Disability, Ethnicity and Childhood: a critical review of research

Whilst there is an increasing body of literature on the perspectives of carers of disabled children, there is little research giving the disabled child's perspective from either majority or minority populations. Indeed, the voices of black and Asian children in disability research have been almost silent. This literature review collates and analyses existing knowledge about the perceptions held by disabled and non-disabled children, and young people from black and Asian families concerning issues of disability and impairment. The Disability Movement has long proclaimed its belief in the full participation and self-representation of all disabled people. However, despite this laudable objective, the Disability Movement in Britain has mirrored society in general and for the most part been led by white, middle-class, heterosexual, articulate males. This review discusses the simultaneous oppression faced by black and Asian disabled children, and concludes that their experience is unique and different from that of white disabled children. Accordingly, it emphasises the need for further research about the subjective experience of black and Asian disabled children in order to meet their particular needs.     

Further Thoughts on Female Perversions

Dialogues with colleagues inspired rethinking of the fetishistic strategy that informs Female Perversions, Susan Streitfeld's film interpretation of the text was a crucial inspiration. As the theory of fetishism shifts from metaphors of Eros to metaphors of Death, it resolves into a shifting dynamic relationship between the two. The other major aspect of the author's rethinking concerns the heterosexual bias that infiltrates her text and a corresponding tendency for the text to regress to the dichotomous views of gender and sex that the book set out to amend. One outcome of the rethinking is a recasting of gender/sex, biological essence/social constructionism debates in the more dynamic language commensurate with the complexities of psychoanalytic thinking.     

A Quantitative Assessment of the Amount of Prion Diverted to Category 1 Materials and Wastewater During Processing

In this article the development and parameterization of a quantitative assessment is described that estimates the amount of TSE infectivity that is present in a whole animal carcass (bovine spongiform encephalopathy [BSE] for cattle and classical/atypical scrapie for sheep and lambs) and the amounts that subsequently fall to the floor during processing at facilities that handle specified risk material (SRM). BSE in cattle was found to contain the most oral doses, with a mean of 9864 BO ID₅₀s (310, 38840) in a whole carcass compared to a mean of 1851 OO ID₅₀s (600, 4070) and 614 OO ID₅₀s (155, 1509) for a sheep infected with classical and atypical scrapie, respectively. Lambs contained the least infectivity with a mean of 251 OO ID₅₀s (83, 548) for classical scrapie and 1 OO ID₅₀s (0.2, 2) for atypical scrapie. The highest amounts of infectivity falling to the floor and entering the drains from slaughtering a whole carcass at SRM facilities were found to be from cattle infected with BSE at rendering and large incineration facilities with 7.4 BO ID₅₀s (0.1, 29), intermediate plants and small incinerators with a mean of 4.5 BO ID₅₀s (0.1, 18), and collection centers, 3.6 BO ID₅₀s (0.1, 14). The lowest amounts entering drains are from lambs infected with classical and atypical scrapie at intermediate plants and atypical scrapie at collection centers with a mean of 3 × 10^?7 OO ID₅₀s (2 × 10^?8, 1 × 10^?6) per carcass. The results of this model provide key inputs for the model in the companion paper published here.     

America's most admired companies: A descriptive analysis of CEO corporate social responsibility statements

This study analyzes the CEO corporate social responsibility statements (N = 50) of Fortune magazine's America's Most Admired Companies. The results find that CEOs describe corporate social responsibility primarily in performance and shareholder driven language. The implications of the findings are discussed and compared to previous research in the communication and business disciplines.     

The Impact of Socio-economic Status and Mobility on Perceived Family Functioning

Perceptions of current family functioning in relation to current household income level, educational status, social-class at birth and social mobility over the lifecourse were investigated in a group of 483 individuals at age 50. Subjective report of family functioning was assessed using the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) with socio-economic information obtained from a self-report Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire. Results indicated significant relationships between household income, social mobility and FAD scores for men but not for women in this sample. For men, lower current income and downward social mobility over the lifecourse were associated with a more negative perception of family functioning. Further research is required to understand the gender differences observed and delineate cause versus effect mechanisms.     

Tables for the Friedman rank test

This note presents tables for Friedman's test for two-way analysis of variance by ranks. These tables are more accurate than those that are presented in the literature. After intensive simulations, we have found for particular critical values some discrepancies with tables published earlier. The tables are also more extensive than those previously available.