Kinship matters / / edited by Fatemeh Ebtehaj, Bridget Lindley, Martin Richards

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450778603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2006
• ISBN: 1-4725-6373-5; 1-280-81417-9; 9786610814176; 1-84731-279-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 346.42015
• Soggetti: Kinship (Law) - England; Kinship (Law) - Wales; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "... product of a three day workshop held in Cambridge in September 2005"-Preface.; Published for the Cambridge Socio-Legal Groupages
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Regulating Relationships? -- FATEMEH EBTEHAJ -- Part 1: Who is Kin and what does it mean to be Kin in Contemporary British Society? -- 2. 'Close Marriage' in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Middle Strata -- LEONORE DAVIDOFF -- 3. Status Anxiety? : The Rush for Family Recognition -- ANDREW BAINHAM -- 4. DNA Testing and Kinship: Paternity, Genealogy and the Search for the 'Truth' of Genetic Origins -- TABITHA FREEMAN and MARTIN RICHARDS -- Part 2: Kin Care of children and adolescents -- 5. Children and Their Changing Families: Obligations, Responsibilities, and Benefits -- JAN PRYOR -- 6. Substitute Care of Children by Members of Their Extended Families and Social Networks: An Overview -- JOAN HUNT -- 7. Recognising Carers for hat they do - Legal Problems and Solutions for the Kinship Care of Children -- JUDITH MASSON and BRIDGET LINDLEY -- 8. Restorative Practices: Repairing Harm through Kith and Kin -- LORRAINE GELSTHORPE with LAYLA SKINNS -- Part 3: Kin Contact and Care of Elderly People -- 9. Gender ; and Kinship in Contemporary Britain -- JANE NOLAN and JACQUELINE SCOTT -- 10. Kin Availability, Contact and Support Exchanges between Adult Children and their Parents in Great Britain -- EMILY GRUNDY and MICHAEL MURPHY -- 11. Maintenance of the Elderly and Legal Signalling - Kinship and State -- MIKA OLDHAM -- Part 4: Migrant Communities and Transnational kinship -- 12. The Impact of Migration on Care: Iranian Experiences -- FATEMEH EBTEHAJ -- 13. Family Care and Transnational Kinship: British-Pakistani Experiences -- KAVERI HARRISS and ALISON SHAW -- 14. Kinship, Infertility and New Reproductive Technologies: A British-Pakistani Muslim Perspective -- NAZALIE IQBAL and ROBERT SIMPSON -- Afterword -- 15. Kinship as "Family" in Contemporary Britain -- JANET FINCH -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is the fifth in the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group series and it concerns the evolving notions and practices of kinship in contemporary Britain and the interrelationship of kinship, law and social policy. Assembling contributions from scholars in a range of disciplines, it examines social, legal, cultural and psychological questions related to kinship. Rising rates of divorce and of alternative modes of partnership have raised questions about the care and well-being of children, while increasing longevity and mobility, together with lower birth rates and changes in our economic circumstances, have led to a reconsideration of duties and responsibilities towards the care of elderly people. In addition, globalisation trends and international flows of migrants and refugees have confronted us with alternative constructions of kinship and with the challenges of maintaining kinship ties transnationally. Finally, new developments in genetics research and the growing use of assisted reproductive technologies may raise questions about our notions of kinship and of kin rights and responsibilities. The book explores these changes from various perspectives and draws on theoretical and empirical data to describe practices of kinship in contemporary Britain

Prospects for Schistosomiasis Elimination / Darren Gray, Robert Bergquist

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910367563803321
• Autore: Gray Darren
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019; Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019
• ISBN: 9783039213580; 303921358X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (308 p.)
• Soggetti: Medicine
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Current efforts to limit the ravages of schistosomiasis are pushing the world closer to eliminating a chronic infection that has been associated with human life in the tropics since time immemorial. This notwithstanding, the disease remains a scourge for large populations in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, and the main part of this book is made up by papers dealing with its current distribution, discussing ways and means to establish and implement improved control approaches. While chemotherapy limits the symptoms caused by schistosomiasis, the number of infected people will not decrease until the parasite's life cycle is interrupted. To that end, some papers focus on the intermediate snail host, which is notoriously difficult to control, while others discuss human hygiene and sanitation. The latter approach not only prevents infection through avoiding people being infected from the snail, but more importantly, also stops people infecting the snail by leaving contagious feces and urine in nature. With morbidity reduced by chemotherapy, the immediate target now is the interruption of transmission to be achieved by new tools, such as the novel chemotherapies, improved diagnostics (for humans, animals, and snails), and vaccines discussed in several of the papers. As made clear in this book, a complex infection requires new tools as ; well as work on many fronts, above all; however, a clear idea is needed as to how to skillfully combine the tools available and sustain implemented control activities.