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Book SynopsisTracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.Trade ReviewVigarello offers up a grande bouffe of food for thought, tracing the impact of evolving mores and medicines on society's perception of an often stigmatized condition. Nature Vigarello masterfully traces...the stigmatization of the fat person over time. Times Literary Supplement Overall, a useful resource on the sociology and history of obesity... Choice At once compelling and ground-breaking... this work represents all that is best in new histories of the body. Modern Language Review A brilliant piece of work... A great opening point to the many opaque aspects of the consequences of body size for the fate of individuals and societies for future historians to explore. Social History of Medicine Enjoyable and useful. Vigarello manages to deliver an impresive amount of material in less than two hundred pages... Thought-provoking and entertaining. Bulletin of the History of Medicine The most impressive history of corpulence to date... essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how our modern preoccupations with size, weight, health, beauty, and morality have changed over time. American Historical Review In short, the breadth and detail of the account presented here provides a valuable resource for researchers to begin to understand the multiplicity of approaches to fatness over time. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Exceptionally well organized and presented, The Metamorphoses of Fat is a unique and seminal work of outstanding scholarship that is unreservedly recommended. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 1. The Prestige of the Big Person 2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind 3. The Horizon of Fault 4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming Part 2 5. The Shores of Laziness 6. The Plural of Fat 7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms 8. Constraining the Flesh Part 3 9. Inventing Nuance 10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness 11. Toning Up Part 4 12. The Weight of Figures 13. Typology Fever 14. From Chemistry to Energy 15. From Energy to Diets Part 5 16. The Dominance of Aesthetics 17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity 18. The Thin Revolution 19. Declaring "The Martyr" Part 6 Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA dramatic new way to explore controversial science: Socratic dialogues. These creative debates follow the nuances and complexities of stem cell research and emerging therapies for informed readers and newcomers alike.Trade ReviewKrimsky's use of the dialogue method identifies, sharpens, and advances key points of debate and the breadth of issues being addressed. -- Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth College Krimsky is not afraid to introduce the latest, often hyped-up findings and unresolved controversies in stem cell research and to offer a well-balanced discussion of their implications for potential therapies. -- Hynek Wichterle, Columbia University This book presents a wonderful new approach to learning about stem cells and thinking about their broader impact at the interface of society, policy, religion, and ethics. Stem Cell Dialogues is highly novel, very engaging, and will open readers to new ways of thinking about the public stem cell debate. It touches on many controversial areas related to stem cells in a well-informed and engaging style. Sheldon Krimsky is able to break down the pros and cons of each argument in a way that makes the stem cell conversation approachable and empowers the reader to draw their own conclusions. -- Jonathan Garlick, Tufts University Krimsky's coverage of topics is impressive, much more extensive than other available teaching tools. His approach is remarkably balanced, accessible, and interesting. The dialogues are open-ended, leaving the instructor the freedom to develop different ideas in different directions in the classroom. -- Julia Pedroni, Williams College Well-researched and enlightening... Readers will come away with an understanding of the pertinent scientific, political, and moral dilemmas. Library Journal An important book for anyone interested in the issues surrounding stem cell research. Choice The inquisitive form certainly fits the subject, which is multifaceted and evolving. Health Affairs Evenhanded, eminently readable, up to date, educational, scientifically precise, powerfully researched, and very entertaining, Krimsky's slim volume is one that no scientist, policy-maker, ethicist, or intelligent reader should miss... Although the stem-cell debate is complex and heated, Krimsky has done more than anyone else to make it tractable, clear, and interesting. Hastings Center Report As a lecturer in bioethics I regard this book as an immensely useful resource for my MA students...I welcome the contribution Stem Cell Dialogues makes in helping public understanding of the science, ethics and policy concerns of what continues to be a developing and important aspect of regenerative medicine. New BioethicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine Dialogue 1. Hope Dialogue 2. Why Is This Cell Different from Other Cells? Dialogue 3. The President's Stem Cells Dialogue 4. The Dickey-Wicker Enigma Dialogue 5. The Moral Status of Embryos Dialogue 6. Creating Good from Immoral Acts Dialogue 7. Circumventing Embryocide Dialogue 8. My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes Dialogue 9. Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims Dialogue 10. Reversing Macular Degeneration Dialogue 11. My Stem Cells, My Cancer Dialogue 12. Reprogramming Cells Dialogue 13. My Personalized Disease Cells Dialogue 14. To Clone or Not to Clone: That Is the Question Dialogue 15. Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells Is Immoral and Illegal (in Europe) Dialogue 16. My Embryo Is Auctioned on the Internet Dialogue 17. Here Comes the Egg Man: Oocytes and Embryos.org Dialogue 18. Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids Dialogue 19. Stem Cell Tourism Dialogue 20. Social Media Meet Science Hype Dialogue 21. Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos Dialogue 22. Was My Birth Embryo Me? Dialogue 23. Embryos Without Ovaries Dialogue 24. My Cells Are Drugs Dialogue 25. A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment Epilogue Notes Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisA dramatic new way to explore controversial science: Socratic dialogues. These creative debates follow the nuances and complexities of stem cell research and emerging therapies for informed readers and newcomers alike.Trade ReviewKrimsky's use of the dialogue method identifies, sharpens, and advances key points of debate and the breadth of issues being addressed. -- Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth College Krimsky is not afraid to introduce the latest, often hyped-up findings and unresolved controversies in stem cell research and to offer a well-balanced discussion of their implications for potential therapies. -- Hynek Wichterle, Columbia University This book presents a wonderful new approach to learning about stem cells and thinking about their broader impact at the interface of society, policy, religion, and ethics. Stem Cell Dialogues is highly novel, very engaging, and will open readers to new ways of thinking about the public stem cell debate. It touches on many controversial areas related to stem cells in a well-informed and engaging style. Sheldon Krimsky is able to break down the pros and cons of each argument in a way that makes the stem cell conversation approachable and empowers the reader to draw their own conclusions. -- Jonathan Garlick, Tufts University Krimsky's coverage of topics is impressive, much more extensive than other available teaching tools. His approach is remarkably balanced, accessible, and interesting. The dialogues are open-ended, leaving the instructor the freedom to develop different ideas in different directions in the classroom. -- Julia Pedroni, Williams College Well-researched and enlightening... Readers will come away with an understanding of the pertinent scientific, political, and moral dilemmas. Library Journal An important book for anyone interested in the issues surrounding stem cell research. Choice The inquisitive form certainly fits the subject, which is multifaceted and evolving. Health Affairs Evenhanded, eminently readable, up to date, educational, scientifically precise, powerfully researched, and very entertaining, Krimsky's slim volume is one that no scientist, policy-maker, ethicist, or intelligent reader should miss... Although the stem-cell debate is complex and heated, Krimsky has done more than anyone else to make it tractable, clear, and interesting. Hastings Center ReportTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine Dialogue 1. Hope Dialogue 2. Why Is This Cell Different from Other Cells? Dialogue 3. The President's Stem Cells Dialogue 4. The Dickey-Wicker Enigma Dialogue 5. The Moral Status of Embryos Dialogue 6. Creating Good from Immoral Acts Dialogue 7. Circumventing Embryocide Dialogue 8. My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes Dialogue 9. Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims Dialogue 10. Reversing Macular Degeneration Dialogue 11. My Stem Cells, My Cancer Dialogue 12. Reprogramming Cells Dialogue 13. My Personalized Disease Cells Dialogue 14. To Clone or Not to Clone: That Is the Question Dialogue 15. Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells Is Immoral and Illegal (in Europe) Dialogue 16. My Embryo Is Auctioned on the Internet Dialogue 17. Here Comes the Egg Man: Oocytes and Embryos.org Dialogue 18. Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids Dialogue 19. Stem Cell Tourism Dialogue 20. Social Media Meet Science Hype Dialogue 21. Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos Dialogue 22. Was My Birth Embryo Me? Dialogue 23. Embryos Without Ovaries Dialogue 24. My Cells Are Drugs Dialogue 25. A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment Epilogue Notes Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisExperiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their crucial role in shaping norms, practices, and institutions of deliberation governing the ethical challenges of modern bioscience.Trade ReviewWhere is American democracy made? In this path-breaking study of bioethics bodies, Hurlbut finds answers in an unexpected place. Tracing the contorted history of US debates on human embryo research, he brilliantly reveals the power accorded to scientific authority in establishing the preconditions, and even the right language, for valid moral reasoning. Full of original insights, and supported by a wealth of archival research, this is political theory remade with the tools of science and technology studies. It deserves a place beside John Rawls' seminal works on democratic deliberation and public reason. -- Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School In this book, Hurlbut takes the social analysis of public bioethics to the next and higher level. With a focus on how bioethics claims are justified in liberal democratic societies and with a keen interpretive eye on debates about human embryos, I found many of his analyses to be profoundly insightful. This book is a must read for anyone interested in bio-policy in general and public bioethics in particular. -- John H. Evans, University of California, San Diego A well-documented and rigorously argued book that analyzes the modes of public reason that have guided U.S. debates about the human embryo. Hurlbut shows how prevailing modes of reasoning gave science a constitutional role in configuring the terms of ethical discourse. Experiments in Democracy offers a fascinating study of the role of scientific authority in deliberation about bioethical issues in the United States. Important for understanding bioethical debates and the contemporary politics of American democracy. -- Stephen Hilgartner, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Politics of Experiment 1. New Beginnings 2. Producing Life 3. Representing Reason 4. Cloning, Knowledge, and the Politics of Consensus 5. Confusing Deliberation 6. In the Laboratories of Democracy 7. Religion, Reason, and the Politics of Progress 8. The Legacy of Experiment Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExperiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their crucial role in shaping norms, practices, and institutions of deliberation governing the ethical challenges of modern bioscience.Trade ReviewWhere is American democracy made? In this pathbreaking study of bioethics bodies, Hurlbut finds answers in an unexpected place. Tracing the contorted history of U.S. debates on human embryo research, he brilliantly reveals the power accorded to scientific authority in establishing the preconditions, and even the right language, for valid moral reasoning. Full of original insights and supported by a wealth of archival research, this is political theory remade with the tools of science and technology studies. It deserves a place beside John Rawls’s seminal works on democratic deliberation and public reason. -- Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy SchoolIn this book, Hurlbut takes the social analysis of public bioethics to the next and higher level. With a focus on how bioethics claims are justified in liberal democratic societies and with a keen interpretive eye on debates about human embryos, I found many of his analyses to be profoundly insightful. This book is a must read for anyone interested in bio-policy in general and public bioethics in particular. -- John H. Evans, University of California, San DiegoA well-documented and rigorously argued book that analyzes the modes of public reason that have guided U.S. debates about the human embryo. Hurlbut shows how prevailing modes of reasoning gave science a constitutional role in configuring the terms of ethical discourse. Experiments in Democracy offers a fascinating study of the role of scientific authority in deliberation about bioethical issues in the United States. Important for understanding bioethical debates and the contemporary politics of American democracy. -- Stephen Hilgartner, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell UniversityScience historian Benjamin Hurlbut offers a wide-angle history of US attempts at democratic deliberation on the ethics of human-embryo research. Painstakingly researched and spanning more than four decades — from the advent of in vitro fertilization in the 1970s to contemporary developments such as germline editing — the book draws attention to an intricate interplay between science and democracy. * Nature *Hurlbut provides an important new line of inquiry for histories of bioethics in the United States and elsewhere. * Isis *This is a great book on issues of bioethics, and the roles played by, and the inter-relationships among people of authority in government, in law, and in science * BizIndia *A fascinating and necessary review of the multifaceted issues cultivated by these revolutionary breakthroughs. Essential. All readers. * Choice *An important contribution to the science technology studies (STS) literature on the mechanisms of governance of emerging biotechnologies. * Bioethical Inquiry *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Politics of Experiment1. New Beginnings2. Producing Life3. Representing Reason4. Cloning, Knowledge, and the Politics of Consensus5. Confusing Deliberation6. In the Laboratories