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741. Childless: No Choice

     The Experience of Involuntary Childlessness

     By James H. Monach

     Examines the causes of childlessness, the availability of choices for couples and at a time of rapidly developing treatments for infertility and new legislative controls, looks at the experiences and views of childless couples....

     Published April 14th 1993 by Routledge
742. Housing Policy in the 1990s

     Edited by Johnston Birchall

     Housing Policy in the 1990s explores the deluge of Conservative legislation of the late 1980s and examines what its effects will be during this decade and into the next century. The contributors discuss and clarify the main aims of the government re-structuring of social strategy and assess its...

     Published November 25th 1992 by Routledge
743. Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder

     A Comparative and Historical Approach

     By Dr David Waddington

     In a comparative study drawing on material from the United States and Britain, David Waddington examines how various types of industrial, political, urban and sectarian disorder occur. Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder critically appraises the theoretical approaches to understanding public...

     Published October 28th 1992 by Routledge
744. Negotiating Family Responsibilities

     By Janet Finch, Professor Janet V Finch, Jennifer Mason

     Negotiating Family Responsibilities provides a major new insight into contemporary family life, particularly kin relationships outside the nuclear family. While many people believe that the real meaning of 'family' has shrunk to the nuclear family household, there is considerable evidence to...

     Published October 28th 1992 by Routledge
745. Risk-Takers

     Alcohol, Drugs, Sex and Youth

     By Moira Plant, Moira Plant

     Risk-Takers gives a comprehensive view of youthful involvement with drinking, smoking, drug use and sex. It provides a challenging assessment of health education for young people showing that, despite the threat of AIDS and HIV infection, risk-taking remains a feature of normal adolescent behaviour...

     Published September 2nd 1992 by Routledge
746. Researching Health Care

     Published August 5th 1992 by Routledge
747. The Reform of Housing in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

     Edited by Jozsef Hegedus, Ivan Tosics, Bengt Turner

     This collection of studies, both Eastern and Western in perspective, outlines the most recent housing reforms in the former Eastern Bloc and relates them to the political and economic transformation of these countries....

     Published June 3rd 1992 by Routledge
748. Making Amends

     Mediation and Reparation in Criminal Justice

     By Gwynn Davis

     Reparation, or making amends, is an ancient theme in criminal justice. It was revived in both Europe and North America in the 1980s as a practical alternative both to retributivism, and to the various utilitarian projects traditionally associated with retributive justice.Making Amends examines the...

     Published June 3rd 1992 by Routledge
749. Normalisation

     A Reader

     Edited by Hilary Brown, Helen Smith

     Normalisation, the theoretical framework that underpins the movement of services for people with disabilities from long stay hospitals, has recently become the focus of much academic and professional attention. As the community care debate has moved into the public arena, it has attracted a certain...

     Published January 8th 1992 by Routledge
750. Protecting the Vulnerable

     Autonomy and Consent in Health Care

     Edited by Margaret Brazier, Mary Lobjoit

     Series: Social Ethics and Policy

     The right of adults with sound mind to consent to treatment or risk their own health for the benefit of the community in a clinical trial is unequivocally recognised by the law. But what about those vulnerable by virtue of their age, nature or position in society? Experts from the fields of...

     Published December 11th 1991 by Routledge