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Book Review: Soft Law and Global Health Problems. Lessons from Responses to HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis
In: Social & legal studies: an international journal, Band 27, Heft 6, S. 799-801
ISSN: 1461-7390
Governing traditional medicine in Kenya: Problematization and the role of the constitution
In: African studies, Band 77, Heft 2, S. 223-239
ISSN: 1469-2872
Law, globalisation and the NHS
In: Capital & class, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 81-104
ISSN: 2041-0980
The regulation of medical work in the UK has been shaped by the post-war settlement, which lead to the creation of the National Health Service in 1948. The removal of clinical care from the market was supported over the following decades by prohibitions of the sale of human organs and gametes. That settlement is now being dismantled, with the increasing privatisation of NHS facilities. The recommodification of medicine in Britain is achieved as part of broader patterns of neoliberal globalisation. Cross-border markets in health services are realized in law through international (e.g. the General Agreement on Trade in Services) and regional trade law (e.g. European Community law).
Law, globalisation and the NHS
In: Capital & class: CC, Heft 92, S. 81-104
ISSN: 0309-8168
'Red in Tooth and Claw': The Idea of Progress in Medicine and the Common Law
In: Social & legal studies: an international journal, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 211-232
ISSN: 1461-7390
The interaction of medicine and the common law is best understood through an examination of the epistemic properties shared (or taken to be shared) by both disciplines. One such property is represented in the ideal of evolutionary progress through a conflict of ideas, as developed in the work of Karl Popper on science and politics. This ideal also provides an orientation for judicial and theoretical reflections on the role of the dissenting judge in the development of the common law. It can be linked furthermore with broader ideologies of progress that valorize liberal political and economic arrangements. The medical negligence jurisprudence of the English courts has until recently been structured by an understanding that medicine, as a science, participates in this dynamic of progress. Consequently, the protection of medical pluralism from close judicial scrutiny has been taken to be a matter of public interest. However, this weak liability regime is now threatened by increased judicial activism, regulatory intervention and patient consumerism. The latter are in turn underpinned by a series of fundamental critiques directed at the idea of progress in medicine and science.
Between the state and civil society: medical discipline in Tanzania
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 207-239
ISSN: 1469-7777
This article seeks to examine the status of the medical profession in Tanzania,
in the context of political and economic developments since independence.
It demonstrates that doctors have maintained a relatively privileged position
within the health care system and in the wider society from the colonial
period, through the early years of indpendence, to the present. This has been
achieved by a variety of means. During the 1970s and early 1980s the profession
was closely associated with the developmentalist project of the state.
Because of economic restructuring since then it has had to adopt the rhetoric
and techniques of accountability, to distance itself from the state and position
itself in the notional realm of civil society. Recent cases of the Medical
Council are used to demonstrate this trend. Renewed legitimation is most
significant as a means of maintaining the profession's links with its international
counterparts, and with foreign donors who support the health care
system in Tanzania.
Between the state and civil society: medical discipline in Tanzania
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 207-239
ISSN: 0022-278X
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The Problem of Sweeping Objectives: The Case of International Relations
In: Social studies: a periodical for teachers and administrators, Band 63, Heft 2, S. 55-58
ISSN: 2152-405X
The Inheritance Tax
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 87-94
ISSN: 1552-3349
South Africa: A Case for Total Divestment
My belief is that it is in the best short-term as well as long-term economic interests of U.S. corporations to disengage from South Africa. South African corporations are no longer profitable in most cases and there is an immediate risk that product imports, capital investment or sales will be lost or adversely affected by continued military and police action, domestic or foreign embar goes or government expropriation. This is in addition to normal risks of currency fluctuation and unstable commodity prices. In the long-term, a new majority-ruled government may look else where for investments and trade, or will extract a very high price for foreign corporate involvement. At worst, corporate support of the white-minority will rule out any access in the future to South African strategic resources and play into the hands of Jj.S. cor porate enemies around the world. A short-term loss may also be more than offset by substantial long-term gains if U.S. corpora tions disengage.
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Book Review: Reed Town, Japan: A Study in Community Power Structure and Change. By YASUMASA KURODA. (Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press, 1974. Pp. 283. $12.00.)
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 588-590
ISSN: 1938-274X
Surgery's Advance Since the World War
In: Current History, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 97-101
ISSN: 1944-785X