Beyond the Clinic or The Politics of the World Economy

Beyond the Clinic: Survival Skills for Opthalmologists

Author: Merrick Moseley

Written by experts with many years of experience in teaching trainees in the field, this is a practical and essential handbook. Written with humour and sensitivity, this book will help readers succeed at the interview, find a job, and navigate the maze of what hardware and software they will need. It also covers the clinical audit, how to write academic papers and posters, and administrative and presentation skills.

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The Politics of the World-Economy: The States, the Movements and the Civilizations (Studies in Modern Capitalism Series)

Author: Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

In these essays, written (with one exception) between 1978 and 1982, Immanuel Wallerstein elaborates on the political and theoretical implications of the world-systems perspective outlined in his celebrated books The Modern World-System and The Capitalist World-Economy. Whereas those books centred on the historical development of the modern world-system, the essays in this volume explore the nature of world politics in the light of Wallerstein's analysis of the world-system and capitalist world-economy. Throughout, the essays offer new perspectives on the central issues of political debate today: the roles of the USA and the USSR in the world-system, the relations of the Third World states to the capitalist 'core', and the potential for socialist or revolutionary change. Different sections deal with the three major political institutions of the modern world-system: the states, the antisystemic movements, and the civilizations. The states are a classic rubric of political analysis. For Wallerstein, the limits of sovereignty are at least as important as the powers - these limits deriving from the obligatory location of the modern state in the interstate system. Social movements are a second classic rubric. For Wallerstein, the principal questions are the degree to which such movements are antisystemic, and the dilemmas state power poses for antisystemic movements. Civilizations, in contrast, are not normally seen as a political institution. That however is for Wallerstein the key to the analysis of their role in the contemporary world, and thereby a key to understanding the politics of social science.

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"Wallerstein draws on his historical erudition and formidable theoretical powers to cast light on the ongoing transformation of our society. Even more impressive, he dares to think about the future."

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Members of the Commission
I	The Historical Construction of the Social Sciences, from the Eighteenth Century to 1945	1
II	Debates Within the Social Sciences, 1945 to the Present	33
III	What Kind of Social Science Shall We Now Build?	70
IV	Conclusion: Restructuring the Social Sciences	94