of Democracy7. Religion, Reason, and the Politics of Progress8. The Legacy of ExperimentNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisBirth control crusader, feminist, and reformer Margaret Sanger was one of the most controversial and dynamic figures of the twentieth century and one of the great women reformers in history. This title highlights Sanger's quest for the 'magic pill,' the non-barrier method of birth control she had envisioned since the early 1930s.Trade Review"This volume provides accurate, dramatic context to the often conflicting struggle to make birth control acceptable in American culture and to make it a global movement. Katz, Hajo, and Engelman have produced an edition that is useful to biographers, scholars, students, and the inquisitive policy maker. I give it my highest recommendation.”--Allida M. Black, editor and director of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships.Trade ReviewNational Women's Studies Association / University of Illinois Press First Book Prize, 2011. "Williams successfully convinces her reader that the eroticization of Afro-Brazilians' bodies and their resulting role as icons of sex tourism are historically rooted in the intersection of race and sexuality in Brazil."--Current Anthropology "As Erica Williams shows well in Sex Tourism, Brazil is an important setting for research on the subject as it has long been a destination for racialised and sexualised tourism. A persuasive and important contribution to knowledge in the overlapping fields of gender studies, tourism studies and cultural anthropology."--Journal of Latin American Studies "In the first ethnographic study of sex workers in Bahia, Brazil, Dr. Erica Lorraine Williams deftly situates sex tourism within the local, national and international spheres of economics, history, race and sexuality. Writing with an ability to speak to a range of readers from undergraduates to experts in the field, Williams provides an intriguing, complicated, and specific account of how sex workers, both male and female, negotiate their jobs, identities, sexualities and racial identities/representations in the sex tourism capital of the world. . . . By opening up her research to a variety of relationships, Williams allowed Bahia to teach her rather than the other way around, a much-needed lesson for all students and scholars."--Women's Studies International Forum"This ambitious, fascinating ethnography clearly articulates how sex tourism in Bahia, Brazil, depends on the sexualized and racialized bodies of people of African descent. Erica Lorraine Williams makes a significant contribution by examining how sex tourism is both a racial and sexual project and how race is central to the commodification of culture."--Amalia L. Cabezas, author of Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic"Not just a book for academics in the field of tourism or racial studies. Williams' engaging writing style also makes this book ideal for both undergraduate and post-graduate students with a sociological or anthropological interest in tourism, race or migration. Overall, this is a must read for academics and students interested in areas of race and/or tourism and I would certainly have no hesitation in recommending it."--Ethnic and Racial Studies"This well-written ethnography provides an excellent example of the ambiguities of transnational sex and the ways that individuals negotiate global processes such as tourism on a day-to-day basis. Of interest to anthropologists, sociologist, and geographers of gender, sexuality, race, and transnationality, it would also be a most welcome addition to upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses on tourism and Latin American and Caribbean studies."--Contemporary Sociology"Sex Tourism in Bahia is a very successful ethnographic text that raises interesting questions and issues related to how we define 'sex tourism' and 'sex work,' the ways government and institutional programs are complicit in perpetuating racial and gender stereotypes of hypersexuality and vulnerability, and the links between transnational desires and the proliferation of sexual and affective liaisons."--H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisDuring the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City''s expansive informal economy. LaShawn Harris illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground industry: sex work, numbers running for gambling enterprises, and the supernatural consulting business. Mining police and prison records, newspaper accounts, and period literature, Harris teases out answers to essential questions about these women and their working lives. She also offers a surprising revelation, arguing that the burgeoning underground economy served as a catalyst in working-class black women s creation of the employment opportunities, occupational identities, and survival strategies that provided them with financial stability and a sense of labor autonomy and mobility. At the same time, urban black women, all striving for economic and social prospects and pleasures, experTrade ReviewDarlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians (OAH), 2017 Philip Taft Labor Prize in Labor and Working-Class History, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2017 "This outstanding first monograph by historian Harris continues Deborah Gray White's 1987 call for historians to reclaim the voices of African American women lost in the margins... Highly Recommended."