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5 books match the query 'Differences'
Comparative Reformed Church Polity
Similarities and DifferencesLeon van den Broeke
Central European University Press, 2026
The World Communion of Reformed churches (WCRC) actually has 233 members and all of these churches have in some form legal norms for their constitutional set-up. How do they look like, what is similar to them and where are the di¬fferences? What in the constitutional set-up of the Reformed churches is influenced by the organisational principles that the 16th century Reformers developed for the church and what is the outcome of the, sometimes strong, in fluence of state law? Where do we see constitutional transplants due to the fact that some churches grew out of others? With which topics are all Reformed Churches currently dealing? Finally, to what extent does the Reformed branch on the tree of Christian churches di¬ er from other Christian churches? This books contains expert papers on Reformed church polity in ¬different countries. By comparing a series of church polity topics it wants to foster an understanding of the richness of Reformed church polity in history and at present. This book, then, seeks to enlarge the knowledge on Reformed church polity and, in the meantime, to contribute to ecumenism. If you would like to order the book for delivery outside of the Netherlands, please email orders@aup.nl
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Comparative Reformed Church Polity
Similarities and DifferencesLeon van den Broeke
Central European University Press, 2026
The World Communion of Reformed churches (WCRC) actually has 233 members and all of these churches have in some form legal norms for their constitutional set-up. How do they look like, what is similar to them and where are the di¬fferences? What in the constitutional set-up of the Reformed churches is influenced by the organisational principles that the 16th century Reformers developed for the church and what is the outcome of the, sometimes strong, in fluence of state law? Where do we see constitutional transplants due to the fact that some churches grew out of others? With which topics are all Reformed Churches currently dealing? Finally, to what extent does the Reformed branch on the tree of Christian churches di¬ er from other Christian churches? This books contains expert papers on Reformed church polity in ¬different countries. By comparing a series of church polity topics it wants to foster an understanding of the richness of Reformed church polity in history and at present. This book, then, seeks to enlarge the knowledge on Reformed church polity and, in the meantime, to contribute to ecumenism. If you would like to order the book for delivery outside of the Netherlands, please email orders@aup.nl
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Differences and Changes in Wage Structures
Edited by Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz
University of Chicago Press, 1995
During the past two decades, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular have suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings. These twelve original essays explore whether this trend is unique to the United States or is part of a general growth in inequality in advanced countries.
Focusing on labor market institutions and the supply and demand forces that affect wages, the papers compare patterns of earnings inequality and pay differentials in the United States, Australia, Korea, Japan, Western Europe, and the changing economies of Eastern Europe. Cross-country studies examine issues such as managerial compensation, gender differences in earnings, and the relationship of pay to regional unemployment.
From this rich store of data, the contributors attribute changes in relative wages and unemployment among countries both to differences in labor market institutions and training and education systems, and to long-term shifts in supply and demand for skilled workers. These shifts are driven in part by skill-biased technological change and the growing internationalization of advanced industrial economies.
Focusing on labor market institutions and the supply and demand forces that affect wages, the papers compare patterns of earnings inequality and pay differentials in the United States, Australia, Korea, Japan, Western Europe, and the changing economies of Eastern Europe. Cross-country studies examine issues such as managerial compensation, gender differences in earnings, and the relationship of pay to regional unemployment.
From this rich store of data, the contributors attribute changes in relative wages and unemployment among countries both to differences in labor market institutions and training and education systems, and to long-term shifts in supply and demand for skilled workers. These shifts are driven in part by skill-biased technological change and the growing internationalization of advanced industrial economies.
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Differences in Medicine
Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and BodiesMarc Berg and Annemarie Mol, eds.
Duke University Press, 1998
Western medicine—especially in contrast with non-Western traditions of medical practice—is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are shared. Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol debunk this myth with an interdisciplinary and intercultural collection of essays that reveals the significantly varied ways practitioners of “conventional” Western medicine handle bodies, study test results, configure statistics, and converse with patients .
Combining theoretical work with interviews and direct observation of the activities and interactions of doctors, nurses, technicians, and patients, the contributors to this volume provide comparative studies of specific cases. Individual chapters explore topics such as the contested domain of fetal surgery in a California hospital, the construction of gender identity before transsexual surgery in Germany, and differences in the treatment and definition of pain by two clinics in France. Differences in Medicine advances earlier studies on medicine’s social diversity and regional variations to expose significant differences in the presumptions and decisions that affect patients’ lives, and marks a dramatic development in both the study of medicine and in science studies generally.
Revealing the ways in which the bodies and lives of people are constructed as medical objects by practitioners, technologies, and textbooks, this collection calls for and initiates new, more textured investigations and theories of the body in medicine and the practice of science. It will open new discussions among medical and healthcare professionals as well as scholars in medical anthropology, science studies, sociology, philosophy, and the history of medicine.
Contributors. Isabelle Baszanger, Marc Berg, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Monica J. Casper, Charis M. Cussins, Nicolas Dodier, Stefan Hirschauer, Annemarie Mol, Vicky Singleton, Susan Leigh Star, Stefan Timmermans, Dick Willems
Combining theoretical work with interviews and direct observation of the activities and interactions of doctors, nurses, technicians, and patients, the contributors to this volume provide comparative studies of specific cases. Individual chapters explore topics such as the contested domain of fetal surgery in a California hospital, the construction of gender identity before transsexual surgery in Germany, and differences in the treatment and definition of pain by two clinics in France. Differences in Medicine advances earlier studies on medicine’s social diversity and regional variations to expose significant differences in the presumptions and decisions that affect patients’ lives, and marks a dramatic development in both the study of medicine and in science studies generally.
Revealing the ways in which the bodies and lives of people are constructed as medical objects by practitioners, technologies, and textbooks, this collection calls for and initiates new, more textured investigations and theories of the body in medicine and the practice of science. It will open new discussions among medical and healthcare professionals as well as scholars in medical anthropology, science studies, sociology, philosophy, and the history of medicine.
Contributors. Isabelle Baszanger, Marc Berg, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Monica J. Casper, Charis M. Cussins, Nicolas Dodier, Stefan Hirschauer, Annemarie Mol, Vicky Singleton, Susan Leigh Star, Stefan Timmermans, Dick Willems
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The Social Medicine Reader, Volume II, Third Edition
Differences and Inequalities, Volume 2Jonathan Oberlander, Mara Buchbinder, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, Nancy M. King, Barry F. Saunders, Ronald P. Strauss, and Rebecca L. Walker, editors
Duke University Press, 2019
The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.
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