This dissertation is a historical investigation of the relationship between science and society through the comparative study of eugenics movements as they developed in both Japan and China from the 1890s to the 1940s.
Social work Codes of Ethics of professional organizations around the world appeal to the concept of people having 'rights' that social workers need to respect and advocate for. However, it isn't always clear how social workers can actually incorporate human rights-based approach…
Professional social work Codes of Ethics around the world appeal to the concept of people having "right" that social workers need to respect and advocate for. However, it isn't always clear how social workers can actually incorporate human rights-based approaches in their practi…
The international contributors to this collection demonstrate the significance of care ethics as a transformative way of thinking across diverse geographical, policy and interpersonal contexts.
Representing all regions of the world, a wide range of contributors that are leaders in their fields have put together an exhaustive collection that represents the state-of-play of international social work today.
Solution focused practice around the world
"Solution Focused Practice Around the World provides an exploration of the diverse uses of SF and offers fascinating insights into how the solution focused approach is currently used in many applications around the globe. Bringing together prominent authors, practitioners and tr…
Solution focused practice around the world
"Solution Focused Practice Around the World provides an exploration of the diverse uses of SF and offers fascinating insights into how the solution focused approach is currently used in many applications around the globe. Bringing together prominent authors, practitioners and tr…
This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean. It highlights contests over healing, knowledge and medicines through the frameworks of hybridisation an…
An in-depth look at Japan's economic malaise and the steps it must take to compete globally. In Japanization, Bloomberg columnist William Pesek-based in Tokyo-presents a detailed look at Japan's continuing twenty-year economic slow-down, the political and economic reasons behind…
"Cosmopolitan Sex Workers is a groundbreaking look into the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia. Through a new, innovative framework, Christine B.N. Chin shows that as neoliberal economic r…
"This text examines the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who choose to migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labour in Southeast Asia. Christine B.N. Chin offers an innovative theoretical framework termed '3C' (city, creativity, and cosmopolitanism) to…
International perspectives on children's play
International perspectives on children's play
This book provides an analysis of children's play across many different cultural communities around the globe.
"Freud’s Legacy in the Global Era presents a radically new perspective on Freud’s relevance today as a forerunner of the contemporary evolutionary neurosciences also steeped in the tradition of humanistic thought. Carlo Strenger shows how globalisation has produced new theoretic…
"A former director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (PHPR) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lays out his theories on when, where and how the next major disease outbreak will arrive, "--NoveList. "Throughout history, humankind's biggest k…