Chapter 1: The Subject and Functions of Forensic Psychiatry

1969 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
The Subject

Sophie Laws, with Caroline Harper and Rachel Marcus. Research for Development: A Practical Guide. New Delhi: Vistaar Publications. 2003. xiii+475 pages. Paperback. Indian Rupees 450.00.

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-172
Author(s):  
Mir Annice Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Policy Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Is Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Development Workers

To implement any successful policy, research about the subject-matter is essential. Lack of knowledge would result in failure and, from an economic point of view, it would lead to a waste of scarce resources. The book under review is essentially a manual which highlights the use of research for development. The book is divided into two parts. Part One informs the reader about concepts and some theory, and Part Two deals with the issue of undertaking research for development. Both parts have 11 chapters each. Chapter 1 asks the basic question: Is research important in development work? The answer is that it is. Research has many dimensions: from the basic asking of questions to the more sophisticated broad-based analysis of policy issues. The chapter, in short, stresses the usefulness of research which development workers ignore at their own peril.

Lessons in Failure

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Hardt
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Research Design ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Institutional Memory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Observed Behavior

Chapter 1 introduces the subject of institutional memory of strategic errors, discusses why it matters for international organizations (IOs) that engage in crisis management and reviews the book’s argument, competing explanations and methodological approach. One strategic error in the mandate or planning of an operation can increase the likelihood of casualties on the battlefield. Knowledge of past errors can help prevent future ones. The chapter explores an empirical puzzle; there remain key differences between how one expects IOs to learn and observed behavior. Moreover, scholars have largely treated institutional memory as a given without explaining how it develops. From relevant scholarship, the chapter identifies limitations of three potential explanations. The chapter then introduces a new argument for how IOs develop institutional memory. Subsequent sections describe research design and explain why NATO is selected as the domain of study. Last, the chapter identifies major contributions to literature and describes the book’s structure.

Introduction and historical background

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Joel Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Inorganic Compounds ◽  
Biological Molecules ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Crystal Polymorphism ◽  
Patent Literature ◽  
Structural Database ◽  
The Subject

Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the subject of polymorphism in molecular crystals, including definitions, terminology, nomenclature, and historical development of the subject since the first recognition of the phenomenon in 1823. Topics covered include the difficulty in establishing a database for statistical study of polymorphism, the frequency of occurrence of polymorphism, the literature sources of polymorphic compounds, and literature sources of examples of polymorphism, that is, Cambridge Structural Database, Powder Diffraction File, the patent literature, and the scientific literature. Statistics on crystal polymorphism among the elements in inorganic compounds and macromolecular (i.e., biological) molecules precede the historical perspective. The chapter closes with a brief survey of the commercial importance of polymorphism.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Dowding
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Dispositional Property ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Structural Account ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 1 introduces the subject matter of the book. It analyses the methodological issues that arise when conceptualizing power in society. It first looks at the definitional divisions that demarcate different approaches to power. The first division describes causal approaches to power and dispositional accounts of power. It argues that power is a disposition concept – power is best seen as a property of individuals that they can choose or not to wield. The second division concerns structural versus individualist accounts. The chapters argues we need to transcend this division. Whilst in this book power is seen as a dispositional property of agents, and can thus be seen as methodologically individualist, it is equally a structural account. A structure is the relationship between people which can be described in terms of their relative powers. We concentrate on actors for some questions and the structure for others.

Russian Literature and Psychiatry

1995 ◽  
Vol 167 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kachaeva
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Active Attention ◽  
The Subject

The subject of this paper is psychiatry, forensic psychiatry and Russian literature. It is well-known that people with literary talent often possess unusually keen psychological insight. Their literary portrayals of psychological analysis, descriptions of how the human mind and consciousness work and depiction of different psychic states, both normal and pathological, are of great value for psychology and psychiatry and have always attracted the active attention of specialists.

scholarly journals Muslim Communities in the New Europe

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
Sylvia J. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
General Situation ◽  
East European ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religion And Ethnicity ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Relationship

Although Muslim Communities in the New Europe is long and complex, it isnot obscure, and each of its sixteen chapters can be read as a separate entity. The contributors are seventeen academics from universities in various countries ofEastern and Western Europe, as well as the three editors who are based at threeEnglish universities. A short preface is followed by the first chapter, which isalso the first part of the book, appropriately titled “Themes and Puzzles.” Theremaining chapters examine selected countries individually in Eastern andWestem Europe in parts I1 and 111, respectively. Each chapter has helpful andclear endnotes, and a useful index is also included. Tables analyzing the Muslimpopulations in East European countries are given in chapter 2 and those ofBelgium and The Netherlands in chapter 10.In the Preface, the book is described as the “final outcome of a three-year project”to “produce a coherent comparative overview of. . . the role and positionof these Muslim communities.” The material was gathered from two internationalconferences on the subject and from researchers throughout Europe.Professor Gerd NoMeman modestly states: “This volume cannot claim to becomprehensive, but. . . it is hoped that it may contribute to a better understandingof the trends and dynamics involved, and provide the basis for further work.”Chapter 1 outlines the events leadiig up to the present general situation in thenew Europe. The continent is divided into (1) Eastern Europe, where, after thecollapse of Communism at the end of the 1980s. strong nationalist and religiousfeelings erupted; and (2) Western Europe, which, during a long economic recession,absorbed a sudden large influx of migrants from African and Asian countriessuffering serious political and economic upheaval.In parts I1 and 111 the contributors seek to answer a wide range of importantquestions concerning the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims inEurope generally and between Muslims and non-Muslim governments in particular.How significant is the influence of history, the current economy, the originsof the Muslims and the level of their adherence to Islam, local and centralgovernment policies, local customs, international relations, public opinion, andso on? How does the reaction of the younger generation of Muslims to their situationcompare with that of their parents? Throughout the studies of the selectedcountries, the fear of the perceived loss of security and identity seems to beat the root of action and reaction by both Muslims and non-Muslims. How farcan the minority and majority societies adapt to each other without either sidelosing its identity and security? Possible solutions to the problems of integratingMuslims into non-Muslim societies are suggested by some of the contributors.Chapter 2 examines the links between religion and ethnicity in EasternEurope, where Islam has been “an indigenous presence for centuries.” AlthoughIslam is independent of race, color, and language, “around the fringes of theIslamic world” it is the basis of the identity of certain groups within nationalities,such as the Bosnian Muslims and Bulgarian Pomaks.The contributors then tackle one of the puzzles, that of how to define ethnicity.They descrike the current theories, which put varying emphasis on theobjective elements of kinship, physical appearance, culture, and language, andthe subjective elements, namely, the “feeling of community” and the “representationswhich the group has of itself” (p. 28) ...

Stewart and Hamilton

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas McDermid
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
External World ◽  
Stewart’S Approach ◽  
The Subject

How did the cause of common sense realism fare in Scotland in the decades immediately following Thomas Reid’s death in 1796? This chapter explores the contributions of the two Edinburgh-based philosophers introduced at the end of Chapter 1: Dugald Stewart (1753–1828) and Sir William Hamilton (1788–1856). Stewart’s approach to the problem of the external world is less intellectually adventurous than what we find in Hamilton, who attempted something difficult and hitherto untried—namely, to arrive at a synthesis of the insights of Reid and Kant. Hamilton’s willingness to learn from Kant and the post-Kantian idealists opened up Scottish philosophy to foreign authors and fresh influences, and this contributed to the backlash against common sense realism which is the subject of Chapters 5 and 6.

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