Tradition is an important issue when considering food which can be described at different levels within social groups as small as a family or as a function of time scale. Traditional foods can be related to special events such as weddings, religious days specific for each country, and are often concerned with local foods and artisan foods referring to specific ingredients, location of the produ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the basis of multidisciplinary teamwork. In real-world healthcare settings, clinicians often cluster in profession-based tribal silos, form hierarchies and exhibit stereotypical behaviours. It is not clear whether these social structures are more a product of inherent characteristics of the individuals or groups comprising the professions, or attributable to a greater exte...

What is preventing the advancement of liberation psychiatry? Why is it that after so many volumes of critique, the helping professions are still firmly grounded in traditional medical models (Prilleltensky, 1994; Teo, 2005)? How can we challenge the regnant deficit, reactive, disempowering, and individualistic oriented approaches in psychology, psychiatry, social work, counseling, and allied pr...

Rehabilitative engineering has entered a new era. There is growing awareness, within the professions involved and among the general public, that science and technology have helped some of the physically disabled and can be applied more effectively to improve the quality of life for many others. The mounting concern over the high cost of acute and chronic health care is coupled with increasing a...

A new interest in social pedagogy has arisen internationally since the beginning of twenty-first century. This development is accompanied with considerations on how to translate abstract notions such as fit contexts. The umbrella term ‘social professions’ helps gain an international and transnational outlook, it does not solely focus a single profession that become dominant sector nation state....

Psychological disorder is the business of a large number of professions. The study and treatment cannot be contained within traditional medical concepts, and the writers of this book correctly state that 'Those whose daily preoccupation is with the lives of others? clergymen, teachers, social workers and doctors?continually have to meet and deal with many forms of