Recent water reform in Australia has focused on seeking to balance the needs of the environment and consumptive users through improved flow regimes. This is in response to declining ecological conditions, exacerbated by drought and the threat of climate change particularly in the Murray-Darling...

Confidentiality has been argued to be a cornerstone both of medical and social research encounters, particularly because of the protection it offers for patients and informants. In practice the idea of confidentiality is fractured. Professional interests in the organisation of medical work, and...

Personal accounts of illness have always proved difficult to analyse. Using the distinction between personal narratives of illness, social careers of sickness and physical courses of disease this paper argues that such narratives provide an important and complementary means of understanding...