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Publication date: 1 April 1987

Morgan Tanton and Stephen Pox

The nature of evaluation research vis‐à‐vis management education and development (MED) has undergone major changes over the last 30 years. Broadly, the quantitative positivistic…

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The nature of evaluation research vis‐à‐vis management education and development (MED) has undergone major changes over the last 30 years. Broadly, the quantitative positivistic research designs of the early 1960s have given way to qualitative naturalistic designs. This shift represents a sea‐change both in terms of methodology employed by evaluation researchers in this field, and in terms of what is meant by evaluation.

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Personnel Review, vol. 16 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0048-3486

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Publication date: 30 June 2017

Jennifer A. Reich

Public health programs facilitate access to resources that not only provide individuals’ options but also often foreclose individual preference through prescriptive requirements…

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Public health programs facilitate access to resources that not only provide individuals’ options but also often foreclose individual preference through prescriptive requirements. This chapter takes two disparate cases from public health – vaccines and family planning –that reveal patterns of inequality in who has access to individual choice and who requires state support to exercise choice. Looking specifically at dynamics of funding and compulsion, this chapter elucidates how reliance on the rhetoric of individual choice as an expression of freedom rewards those with the greatest access to resources and fails to make sure that all members of the community have the resources to shape their own outcomes or to make sure collective health is protected.

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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78714-811-6

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Publication date: 1 March 1947

R.S. MORTIMER

It is now forty years since there appeared H. R. Plomer's first volume Dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to

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It is now forty years since there appeared H. R. Plomer's first volume Dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667. This has been followed by additional Bibliographical Society publications covering similarly the years up to 1775. From the short sketches given in this series, indicating changes of imprint and type of work undertaken, scholars working with English books issued before the closing years of the eighteenth century have had great assistance in dating the undated and in determining the colour and calibre of any work before it is consulted.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 3 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 19 November 2003

D. Douglas Miller

The economic phenomenon of “globalization” has broadly affected the health care industry and the medical profession in the late 20th century. Governmental and private sector…

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The economic phenomenon of “globalization” has broadly affected the health care industry and the medical profession in the late 20th century. Governmental and private sector managed care reach is expanding globally, as patients are “ecuritized” and traded as covered lives. Arbitrage of health care goods and services is creating commoditization effects, including trans‐border parallel markets (i.e. black markets). Consumers and governments are becoming concerned about privacy issues and product standardization, while Third World challenges remain in the public health realm (i.e., infectious pandemics, sanitation, nutrition and overpopulation).

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Multinational Business Review, vol. 11 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1525-383X

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Publication date: 1 April 1946

W.R. LE FANU

The only comprehensive list of British medical libraries hitherto available has been that in The Aslib directory 1928, and there is an extended account of those in London in…

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The only comprehensive list of British medical libraries hitherto available has been that in The Aslib directory 1928, and there is an extended account of those in London in Reginald Rye, The students' guide to the libraries of London (3rd ed., 1927), pp. 362–77. The new list, here put forward, is intended to bring the information from those two books of reference up to date, after nearly twenty years. British libraries are briefly listed among ‘Medical libraries outside North America’ in the Medical Library Association's A handbook of medical library practice, ed. Janet Doe, Chicago, American library association 1943, chapter 1, appendix 2, pages 41–64. The meagre information in that list, if contrasted with the detailed documentation of American and Canadian libraries in successive issues of the American medical directory, accentuates the need for us to know ourselves better. Several, perhaps many, medical librarians have had to compile lists of kindred libraries for their own convenience. A list which I had thus prepared seemed to Aslib to offer adequate basis for a Directory of British medical libraries, and in order to complete it Aslib issued a questionnaire in the autumn of 1944 to libraries known to possess medical collections and to hospitals, medical societies, and medical institutions throughout the British Isles. The information obtained from the generous response to this questionnaire is epitomized in the list which follows. I am responsible for all omissions and errors and I hope that those who detect any will supply corrections and additions so that this preliminary list may be revised and become a definitive Directory.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 2 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 30 November 2018

Saran Ghatak and Niall Moran

This article examines the framing of immigrants in nineteenth-century New York City. A content analysis of local and national newspapers on the Lower East Side of the borough of…

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This article examines the framing of immigrants in nineteenth-century New York City. A content analysis of local and national newspapers on the Lower East Side of the borough of Manhattan that included the infamous Five Points neighborhood demonstrates that the contemporaneous media narratives constructed a discourse of fear and contempt about residents of the area by emphasizing their alleged vice-ridden lifestyle. This discourse framed immigrants as a threat to the existing social order and diagnosed their moral failings on their cultural alienation. We argue that this process can be seen as an example of the exercise of symbolic power that sought to maintain existing social and cultural hierarchies by denigrating the disadvantaged sections of the population.

