Nursing the image : media, culture and professional identity / / Julia Hallam

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910799998903321
• Autore: Hallam Julia <1952-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-134-66825-2; 0-203-13602-0; 1-134-66826-0; 1-280-01865-8; 0-203-17115-2; 9786610018659
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 610.7301
• Soggetti: Nurses; Stereotyping; Prejudice; Social Perception; Feminism; United Kingdom
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-230) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Nursing the images: Media, culture and professional identity; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Illustration acknowledgements; Introduction: (Auto)biography, research and feminist cultural studies; 1. Images, identities and selves; Images: nursing and femininity; Identities: nurses and their professional image; Selves: personal conceptions of professional identity; 2. The popular imagination; Reification and recruitment: images in post-war Britain; Irreverence and romance: the 1950's and 1960's; Fascination and aspiration: the romantic ideal; Soap, sex and satire: the late 1960's and early 1970's 3. The professional imagination; A divided identity; Class divisions: job or profession?; Gender divisions: men enter the picture; Racial divisions: ; visible differences; Image and identity: Briggs and the image of nursing; 4. The personal imagination; Self-image and uniform identities; Knowing your place: hierarchy, status and the self; Out of place: re-location, racism and the 'other'; The 'proper nurse': self as image, image as self; 5. The contemporary imagination; Recruitment in crisis; Romance in crisis; Equal opportunities in crisis: medical drama Carry on caring; Notes; References and bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Ideas of 'nursing' and 'nurses' carry a powerful social charge. The image of the nurse continues to be a symbol of caring and of duty at the same time as it projects a view of femininity, 'stereotypical' in its gender relations.How has this image come to be constructed?An empirical investigation of representations of nursing practices in Britain focusing on publicity and promotional materials and their relationship to popular fictional narratives reveals a strong correlation between what are usually described as discrete forms of signification. Recruitment images, provide an

Responding to Banking Crises : : Lessons From Cross-Country Evidence / / Enrica Detragiache, Giang Ho

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971215303321
• Autore: Detragiache Enrica
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2010
• ISBN: 9786612845277; 9781462300259; 1462300251; 9781451962239; 1451962231; 9781282845275; 1282845276; 9781452708683; 1452708681
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 31 p
• Collana: IMF Working Papers
• Altri autori (Persone): HoGiang
• Disciplina: 338.29125
• Soggetti: Financial crises; Banks and banking; Banking crises; Banking; Banks and Banking; Banks; Central Banks and Their Policies; Crisis Management; Crisis management; Crisis resolution; Depository Institutions; Economic & financial crises & disasters; Financial Crises; Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation; Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy; Financial Risk Management; Fiscal Policy; Fiscal policy; Macroeconomics; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages; Public Finance; Argentina
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Methodology and Data -- A. Empirical Model -- B. Policy Response Index -- C. Control Variables -- D. The Instrument -- III. The Results -- A. Results from Baseline Specification -- B. Comparison with Other Results in the Literature -- C. Sensitivity Analysis: Additional Controls -- D. Sensitivity Analysis: Alternative Measures of Crisis Performance -- E. Sensitivity Analysis: Alternative Policy Response Indexes -- F. Fiscal Policy during the Crisis. -- IV. Conclusions -- References -- Text Tables -- 1. Correlation among Crisis Performance Measures -- 2. Construction of the Policy Index -- 3. Crisis Episodes, Policy Response, and Political System -- 4. Cross-Correlations between Political System and Crisis Policies -- 5. Baseline Results -- 6. Additional Control Variables -- 7. Alternative Measures of Crisis Performance -- 8. Alternative Policy Indexes -- 9. Fiscal Policy Response and Political System -- Figure 1. Distribution of Policy Index -- Appendix Tables -- A1. Variable Definitions and Data Sources -- A2. Summary Statistics -- A3. Cross Correlations among Variables.
• Sommario/riassunto: A common legacy of banking crises is a large increase in government debt, as fiscal resources are used to shore up the banking system. Do crisis response strategies that commit more fiscal resources lower the economic costs of crises? Based on evidence from a sample of 40 banking crises we find that the answer is negative. In fact, policies that are riskier for the government budget are associated with worse, not better, post-crisis performance. We also show that parliamentary political systems are more prone to adopt bank rescue measures that are costly for the government budget. We take advantage of this relationship to instrument the policy response, thereby addressing concerns of joint endogeneity. We find no evidence that endogeneity is ; a source of bias.