--Choice"Harris shows how these women skillfully created unique spaces to participate in the city’s informal economy. Her close attention to these women’s lives and labors during the twentieth century shed light on the perseverance, ingenuity and creativity of Black women." --Keisha N. Blain, Ms."This text goes a long way to articulating the major role that black women informal workers played in contributing to the wider American economy in the early twentieth century, and further challenging taken for granted conceptions of black womanhood, and gender role expectations."--Ethnic and Racial Studies"In Harris's beautifully written book, the stories of black women in New York who have been absent in historical narratives vividly come to life. Harris takes us on a fascinating journey of New York City unlike any we have ever seen."--Public Books"An impressive and significant contribution, not just to the historiography, but also to the larger conversation of the over-policing of black Americans' labor and leisure."--The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"A masterful compilation of criminal justice system records, archival newspaper accounts, and period-specific literature. . . . The book is a comprehensive and highly impressive analytical account of a diverse set of black women, and should be regarded as one of the foremost additions to the literature in its field."--Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"Harris has written an important work--perhaps the most important on African American women in the underground economy. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners may well be a classic. It should be required reading for all interested in African American, criminal, social, urban, and women's histories, and other related disciplines."--Journal of American History"Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners presents a clear-eyed view of the opportunities and dangers that characterized black women's presence in New York City's underbelly." --Palimpsest "A stunning achievement that makes an incisive contribution to African American studies and history, black women's history, and gender and sexuality studies as well as works that explore crime and vice. Harris's powerful book sheds a light on groups rarely studied and it will complicate readers's understanding of terms such as illegal, extralegal, and informal."--Kali Gross, author of Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910 "This book is a well-researched and valuable perspective on black women's labor in New York City's early-twentieth-century informal economy. Such a groundbreaking study provides new insights about the existence, relevance, and diversity within the informal economy through a racialized and gendered lens. An impressive work of original research and analysis in African-American, urban, labor, and gender history."--Cheryl D. Hicks, author of Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Margaret Sanger set out to remake the world and did just that. This fascinating collection lets us see in vivid detail how Sanger expanded the birth control movement worldwide and fought to make contraception a weapon in the battle for women's equality. In these pages we see Sanger in all her complexity, and that complexity helps us understand the magnitude of her achievements. This is an invaluable addition to the historical record."--Jonathan Eig, author of The Birth of the Pill

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Excellent."--The New York Review of Books "[A] compelling and original study." --Legal History "Haugeberg's story is an important one. Her book tells the gut-wrenching story of deteriorating abortion access from a new, absolutely essential, perspective." --Reviews in American History "Women Against Abortion is a much-needed corrective that will surely inspire important additional work on women antiabortion activists."--Journal of Southern History"Haugeberg should be commended for the balanced, respectful tone she assumes in this study of one of the most controversial issues in American history." --American Historical Review "[A] nuanced, sophisticated, balanced account. . . . Recommended."--Choice

