Chronic hepatitis B: whom to treat and for how long? Propositions, challenges, and future directions

Recent guidelines of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the European Association for the Study of the Liver, and the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver 2008 update of the “Asian-Pacific consensus statement on the management of chronic hepatitis B” offer comprehensive recommendations for the general management of chronic hepatitis B (CHB). These recommendations highlight preferred approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of CHB. Nonetheless, the results of recent studies have led to an improved understanding of the disease and a belief that current recommendations on specific therapeutic considerations, including CHB treatment initiation and cessation criteria, particularly in patient populations with special circumstances, can be improved. Twelve experts from the Asia-Pacific region formed the Asia-Pacific Panel Recommendations for the Optimal Management of Chronic Hepatitis B (APPROACH) Working Group to review, challenge, and assess relevant new data and inform future updates of CHB treatment guidelines. The significance of and controversy about reported findings were discussed and debated in an expert meeting of the Working Group in Beijing, China, in November 2008. This review paper attempts to identify areas requiring improved CHB management and provide suggestions for future guideline updates, with special emphasis on treatment initiation and duration

Beyond the vagina-clitoris debate - From naming the genitals to reclaiming the woman's body

This study brings in to the open Hong Kong women's suppressed and hidden articulation of their feelings about their sexual body parts. By tracing the heavily regulated and always difficult process by which they came into contact with and related themselves to their sexual body parts, it examines how women were made to develop a sense of self-alienation towards their own bodies, and yet how some of them managed to put up their resistance against such a 'forced' dissociation. It also challenges the assumed superiority of using medico-anatomical language to prescribe 'proper' names for sexual parts, as they are found to possess a high degree of indeterminacy as sites of arousal and pleasure, and subject to the nature of encounters and relational contexts. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.link_to_subscribed_fulltex

情欲、倫理與權力：香港兩性問題報告

何式凝与曾家达在过去廿多年, 对情欲, 亲密关系, 同性恋, 权力, 以及身份认同等议题非常关注, 以华人为研究对象, 进行了一系列的研究, 并发表了一系列的有关文章, 在国际上产生了很大的影响. 本书结集了两位作者在不同阶段里发表的最具代表性、最有影响力的文章. 学术价值很高, 文字明白晓畅, 案例和访谈资料很多, 可读性很强

Social work doctoral education in Hong Kong: a post-colonial snapshot

Hong Kong, as a former British colony, has maintained a doctoral education model based on the British apprentice model. This model has gone through some changes in the post-colonial period since 1997. This paper provides a snapshot of the historical context and current situation of doctoral education in social work. Programs are described with regard to their student admission, content, structure, format and organization. Challenges that are unique to the social and political context are identified, especially with regard to the recent reformulation of government policy regarding higher education. A more contextualized approach to social work doctoral education is proposed