Domestic Violence and Health Care: Opening Pandora¿s Box ¿ Challenges and Dilemmas

In this article we take a critical stance toward the rational progressive narrative surrounding the integration of domestic violence within health care. Whilst changes in recent UK policy and practice have resulted in several tangible benefits, it is argued that there may be hidden dilemmas and challenges. We suggest that the medical model of care and its discursive practices position women as individually accountable for domestic violence-related symptoms and injuries. This may not only be ineffective in terms of service provision but could also have the potential to reduce the political significance of domestic violence as an issue of concern for all women. Furthermore, it is argued that the use of specific metaphors enables practitioners to distance themselves from interactions that may prove to be less comfortable and provide less than certain outcomes. Our analysis explores the possibilities for change that might currently be available. This would appear to involve a consideration of alternative discourses and the reformulation of power relations and subject positions in health care

Gender and Management: new directions in research and continuing patterns in practice

This is the author’s version of the following article. The definitive version is available at www.interscience.wiley.com:Adelina Broadbridge and Jeff Hearn, Gender and management: New directions in research and continuing patterns in practice, 2008, British Journal of Management, (19), s1, 38-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2008.00570.xCopyright: British Academy of Management, Blackwell Publishing Ltdhttp://www.blackwellpublishing.com

Domestic violence and health – the way forward

safe reports on the latest strategies to tackle domestic violence within a health care context. Key figures from the Department of Health outline cross-governmental initiatives and programmes

After-effects of potassium dichromate on a culture of Scenedesmus quadricauda at a changing toxic load

Effect of potassium dichromate in concentrations of 0.5 to 10 mg/l on a laboratory culture of Sc. quadricauda algae has been studied in the standard conditions. The cells that survived during a 30 day exposure retained the ability to reproduce and with time attained the numbers and the proportion of the living cells of the control culture. A stable increase in cell size was observed. A culture exposed to 1 mg/l potassium dichromate had an increased resistance to higher concentrations of the toxin

Age barriers at work Maximising the potential of mature and older people

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