States-Within-States
Incipient Political Entities in the Post—Cold War Era
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International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the UK—a Systematic Review of Their Acculturation and Adaptation
International medical graduates (IMGs) constitute about 23–28 % of the medical workforce providing support and contribution to the UK, Canada, USA and Australia. This review will inform the need for trainers, ...
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Challenging the Gatekeepers: Disability Rights Advocacy and the Struggle for Self-Representation within Lebanon’s Post-war Sectarian Democracy
Marginalised groups across the world have been struggling for their rights as citizens from the beginning of the modern state era. These struggles have been particularly challenging within the global south whe...
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Understanding the experience of dementia: Utilising the theoretical insights of ‘status passage’
This paper critically evaluates status passage as a social theory which might enhance the research and understanding of the experience of dementia. Status passage is introduced with consideration of the theory...
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An Exploration of the Historical Background of Criminal Record Checking in the United Kingdom: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Potentially preventable crimes resulting from failures in criminal record checking and recording emerged as problematic in the eighteenth century and have continued up until the present day. Ranging from child...
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The Discharge Planning Dilemma in the UK NHS: The Role of Knowledge Management
This paper describes a research project that investigates and evaluates the role of Knowledge Management (KM) in discharge planning (DP) within the UK National Health Service (NHS). KM has been promoted in the...
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Data integration for European marine biodiversity research: creating a database on benthos and plankton to study large-scale patterns and long-term changes
The general aim of setting up a central database on benthos and plankton was to integrate long-, medium- and short-term datasets on marine biodiversity. Such a database makes it possible to analyse species ass...
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Conclusions and Policy Options Paul Kingston
This volume has presented a wide array of case studies of states-within-states—some as predatory and others as potential models of emerging states. Each has been born out of a unique set of historical circumst...
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Introduction: States-Within-States: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
The end of the Cold War, the rise of globalization, and failed governance have all contributed to a weakening of political authority in much of the develo** world. Already described as being “weak”1 and, in som...
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Rebuilding A House of Many Mansions: The Rise and Fall of Militia Cantons in Lebanon
Lebanon provides a good opportunity to consider both the characteristics and trajectories of the concept of state-within-states. It is a country that has been described as “extremely plural”;2 it is a country who...
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Conclusion
Elder abuse looks set to become one of the phenomena of interpersonal violence that will create needs for social policies well into the next millennium. At a macro-political level, we need to consider the conc...
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Introduction
Elder abuse is the largely unknown violence phenomenon of the 1990s. Although recognised for centuries and reported in the professional press increasingly since the mid-1970s, it is the least acknowledged of t...
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Medical Dimensions
The previous three chapters have aimed to provide an overview and general framework concerning elder abuse. For the reader in this chapter, the various threads that constitute a medical perspective are woven t...
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Dimensions of Interventions
The last two chapters have developed a focus on differing aspects of the professional knowledge base that are useful for practitioners to be familiar with in their work in this area. The focus of this next cha...
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Contemporary Overview
During the 1980s and 90s the term ‘abuse’ became synonymous with a multitude of behaviours and stereotypes that individuals sometimes experience, both in the private world of the family and in the public domai...
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Institutional Dimensions
The previous chapter looked at elder abuse in relation to family violence in more general terms. Notwithstanding this perspective, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that there are a range of enviro...
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Legal Dimensions and Issues
The previous chapter provided an overview of medical perspectives on elder abuse to give the reader a knowledge and understanding of the dimensions involved. The purpose of this chapter is to present a similar...
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International Developments and the Research Agenda
The main emphasis of the book until this point has been to concentrate on developments in the UK, with some reference, where appropriate, to what is happening elsewhere in the world. The focus of this final ch...
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Dimensions of Family Violence
As documented in the previous chapter, there has been, in recent years, a growing international knowledge and awareness concerning elder abuse. This development to an extent mirrors the development in earlier ...
