Abstract T. S. Eliot’s presence in Spanish theatres has taken various forms. His verse drama enjoyed a relative popularity the late 1940s and 1950s: Murder Cathedral , The Family Reunion Cocktail Party were staged by student amateur groups, “chamber” companies even national theatre. Reviews ambivalent, most of them finding fault with plays’ poetic density as an impediment for performance. Altho...

Child sexual abuse affects thousands of families each year. Issues pertaining to the prevalence, identifi cation, and treatment of sexual abuse have been relatively well explored in the literature as they pertain to the dominant European American culture. These issues, however, are still relatively unexplored in terms of how sexual abuse affects Asian American families and the Asian American co...

Abstract Deindustrialization is a major burden on workers’ health in many countries, calling for theoretically informed sociological analysis. Here, we present novel neoclassical synthesis of the lived experience deindustrialization. We conceptualize industry as social institution whose disintegration has widespread implications fabric. Combining Durkheimian and Marxian categories, show that de...

BACKGROUND In order to increase breast and cervical cancer screening uptake in Singapore, women's perceived barriers to screening need to be identified and overcome. Using data from both focus groups and surveys, we aimed to assess perceived barriers and motivations for breast and cervical cancer screening. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted 8 focus groups with 64 women, using thematic analys...

Mass adult male circumcision campaigns for HIV prevention are underway across much of Sub-Saharan Africa. However, concern remains about risk compensation associated with the reduction in the probability of HIV transmission per risky act. This paper examines the behavioral response to male circumcision in Kisumu, Kenya. Contrary to the presumption of risk compensation, we find that the response...

The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany This paper investigates whether and to what extent immigrants in Germany are integrated into German society by utilizing a variety of qualitative information and subjective data collected in the 1999 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). To this end, leisure-time activities and attitudes of native Germans, ethnic Germans and foreign i...