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Book SynopsisCapturing the strident activist’s complexity during a formative period.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2004. "Mesmerizing letters from the days when birth control was legally obscene and jail sentences were regularly given out for talking about it in public. Nearly a century ago, Margaret Sanger was defending woman's 'ownership of her own body' and linking access to contraception to civil liberties and personal freedom. Rights we take for granted have a long and sometimes surprising history that comes clear on these pages. Required reading for our own time, whichever side of Roe v. Wade you are on."-- Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship"These wonderful letters, diary excerpts, and essays dramatize women's long struggle for respect, self-awareness, independence, influence, and control over our bodies and our lives. To contemplate Margaret Sanger's harsh reality and the enduring vision of this courageous pioneer--while the war against women escalates on every front--is a heartening and galvanizing act of rebellion. Esther Katz and her splendid team have given us all a very great gift." -- Blanche Wiesen Cook, University Distinguished Professor, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the author of Eleanor Roosevelt, volumes 1 and 2"This engrossing volume, meticulously edited and selected, captures Margaret Sanger in all her complexity during a formative period in her long career. Open to practically any page, and something will grab your historical attention."-- Susan Ware, editor of Notable American Women, volume 5 "[Katz et al.] have done their editing with scrupulous care, they have annotated the documents they reproduce with monk-like dispassion. . . . Sanger is a thoroughly fascinating figure, and the book makes for compulsive reading."--David Tell, The Weekly Standard "The work of Katz and her team is critical for a fuller understanding of first-wave feminism, family planning, and one of the century's most interesting women."-- Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering “Birth control was understood to be a tool of working-class liberation that would stall the capitalist engine and improve wages by limiting the supply of future workers. How the birth control movement (and, it could be argued the Left in general) began with such radical, expansive politics, and devolved into a struggle for the much narrower goal of individual privacy, is just one of the fascinating stories that will develop across this four-volume set of Margaret Sanger’s papers. . . . Every document is scrupulously annotated to identify unfamiliar people, places, events, and terminology. . . . An absorbing volume that provides an excellent introduction to Sanger’s life and work for the novice as well as an edifying source for the serious researcher.”-- Social Service Review“Because Sanger knew everyone in the world associated directly with sexual reform or research and, for a time, was very active in radical politics, her range of correspondents was enormous, from sexologists such as Havelock Ellis, to birth control pioneers such as Mary Stopes, to the communist Emma Goldman, the labor organizer Big Bill Haywood, the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., and writers and intellectuals such as H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. . . . [The project] is scholarship at its highest level and when complete will be a standard work of reference for anyone interested in the development of birth control or the history of sex education not only in the United States but also in the rest of the world. It will also record the life of one of the most influential women of the twentieth century.”-- Archives of Sexual Behavior“This collection is a welcome addition to Sanger scholarship. It allows readers to explore all aspects of her complex life and ideas. Readers might find her admirable and inspiring, then turn the page and find her maddening, arrogant, or irresponsible. Introductions to each section add context; readers can provide their own interpretations. The collection offers a wonderful window into Sanger and the early-20th-century U.S.”-- CHOICE

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Book SynopsisThe history of prostitution in early Salt Lake City and its role in the long political and economic struggle between Mormons and gentilesTrade Review"A fresh, revealing overview of two topics in Salt Lake City's history that often have been considered, if not taboo, then generally too delicate for close, honest inspection. [Jeffrey Nichols's] study treats polygamy and prostitution issues with honesty, sensitivity, and a professional historian's eye for detail and documentation. . . . A fascinating read."--Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought"A useful contribution to the history of both commercial sex and western politics."--Journal of American History"This admirable and sympathetic treatment of prostitution in Utah's biggest city is a welcome addition to the literature. Nichols has given us a well-documented business and labor history of the sex trade for his period."--American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface vii Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1. "Celestial Marriage" vs. "Polygamic Lascivious Cohabitation" 9 2. "Women of the Town" 45 3. "The System in Vogue" 83 4. "An Extremely Clever Woman" 135 5. "The Future Occupants of the Houses of Ill-Repute" 178 Conclusion 213 References 219 Index 239 Illustrations follow page 82

