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  • Work and Mental Health in Social Context

    by Mark Tausig, Rudy Fenwick ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Anyone who has ever had a job has probably experienced work-related stress at some point or another. For many workers, however, job-related stress is experienced every day and reaches more extreme levels. Four in ten American workers say that their jobs are “very” or “extremely” stressful. Job stress is recognized as an epidemic in the workplace, and its economic and health care costs are ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Population Aging in Societal Context

    Evidence from Nepal

    Edited by Mark Tausig, Janardan Subedi, Saruna Ghimire ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    This book offers an explanatory schema for comprehending aging in a societal context, focusing on the country of Nepal.Contributions to this book use an institutional contextual approach and a life course perspective to document and assess societal responses to the increase in the number of older adults in a specific country. This emerging age group entails the development of new and modified ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • An Uncertain Glory

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    by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen ...
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  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    by Karen Swift, Marilyn Callahan ...
    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Read more

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  • The Psychology of Conflict and Conflict Management in Organizations

    Edited by Michele J. Gelfand, Carsten K.W. De Dreu ...
    Series series SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series
    This volume in SIOP's Organizational Frontiers Series is a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary conflict research which aims to place conflict research and theory squarely within the realm of industrial and organizational psychology. This volume brings together and integrates classic and contemporary insight in conflict origins, conflict ... Read more

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  • Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World

    Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice

    Edited by Laurent Pordié ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its original cultural area becoming a global phenomenon. This book analyses Tibetan medicine in the 21st century by considering the contemporary reasons that have led to its diversity and by bringing out the common orientations of this ... Read more

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  • Decentralization, Local Governance, and Social Wellbeing in India

    Do Local Governments Matter?

    by Rani Mullen ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    Over the past three decades, decentralization has been seen as the means for allowing local governments to become more accountable, and for encouraging the deepening of democracy and the building of village communities. By drawing on original village-level case studies of six villages in three different Indian states, this book presents a systematic analysis of the impact of decentralization on ... Read more

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  • Reforming Child Protection

    by Bob Lonne, Nigel Parton, Jane Thomson, Maria Harries ...
    Child protection is one of the most high profile and challenging areas of social work, as well as one where children’s lives and family life are seen to be at stake. Vital as child protection work is, this book argues that there is a pressing need for change in the understanding and consequent organization of child protection in many English speaking countries.The authors present compelling ... Read more

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  • The Grammar of Caste

    Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India

    by Ashwini Deshpande ...
    Is the caste system disappearing? Are traditional hierarchies being replaced by competing equalities? Do globalization and liberalization automatically result in diminishing disparities? Are modern labour markets intrinsically meritocratic and efficient? Challenging the dominant discourse and demolishing various myths, this book provides answers to these and other critical questions on caste in ... Read more

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  • Nepal's Dalits in Transition

    by David N. Gellner, Krishna P. Adhikari ...
    For too long Nepal’s Dalits have been marginalized, not just socially, economically, and politically, but from academic accounts of Nepalese society as well. This volume forms part of a welcome new trend, the emergence of Dalit Studies in Nepal, led by a new generation of Dalit scholars. It covers a wide range of issues concerning Nepal’s Dalits and offers a snapshot of the advances that they have ... Read more

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    Keeping Medicare Sustainable

    by Stephen Duckett ...
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