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Intro -- Abortion: medical progress and social implications -- Contents -- Introduction -- Legal abortion in England and Wales -- Discussion -- Abortion services in Slovenia -- Provision of abortion services in the United States -- General discussion 1 Abortion law and abortion services in Japan and other countries -- Mortality due to abortion at Kenyatta National Hospital, 1974-1983 -- Discussion -- Abortion in Thailand and Sweden: health services and short-term consequences -- Discussion -- Sequelae of induced abortion -- Discussion -- The comparative safety of second-trimester abortion methods -- Discussion -- Some aspects of late abortion for congenital abnormality -- Discussion -- General discussion 2 Ethical aspects of abortion -- Live-born infants of 24 to 28 weeks' gestation: survival and sequelae at two years of age -- Discussion -- Follow-up study of children born to women denied abortion -- Discussion -- Post-abortion and post-partum psychiatric hospitalization -- Discussion -- The effects of abortion on a marriage -- Discussion -- Menstrual induction: surgery versus pro- staglandins -- Discussion -- Contragestion by antiprogestin: a new approach to human fertility control -- Discussion -- Legal abortion: limits and contributions to human life -- Discussion -- Viability and the moral status of the fetus -- Discussion -- Politics and abortion -- Discussion -- Final general discussion Providing effective abortion services -- Effects on society of changes in abortion laws -- Contragestion -- Medical progress and the social implications of abortion: summing-up -- Biographies of contributors -- Index of contributors -- Subject index.

The Swedish public sector has undergone major changes over the last decades, with increased demands to be effective and perform their tasks with high quality, but also with the demand to increase the influence of users and citizens over the support given. This development has influenced how social services organise and how their work is perform, and is one motive given as to why evidence-based practice was introduced. This development can also be traced back to the manager philosophy new public management and neo-liberalism. Evidence-based practice has its origin in evidence-based medicine, which had a large impact internationally from the 1990s.Although there are different opinions concerning how evidence-based practiceshould be understood is often described on the basis of Sackett et al.'s (2000) definition which regards evidence-based practice as an integration of different knowledge sources – the best evidence, clinical or professional expertise and the values and preferences of users. The professional have the responsibility to use all these knowledge sources in the daily work.The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse different processes of the introduction of evidence-based practice. One aspect is what these processes have contributed to in terms of organising ways of working and management within social services; another aspect concerns what this means for social work. With a combination of new institutional organisational theory and Berger and Luckmann's (1967) insights into the social construction of everyday life, it is possible to analyse the introduction of evidence-based practice as a process, moving between a macro, meso and micro perspective. The empirical base for this thesis is interviews with 33 personnel from different professions and organisations. Those interviewed from thesocial services include social workers within individual and family services and socialservices managers, as well as regional representatives from a Research and Development Unit. To understand the development of evidence-based practice and its proliferation into social services I also interviewed doctors from health care in a County Council.New institutional organisational theory is useful for understanding how differentways of organising activities are spread between and within organisations. With concepts used in new institutional theory, the focus is on how evidence-based practice travels from medicine to social work, and from a national level to the local social services level, via the regional level. Giddens (1990) terms 'disemedding' and 'reembedding' are used. Different isomorphic processes are recognised in these processes, as well as strategies to decouple or loosely couple evidence-based practice from social services ordinary activities as a way to gain legitimacy. The main findings in the thesis are that evidence-based practice has been introduced with evidence-based medicine as a role model, and that this has been done from different conditions. As is described in the interviews, the development of evidencebased practice has been controlled from national organisations such as the government, the National Board of Health and Welfare and in recent years also the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Region, while the development within the medical area was governed by national organisations but performed by the medical profession, which advocated the introduction of evidence-based practice within the profession. The regional representatives largely support the myth that is presented of evidence-based practice, and have a central responsibility in the national initiativesconducted; they are intermediary between the national initiatives on development work and the local practice. When evidence-based practice is introduced in social work this has entailed loosely coupling between the myth about evidence-based practice and the ordinary activities, this strategy is especially obvious among social services managers. Furthermore, when a medical model of evidence-based practice is used, although with a broader approach, the introduction of evidence-based practice does not reflect the social workers' education, profession and ways of working in the same way as evidence-based medicine reflects the doctors' education, profession andway of working. The intention to analyse the introduction of evidence-based practice from a micro perspective is about understanding how evidence-based practice is received by the social worker and their managers. When the interviews with the doctors, social workers and managers are analysed there is less coherence between evidence-based practice and social workers' work than between evidence-based medicine and doctors' work. This means that social workers have to shape and construct their daily work anew through internalising the new habits and routines into everyday work, something that takes energy and time, which most interviewees feel does not exist.This thesis also highlights the need for social work to approach evidence-based practice both at an organisational and a structural level, and from the level where the daily work is performed by social workers. Finally, there exists among almost all interviewees a great interest in introducing evidence-based practice, especially among the social workers, but at the moment it is not re-embedded in social work. ; Godkänd; 2014; 20140731 (beneli); Nedanstående person kommer att disputera för avläggande av filosofie doktorsexamen. Namn: Benitha Eliasson Ämne: Arbetsvetenskap/Human Work Science Avhandling: Social Work Approaching Evidence-Based Practice Rethinking Social Work Opponent: Professor of Health Care Organisation Mike Dent, Faculty of Health Sciences, Staffordshire University, Storbritannien Ordförande: Professor Elisabeth Berg, Avd för arbetsvetenskap, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, Luleå tekniska universitet Tid: Måndag den 29 september 2014, kl 13.00 Plats: A109, Luleå tekniska universitet

