Great strides have been made recently in the availability of measurement technology able to describe accurately individual cognitive variation. At the same time, understanding of replicable and fair assessment practices in the dyslexia field has increased, as what dyslexia is has become clearer.

This collection of readings is the companion to The Nurse's Guide to M anaged Care, which is a text designed to provide a broad overview of t he managed health care system as it relates to nursing. Articles were selected for this collection to present a point of view not found in t he text, to present more depth to a subject, or to provoke discussion. The readings parallel the chapters in the text. You'll find 40 insigh tful and thought-provoking articles that will help to facilitate an un derstanding of the concepts in The Nurse's Guide to Managed Care and d raw out discussions of issues...

This book presents the first analysis and critique of the idea of practice as it has developed in the various theoretical traditions of the social sciences and the humanities. The concept of a practice, understood broadly as a tacit possession that is 'shared' by and the same for different people, has a fatal difficulty, the author argues. This object must in some way be transmitted, 'reproduced', in Bourdieu's famous phrase, in different persons. But there is no plausible mechanism by which such a process occurs. The historical uses of the concept, from Durkheim to Kripke's version of...

The present publication relating to peripheral nerve entrapment is an attempt to bring to the attention of physicians an easily readable source of information on this common class of disorders. Frequently encountered disturbances as well as the more obscure entrapments have been included in the volume. The book should have a wide distribution. Despite the neuro logical and neurosurgical orientation, there is much of value for or thopedists and specialists in peripheral vascular disease. There is much of benefit for the general practitioner, with considerable in formation for those in...

First published in 1980, this book examines the nature of sociological explanation. The tactics of interpretive sociology have often remained obscure because of confusion over the nature of the evidence for interpretation and the nature of decisions among alternative interpretations. In providing an account of the problem of interpretive sociological claims, the author argues that there is rationality to interpretation. He also presents a fresh view of the relationship between qualitative and statistical claims and shows their complementary character. Dr. Turner's lucid and comprehensive...