Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward

This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by newly emerging socio-economic status-groups. However, the new national boundaries suddenly made aliens of peoples who had migrated and settled in towns distant from their home countries. The interplay of nationality, ethnicity and socio-economic status or class was given a new theatre. Hope was dramatically tempered by nationalist and ethnic conflicts which cut across ethnically mixed, small status groups of neighbours and friends. In Kampala, Uganda, this rapidly unfolding drama resulted in the expulsion of two Kenyan ethnic groups and polarised peoples from northern and southern Uganda. The essentialisation of ethnic and national identity imposed by colonialism was thus taken on in this new situation by the people themselves, with the result that they became 'cultural' starting-points of social and political judgement. Originally published in 1969.

Politics & Social Sciences

Parkin, David

Social Sciences

Routledge

Health economics is concerned with the evaluation of the effectiveness of health care, particularly by examining the social opportunity costs of alternative forms of treatment. The peculiar nature of the market for health care – that doctors have a major influence on both supply and demand -.has attracted attention, as has the study of the options available for financing such services. 
Economic Analysis in Health Care provides a comprehensive coverage of both the economics of health care systems and the evaluation of health care technologies. It has been written as a core textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students with knowledge of economic analysis and will appeal to an international audience. <ul>
<li>Adopts an international perspective, using examples and case studies from the UK, the rest of Europe, and other countries.</li> <li>Contains detailed exposition of the economic theory alongside relevant examples and applications</li> <li>Focuses on both market-related and economic evaluation aspects of health economics (some books focus purely on market-related aspects)</li> <li>Strong author team with very broad experience of writing and teaching health economics</li> </ul>

Economic Analysis in Health Care

Medical Books

Morris, Stephen

Appleby, John

Administration & Medicine Economics

wiley

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

Anthropology

University of California Press

In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations among communities, and the locally variable influences of Islam and Christianity. The Giriama people of Kenya include pastoralists living in the hinterland; farmers, who work land closer to the coast; and migrants, who earn money as laborers or fisherman on the coast itself. Wherever they live, they revere an ancient and formerly fortified capital, located in the pastoralist hinterland, which few of them ever see or visit. It is the site of occasional large-scale ceremonies and becomes especially important at times of national crisis. It then acts as a moral core of Giriama society, and a symbolic defense against total domination and assimilation.

The Sacred Void: Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 80)

History

Africa

Cambridge University Press

Kinship: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts

This book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship - to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family.

Computers & Technology

Programming

Wiley/Blackwell

Islamic Prayer Across the Indian Ocean: Inside and Outside the Mosque (Routledge Indian Ocean) (Routledge Indian Ocean Series)

In its attempt to squash the influence of animism and pantheism or polytheism and to promote the idea of the One and Only Absolute God, Islam has come up against a tendency within itself to incorporate certain local religious traditions and practices. This book shares that combination of universality and local particularity, exploring this paradox and the contradictory tendencies contained in it.

Islamic Prayer Across the Indian Ocean: Inside and Outside the Mosque (Routledge Indian Ocean Series)

Headley, Stephen

Reference

Booklet for the first annual Alan P. Merriam Memorial Lecture presented by David J. Parken. 25p. Bibliography. The Giriama (also called Giryama) in Kenya are one of the nine ethnic groups that make up the Mijikenda (which literally translates to "nine towns").

Speaking of Arts

Arts & Photography

Indiana Univ.

A practical, introductory guide to the best use of Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) to improve the quality of health care and patient health. 
<ul>
<li>Only title to exclusively introduce, explain and show how PROs can be best used to improve healthcare and patient outcomes </li> <li>Includes real life examples and case studies of PROs in practice </li> <li>Assesses the growing evidence base for PROs in practice </li> <li>Editor team from Office of Health Economics (OHE), The King's Fund and King’s College London with contributions from practising clinicians, GPs and other healthcare professionals</li> </ul>

Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Health Care

Devlin, Nancy

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