Getting more people on a bicycle in Cape Town is what BEN wants. Especially people who travel by car, public transport or by foot. If more people start cycling in Cape Town BEN will get a stronger position in convincing the province and get them to make Cape Town cycle-friendlier. Target BEN wants to …

The Dutch approach to genomics and society is taken as an example to show that the dream of achieving a symmetrical dialogue between social and bioscientists is not easily realized. Dutch social science and genomics experts aspired to create a bottom-up network for society and genomics that would enable …

On the eve of the twenty-first century, it is a scandal that there are still people sleeping rough on our streets. This is not a situation we can continue to tolerate in a modern and civil society. These were the words of Tony Blair in his foreword to the policy document Rough Sleeping, The Government’s …

This pilot study explores the reasons patients have for refusing chemotherapy, and the ways oncologists respond to them. Our hypothesis, generated from interviews with patients and oncologists, is that an ethical approach that views a refusal as an autonomous choice, in which patients are informed about …

In deze bundel geven een socioloog, een historicus, een psychiater, twee rechtssociologen en een sociaal-geograaf een overzicht van relevante ontwikkelingen met betrekking tot vier eeuwen vluchtelingen en vluchtelingenbeleid in Nederland.

The author examines the current views on combat stress and combat related post traumastic stress. He also deals with the role of commanding officers in the preventing and detection of the aforementioned stress, and in coaching and supporting its victims.