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The M in CITAMS@30
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ISBN: 978-1-78769-669-3

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Publication date: 1 January 1927

WRITING at the beginning of the New Year, we wish our readers prosperity and advancement in it. The past year, in spite of industrial commotion, has been a good one for librarians…

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WRITING at the beginning of the New Year, we wish our readers prosperity and advancement in it. The past year, in spite of industrial commotion, has been a good one for librarians on the whole, although great progress, in such circumstances as the nation found itself, was impossible. There was, however, no serious set‐back anywhere, and there were hopeful indications. Amongst these were the stirrings towards getting libraries for themselves of the smaller urban areas. Finding themselves a part of a county library scheme, they have asked: Why cannot we have our own library? Whatever the answer may be—and the question has shown in many cases a desire on the part of the questioners to control their own libraries—the county movement has quickened the pace considerably.

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New Library World, vol. 29 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 23 April 2021

Gabriela Capurro and Josh Greenberg

Purpose – The authors examine framing and narrativization in news coverage of health threats to assess variations in news discourse for known, emerging and novel health risks…

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Purpose – The authors examine framing and narrativization in news coverage of health threats to assess variations in news discourse for known, emerging and novel health risks. Methodology/Approach – Using the analytical categories of known, emerging, and novel risks the authors discuss media analyses of anti-vaccination, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and Covid-19. Findings – Known risks are framed within a biomedical discourse in which scientific evidence underpins public health guidelines, and following these directives prevent risk exposure while non-compliance is characterized as immoral and risky. News coverage of emerging risks highlights public health guidelines but fails to convey their importance as the risks seem too distant or abstract. Media coverage of novel risks is characterized by the ubiquity of uncertainty, which emerges as a “master frame” under which all incidents and events are subsumed. Stories about novel risks highlight the fluid and changing nature of scientific knowledge, which has the unintended effect of fueling uncertainty as studies and experts contradict each other. Originality/Value – This chapter introduces a new analytical framework for examining how media stories represent public health risks, along with previously unpublished analysis of media coverage about AMR and Covid-19. This chapter provides insight about the nature of risk discourses involving media, public health officials, activists, and citizens.

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Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship
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ISBN: 978-1-80071-729-9

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Publication date: 2 February 2010

Tom Abeles

Biological evolution in humans, as in other living things on earth, is slow. Human intellectual capacity to transform the earth and its inhabitants can move readily. The purpose

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Purpose

Biological evolution in humans, as in other living things on earth, is slow. Human intellectual capacity to transform the earth and its inhabitants can move readily. The purpose of this paper is to ask whether such advances may actually change humans themselves or human/computer hybrids, and what this implies as humans inevitably advance the capabilities of their digital “off‐spring”, ranging from autonomous digital devices to human/computer hybrids. Is “consciousness” an accidental consequence of ratiocination or must such capabilities by intentionally addressed?

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Outlines the mixed relationship between humans and computers or “artificial intelligence” and how it may become necessary for the two to interact more closely.

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The paper finds that humans will need to work closely with computerized intelligence to enhance their complexipacty and to address the growing complexity of decision‐making environments.

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Following the thoughts of Wallach and Allen in their book, Moral Machines (reviewed elsewhere in this issue), the need for heuristics will require the addition of an ethical judgment component – often considered subjective – to computer decision algorithms. The possibility that this would involve endowing computers with “consciousness” opens potentials for both utopian and dystopian manifestations.

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Provides a possible insight into the reliance that may be placed upon computerized intelligence in the future.

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On the Horizon, vol. 18 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1074-8121

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Publication date: 1 August 1915

Before the appearance of our next issue, the Annual Meeting of the Library Association will have taken place. In many ways, as indicated last month, it will be an interesting…

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Before the appearance of our next issue, the Annual Meeting of the Library Association will have taken place. In many ways, as indicated last month, it will be an interesting meeting, largely because it is in the nature of an experiment. International conditions, the state of national and municipal finance, the absence of library workers with the colours, and the omission of social events, all tend to influence its character. It is possible, however, that these very circumstances may increase the interest in the actual conference business, especially as the programme bears largely upon the War. The programme itself is formidable, and it will be interesting to see how the section on the literature of the war, for example, will be treated. Probably the Publications' Committee have in mind the book symposia which are a feature of the meetings of various library associations in the United States. These consist of a few minutes' characterisation, by an opener, of a certain book or type of literature, and a discussion after it. The experiment was attempted in London last year at one of the monthly meetings, but owing to a misapprehension the speaker gave an excellent lecture on Francis Thompson of more than an hour's duration, when he had been expected to give a brief description of Francis Meynell's biography of that poet. If any gatherings for a similar purpose are arranged, we hope the speakers will be primed sufficiently to avoid that error. As for social events, their omission is less likely to be felt in London than anywhere else in the Kingdom. London is a perennial source of social amusement in itself, and the evenings can readily be filled there—“chacun à son goût”—really better than by attending pre‐arranged gatherings.

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New Library World, vol. 18 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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