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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Afghanistan: Political Reform -- Afghanistan: Security Sector Reform -- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Consolidating Democratic Institutions -- Cambodia After Democratization: Accountability Trap -- Consolidating Peace in Cambodia: Stabilization without Security Sector Reform -- Guatemala Stuck in the Middle: The Challenges of Institutionalizing Democracy -- Lebanon: Confessionalism, Institution Building, and the Challenges of Securing Peace -- Nepal: Democracy, Armed Insurgency, and the Peace Process -- Nepal: From Armed Conflict to Arms Management -- Northern Ireland: The Search for a Democratic Settlement -- Northern Ireland: Securing the Peace -- Palestine -- South Africa: A Case Study in Institution Building -- South Africa: Security Transformation -- Spain -- Spain: Secuirty Sector Reform from Transition to Consolidation of Democracy -- Between Power and Empowerment: Building Political Institutions in Postsettlement Sudan -- Challenging the Settlement: Politicized Insecurity in Sudan -- Concluding Observations -- Contributors -- Index.

Cover -- Series title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION - Framing Issues of Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe -- PART I: German Eugenic Paradigms -- Racial Expertise and German Eugenic Strategiesfor Southeastern Europe -- PART II: Hygiene and Health Politics -- Orientalizing Disease. Austro-Hungarian Policies of 'Race,' Gender and Hygiene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1874-1914 -- Typhus, Turks, and Roma: Hygiene and Ethnic Difference in Bulgaria, 1912-1944 -- Health Policy and Private Care: Malaria Sanitization in Early Twentieth Century Greece -- Combating Infant Mortality in Bulgaria: Welfare Activities, National Propaganda, and the Establishment of Pediatrics, 1900-1940 -- Politics, Modernization and Public Health in Greece: The Case of Occupational Health, 1900-1940 -- "Like Yeast in Fermentation": Public Health in Interwar Yugoslavia -- PART III: Eugenics and Reproduction -- Marital Health and Eugenics in Bulgaria, 1878-1940 -- Eugenic Birth Control and Prenuptial Health Certification in Interwar Greece -- Eugenics and Puericulture: Medical Attempts to Improve the Biological Capital in Interwar Greece -- Controlling the National Body: Ideas of Racial Purification in Romania, 1918-1944 -- The Eugenic Fortress: Alfred Csallner and the Saxon Eugenic Discourse in Interwar Romania -- Fighting the White Plague: Demography and Abortion in the Independent State of Croatia -- PART IV: New Research Agendas -- Remapping the Historiography of Modernization and State-Building in Southeastern Europe through Health, Hygiene and Eugenics -- Contributors -- Index.

The threshold of the Near East: Istria and Dalmatia.--A patriarchal principality: Montenegro.--The model Balkan state: Bosnia and the Hercegovina.--Through the occupied territory.--'Twixt Austrian and Turk: the sandžak of Novibazar.--Barbarism and civilisation: the Albanian coast and Corfù.--Greece: the country and the capital.--Greece: democracy unlimited.--Crete under the concert.--Samos: a study in autonomy.--The promised land: Macedonia.--The cynosure of the Near East: Stambûl.--An experiment in emancipation: Bulgaria.--The great powers in the Near East. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Cover -- Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Understanding Mortality Patterns in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies -- APPENDIX: FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNCERTAINTY: MORTALITY IN AFGHANISTAN, BOSNIA, NORTH KOREA, RWANDA, AND SIERRA LEONE -- 2 The Evolution of Mortality Among Rwandan Refugees in Zaire Between 1994 and 1997 -- 3 Famine, Mortality, and Migration: A Study of North Korean Migrants in China -- 4 Methods of Determining Mortality in the Mass Displacement and Return of Emergency-Affected Populations in Kosovo, 1998-1999 -- 5 The Demographic Analysis of Mortality Crises: The Case of Cambodia, 1970-1979 -- 6 Reflections -- Index.

