Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction: Wisdom for Common Life (Chung Yong) as a Theological and Pastoral Task in the Korean American Context -- 2. The Power of Ambivalence for Korean American Women in the Confucian Context -- 3. Intimate Violence and Pastoral Care in the Korean American Community -- 4. Exposing the Shame That Binds Us in Intimate Partner Violence -- 5. Pastoral Care for the Spiritual and Mental Health of Elderly Korean American Christians: Confronting Ageism through Autobiography Groups -- 6. In-Between Cultures to In-Both: Creating Common Stories of Korean American Youth -- 7. What's Love Got to Do With It? Sex and the Korean American College Student and Young Adult -- 8. Racism as a Heightening Factor in the High Rate of Depression among Korean American Youth and Young Adults (KAY&YA) -- 9. Addiction, Pain and Compassionate Care.

At the present moment there seems to be a worldwide agreement that conflicts between multinationals and host countries do exist, that they are bound to increase in intensity in the near future, and that something must be done about it. Speaking on U.S.-Latin American relations earlier this year the U.S. Secretary of State singled out multinational enterprises as one of the key hemispheric problems. A senior economist from the Brookings Institution said last fall that the likelihood of international conflict on the issue of multinational corporations is growing sharply, and the clash of the national interests involved could become in the near future a central problem of world economics and politics. In Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world similar preoccupations are expressed by an increasing number of policy-makers, policy advisors, and public opinion-molders.

"Using a political economy of health, this book examines the linkages between gender, globalization, and health in a Latin American context. Gideon shows that the development of health systems in Latin America was closely linked to men's participation in formal labor. This established an inherent male bias that continues to shape health services today. While economic liberalization has created new jobs that have been taken up mainly by women, these jobs fail to offer the same health entitlements. Gideon explores the resultant tensions and gender inequalities, which have been further exacerbated in the context of health care commercialization"--