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Trust me, I'm a doctor What would drive a child prodigy turned brilliant doctor to murder his wife? Why would a Scottish nurse resort to murdering the elderly patients under his care? What motive could a promising Harvard medical student have for attacking her friend and roommate? At their best they cure disease, look after the sick, and are sworn to 'do no harm'. So what leads a small minority of healthcare workers to a life of violent crime? From Beverly Allitt, the attention-seeking nurse who preyed on the children in her care, to the infamous Dr Harold Shipman, who was respo

Volume 6 on "Human Rights and Media" introduces and analyzes the significant relationship and discourse of human rights and media. As agenda setters, framers and integral actors in human rights movements, various forms of media are analyzed by the contributing authors. News media, the press, television, cinema, photojournalism, the internet and other documentary forms are among the media investigated by the authors. Civil society dialogue, the rhetoric and ideology of human rights, the propaganda and media responsibility around such themes as war, genocide, ethnic division, nationalism, race, gender, child labor and disability are human rights themes addressed in this volume.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by William Julius Wilson -- Introduction -- Part I: Spreading and Sustaining Success -- 1. What Works and why we have so Little of It -- 2. Spreading what Works Beyond the Hothouse -- 3. Taming Bureaucracies to Support what Works -- 4. A new Focus on Results -- 5. Finding out what Works -- Part II: Reforming Systems -- 6. Beyond Welfare Repeal: Real Welfare Reform -- 7. Strengthening a Collapsing Child Protection System -- 8. Educating America's Children -- Part III: Rebuilding Communities -- 9. Synergy: Putting it all Together to Transform Neighborhoods -- Epilogue: We can Achieve our Common Purpose -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.

Introduction: "a long time in want of a bureau" -- That the freed-women ... may rise to the dignity and glory of true womanhood : the men, purpose, and gendered freedom of the Freedmen's Bureau -- A weight of circumstances like millstones about their necks to drag and keep them down : freedwomen, federal relief, and the Freedmen's Bureau -- The women are the controlling spirits : freedwomen, free labor, and the Freedmen's Bureau -- To put forth almost superhuman efforts to regain their children : freedwomen, parental rights, and the Freedmen's Bureau -- Strict justice for every man, woman, and child : gender, justice, and the Freedman's Bureau

The theory and practice of developmental social work / James Midgley -- Social development, social investment, and child welfare / Amy Conley -- Productive aging and social development / Nancy Giunta -- Social investment and mental health : the role of social enterprise / Mary Ager Caplan -- Developmental social work and people with disabilities / Jennifer Knapp and James Midgley -- Poverty, social assistance, and social investment / James Midgley -- Crime, social investment, and correctional social work / Will C. Rainford -- Social development, social enterprise, and homeless youth / Kristin Ferguson -- Community practice and developmental social work / James Midgley -- Limitations and prospects of developmental social work / James Midgley and Amy Conley

Introduction : Race, childhood, and juvenile justice history -- The other lost generation : reform and resistance in the juvenile training schools, 1907-1929 -- Socializing delinquency : child welfare, mental health, and the critique of institutions, 1929-1949 -- Juvenile rehabilitation and the color line : the training school for Black delinquent girls, 1943-1950 -- James Dean and Jim Crow : the failure of reform and the racialization of delinquency in the 1950s -- "Hard to reach" : the politics of delinquency prevention in postwar Houston -- Circling the wagons : the struggle over the Texas Youth Council, 1965-1971 -- Creating a right to treatment : Morales v. Turman, 1971-1988 -- Epilogue : The new American dilemma

This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history. The contributors are a mix of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous scholars, who in different ways examine how the past lives on in the present, as myth, memory, and history. Each chapter throws fresh light on an aspect of history-making by or about Indigenous people, such as the extent of massacres on the frontier, the myth of Aboriginal male idleness, the controversy over Flynn of the Inland, the meaning of the Referendum of 1967, and the policy and practice of Indigenous child removal.

It is a well-known fact that the level of parents' education is strongly correlated with the educational achievement of their children. In this paper,we shed light on the potential channels through which human capital is transmitted from mothers to their children in early childhood. The main channels through which maternal human capital benefits the child's verbal and social skills are birth weight and father's support. Moreover,reading stories to the child is most relevant for the transmision of verbal skills whereas for social skills, a crucial channel for maternal human capital is the attendance of institutional childcare.