Books and libraries.--Emerson, the lecturer.--Keats.--Don Quixote.--Democracy.--On a certain condescension in foreigners.--The study of modern languages. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"The main purpose of the book is to advocate the moral and . imperative character of a citizen's duty to the state."-Pref. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Blood and Blood Products: Safety and Risk -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- I Current Risks of Disease Transmission -- Blood and Blood Components: How Safe Are They Today? -- Viral Inactivation of Blood Products: A General Overview -- TRANSFUSION PLASMA -- BLOOD CELL CONCENTRATES -- RED BLOOD CELL CONCENTRATES -- PLATELET CONCENTRATES -- II Guarding the Blood Supply -- The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study: Rationale and Methods -- Demographic and Serologic Characteristics of Volunteer Blood Donors -- CDC Surveillance of Donors -- DISCUSSION -- Surveillance of Recipients -- DISCUSSION -- CDC Surveillance of High-Risk Recipients -- DISCUSSION -- CDC Surveillance for Unknown Pathogens -- DISCUSSION -- III New Ideas for Safety and Monitoring -- Information Technology and Blood Safety -- Strategies for Dealing with Potentially Infected Recipients -- IV Risk Tolerance -- Beneficial Aspects of Surgical Transfusion -- Trade-off of the Risk of Hepatitis and the Benefit of Clotting Factor Concentrates in the 1970s and 1980s -- DISCUSSION -- Examples of Risks That We Tolerate -- DISCUSSION -- V Risk Communication -- A Mental Model Approach to Risk Communication -- DISCUSSION -- Risk Communication: Building Credibility -- ROLE OF INFORMATION -- THE ROLE OF RISK NUMBERS -- THE ROLE OF RISK COMPARISONS -- SOURCES OF CONFLICT -- DISCUSSION -- Attitudes Toward Risk: The Right to Know and the Right to Give Informed Consent -- DISCUSSION -- Patients, Informed Consent, and the Health Care Team -- DISCUSSION -- Communication of Risk and Uncertainty to Patients -- DISCUSSION -- VI No-Fault Insurance -- Administrative and "No-Fault" Systems for Compensating Medically Related Injuries -- The Colorado and Utah Models of Compensating Patient Injury -- DISCUSSION -- VII Concluding Remarks -- Henrik H. Bendixen -- Appendixes.

Revolution and War -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Theory of Revolution and War -- 3. The French Revolution -- 4. The Russian Revolution -- 5. The Iranian Revolution -- 6. The American, Mexican, Turkish, and Chinese Revolutions -- 7. Conclusion -- Index.

The Financial and Economic Crises and Their Impact on Health and Social Well-Being -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I The Causes of the Crisis -- 1. Neoliberalism as a Class Ideology -- Or, The Political Causes of the Growth of Inequalities -- 2. The Crisis and Fiscal Policies in the Peripheral Countries of the Eurozone -- PART II The Crisis and Its Consequences for Welfare Services and Transfers -- 3. The Effects of Health Care Reforms on Health Inequalities: A Review and Analysis of the European Evidence Base -- 4. Ditching the Single-Payer System in the National Health Service: How the English Department of Health is Learning the Wrong Lessons from the United States -- 5. Visits to Family Physicians or Specialists by Elderly Persons in Canada and the United States: An Exploratory Comparative Study -- 6. Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective, 1990-2005 -- PART III The Crisis and Changes in the Labor Market -- 7. Employment Relations and Global Health: A Typological Study of World Labor Markets -- 8. The Impact of Public Employment on Health and Health Inequalities: Evidence from China -- 9. Ensuring a Healthy and Productive Workforce: Comparing the Generosity of Paid Sick Day and Sick Leave Policies in 22 Countries -- 10. Overstretched and Unreciprocated Commitment: Reviewing Research on the Occupational Health and Safety Effects of Downsizing and Job Insecurity -- 11. Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Erosion Accelerates in the Recession -- 12. How Do Macro-Level Contexts and Policies Affect the Employment Chances of Chronically Ill and Disabled People? The Impact of Recession and Deindustrialization -- PART IV Changes in the Welfare States.