There has been a growing interest among academics, policy makers and practitioners in the subjective well-being of children and young people (CYP). The recognition of CYP's rights to having a good childhood and good future life chances, coupled with the injunction from the New Sociology of Childhood to consult with CYP as active agents have also resulted in an increasing interest in the use of ...

Introduction The objective of this paper is to provide a description and analysis of the social model of disability, and how it has developed during the past 30 years. Both academics working in the field of disability studies, as well as practitioners providing disability services have been increasingly influenced by its underpinning philosophy. Furthermore, the " disability movement " utilises...

Suicide is a very common problem in psychiatric practice today. Therefore, almost all staff of psychiatric hospitals have encountered the suicide of one or more of their patients. Our hospital, Osaka Psychiatric Medical Center, is a public psychiatric hospital in Japan. We provide treatment and support for patients from the acute to chronic phases of psychiatric disorders, and patients range fr...

This paper argues that the convention of allocating donated gametes on a 'first come, first served' basis should be replaced with an allocation system that takes into account more morally relevant criteria than waiting time. This conclusion was developed using an empirical bioethics methodology, which involved a study of the views of 18 staff members from seven U.K. fertility clinics, and 20 ac...

The simple, but quite unusual plan, promised much: two leading academics (Gary Francione and Robert Garner) prepared to make their respective cases with conviction and candour, followed by a lively debate between them, during which no stone need be left unturned. In prospect, then, was an opportunity for nuances to be clarified, misunderstandings dispelled and some common ground established. Bu...

Recent events involving major insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms highlight substantial incentive problems in commercial and reinsurance markets where intermediation takes place. We show that in markets with informed as well as uninformed consumers and heterogeneous risk profiles intermediation has the potential to improve social welfare. However, since intermediation reduces insu...

Institutional change has resulted in the separation of organizations for the protection of animals and children. This project reunites two organizations to examine associations between human violence and animal cruelty. For 12 months, Family and Children's Services (FCS) investigators and Humane Society (HS) investigators in Wellington County, Canada, completed checklists to examine connections...

OBJECTIVE Cases of child abuse and neglect that involve black children are reported to and substantiated by public child welfare agencies at a rate approximately twice that of cases that involve white children. A range of studies have been performed to assess the degree to which this racial disproportionality is attributable to racial bias in physicians, nurses, and other professionals mandated...

Providing economic and social security has been one of the fundamental features of state activity in Iceland during the 20th century. The rise of modern social politics occurred at about the same time as in the other Nordic countries, towards the end of the 19th century, in response to upheavals associated with industrialization, urbanization and labour-force differentiation. The impulses behin...

The grave economic situation of black families described by the preceding papers leads to the question of what has happened to "the quest for economic opportunity, the enduring theme of the black civil rights movement" and subject ofthe Hamilton paper, as described by Peter Eisinger, its discussant. At an evening round-table session Lester Thurow reminded conference participants that the War on...