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The Biometric Border World
Since the 1990s, biometric border control has attained key importance throughout Europe. Employing digital images of, for example, fingerprints, DNA, bones, faces or irises, biometric technologies use bodies to identify, categorize and regulate individuals’ cross-border movements. Based on innovative collaborative fieldwork, this book examines how biometrics are developed, put to use and negotiated in key European border sites. It analyses the disparate ways in which the technologies are applied, perceived and experienced by border control agents and others managing the cross-border flow of people, by scientists and developers engaged in making the technologies, and by migrants and non-gov...
Genetic Suspects
As DNA forensic profiling and databasing become established as key technologies in the toolbox of the forensic sciences, their expanding use raises important issues that promise to touch everyone's lives. In an authoritative global investigation of a diverse range of countries, including those at the forefront of these technologies' development and use, this book identifies and provides critical reflection upon the many issues of privacy; distributive justice; DNA information system ownership; biosurveillance; function creep; the reliability of collection, storage and analysis of DNA profiles; the possibility of transferring medical DNA information to forensics databases; and democratic involvement and transparency in governance, an emergent key theme. This book is timely and significant in providing the essential background and discussion of the ethical, legal and societal dimensions for academics, practitioners, public interest and criminal justice organisations, and students of the life sciences, law, politics, and sociology.
Brain Diseases—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition
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Race
An introduction to race that compares diverse historical and regional contexts, illustrated with numerous examples from daily life.
Social Research Methods in Dementia Studies
Traditionally, the most preferred social research methods in dementia studies have been interviews, focus groups and non-participant observations. Most of these methods have been used for a long time by researchers in other social research fields, but their application to the field of dementia studies is a relatively new phenomenon. A ground-breaking book, Social Research Methods in Dementia Studies shows researchers how to adapt their methods of data collection to address the individual needs of someone who is living with dementia. With an editorial team that includes Ann Johnson, a trained nurse and person living with dementia, this enlightening volume mainly draws its contents from two in...
Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry
Broad in scope and with global appeal The Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, second edition is the definitive resource on old age psychiatry. It comprehensively provides the latest knowledge on the science and practice of treating later life mental disorders, focusing on the health and social issues that arise around ageing, dementia, co-morbidity, dependency, and the end of life in progressively ageing societies across the world. Published in previous incarnations as the much loved Psychiatry in the Elderly, this core resource for all old age psychiatrists, trainees, and other clinical professionals treating older people's mental health, has been fully revised, updated, and significantl...
The ^AOxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment introduces the sociological research methods and subjects that are key to the growing field of body and embodiment studies. With an emphasis on empirical evidence and diverse lived experiences, this handbook demonstrates how studying the bodily offers unique insights into a range of social norms, institutions, and practices.
COVID-19 and People with Disabilities
There are no data available for the impact of the virus on mortality among persons with disabilities. Data are available with regard to persons living in care homes (but with no explicit reference to old(er) age and/or disability): By December 2020 there have been 1 500 deaths in care homes (out of 4 260 deaths in total) in Austria. Due to missing data, there is also no evidence of a disproportionate rate of mortality among persons with disabilities and no evidence of the living arrangements of those that have died.
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European Semester 2021-2022 Country Fiche on Disability Equality
In Austria, the main challenge is that disability politics and policies are still perceived and implemented as an add-on rather than cross-cutting. The CRPD provisions and recommendations are implemented only partially. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and drafting of the new National Action Plan Disability 2021-2030 takes the attention of key stakeholders which compounds the lack of public discussion. There is clear evidence that the labour market situation for persons with disabilities has significantly deteriorated already since the year 2010, contrary to the general development and not only since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participation in the open labour market remains a challenge particularly for those with more profound impairments or those who experience multiple discrimination like women with disabilities. The effectiveness of measures in place should be critically evaluated, but the lack of meaningful data makes this impossible. The outcome of a recent initiative of the National Parliament to improve the situation is to be awaited.
