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Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics


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Accompanying CD-ROM contains: contents of book; continuous updates; slide image library; references linked to MEDLINE; pediatric guidelines; case studies; review questions.




Awareness List


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Media Development


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Public Hearings on International Child Labor


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Provides information regarding the use of abusive or exploitative child labour in the production of goods imported into the United States. Comprises written and oral testimony submitted by the U.S. garment importers, their subsidiaries, contractors and their subcontractors, U.S. companies, associations, international and nongovernmental organizations. Includes written statements on child labour policy presented for the record by embassies and government agencies of 45 developed and developing countries.







European Community psychology : community, power, ethics and values


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El libro recoge 38 aportaciones sobresalientes al IV Congreso Europeo de Psicología Comunitaria representativas del trabajo teórico, práctico e investigador realizado por psicólogos comunitarios en Europa y Latinoamérica, agrupadas, según el tema, en 4 capítulos. El capítulo 1 presenta los valores sociales de varias poblaciones así como algunas dinámicas educativas y transculturales de esos valores en nuestros días. En el capítulo 2 se hacen reflexiones y propuestas éticas sobre el trabajo comunitario en tiempos de conformismo. Los artículos del capítulo 3 analizan comunidad -y su vivencia psicológica- como temas centrales de la Psicología Comunitaria y del debate social moderno y postmoderno. El capítulo 4 agrupa experiencias e intervenciones comunitarias en los ámbitos de emigración, salud, política y educación. En dos capítulos adicionales, los compiladores, introducen y sacan conclusiones teóricas y prácticas de lo expuesto el libro, identificando la comunidad, el poder, la ética y los valores como temas nucleares. El volumen es de interés para estudiantes, académicos y practicantes de “lo social” desde distintas perspectivas y profesiones...The book gathers 38 contributions to the IV European Congress on Community Psychogy representative of the theoretical, practical, and research work done by community psychologists around Europe and Latin America. Depending on their contents, papers are grouped in 4 chapters. Chapter 1 presents values held by different social populations as well as some educational and cross-cultural dynamics of today’s social values; chapter 2 contains ethical reflections and proposals on community work in a time of conformism; papers in chapter 3 analyze community—and its psychological perception—as a central topic of both community psychology and the modern and postmodern debate; chapter 4 assembles community interventions and experiences on the areas of migration, health, politics, and education. In 2 additional papers, the editors introduce the book and draw theoretical and practical conclusions on its contents, identifying community, power, ethics, and values as its core themes. This volume is of interest for students, scholars, and practitioners of “the social” of different fields and views.