Cover Page -- Ameliorating Mental Disability -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 1. Definition, Diagnosis, and Classification -- 2. The Multidisciplinary ApproachtoMental Retardation -- 3. Perceptual, Conceptual, and Psycholinguistic Evaluation of the Mentally Retarded Child -- 4. Personality Evaluation -- 5. Speech, Language, and Hearing of the Mentally Retarded -- 6. The Role of Environmental Factors in the Treatment of Institutionalized Mental Retardates -- 7. Psychotherapy and Other Adjustment Techniques with the Mentally Retarded -- 8. Learning Abilities of the Mentally Retarded -- 9. Programmed Instruction for Retarded Children -- 10. Vocational Preparation and Occupation -- 11. Public School Programs for the Mentally Retarded -- 12. The Characteristics,Selection,andTraining of Institution Personnel -- 13. Counseling the Parentsof theRetarded -- Index

The body is an emissary. We know little of our own feelings or the feelings of others, but that ignorance is mediated through our organ of touch, the skin. The term 'consensuality' stands for the co-presence of perceptions on the skin, which is the backcloth to sensation and thought. If the intelligence of the body is the basis of both sense and consent, consensuality also has to do with human relations based on the sense of touch, particularly the mother-child couple and the relation of desire, love and loss. This book touches on a range of cultural figures including Gide, Princess Diana, Kaf

Prologue -- Oliver Evans's automated mill -- The Erie Canal -- Delmonico's -- Sylvester Graham's reforms -- Cyrus McCormick's reaper -- A multiethnic smorgasbord -- Giving thanks -- Gail Borden's canned milk -- The homogenizing war -- The transcontinental railroad -- Fair food -- Henry Crowell's Quaker special -- Wilbur O. Atwater's calorimeter -- The Cracker Jack snack -- Fannie Farmer's cookbook -- The Kelloggs' corn flakes -- Upton Sinclair's Jungle -- Frozen seafood and TV dinners -- Michael Cullen's super market -- Earle MacAusland's Gourmet -- Jerome I. Rodale's Organic gardening -- Percy Spencer's radar -- Frances Roth and Katharine Angell's CIA -- McDonald's drive-in -- Julia Child, the French chef -- Jean Nidetch's diet -- Alice Waters's Chez Panisse -- TVFN -- The Flavr Savr -- Mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs -- Epilogue

"Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution and inferring deaths from "missing children" in the 2000 Indonesian Census, I find that the pollution led to 15,600 missing children in Indonesia (1.2% of the affected birth cohorts). Prenatal exposure to pollution largely drives the result. The effect size is much larger in poorer areas, suggesting that differential effects of pollution contribute to the socioeconomic gradient in health"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Praise for the first edition:. 'An approachable and practical edition that will be welcomed by parents and carers alike. I know how hard it can be to find How to" resources for parents. Well here is a gem.'. - Children, Young People and Families. Parents of young children newly diagnosed as on the autism spectrum are often at a loss for ideas about how best to help their child. Playing, Laughing and Learning with Children on the Autism Spectrum is not just a collection of play ideas; it shows how to break down activities into manageable stages, and looks at ways to gain a child's attentio

The pursuit and practice of discipline have become near ubiquitous elements of contemporary social life and parlance, as discipline has become a commonplace and ever sought-after social technology. From the celebrated "discipline of the market" proclaimed by neo-liberal politicians, to self-actualizing experiences of embodied discipline proffered by martial arts instructors, this volume showcases highly varied and complex disciplinary practices and relationships in a set of ethnographic studies. Interrogating the respective fields of work, religion, governance, leisure, education and child rearing, together the essays in this volume explore and offer new ways of thinking about discipline in everyday life

Dangerous and difficult for both mother and child--what was the birth experience like in the Middle Ages? Dependent, in part, on social class, what pastimes did children enjoy? What games did they play? With often uncomfortable and even harsh living conditions, what kind of care did children receive in the home on a daily basis? These are just a few of the questions this work addresses about the day-to-day childhood experiences during the Middle Ages. Focusing on all social classes of children, the topics are wide-ranging. Chapters cover birth and baptism; early childhood; playing; clothing; c