Mediating Punitiveness: Understanding Public Attitudes towards Work-Related Fatality Cases

Mediating punitiveness: understanding public attitudes towards work-related fatality cases

Towards Public Understanding of Case Work

Towards an understanding of British public attitudes concerning human cloning.

The ability of scientists to apply cloning technology to humans has provoked public discussion and media coverage. The present paper reports on a series of studies examining public attitudes to human cloning in the UK, bringing together a range of quantitative and qualitative methods to address this question. These included a nationally representative survey, an experimental vignette study, foc...

Noise as an explanatory factor in work-related fatality reports

Noise exposure in the workplace is a common reality in Québec, Canada as it is elsewhere. However, the extent to which noise acts as a causal or contributive factor in industrial work-related accidents has not been studied thoroughly despite its plausibility. This article aims to describe the importance or potential importance, during investigations looking into the specific causes of each work...

Understanding physicians' attitudes towards hormone therapy.

OBJECTIVE We sought to understand the relationship among components of residency education about hormone therapy (HT), knowledge about HT, and provider attitudes toward HT during a time of rapidly changing practice guidelines. METHODS We surveyed residents in the University of Pittsburgh Internal Medicine residency programs between February to April 2002 (after the release of the Heart Estrog...