces students to the tensions between labor and management
within the U.S. employment relationship and explores how workers,
operating in a socially and culturally structured system of
capitalism, are influenced and manipulated by economic institutions
and polity which exploit, devalue, and dehumanize workers in the
name of corporate profit. The text covers how the American work
ethic of the early nineteenth century helped shape the current
perspective on the labor-management relationship, and how, over
time, the Protestant and patriarchal influences of that period have
countered the collective actions of workers in profound ways. The
text further explores the effect of societal, cultural, and
economic structures, both global and local, which limit workers'
ability to achieve the "American Dream" and result in depressed
economic conditions and discouraged workers. The text's focus on
the current economic inequality and lack of social mobility
challenges the current neoliberal ideology that capitalism is the
best economic system. The overarching framework for The Daily
Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship is situated
in Labor Process Theory (LPT) which explores the control and
resistance dichotomy between labor and management, the systematic
deskilling of the workforce in order to increase production and
increase owners' profits, and examines conflict over control of the
labor process. An extension of Marxist theory about the
organization of work, LPT explores the employment relationship, the
control of work, the payment of work, the skills necessary for
work, and the facilitation of work.
Islands represent unique opportunities to examine human interaction
with the natural environment. They capture the human imagination as
remote, vulnerable and exotic, yet there is comparatively little
understanding of their basic geology, geography, or the impact of
island colonization by plants, animals and humans. This detailed
study of island environments focuses on nine island groups,
including Hawaii, New Zealand and the British Isles, exploring
their differing geology, geography, climate and soils, as well as
the varying effects of human actions. It illustrates the natural
and anthropogenic disturbances common to island groups, all of
which face an uncertain future clouded by extinctions of endemic
flora and fauna, growing populations of invasive species, and
burgeoning resident and tourist populations. Examining the natural
and human history of each island group from early settlement
onwards, the book provides a critique of the concept of sustainable
growth and offers realistic guidelines for future island
management.
Remote control tuning encourages a form of interactive television
using a technology already available in 80 percent of American
households. Editors Walker and Bellamy have compiled the first book
of state-of-the-art research on a topic of growing interest to
media researchers, practitioners, and students. Chapter authors
combine survey measurements with recorded observations of viewing
behavior, an analysis of the program sources accessed during
"grazing," experimental studies of remote control use, and
historical and critical analyses. Specific topics include: the
history of the remote control device, gender differences in its
use, family communication and parental control of the device,
remote controls and selective exposure to media messages, the
impact of remote controls on programming and promotion, remote
controls and critical perspective on television, and future
technologies. This volume is rooted in social scientific research,
but theoretically and methodologically broad in scope.
This volume provides the first comprehensive summary of how plant, animal, and microbial communities develop under the harsh conditions following dramatic natural disturbances. The authors examine the basic principles that determine ecosystem development and apply the general rules to the urgent practical need for promoting the reclamation of damaged lands. Written for ecologists concerned with disturbance, landscape dynamics, restoration, life histories, invasions, modeling, soil formation and community or population dynamics, this book also serves as an authoritative text for graduate students and as a valuable reference for professionals involved in land management.
Despite their often dangerous and unpredictable nature, landslides
provide fascinating templates for studying how soil organisms,
plants and animals respond to such destruction. The emerging field
of landslide ecology helps us understand these responses, aiding
slope stabilisation and restoration and contributing to the
progress made in geological approaches to landslide prediction and
mitigation. Summarising the growing body of literature on the
ecological consequences of landslides, this book provides a
framework for the promotion of ecological tools in predicting,
stabilising, and restoring biodiversity to landslide scars at both
local and landscape scales. It explores nutrient cycling; soil
development; and how soil organisms disperse, colonise and interact
in what is often an inhospitable environment. Recognising the role
that these processes play in providing solutions to the problem of
unstable slopes, the authors present ecological approaches as
useful, economical and resilient supplements to landslide
management.
Never has our culture been more aware of personal and global health
hazards, from both within and without. While most people may feel
some anxiety in this regard, some have an unbearable sense of dread
that prevents them from functioning. Chronic health anxiety -
heightened fears of illness, disease, and death - is a central
feature of hypochondriasis, of course, but can also present as
depression, generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, and other diagnoses.
Treating Health Anxiety offers the professional reader not only an
understanding of this condition, but also an easily implemented
cognitive/behavioral program for reducing fear of illness,
overcoming the fear of death, and getting more enjoyment from life,
including: step-by-step coverage of the assessment process and
therapy sessions; patient worksheets and self-monitoring forms;
specific guidelines for treating health anxiety in children and the
elderly; strategies for handling impasses and setbacks; and an
up-to-date guide to pharmacotherapy for health anxiety. As media
attention to health issues increases, client fears of illness won't
go away any time soon. (as well as the counselors and social
workers who encounter the problem) the tools to reduce both the
fears and the medical costs that so often accompany them.
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