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Intro -- Health Care in a Changing Setting: the UK experience -- Contents -- Chairman's introduction -- The difficulties of changing -- Discussion -- The reorganized National Health Service: theory and reality -- Discussion -- Changing concepts in university health -- Discussion -- General discussion I: The medical profession, patients and society -- Implications of shortening the time spent in hospital -- Discussion -- The nurse's contribution to care -- Discussion -- Some quandaries facing the health visitor in these times of change -- Discussion -- Commitment and concern in the health service -- Discussion -- The response of the hospital doctor to the health requirements of a changing society -- Discussion -- The place of academic research -- Discussion -- Health education, cancer and postgraduate training -- Discussion -- Women and their health: is there a conflict? -- Discussion -- General discussion II: Themes for discussion emerging from papers and discussions -- Biographies of the participants -- Index of contributors -- Subject index.

Intro -- Medical Care of Prisoners and Detainees -- Contents -- Chairman's introduction : ethics, the doctor, and the prisoner -- Medical services in prison: lessons from two surveys -- Discussion -- Minimum standards for medical services in prisons and jails -- Discussion -- Standards of medical care and protection in detention camps -- Discussion -- Problems arising from biological experimentation in prisons -- Discussion -- Penitentiary medicine in France -- Organization of medical care of prisoners and detainees in Poland -- Discussion -- The Canadian experience -- Discussion -- Medical psychiatric survey in Alabama State Prison [submitted in title only] -- Discussion -- The English Prison Medical Service: its historical background and more recent developments -- Discussion -- Violence in prisoners and patients -- Discussion -- The interaction between prisoners, victims and their social networks -- Discussion -- Management of conflict in correctional institutions -- Discussion -- Chairman's closing remarks -- Appendix 1 Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (United Nations) -- Appendix 2 Association of State Correctional Administrators. Policy guidelines: health services -- Appendix 3 Administrative regulations : State of Illinois Department of Corrections, Adult Division, Sections 836, 837, 817 -- Appendix 4 ACA Manual of Correctional Standards Health and Medical Service Corrections Evaluation Report -- Appendix 5 Extract from The Emerging Rights of the Confined -- Index of Contributors -- Subject Index.

Intro -- Abortion: medical progress and social implications -- Contents -- Introduction -- Legal abortion in England and Wales -- Discussion -- Abortion services in Slovenia -- Provision of abortion services in the United States -- General discussion 1 Abortion law and abortion services in Japan and other countries -- Mortality due to abortion at Kenyatta National Hospital, 1974-1983 -- Discussion -- Abortion in Thailand and Sweden: health services and short-term consequences -- Discussion -- Sequelae of induced abortion -- Discussion -- The comparative safety of second-trimester abortion methods -- Discussion -- Some aspects of late abortion for congenital abnormality -- Discussion -- General discussion 2 Ethical aspects of abortion -- Live-born infants of 24 to 28 weeks' gestation: survival and sequelae at two years of age -- Discussion -- Follow-up study of children born to women denied abortion -- Discussion -- Post-abortion and post-partum psychiatric hospitalization -- Discussion -- The effects of abortion on a marriage -- Discussion -- Menstrual induction: surgery versus pro- staglandins -- Discussion -- Contragestion by antiprogestin: a new approach to human fertility control -- Discussion -- Legal abortion: limits and contributions to human life -- Discussion -- Viability and the moral status of the fetus -- Discussion -- Politics and abortion -- Discussion -- Final general discussion Providing effective abortion services -- Effects on society of changes in abortion laws -- Contragestion -- Medical progress and the social implications of abortion: summing-up -- Biographies of contributors -- Index of contributors -- Subject index.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the controversial topic of criminal and antisocial behavior. It synthesizes findings from behavioral and population genetics, evolutionary biology and criminology and presents the latest findings in twin studies, adoption cohort studies, molecular genetics and animal models for human aggression. Also included is a detailed analysis of the legal implications of genetics and crime research and strategies for rehabilitation

Cocaine poses interesting problems for neurophysiologists and neuropharmacologists and there is important new data on the effects of cocaine on the brain (its initial site of action at the cellular level now appearing to be the dopamine transporter). Includes chapters on the far-reaching toxic effects of cocaine, on the epidemiology and the economics of drug addiction, on the past and present use of cocaine in the U.S. and in South America, and on the moral issues raised by drug use and abuse

The increase in the world population and changes in welfare have led to an enormously expanding demand for food. In the industrialized world, food surpluses rather than shortages are a problem together with adverse environmental impacts from the overuse of chemicals and excessive exploitation of agricultural land. In the developing world, food production cannot keep up with population growth and the gap between demand and supply is growing. This book explores the theme of sustainable agricultural development in the developing world, with a particular focus on crop protection. Includes chapters

The Future of Philanthropic Foundations -- Contents -- Introduction -- Foundations and their fields -- Discussion -- Independence, scale and experiment: the experience of the Ciba Foundation -- Discussion -- Foundations and the State in the Federal Republic of Germany: some comments -- The special role and problems of a foundation established by the State -- Discussion -- The moral and social responsibilities of the trustees of foundations -- The role of the foundation trustee -- Discussion of the two preceding papers -- Independence and experiment : the experience of the Wellcome Trust -- Discussion -- The means to the ends of The Rockefeller Foundation -- Discussion -- On the selection of priorities for an emerging foundation of national scope -- Discussion -- International foundations and the development of higher education in developing countries -- Discussion -- International foundations and the development of health services in underprivileged areas -- Discussion -- A new task for small philanthropic foundations in helping developing countries -- Discussion -- The next twenty-five years -- Discussion -- The influence of science and technology on medicine: a forecast -- Discussion -- The future of foundations: the Jeffersonian potential -- Discussion -- Summing up -- Closing remarks -- Biographies of the participants -- Index of contributors -- Subject index.