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2003

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A Critique Of The Disease Model Of Addiction, Annette Mary Mendola Dec 2003

A Critique Of The Disease Model Of Addiction, Annette Mary Mendola

Doctoral Dissertations

While there is widespread disagreement as to just what addiction is, the two most popular models are the moral model (i.e., addiction is a moral failing) and the disease model (i.e., addiction is a kind of disease). Both of these models have serious problems, for theory and for practice. Furthermore, since competing models for addiction have different implications for treatment, law, social norms, and so on, it is important to find a single model for addiction that works in every arena. We need an account of addiction that avoids the problems of the disease models and the moral models. That …


Dean Rusk : Southern Statesman, Mark Kenneth Williams Aug 2003

Dean Rusk : Southern Statesman, Mark Kenneth Williams

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation is a biographically informed study of Dean Rusk, one of the most important American policy officials in the twentieth century. As an assistant secretary of state under President Truman and as secretary of state during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Rusk was practitioner of an ideology centered on principles of honor, credibility, fidelity, democracy, and the sanctity of national sovereignty. Dean Rusk: Southern Statesman is significant because it combines components of the methodologies of social and cultural history with the primary source material of military/ diplomatic studies to produce an original analysis of the development of Rusk's worldview …


Adventures Of An 'Itinerant Institutor' : The Life And Philanthropy Of Thomas Bernard, Jonathan Allen Fowler Aug 2003

Adventures Of An 'Itinerant Institutor' : The Life And Philanthropy Of Thomas Bernard, Jonathan Allen Fowler

Doctoral Dissertations

Sir Thomas Bernard founded, directed, or subscribed to more than twenty associated charities. His most famous brainchild, the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, became a national clearance house for charitable plans, public health measures, and employment or educational schemes from all over Britain. Simultaneously Bernard, as a Buckinghamshire magistrate, instituted administrative changes to foster independence and moral restraint among relief recipients. On a few issues, including vaccination and fever hospitals, Bernard appealed directly to parliamentary for financial support; or, as with the excise on salt, he spearheaded a campaign for a parliamentary repeal. This study examines Bernard’s …


The Role Of Planning In Shifting From Conflict Management To Conflict Resolution : A Case Study Of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Heather A. Wakenshaw May 2003

The Role Of Planning In Shifting From Conflict Management To Conflict Resolution : A Case Study Of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Heather A. Wakenshaw

Masters Theses

The violent history shared between Catholic and Protestant ethnic/religious groups in Northern Ireland has deteriorated the trust between both communities and public institutions. This conflict is most acute in Belfast, Northern Ireland's urban center, where 'peace lines' have been constructed to divide the two conflicting ethnic/religious groups. Planning agencies have struggled having to plan around the confines of conflict. These measures have resulted in managing conflict, and as a result it has been difficult for these agencies to resolve long term planning problems. In addition, planning agencies have relied on technical analysis and in doing so have inadvertently ignored deeper …