Since man first forged metal tools and started farming for his food, thus emerging from the
stone age, no event in human history has had a greater impact than the Industrial Revolution …

Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically
continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows …

The book explores the promotion of Europeanness, which aims to arouse feelings of
belonging to the European Union. It demonstrates that the promotion of Europeanness at the …

" This thoughtful and comprehensive book represents the best work I have seen on the
current situation concerning medication policies in the EU. It is not just that this is a very up …

This article discusses medications as socially embedded phenomena, using the class of
psychoactive medications as a primary example. The analytical perspective is systemic …

Governments try to regulate few markets as much as they do the pharmaceutical market.
They have to balance contrasting objectives. First, governments must secure health policy …

Computerized prescribing in the practice of medicine is a change that is overdue. Virtually
all prescriptions in the United States are still handwritten. Instead, medications should be …

Organizations change. They grow, they adapt, they evolve. The effects of organizational
change are important, varied and complex, so analysing and understanding them is vital for …

Much recent sociological work on education makes reference to gender, sexual, ethnic, local
and political 'project'identities, yet there remains a need to bring the nation, and the state …

Insulting the Public? examines the way in which the European Union and issues relating to it
are represented to the public. Combining theoretical and empirical research, the text …