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751. 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
752. Traffickers

     Drug Markets and Law Enforcement

     By Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, Nigel South

     Traffickers presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement. The chamelion reality of the world of drug trafficking is described in the words of traffickers and detectives. Drug enforcement combines the banal and spectacular in surveillance,...

     Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge
753. Growing Old in the Twentieth Century

     Edited by Margot Jefferys

     Growing Old in the Twentieth Century investigates many aspects of the current debates raging regarding care and provision for the elderly and the very elderly. It will be invaluable to gerontologists, social policy makers, official and unofficial carers, and anyone involved in health care....

     Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge
754. Housing and Social Theory

     By Jim Kemeny

     Studies in housing have often concentrated on an abstract institutionalised approach isolated from the broader base of the social sciences. This book is the first to treat housing as a subject of social theory. It provides a critique of current research and theorises housing in relation to...

     Published November 6th 1991 by Routledge
755. Life After Ninety

     By Michael Bury, Anthea Holme

     In Life After Ninety Micheal Bury and Anthea Holme have surveyed and interviewed 200 individuals, living at home and in institutions, to examine old age stereotypes and present a unique picture of the health, quality of life, and social circumstances of the very old. Longevity and the factors which...

     Published March 6th 1991 by Routledge
756. Peace Movement Organizations and Activists in the U.S.

     An Analytic Bibliography

     By John Lofland, Victoria Johnson, Pamela Kato

     Here is the most comprehensive compilation and analytic classification of book-length publications on the immense upwelling of peace activism that occurred in the United States during the 1980’s. It is an indispensable reference addition to the bookshelf of all researchers of peace movements in the...

     Published February 18th 1991 by Routledge
757. Employment Policy

     By Margareta Holmstedt

     The nature and structure of work is changing across Europe with new working patterns, flexible working practices, and demands for new unemployment rights. Moreover, the move towards establishing a Single European Market from 1992 onwards involves the creation of a new legal framework for employment...

     Published February 9th 1991 by Routledge
758. The Sociology of the Health Service

     Edited by Michael Bury, Michael Calnan, Jonathan Gabe

     The Sociology of the Health Service responds directly to the need to develop a sociological analysis of current health policy. Topics covered vary from privatisation and health service management to health education and the politics of professional power. Also included is an histroical review of...

     Published February 6th 1991 by Routledge
759. Studying The Social Worlds Of Children

     Sociological Readings

     Edited by Frances Chaput Waksler

     A collection of papers which examine and assess the effects on children of socialisation and which attempt to explain a range of adult perspectives on children and their social worlds....

     Published February 3rd 1991 by Routledge
760. Housing Policies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

     By J. A. A. Sillince

     Housing has enjoyed a high place on the agendas of most socialist countries. However this place has not been undisputed and this book examines the internal and external forces which have influenced housing under central planning....

     Published September 5th 1990 by Routledge