MM 2001: Human Rights - Books
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. By Geoffrey Robertson. Penguin, £20.00. "The notion that 'rights' might belong to anyone, anywhere, as a human inheritance was ridiculed by 19th-century philosophers," says...
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MM 2001: Human Rights - People
UN expert charged with investigating torture Governments do not look forward to getting a letter signed by Sir Nigel Rodley , professor of law at Essex University's Human Rights Centre. For he is the...
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MM 2001: Human Rights - Research
Big business learns to care Persuading large corporations to promote human rights Transnational companies under fire from human rights campaigners have changed their policies and their practice after...
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MM 2001: Values for a godless age
Does our obsession with human rights devalue the concept of duty? Francesca Klug argues that it can act as an essential bulwark against barbarity. Charter for Chaos." "Boon for lawyers." These were...
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MM 2001: Born under a bad gene?
If defective behaviour is influenced by 'faulty' genes, how responsible should criminals be for their crimes? Susan Greenfield shows how advances in genetics are making demands on our sense of values...
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MM 2001: Health - Books
A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes and Society By James Watson, Oxford University Press, £18.99 When our cells divide, the genes within them must replicate. Mistakes sometimes occur leading to disease...
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MM 2001: Health - People
Scaling the computerised face of biomedicine Few scientists can expect to share an £8 million grant or head a research group before finishing their PhDs. Ewan Birney , team leader for genomic...
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MM 2001: Health - Research
Connections between poverty and health You are what you earn Poverty and ill health are linked. A truism. The last serious political attempt to obscure the connection came with the Thatcher...
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MM 2001: Work and Community - Books
In Work, At Home: Towards an Understanding of Homeworking. By Alan Felstead and Nick Jewson. Routledge, £60.00. More and more people are earning a living at home. The numbers of those working mainly...
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MM 2001: Labouring under an illusion
Headline-grabbing predictions about changing patterns of employment have proved wide of the mark. Peter Nolan argues that before we can get a handle on tomorrow, we must reconnect with the past. The...
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MM 2001: Work and Community - People
Courting controversy on the subject of women and work Catherine Hakim , senior research fellow in the sociology department of London School of Economics and author of Work Lifestyle Choices in the...
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MM 2001: Work and Community - Research
Progressive management Winning over the hearts and minds of the workforce "Successful corporate performance," says David Guest, "relies on winning over the hearts, minds and enthusiasm of the...
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MM 2001: Work smarter not harder
Are we using IT or is it using us? Anne Sebba examines the latest research into our changing patterns of work. There is a mobile phone advertisement that promises increased productivity because you...
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MM2001: War - books
War: Past, Present and Future By Jeremy Black Sutton, £20.00 This book puts war in its "social and cultural context". Black, professor of history at the University of Exeter, argues that our model of...
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MM 2001: Looking for the next Balkans
Where in the world will major conflict flare up next? Tim Cornwell considers the likelihood of Pakistan and Colombia being the future flash points Guided cockroaches scuttling under doors to pinpoint...