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Selected AbstractsThe scope of nursing in Australia: a snapshot of the challenges and skills neededJOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT, Issue 2 2003Jacqueline Jones RN Contemporary nursing is an increasingly complex concept encompassing and encapsulating wide variation under the broad rubric of the nursing work place. This paper reports on a study that was designed to contribute to understandings of nursing practice by describing what nurses in Australia are doing everyday in various practice and work settings, the type of skills they need, the challenges they face and the interactions nurses have with other health workers. Drawing on the research which informed the National Review of Nurse Education in Australia in 2001, the paper raises issues critical to the management of contemporary nursing practice. Flexible approaches both to the day-to-day management of nurses and nursing, and educational preparation in partnership with key stakeholders, are a necessity if management of nursing is to keep pace with constant change in health care systems as well as facilitating the attraction and retention of nurses in those systems. [source] "Training in Citizenship": Tax Compliance and ModernityLAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY, Issue 3 2007Assaf Likhovski Do the attempts of modern states to foster tax compliance reflect wider attributes of modernity? This article analyzes the history of the creation of a tax compliance culture in Israel of the 1950s and the various practices, techniques, and discourses that were deployed by the state to create model taxpaying citizens. It shows how the specific history of tax compliance can be understood as part of a wider phenomenon: the desire of modern states to create self-policing, normalized subjects. By interpreting the history of tax compliance critically, as part of the attempt of the state to control its citizens, the article suggests a new way of understanding the history of twentieth-century tax compliance generally and more specifically the history of judicial attempts to tackle tax evasion and tax avoidance. [source] The Cultural Power of Law and the Cultural Enactment of Legality: The Case of Same-Sex MarriageLAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY, Issue 3 2003Kathleen E. Hull This paper examines the legal consciousness of same-sex couples with respect to marriage. Data from an interview-based study of 71 members of same-sex couples reveal strong consensus on the desirability of having samesex relationships legally recognized, and considerable variation in couples'attempts to enact marriage culturally through various practices, including the use of marriage-related terminology and public commitment rituals. I argue that some of these efforts to enact marriage culturally should also be read as attempts to enact legality in the absence of official law. The findings from this study challenge the idea that marginalized social actors will tend toward a resistant legal consciousness: Rather than seeking to avoid and evade legality in their everyday lives, most same-sex couples seem to embrace legality for its practical and symbolic resources, even as they stand "against the law" in their opposition to the exclusion of same-sex couples from the institution of legal marriage. Approaching marriage from the perspective of same-sex couples, this research demonstrates that the legal and cultural aspects of marriage are deeply intertwined. Cultural enactments of marriage enact legality even in the absence of official law, and many actors ascribe to law a cultural power that transcends its specific benefits and protections, the power to produce social and cultural equality. [source] Cultural diversity, human rights and inconsistency in the English courtsLEGAL STUDIES, Issue 2 2001Urfan Khaliq Ethnic and cultural diversity within the UK has ensured that English courts regularly have to resolve cultural conflicts. This paper concentrates on cultural conflicts in the courts where there is an international dimension to this issue and where persons not resident in the UK seek the help of the English courts. The paper does this by reference to two areas of law, asylum and child abduction, which also allows a comparison between the approach to human rights by judges in the public and private law spheres. The paper aims to highlight the in consistency of the approach among judges in child abduction cases, where the role of human rights is unclear. It contrasts this with the judicial approach in asylum cases and English law in general, where we argue human rights are increasingly influencing the attitudes to various practices justified on a cultural or religious basis. [source] Terms used to describe urinary tract infections , the importance of conceptual clarification,APMIS, Issue 2 2003PER-ERIK LISS Inaccuracies in medical language are detrimental to communication and statistics in medicine, and thereby to clinical practice, medical science and public health. The purpose of this article is to explore inconsistencies in the use of some medical terms: urinary tract infection, bacteriuria and urethral syndrome. The investigated literature was collected from medical dictionaries, textbooks, and articles indexed in MedlineŽ. We found various practices regarding how the medical terms should be defined, and had great difficulty in interpreting the status of the statements under the heading of ,definition'. The lesson to be learned, besides a reminder of the importance of clearly defined medical concepts, is that it must be explicitly stated whether what is presented as a definition is to be considered as defining criterion, as recognising criterion or as characteristic of the disease entity. [source] | |||||||||||||