http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3535 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:37:54 GMT 2013-04-16T18:37:54Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6143 Title: Co-opting the Global Health Agenda: The Problematic Role of Partnerships and Foundations in Defining Priorities Authors: Faubion, C.T.; Paige, S.B.; Pearson, A.L. Editors: O. Williams and S. Rushton Abstract: There is little dispute that the global health agenda is increasingly being shaped by foundations and partnerships, as the introduction to and rationale for this book make plain. In the wake of structural adjustment in the Global South, and in the context of the worldwide dominance of neoliberalism, new actors are addressing global health crises such as HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, and water-borne diseases (Farmer, 2005; WHO, 2008). This book examines the impact of these new global health actors on the wider system of global health governance. In this chapter, we argue that the mainstream global health agenda is being driven by powerful, wealthy, and generally market-oriented (and often corporate-funded) foundations as well as by new Global Health Partnerships (GHPs). Given the resources and political support these actors enjoy, they have become de facto agenda-setters and increasingly shape the trajectory of global health governance. Whilst such actors are investing resources on an unprecedented scale -- especially in combating specific diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria -- we argue here that they also have a tendency to bolster the same corporate, capitalist, neoliberal agenda that has been so deleterious to health outcomes across the globe (Harvey, 2003; Kim, 2000). Certainly they are not alone in this –much publicly-funded global and national health policy and spending is similarly underpinned by neoliberal ideology (Saith, 2006). Nevertheless, there is a need to further explore the implications of this ‘private turn’ in global health governance as these new actors remake the health agenda in specific ways. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6143 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5510 Title: Profiling Linguistic Disability Authors: Crystal, David Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5510 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5483 Title: Grammatical Analysis of Language Disability - 2nd Edition Authors: Crystal, David; Fletcher, Paul; Garman, Michael Abstract: This series is the first to approach the problem of language disability as a single field. It attempts to bring together areas of study which have traditionally been treated under separate headings, and to focus on the common problems of analysis, assessment and treatment which characterize them. Its scope therefore includes the specifically linguistic aspects of the work of such areas as speech therapy, remedial teaching, teaching of the deaf and educational psychology, as well as those aspects of mother-tongue and foreign-language teaching which pose similar problems. The research findings and practical techniques from each of these fields can inform the others, and we hope one of the main functions of this series will be to put people from one profession into contact with the analogous situations found in others. It is therefore not a series about specific syndromes or educationally narrow problems. While the orientation of a volume is naturally towards a single main area, and reflects an author's background, it is editorial policy to ask authors to consider the implications of what they say for the fields with which they have not been primarily concerned. Nor is this a series about disability in general. The medical, social, educational and other factors which enter into a comprehensive evaluation of any problems will not be studied as ends in themselves, but only in so far as they bear directly on the understanding of the nature of the language behaviour involved. The aim is to provide a much needed emphasis on the description and analysis of language as such, and on the provision of specific techniques of therapy or remediation. In this way, we hope to bridge the gap between the theoretical discussion of 'causes' and the practical tasks of treatment-two sides of language disability which it is uncommon to see systematically related. Despite restricting the area of disability to specifically linguistic matters-and in particular emphasizing problems of the production and comprehension of spoken language-it should be clear that the series' scope goes considerably beyond this. For the first books, we have selected topics which have been particularly neglected in recent years, and which seem most able to benefit from contemporary research in linguistics and its related disciplines, English studies, psychology, sociology and education. Each volume will put its subject matter in perspective, and will provide an introductory slant to its presentation. In this way, we hope to provide specialized studies which can be used as texts for components of teaching courses, as well as material that is directly applicable to the needs of professional workers. It is also hoped that this orientation will place the series within the reach of the interested layman-in particular, the parents or family of the linguistically disabled. Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5483 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5482 Title: Working with LARSP Authors: Crystal, David Abstract: This series is the first to approach the problem of language disability as a single field. It attempts to bring togeth,er areas of study which have traditionally been treated under separate headings, and to focus on the common problems of analysis, assessment and treatment which characterize them. Its scope therefore includes the specifically linguistic aspects of the work of such areas as speech therapy, remedial teaching, teaching ofthe deaf and educational psychology, as well as those aspects of mother-tongue and foreign-language teaching which pose similar problems. The research findings and practical techniques from each of these fields can inform the others, and we hope one of the main functions of this series will be to put people from one profession into contact with the analogous situations found in others. It is therefore not a series about specific syndromes or educationally narrow problems. While the orientation of a volume is naturally towards a single main area, and reflects an author's background, it is editorial policy to ask authors to consider the implications of what they say for the fields with which they have not been primarily concerned. Nor is this a series about disability in general. The medical, social, educational and other factors which enter into a comprehensive evaluation of any problems will not be studied as ends in themselves, but only in so far as they bear directly on the understanding of the nature of the language behaviour involved. The aim is to provide a much needed emphasis on the description and analysis oflanguage as such, and on the provision of specific techniques of therapy or remediation. In this way, we hope to bridge the gap between the theoretical discussion of 'causes' and the practical tasks of treatment-two sides oflanguage disability which it is uncommon to see systematically related. Despite restricting the area of disability to specifically linguistic matters-and in particular emphasizing problems of the production and comprehension of spoken language-it should be clear that the series' scope goes considerably beyond this. Forthe first books, we have selected topics which have been particularly neglected in recent years, and which seem most able to benefit from contemporary research in linguistics and its related disciplines, English studies, psychology, sociology and education. Each volume will put its subject matter in perspective, and will provide an introductory slant to its presentation. In this way, we hope to provide specialized studies which can be used as texts for components of teaching courses, as well as material that is directly applicable to the needs of professional workers. It is also hoped that this orientation will place the series within the reach of the interested layman-in particular, the parents or family of the linguistically disabled. Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5482 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z