Prologue : foto arte and corporate seeing -- Photography as a practice of self-forging -- Visualizing progress -- Vaudeville and empire -- An egalitarian optic -- Transnational imagescapes -- In visibility in an exceptional space -- Photographs of a prayer -- Possibility eruption exists -- Between is and ought -- Epilogue : a bridge called democracy

Soziologische Untersuchungen der Partnerwahl beschäftigen sich seit jeher mit der sozialen Musterung sowie den Entstehungsprinzipien von Partnerschaften zwischen Mann und Frau. Jan Skopek analysiert den Begegnungsprozess zwischen Männern und Frauen im Online-Dating - dem neuen "digitalen" Partnermarkt.

This book provides a framework of protest handling which redirects our attention away from the strength of protesters and towards the constraints of state power, drawing on detailed case studies randomly collected in 7 provinces in China over the last decade. It finds that the challenges of retaining legitimacy, the propensity for responsiveness, the contradictions of the petition system, and the dynamics of elite alignments are key elements shaping the fate of nail-like petitions. A nail-like person refers to the individual who looks like a stubborn nail on a plank of wood that cannot be easily hammered down. His persistent protest thus is theoretically puzzling, since such individual-based protest is assumed to be too weak to effectively challenge a powerful authoritarian regime. Although this phenomenon is widely observed in China, it is ignored by current studies on collective action. Meanwhile, this book delves into the life politics of nail-like persons and reveals that their escalation of grievance, marginalized social status, inability of pursuing desirable lives through legitimate means, and communication with fellow petitioners also reinforce their determination of contention. This book describes deeply the fate of individual-based protests in China. It scrutinizes the states role in shaping contention at its macro, intermediate, and micro levels, and meanwhile pay more attention to local specifics that are crucial to uncovering the logic of petitioners' actions and consciousness. This book has implications for scholars and graduates who are interested in contentious politics and state-society interactions in China.

Assesses aspects of policy, program, and project recommendations made by Silvinconsult Ltd., an international consultancy firm, of fuelwood supply and demand in the drylands. Energy use and consumption, fuel acquisition, fuelwood transport, exchange, production and tree planting, and prospects.

The decisions of general meetings embody the social will, which is forged in the course of debates through the joint, collegial effort of the participating members, driven by a unitary interest of the limited liability company. The resolutions of general meetings have therefore been described as collective legal acts, the manifestation of a collective will, which incorporates the individual wills of the members who participate together in its conclusion and which is formed on the basis of the majority principle, according to which the majority signifies the will of society, governed by a general interest, which justifies the sacrifice of the minority of members. This is also the reason why resolutions are binding on members who did not attend the general meeting or who voted against the majority decision and asked for it to be included in the minutes of the meeting, provided that they were validly adopted.

Introduction: Why study games and money? / Mark R Johnson -- From cards to casinos : the material origins of gambling in the Renaissance / Kelli Wood -- Playing games with money : gambling games in the late capitalist cultural milieu / James F Cosgrave -- To skill, perchance to win : how chance and skill have coexisted in gambling history / David Schwartz -- Poker's memory work : Benny Binion, the WSOP, and the nostalgic construction of Las Vegas history / Alex Kupfer -- Poker fictions : possible worlds and the twenty-first century poker novel / Paul Wake -- Be a pal : representations of homosocial poker play on television sitcoms / Danielle Seid -- "Where the action is"? Branded poker and the futures of digital play / Fiona Nicoll, César Albarrán-Torres -- Banking games, speculation, and the normalization of finance / Joyce Goggin -- Pitch and toss : working class cultures of gambling in 19th and early 20th century Britain. / Graham Taylor -- Selves in play : pop-up casinos and discontinuous persons in Greece / Thomas Malaby -- Monte Carlo's wheel of fortune : the social impact of risk, reward, and roulette on visitors to Monaco's legendary Casino, 1863-1914 / Robert W Miller -- What the statistics do not say : the reinvention of casino games in Macau since 2002 / Xavier Paules -- The gambling experience of Monte Carlo in the 19th and 20th centuries / Paul Franke -- Gaming as cultural heritage : the case of Venice / Marta Soligo -- Cultural continuity of gambling : Native American ancestral traditions and contemporary practice on the Columbia Plateau / Laurie Arnold -- On the infrastructure of gaming : the case of Pachinko / Keiji Amano, Geoffrey Rockwell -- Backyard casinos : the expanding gaming landscape in America's neighborhoods / Rex J Rowley -- Filming high stakes poker : geopolitics, bluffing, and the adaptation of 'Casino Royale' / Cynthia Cravens -- The images and places of gambling in popular music / Matias Karekalas -- From parasite to antihero : shifting depictions of the cardsharp / James Banks -- Gambling ladies : the games that Barbara Stanwyck plays / Catherine Russell -- Honorable risks and dishonorable certainties : naiveté and cynicism at play over the card table in imperial Russia / Ian Helfant -- An enchanting witchcraft : masculinity, melancholy, and the pathology of gaming in early modern London / Celeste Chamberland -- The market and the conclave : gambling on political events in Renaissance Italy / John M Hunt.