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Book SynopsisPresenting individual stories and statistical records from previously overlooked birth control clinics, this title looks past the rhetoric of the birth control movement to show the relationships, politics, and issues that defined the movement in neighbourhoods and cities across the United States.Trade Review"Hajo's extensive research is unmatched in the field."--The Journal of American History"Well-researched, well-organized, and clearly written, Hajo's book offers a solid social, cultural, and political history of contraceptive clinic services on the ground in a variety of local areas."--Women and Social Movements in the U.S. "This useful, practical history of birth control approaches the topic from the unique perspective of the clinic. Cathy Moran Hajo offers a complete picture of how ideas about birth control affected everyday women.”--Wendy Kline, author of Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships.Trade ReviewNational Women's Studies Association / University of Illinois Press First Book Prize, 2011. "Williams successfully convinces her reader that the eroticization of Afro-Brazilians' bodies and their resulting role as icons of sex tourism are historically rooted in the intersection of race and sexuality in Brazil."--Current Anthropology "As Erica Williams shows well in Sex Tourism, Brazil is an important setting for research on the subject as it has long been a destination for racialised and sexualised tourism. A persuasive and important contribution to knowledge in the overlapping fields of gender studies, tourism studies and cultural anthropology."--Journal of Latin American Studies "In the first ethnographic study of sex workers in Bahia, Brazil, Dr. Erica Lorraine Williams deftly situates sex tourism within the local, national and international spheres of economics, history, race and sexuality. Writing with an ability to speak to a range of readers from undergraduates to experts in the field, Williams provides an intriguing, complicated, and specific account of how sex workers, both male and female, negotiate their jobs, identities, sexualities and racial identities/representations in the sex tourism capital of the world. . . . By opening up her research to a variety of relationships, Williams allowed Bahia to teach her rather than the other way around, a much-needed lesson for all students and scholars."--Women's Studies International Forum"This ambitious, fascinating ethnography clearly articulates how sex tourism in Bahia, Brazil, depends on the sexualized and racialized bodies of people of African descent. Erica Lorraine Williams makes a significant contribution by examining how sex tourism is both a racial and sexual project and how race is central to the commodification of culture."--Amalia L. Cabezas, author of Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic"Not just a book for academics in the field of tourism or racial studies. Williams' engaging writing style also makes this book ideal for both undergraduate and post-graduate students with a sociological or anthropological interest in tourism, race or migration. Overall, this is a must read for academics and students interested in areas of race and/or tourism and I would certainly have no hesitation in recommending it."--Ethnic and Racial Studies"This well-written ethnography provides an excellent example of the ambiguities of transnational sex and the ways that individuals negotiate global processes such as tourism on a day-to-day basis. Of interest to anthropologists, sociologist, and geographers of gender, sexuality, race, and transnationality, it would also be a most welcome addition to upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses on tourism and Latin American and Caribbean studies."--Contemporary Sociology"Sex Tourism in Bahia is a very successful ethnographic text that raises interesting questions and issues related to how we define 'sex tourism' and 'sex work,' the ways government and institutional programs are complicit in perpetuating racial and gender stereotypes of hypersexuality and vulnerability, and the links between transnational desires and the proliferation of sexual and affective liaisons."--H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisDuring the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City''s expansive informal economy. LaShawn Harris illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground industry: sex work, numbers running for gambling enterprises, and the supernatural consulting business. Mining police and prison records, newspaper accounts, and period literature, Harris teases out answers to essential questions about these women and their working lives. She also offers a surprising revelation, arguing that the burgeoning underground economy served as a catalyst in working-class black women s creation of the employment opportunities, occupational identities, and survival strategies that provided them with financial stability and a sense of labor autonomy and mobility. At the same time, urban black women, all striving for economic and social prospects and pleasures, experTrade ReviewDarlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians (OAH), 2017 Philip Taft Labor Prize in Labor and Working-Class History, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2017 "This outstanding first monograph by historian Harris continues Deborah Gray White's 1987 call for historians to reclaim the voices of African American women lost in the margins... Highly Recommended."