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Believes that current 'hot' topics such as computer literacy and the need for greater quantitative emphasis should not supplant the more basic need for graduates to be competent in all aspects of communication. (GF)

Divides whistleblowing into individual, organization, and environmental levels of analysis, each with its own unique considerations. Asserts that the study fosters awareness of ethics, provides the skills needed to cope with dissent, and imparts legal knowledge about the discipline of public administration. (Abstract amended)

Stresses the need for usable methodology courses. Identifies factors that make methods classes more practical: concentrates on 2 approaches to teaching. (Abstract amended)

The challenge for the ethics professor is to instill in students a basic understanding of proper conduct, realizing that some actions and decisions are better than others, while not attempting to appear morally omniscient. (Abstract amended)

Considers 3 important matters when practitioners become teachers: the method of teaching, which draws extensively from case studies; the authority worlds of the academic and practitioner, which are compared; and the image world of practitioners, which is examined. (Abstract amended)

Methodology courses tend to be unpopular with students and professors alike. Critiques many of the most widely used learning models for methodology, and makes a case for the use of inquiry training techniques, arguing that they are most appropriate because of their environmental sensitivity. (Abstract amended)

Argues that current management information systems training is much too limited in its approach, concentrating only on the technology of information transfers. A more comprehensive technique, emphasizing all of the issues of data handling from collection to distribution, is put forward. (Abstract amended)

Argues that special attention should be given to teaching students how to manage policy interdependency. Advocates the interdisciplinary approach to broaden students' perspectives in public administration. Offers several recommendations for improving programs. (Abstract amended)

This Guide is a special edition of "The Navy on the Monterey Peninsula," commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Naval Postgraduate School. ; Guidebook to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Die größtenteils aus der angelsächsischen und jugoslawischen Politikwissenschaft stammenden Referenten befaßten sich auf der Ebene politisch-philosophischer Fragestellungen mit dem Verhältnis von Anarchie und gesellschaftlichen Utopien. Durch die Anwesenheit von jüngeren Anarchisten aus verschiedenen Ländern konnte auch die aktuelle anarchistische Bewegung dargestellt und über die Probleme anarchistischer Praxis diskutiert werden. Es wurde deutlich, daß der bereits totgesagte Anarchismus heute eng mit den Neuen Sozialen Bewegungen verflochten ist, wobei die Frage nach der Möglichkeit zur Erlangung einer realen gesellschaftspolitischen Kraft eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Einerseits sieht man die Notwendigkeit ein, politische Macht zu erlangen, andererseits birgt jeder konkrete Schritt in diese Richtung - wie etwa die Beteiligung an parlamentarischen Körperschaften - das Risiko, von traditionellen politischen Strukturen absorbiert zu werden. (PSZ)

The Canadian health care system has developed very differently from that of its neighbour, the United States of America. It has a publicly financed and administered universal insurance plan which provides good access to high quality medicine, free at the point of delivery. Increasing costs, however, mean that painful political decisions on health will have to be made. Experiments with alternative means of financing primary health care provision and the Canadian approach to postgraduate education may offer useful ideas for general practice in the United Kingdom.

Initiatives by individuals, private foundations and government have led to improvements in the United States in medical education dealing with alcohol and drug-related problems. Progress has been made, particularly in the past 5 years, in developing new medical school curricula and in faculty development. Greater activity by national professional organizations has helped raise the priority of training in alcohol- and drug-related areas for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. As an example, Project ADEPT (Alcohol and Drug Education for Physician Training in primary care) at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, is described. The importance of positive and motivated faculty role models and of skills training is emphasized.

In this book I present a series of eleven essays written between 1978 and 1987 on subjects relevant to the anthropology of health and international health. The issues addressed in these essays were investigated during 38 months of fieldwork in rural southwest peninsular India (197 4-86) and 15 months of fieldwork in southwest Sri Lanka (1983-84 ). ;During various periods of this time I conducted ethnographic fieldwork, explored the feasibility of participatory community research, facilitated the development of a postgraduate health education training program, and served as a consultant to various international health organizations. The essays document my ongoing attempts to integrate academic interests in the anthropology of health with applications of anthropology for international health and development. The volume is divided into four sections structured around the themes of: ethnophysiology, illness ethnography, pharmaceutical related behavior, and health communication. Included are studies of fertility and pregnancy (Chapters 1 and 2), states of malnutrition and approaches to nutrition education (Chapters 5 and 11 ), diarrheal disease and water boiling behavior (Chapters 6 and 1 0), and lay perceptions of fertility control methods and medicines (Chapters 3 and 7). Emerging from these studies is a recognition that perceptions of ethnophysiology and contingent health concerns signifi­ cantly influence health behavior and the use as well as demand for traditional and modern health resources.

Up to 1945 university education in Australia had little sense of engagement with any cultural traditions outside those of Western Europe. It was only in the aftermath of World War II that Australians began to realize that while their nation had powerful allies in Britain and America, nations with whom it had ties of kin and culture, it had on its doorstep in neighboring Southeast Asia and not so distant Northeast Asia, neighbors who might become both friends and close partners in regional associations.These were also the years during which the Australian government decided as a matter of policy to develop postgraduate studies in Australia so that Australians should no longer as a matter of course go to Britain for higher degrees. Both these factors came together in the establishment in 1946 of the Australian National University, an institution with an exclusive mission for post-graduate training. Significantly, among its foundation schools was the Research School of Pacific Studies, which included departments of Pacific History and Far Eastern History.