Social Welfare and Religion

Religion and Animal Welfare—An Islamic Perspective

Islam is a comprehensive religion guiding the lives of its followers through sets of rules governing the personal, social, and public aspects through the verses of the Holy Qur'an and Hadiths, the compilation of the traditions of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh), the two main documents that serve as guidelines. Islam is explicit with regard to using animals for human purposes and there is a rich traditi...

Science, Religion and Social Ethics.

Social Choice and Welfare

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Segregation and Social Welfare

The aim of this paper is twofold: a) to define a new concept, the welfare loss that a society can experience due to the segregation of the demographic groups that comprise it and b) to quantify this phenomenon by proposing measures that satisfy a set of desirable normative properties. For that purpose, this paper offers a framework that involves, firstly, to deal with the well-being losses (gai...

Social Biology and Welfare

family life in different types of community. Chapters 10 and 11 give an account of the development of social work in the colonial empire, and include discussion of some current problems of social hygiene. The final portion of the book consists of a useful handbook on 25 social problems, including trends of population, illegitimacy, care of children, old people, mental health, prostitution, writ...