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"This book focuses on presenting the numerous ways in which social innovation has emerged as a relatively new field within the academic literature and illuminates, and consolidates multiple views of social innovation theory, research and practice by linking theory to practice "--

Social Entrepreneur is a book about how two ordinary people turn a huge social problem into a solution, not only for themselves but for thousands of others. From Nightclub Owner (Josh) and Law Enforcement Officer (Lisa) to Social Entrepreneurs of Journey Healing Centers (accredited private drug and alcohol treatment centers). They turned their lives around and are building businesses that bring families back together again (by using the Rich Dad principles).Businesses are evolving to a higher purpose, the why we do what we do. Like the movements across the world and in our own

Introduction : The impact of innovations in biotechnology on social cohesion / Michael D. Mehta -- The impact of agricultural biotechnology on social cohesion / Michael D. Mehta -- Agricultural biotechnology and developing countries : issues of poverty alleviation, food security, and sustainable development / Jacqueline E.W. Broerse and Joske F.G. Bunders -- Legitimation crisis : food safety and genetically modified organisms / Christopher K. Vanderpool, Toby A. Ten Eyck, and Craig K. Harris -- Genetically modified foods in Norway : a consumer perspective / Margareta Wandel -- Commercializing Iceland : biotechnology, culture, and the information society / Kyle Eischen -- Biotechnology and social control : the Canadian DNA data bank / Neil Gerlach -- Biotechnology as modern museums of civilization / Annette Burfoot and Jennifer Poudrier -- The production, diffusion, and use of knowledge in biotechnology : the discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes / Robert Dalpé, Louise Bouchard, and Daniel Ducharme

This volume explores the interrelations between bodily boundaries and vulnerabilities. It calls attention to the vulnerability of bodies as an essential aspect of having boundaries and being bound to other bodies. The volume advances an understanding of embodiment as the central aspect of subjectivity, its identity formation and its relations to others and the world. The essence of embodiment is what connects us with others and in equal measure what distinguishes us from others. The collection also addresses the centrality of the body to political and cultural activity, targeting the role and constitution of norms in the regulation of bodies, and the construction of spaces that bodies inhabit, in constructing national and cultural identities. It raises questions of how bodies and boundaries materialize in co-constitutive relation to one another; how bodies are situated and come to embody various bodies and intersections between different categories of identity and systems of value, meaning and knowledge; how the regulation and policing of bodies and the boundaries between them come to constitute bodies as being weak, strong, vulnerable or resilient and as having more or less fixed or fluid boundaries. The chapters in the volume all demonstrate how individual human bodies are formed in relation to each other as they are regulated and distinguished from one another by larger collective bodies of nature, culture, science, nation and state, as well as by other human or non-human animal bodies.

HIV and AIDS have posed new challenges to societies, communities and individuals. In many parts of the world, existing health and social services have been hard pressed to cope with the dermands of the epidemic. In hospitals and in the community, new approaches to health education, support and care have been developed. Non-governmental and community organizations have had a central role to play in responding to the challenge of HIV and AIDS. AIDS: Foundations for the Future highlights progress made over the last decade, and offers an agenda for future activism and research. This book examines

Since 1981, AIDS has had an enormous impact upon the popular imagination. Few other diseases this century have been greeted with quite the same fear, loathing, and prejudice against those who develop it. The mass media, and in particular, the news media, have played a vital part in ""making sense"" of AIDS. This volume takes an interdisciplinary perspective, combining cultural studies, history of medicine, and contemporary social theory to examine AIDS reporting. There have been three major themes dominating coverage: the ""gay-plague"" dominant in the early 1980s, panic-stricken visions of th

The paper deals with criminological analysis of war as a negative social phenomenon, from the earliest communities up to the New Age, by using historical and comparative methods. Being an armed conflict between people and groups, war is an act of force and coercion aimed at imposing one's will on the enemy. The paper aims to describe the evolution of warfares through three major historical epochs: the Old Age, the Middle Ages, and the New Age. The author analyzes each major historical period in terms of the prevailing causes, motives, justifications and consequences of war in the specific period. The author points out that the use of force in warfare progressively expanded in every subsequent historical epoch, particularly as a result of the development of destructive tools and technologies. Although international customary law imposes limitations on the use of force in warfare, it does not necessarily reduce the scope and the impact of its application.