Social and ethical issues

For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies.

How does a patient with sensory disability - such as a hearing or vision impairment, or both - get effective communication from a health care provider?

We are on the verge of a crisis in mental health.

Philosophical controversy over non-human animals extends further back than many realize -- before Utilitarianism and Darwinism to the very genesis of philosophy.

In the first half of the twentieth century, white elites who dominated Virginia politics sought to increase state control over African Americans and lower-class whites, whom they saw as oversexed and lacking sexual self-restraint.

This edited collection explores the notion of Italianness - or Italianita - through migration history.

Social Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech.

The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters.

Reveals the deep roots of the UK''s lack of resilience when COVID-19 hit and sets out an ambitious manifesto for change.

This book studies the confrontation between popular movements and repressive regimes in Central America.

Telekommunikations- und Energienetze sind die Lebensadern moderner Gesellschaften und zukunftsgerichteter Volkswirtschaften.

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance.

'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.

There can be a lack of understanding of the vulnerable situation of children with disabilities and their families, even among professional caregivers whose mission is to protect the health and wellbeing of these children.

This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender, and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art.

At a time when mass shootings in schools and other public spaces have become commonplace, it might seem surprising that American college campuses are not magnets for murderers but sanctuaries from them.

In 1994, when South Africans were finally seeing the light of freedom and independence, three well-respected businesswomen - Talullah Ntuli, Edna Whithead and Nkosazana Dlamini - formed the Black Widow Society, a secret organisation aimed at liberating women trapped in emotionally and physically abusive relationships by assisting in 'eliminating' their errant husbands.

Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries.

Delineating an approach to activism at the intersection of queer rights, immigration rights, and social justice, Queer Migration Politics examines a series of "e;coalitional moments"e; in which contemporary activists discover and respond to the predominant rhetoric, imagery, and ideologies that signal a sense of national identity.

This book represents the vanguard of new work in the rapidly growing arena of Trans Studies.

Interprofessional collaboration in the health and social care services has become a commanding force, spear-headed by the Government's modernisation programme to improve partnership.

Forced migration shaped the creation of Canada as a settler state and is a defining feature of our contemporary national and global contexts.

Das "Training Antidiskriminierung" macht fit für das Leben und Arbeiten im pluralen Deutschland.

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates.

In 2007, Canada became the third largest producer of diamonds in the world.

Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle.

First published in 1981, this book was written to help parents and teachers to participate in child-based mobility programmes, covering the needs of visually-handicapped children from pre-school to adulthood.

In modern global economies, how can we govern science, technology, risk and the environment more effectively?

There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it.

This book presents new conceptual and methodological approaches to studying religiosity in Europe.

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The ultimate Holocaust testimony.

Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela's 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africa's apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.

This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the factors that explain both completed and incomplete treaty negotiations between Aboriginal groups and the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada.

This book addresses the tensions of existing theories and practices of inclusive education from an international perspective.

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This book draws on the literatures of transnationalism and diaspora studies to explore the ways in which the policies of emigrant-sending countries have an influence on how emigrants politically engage on issues related to their homelands.

Honorable Mention for the Association for Feminist Anthropologys Rosaldo Book Prize, 2021 Maternal health outcomes are a key focus of global health initiatives.

As many as one in five couples in some population groups might be involuntarily childless and, despite the attention attracted by technological advances and media coverage, people often feel themselves to be totally isolated, stigmatised, and misunderstood by many professionals and ordinary people.

Autobiographies of Transformation is a completely unique history of sociology in Central and Eastern Europe in the post-Communist era.

This book offers reflections on a daunting and controversial ethical question: How should we treat the strangers who enter this country illegally?

Exploring why South Africans rarely use activism to address food insecurity, this study proposes ways to reclaim the power of collective action.

The starting point of this book is the observation that there is a discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned, and governed 'reality' of the state apparatus at both the local and national level.

Recent national achievement data reveal significant outcome disparities between African American boys and other student groups by grade 4.

This book considers the full sweep of Haitian community invention and recreation in a multitude of national territories, with an eye toward the "e;place"e; factors that shape the everyday lives of Haitian migrants.

A comprehensive review of the techniques and applications of descriptive analysis Sensory evaluation is a scientific discipline used to evoke, measure, analyse and interpret responses to products perceived through the senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing.

Information, communication and automation technology (ICAT) ethics is the branch of applied ethics and technoethics which investigates the social and ethical issues of the integrated multidisciplinary ICAT field in the broad sense that includes all kinds of automated systems through the use of ICT and computer-based systems (autonomous control systems, communication systems, software agents, robotic systems, etc.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.

The descriptions and examples of unethical behaviors in sport in this book will challenge readers to rethink how they view sport and question whether participating in sport builds character-especially at the youth and amateur levels.