Migration,technology and care: what happens to the body?

Migration is a social phenomenon impacting upon family life and conceptualisations of care. Simultaneously, technological advances allow families to stay connected. Care issues in the context of disability and aging may affect family relationships and how families develop. What is little understood is how these issues in migrant families affect a ‘family life course’. We use the case of a South African family with a daughter who is deaf and has other impairments. We argue that when communication is foregrounded and other, embodied, aspects of family care are relegated to the background, we lose the opportunity to understand family care patterns. We relate our discussion to broader theoretical questions regarding the body and care in disability studies.     

中国科学院三个科技史项目中的技术史研究

１９９0年代以来,先后有三个科学技术史项目在中国科学院立项,并由自然科学史研究所组织实施。《中国科学技术史》丛书主要由学科史构成,包括１１卷技术史专著。“中国传统技术综合研究”下设两个项目,一是《中国古代工程技术史大系》,一个是《中国传统工艺全集》。《全集》着重对古代流传下来的传统工艺细节进行调查、抢救和整理。“中国近现代科学技术发展综合研究”分为３个课题;专题研究;资料选辑与工具书;资料中心和数据库。以上三个项目在目标、内容、方法等方面都有差异。中国技术史研究领域还存在不少问题。     

约旦社会保障制度改革及其启示

和世界上大多数国家一样,约旦也面临着越来越严重的人口老龄化问题。为此,约旦政府在社会保障领域实施了三项重要的改革措施。一是参数式改革,即不改变现有制度的性质,只是调整具体的参数;二是整合碎片化制度改革,把公务员和军事人员纳入全国统一的社保制度中来;三是未雨绸缪,积极开展公共预筹积累制改革,融资模式由现收现付制逐步过渡到部分积累制,不断完善投资管理体制。这三项改革不仅符合世界银行提倡的改革模式,而且这三项改革措施之间的相互配合与协调,有力地推动了约旦社保制度的改革和发展,具有极强的借鉴意义。     

How are women with a disability identified in maternity services in Australia? A cross-sectional survey of maternity managers

BackgroundWomen with a disability have poorer perinatal outcomes, but little is known about the prevalence of women with a disability accessing maternity services, how they are identified and what care and services are available. Estimates suggest that nine percent of women of childbearing age have a disability.AimTo explore how public maternity services in Australia identify pregnant women with a disability, what (if any) routine disability identification questions are used, and to examine availability and adequacy of services for women.MethodsCross-sectional online survey of maternity managers in Australian public hospitals.FindingsThirty-six percent (70/193) of eligible hospitals responded including all states and territories. Overall, 71 % routinely asked women about disability status (usually as part of routine history taking), however there was wide variation in how this was asked. Most (63 %) did not have standardised documentation processes and two thirds (65 %) were unable to estimate the number of women with a disability seen at their hospital. Most (68 %) did not offer specialised services, with only 13 % having specialised training for staff in disability identification, documentation and referral pathways. Only a quarter of respondents felt that there were adequate services for women with a disability related to maternity care.ConclusionThis is the first study to explore disability identification in maternity services in Australia. How women were asked was highly varied and documentation not standardised. National guidelines on disability identification for women accessing maternity services should be developed and collection of disability identification data should be routine.     

浙江省少数民族地区学生失学或辍学原因的调查分析

浙江省少数民族地区经济比较落后,那里的基础教育发展相对滞后,中小学生失学或辍学现象较为严重,原因何在?本文从学生、家庭和社会等多角度对学生失学或辍学原因作了剖析,并提出了建议性意见。     

构建太平洋共同体的失败努力：太平洋国际学会的活动与影响（1925-1945）

作为太平洋地区最早出现的国际非政府组织,太平洋国际学会从一个旨在促进亚太地区国家间相互理解和培育太平洋共同体意识的知识团体逐渐演变成以影响政府政策为目标以及服务于美国和盟国战时需要的思想库,并在冷战初期受到美国国会的指控而解散。学会开展的学术研究、圆桌讨论和教育活动虽然有助于消除国家间的误解,对太平洋战争时期的美国政策也具有一定影响,并推动了美国的亚洲研究,但其试图通过培育太平洋共同体意识来改善太平洋地区国家间关系的目标并未实现。个中原因除了学会无法控制的外部国际环境的巨变外,还与其自身的局限性有关,包括各国别理事会的民族主义立场和学会组织者对科学和理性的天真信奉。     

中国农村社会保障体系研究述评

从规范研究取向和实证研究取向角度对我国农村社会保障体系的相关研究进行评述,并指出存在的问题和改进的建议,旨在为我国农村社会保障体系方面的相关研究提供参考与借鉴。     

Social policy planning in a federal structure: A social learning strategy

Current social welfare policy planning reflects an inadequate sense of the problems to be solved and an incentive structure which discourages responsible decision making. Proceeding from overly simple cause and effect models, social welfare policies are designed with detailed administrative regulations to insure uniformity and regularity of behavior across the states. When problems are not solved, policy makers focus on the failures of personnel to follow all the detailed regulations. This leads to additional efforts to enforce compliance. There is evidence that implementation personnel consistently and purposively do stretch or ignore regulations in order to service clients. An alternative to further detailed regulations then is to use the autonomy of state units in the federal structure by eliminating negative incentives to innovation and creating incentives to experiment with alternative programs. As a social learning strategy this would encourage innovation and make it possible to learn from the experience of personnel who daily confront the realities of welfare problems and the large array of administrative details.     

论文化研究的跨学科特征

文化研究作为一个独特的学术研究领域 ,起源于 2 0世纪 50年代末和 6 0年代初的英国 ,至今它已有 4 0多年的历史。本文简单地介绍了文化研究的政治和思想来源 ,着重分析了文化研究的跨学科特征及其具体表现形式。然后 ,作者强调在中国语境下合理地吸收和运用文化研究的理论和方法的必要性     

''''2002中国镇江赛珍珠学术研讨会综述

2002年10月19日,"中国镇江赛珍珠学术研讨会"在镇江召开,专家们的发言和提交研讨会的论文涵盖了赛珍珠研究的诸多方面:对其文学作品的文本研究;对其创作中的辩证思想的研究;对其创作从语言学、社会学角度的研究;对其生平资料的研究;对赛珍珠研究在当代意义的探讨等等。此次研讨会进一步深入和拓展了赛珍珠研究,将成为赛珍珠研究历史上又一个重要的里程碑。