This paper explores how professionals’ universal, reductionist and standardized views of poverty differ from those of the poor themselves. Poverty line thinking concerned with income-poverty and employment thinking concerned with jobs, project Northern concerns on the South, where the realities of the poor are local, diverse, often complex and dynamic. Examples illustrate how poor people’s crit...

OBJECTIVE The study seeks to determine the nature, extent and effects of emotional abuse; and who the perpetrators are in Zimbabwean primary schools. METHOD Data collection was twofold because this involved reported cases of emotional abuse and the use of two questionnaires to collect data on the forms of emotional abuse perpetrated on pupils by teachers. First, data of reported cases of emot...

This essay blends history, law, and politics in considering the role of legal imperialism nineteenth-century English extradition law in colonial Hong Kong. Building upon the pioneering work of Jerome Cohen, this essay enhances and clarifies our understanding of Chinese legal history and its continued (and future) influence on Sino-Western relations. By focusing upon the series of In re Kwok-a-S...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to assess the experiences of mistreatment and harassment among final-year clinical students in a Nigerian medical school. MATERIALS AND METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was used to obtain information on the various forms of mistreatment experienced by 269 students in the 2007 and 2008 graduating classes of a medical school in Nigeria. RESULTS Almo...

Though almost completely unheralded in radiology, one of the most prophetic explorations of workplace supervision was provided by the French historian Michel Foucault. Ostensibly a sociological history, Foucault’s masterpiece outlines a path that radiology leaders must be prepared to follow if they intend to extract full value from their workers, in particular their clinical radiologists. Fouca...

In the first chapter of his prizewinning autobiography, Always Running (1993), Luis Rodriguez—peace activist, poet, writer, and former gang member—tells a story about one of the first lessons he received about the politics of identity in this country. Having taken a walk to Will Rogers Park in Los Angeles with his mother and siblings, Rodriguez (who was born a US citizen) witnesses his Mexican ...

This article describes sadomasochist role-playing in which the participants are physically present and perform their actions. All sadomasochist activities have a role-playing component to them. It is a form of role-playing where people consensually take on dominant and submissive roles, for the purpose of inflicting things such as pain and humiliation, in order to create pleasure for all partic...

—S —E —L A growing body of developmental research on bullying (i.e., ridicule, intimidation, and exclusion) focuses predominately on either the perpetrators or victims of bullying. Although the critical role of onlookers or bystanders is recognized especially by intervention approaches (e.g., Olweus, 1994; Olweus & Limber, 1999; Salmivalli, 2002; Salmivalli & Voeten, 2004), little has been writ...

1 diagnosing practitioner will try to identify in a patient, Ladd and Churchill propose to analyze clinical situations with the aid of a pragmatic ‘model’, which describes in general the various behaviours exhibited by a majority of persons suffering from a given mental disorder. For example, in the case of a person having an attentiondeficit hyperactive disorder, agitation provokes a loss of f...