Recommended readings for Salon Debates

 

 

Workplace stress – medical epidemic or all in the mind?

 

• Stress at Work Makes Men Ill BBC News 08 June 2006
• Vivienne Parry Stress: A Blight on Modern Life BBC News 06 September 2005
• Thelma Agnew The workplace stress epidemic Channel 4: Health

 

Further readings:

 

• Neil Mackay Torture of Iraqis Was For ‘Stress Relief’ Say US Soldiers Sunday Herald 02 October 2005
• The Royal College of Psychiatrists Coping With Stress: Factsheet for Young People The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2004 (pdf)
• International Stress Management Association Working Together to Reduce Stress at Work Health & Safety Executive 2004 (pdf)
•  Unison Stress at Work: A Guide for Safety Reps Unison October 2002 (pdf)
• James Tighe Emotional Health BBC Health June 2000
•  Stress Channel 4: Health (Various articles)
•  Workplace Stress Directgov
• Association of Colleges & Trade Unions of the National Joint Forums Work Related Stress: Joint Guidance for Colleges Unison (pdf)

 

 

Playing Balls - why are men becoming obsessed with their health

 

• Ellie Lee Pathologising fatherhood: the construction of postnatal depression as a men’s problem in Britain School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent 2005 (pdf)

 

Further readings:

• Dana Rosenfeld Medicalized Masculinities Temple University Press 2006
• Jim Pollard All Right Mate? An easy intro to men’s health Orion 1999

 

 

Morbid Fascinations - our obsession with death

 

• Camilla Zimmerman and Gary Rodin The denial of death thesis: sociological critique and implications for pallitative care Sage 2004 (pdf)

 

Further readings:

•  Tony Walter The Revival of Death Routledge 1994
• Clive Seale Communication and Awareness About Death Social Science & Medicine 1991 (login required)
• Tony Walter Modern Death - taboo or not taboo? Sociology 1991 (login required)
• David Armstrong Silence and Truth in Death and Dying Social Science & Medicine 1987 (login required)
• Ernest Becker Denial of Death Free Press 1973

 

 

Sending parents back to school

 

• David Hart Parents 'challenge' school rules BBC 28 February 2005
• India Knight Clever isn't a dirty word The Times 06 August 2006

 

Further readings:

 

• Growth for Knowledge/National Opinion Polls Social Research among Parents: a Qualitative Study General Teaching Council 2005 (pdf)
• Adam Swift How Not to be a Hypocrite: School Choice for the Morally Perplexed Routledge Falmer 2003
• Toby Greany A Manifesto For Family Learning Southgate Books 2000 

 

Surveillance society - protection from ourselves?

• Brendan O'Neill Watching you watching me New Statesman 02 October 2006
• Michael Howie 'Big Brother' concerns as secret system of cameras is rolled out Scotsman 26 August 2006
• Gaby Hinsliff Brown to let shops share ID card data Guardian 06 August 2006
• William Rees-Mogg Someone to watch over you The Times 16 January 2006

 

Further readings:

 

• Respect Action Plan Respect Task Force, Home Office January 2006

• David Fraser A Land fit for Criminals: An Insiders View of Crime, Punishment and Justice in the UK Book Guild Ltd 2006

• Francis Gilbert Yob Nation: The Truth about Britain’s Yob Culture Portrait 2006

• Daniel Neyland Privacy, Surveillance and Public Trust Palgrave Macmillan 2006 

• A Pema and S Hells Anti-social Behaviour Orders: A Special Bulletin Jordans 2006

• Elizabeth Burney Making People Behave: Anti-social Behaviour, Politics and Policy Willan Publishing 2005

• Barry Poyner Crime-free housing in the 21 Century Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College London 2005

• Martin Earnshaw Bingeing Anti-Social Behaviour Future Cities Project October 2005

• Peter Hitchens The Abolition of Liberty: The Decline of Order and Justice in Britain Atlantic Books 2004

• Frank Field Neighbours from Hell: The Politics of Behaviour Portico’s Publishing Ltd 2003

• David Garland The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society Oxford University Press 2002

• Amitai Etzioni The Limits of Privacy Basic Books 2000 

 

Demoralising the debate: poverty or social exclusion?

• Stephen O’Brien We're richer, so poverty to be redefined Sunday Times 09 April 2006
• Patrick Wintour Blair brings social exclusion into the cabinet Guardian 24 February 2006
• Analysis: a look at the government's social exclusion policies Guardian 16 January 2002

 

Further readings:

• Narrowing the Gap Fabian Commission 2006 David Brindle Whitehall goes to war over social exclusion Guardian 31 May 2006
• Alex Delmar-Morgan Church of England damns Labour on asylum and poverty The Times 14 May 2006
• Jenny Booth and PA News Government misses its child policy target The Times 09 March 2006
• 21: P3 The Sunday Times 05 March 2006
• Opportunity for All: Annual Report Department for Work and Pensions (UK) 2005
• You are what you spend The Times 25 April 2005
• Matt Weaver Government action on social exclusion is 'flawed' Guardian 12 October 2004
• Social exclusion: the facts Guardian 15 September 2004
• David Walker Social exclusion 'a misleading myth' Guardian 10 June 2002
• David Batty Social exclusion: the basics Guardian 15 January 2002
• David Batty Social exclusion: the issue explained Guardian 15 January 2002
• Policy Publications Child Poverty Action Group

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