A critical review of thyroidectomy consent in the UK

From 2010 to 2015, the UK coalition government sought to reduce the influence of central government and follow a strategy of localism. Devolution, bringing people closer to democratic process and strengthening communities, became a key point of emphasis. The belief was that localism and devolution would empower socially, help instigate economic innovation and lead to the establishment of greener, more environmentally conscious behaviour. The findings of this paper challenge this rationale. Through an analysis of community energy policy, this paper highlights how the strategy of localism that emerged during the coalition government’s tenure, did not allow pro-environmental schemes, such as community energy, to flourish. The significant scaling back of state funding and structure, which became a feature of the coalition government’s approach to localism, restricts the ability and desire for communities to positively affect their surroundings. It is the recommendation of this paper that future governments should look to emerging ‘eco-localism’ literature, and establish a model of localism that moves away from existing neoliberal perspectives of governance.

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On the Activity of Sisters of Divine Providence in Cambodia. Book review: Marie-Madeleine Kenning “Then the Khmer Rouge Came – Survivors’ Stories from Northwest Cambodia – a memoir.” Croydon, 2020. 209 р.

South East Asia: Actual problems of Development ◽

10.31696/2072-8271-2020-3-3-48-289-292 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 289-292

Author(s):

Nadezhda N. Bektimirova ◽

Keyword(s):

Critical Review ◽

Khmer Rouge ◽

Divine Providence ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

The Everyday ◽

The Uk

The article is a critical review of Marie-Madeleine Kenning’s book “Then the Khmer Rouge Came – Survivors’ Stories from Northwest Cambodia a memoir” published in the UK in 2020. The author of the review identifies the most interesting aspects of the book’s content, such as descriptions of the activity of Sisters of Divine Providence, the everyday lives of local Catholics and their interactions with the Buddhist community.

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Open Options Education and Children’s Religious Upbringing: A Critical Review of Current Discussions Taking Place in the UK Parliament

Oxford Journal of Law and Religion ◽

10.1093/ojlr/rwz024 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Ryan Hill

Keyword(s):

Critical Review ◽

Case Law ◽

Parental Rights ◽

Potential Bias ◽

House Of Lords ◽

Depth Analysis ◽

The Uk

Abstract Ensuring open minds and open options education has recently been suggested by the UK House of Lords as a State role that can and should override parents’ decisions in relation to their children’s religious upbringing and education. Yet the language used in their Lordship’s debates risks failing to respect the nature and purpose of legally enshrined parental rights in this area and of being perceived as potential bias that rests on a set of assumptions difficult to adequately determine. Through reference to various writings and case law on the interplay between parents’ rights relating to religious upbringing and the State’s obligations to education, along with an in-depth analysis of the notion of indoctrination, this article critiques their Lordships’ discussions over this complex and highly charged issue by highlighting some of the problems confronting their discussions.

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Accident versus near miss causation: a critical review of the literature, an empirical test in the UK railway domain, and their implications for other sectors

Journal of Hazardous Materials ◽

10.1016/j.jhazmat.2004.02.049 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 111 (1-3) ◽

pp. 105-110 ◽

Cited By ~ 69

Author(s):

Linda Wright ◽

Tjerk van der Schaaf

Keyword(s):

Critical Review ◽

Empirical Test ◽

Near Miss ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

The Uk ◽

Railway Domain

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Ethnic/Racial Terminology as a Form of Representation: A Critical Review of the Lexicon of Collective and Specific Terms in Use in Britain

Genealogy ◽

10.3390/genealogy4030087 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 87 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Peter J. Aspinall

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Critical Review ◽

Minority Populations ◽

Social Categories ◽

Group Identities ◽

Mutual Entailment ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

Ethnic Minority Populations ◽

The Uk ◽

Opening Up

All ethnic/racial terminology may be seen as a form of representation, whereby meanings are generated by a range of social categorizers in settings of popular culture, political discourse, and statistical governmentality. This paper investigates these representations through a critical review of the lexicon of collective and specific ethnic/racial terms in use in Britain. Relevant studies and documents were identified through structured searches on databases of peer-reviewed literature and the websites of government census agencies. The full-text corpus of the UK Parliament was used to delineate the genealogies or etymologies of this terminology. The derivation of specific ethnic/racial terms through census processes tends to conform with the theoretical model of mutual entailment of social categories and group identities. This relationship breaks down in the case of the broad and somewhat abstract categories of race/ethnicity originating in the modern bureaucratic processes of government and advocacy by anti-racist organizations, opening up a space for representations that are characterized by their exteriority. Commonly used acronyms are little understood in the wider society, are confusing, and of limited acceptability to those they describe, while other collective terms are offensive and ethnocentric. Accurate description is recommended to delineate ethnic minority populations in terms of their constituent groups.

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Control and Restraint Techniques in the Management of Violence in Inpatient Psychiatry: A critical review

Medicine Science and the Law ◽

10.1258/rsmmsl.43.1.31 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 31-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Steve Wright

Keyword(s):

Critical Review ◽

Physical Restraint ◽

Cochrane Review ◽

Inpatient Psychiatry ◽

Methodological Problems ◽

Controversial Area ◽

The Uk

Violence has long been a matter of concern in inpatient psychiatry. While research suggests that training in physical restraint techniques can reduce the number and severity of violent incidents and assault-related injuries, the recent Cochrane Review is critical of the methodological inadequacies which characterise these studies. This paper considers issues pertinent to understanding research in this controversial area, critically evaluates research on the effectiveness of the predominant approach to training in physical restraint in the UK, and examines some of the methodological problems inherent in this research.

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