--Choice"Harris shows how these women skillfully created unique spaces to participate in the city’s informal economy. Her close attention to these women’s lives and labors during the twentieth century shed light on the perseverance, ingenuity and creativity of Black women." --Keisha N. Blain, Ms."This text goes a long way to articulating the major role that black women informal workers played in contributing to the wider American economy in the early twentieth century, and further challenging taken for granted conceptions of black womanhood, and gender role expectations."--Ethnic and Racial Studies"In Harris's beautifully written book, the stories of black women in New York who have been absent in historical narratives vividly come to life. Harris takes us on a fascinating journey of New York City unlike any we have ever seen."--Public Books"An impressive and significant contribution, not just to the historiography, but also to the larger conversation of the over-policing of black Americans' labor and leisure."--The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"A masterful compilation of criminal justice system records, archival newspaper accounts, and period-specific literature. . . . The book is a comprehensive and highly impressive analytical account of a diverse set of black women, and should be regarded as one of the foremost additions to the literature in its field."--Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"Harris has written an important work--perhaps the most important on African American women in the underground economy. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners may well be a classic. It should be required reading for all interested in African American, criminal, social, urban, and women's histories, and other related disciplines."--Journal of American History"Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners presents a clear-eyed view of the opportunities and dangers that characterized black women's presence in New York City's underbelly." --Palimpsest "A stunning achievement that makes an incisive contribution to African American studies and history, black women's history, and gender and sexuality studies as well as works that explore crime and vice. Harris's powerful book sheds a light on groups rarely studied and it will complicate readers's understanding of terms such as illegal, extralegal, and informal."--Kali Gross, author of Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910 "This book is a well-researched and valuable perspective on black women's labor in New York City's early-twentieth-century informal economy. Such a groundbreaking study provides new insights about the existence, relevance, and diversity within the informal economy through a racialized and gendered lens. An impressive work of original research and analysis in African-American, urban, labor, and gender history."--Cheryl D. Hicks, author of Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Excellent."--The New York Review of Books "[A] compelling and original study." --Legal History "Haugeberg's story is an important one. Her book tells the gut-wrenching story of deteriorating abortion access from a new, absolutely essential, perspective." --Reviews in American History "Women Against Abortion is a much-needed corrective that will surely inspire important additional work on women antiabortion activists."--Journal of Southern History"Haugeberg should be commended for the balanced, respectful tone she assumes in this study of one of the most controversial issues in American history." --American Historical Review "[A] nuanced, sophisticated, balanced account. . . . Recommended."--Choice

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Book SynopsisWeaving insightful scholarship with beautiful storytelling, Legalized Prostitution in Germany provides readers with a deeper understanding of the complexities of legalized prostitution.Trade ReviewThis thoughtful exploration of legalized prostitution in Neuberg, Germany, includes interactions with sex workers; independent madams; municipal officials; and the owners, employees, and clients of new mega brothels. Staiger (Clarkson Univ.) also discusses Zuhälter—a nebulous category of pimps, traffickers, and others, ostensibly eliminated by the 2002 legalization, that now functions to enforce the new system. Staiger skillfully depicts the paradoxes of German attitudes toward sexuality—on one side, nudity on beaches and in bath houses and spas is not eroticized but acceptable; on the other, public spaces are replete with advertising depicting young, nubile, female bodies, and the heterosexual male gaze and extreme objectification of women are virtually unchallenged. -- A. H. Koblitz, emerita, Arizona State University * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Sex in the Public Sphere2. The Decline of the Red Light District3. The New Red Light Geography and Changing Regimes of Prostitution4. Work and Life at the Flamingo: Portraits of the Girls5. Zuhälter on the Brothel Floor and Labor Discipline6. Prestige, Belonging, and Coercion: The Gift in Sex for Sale7. Sex Clients: At the Club, On the Forum, and at the PubConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWeaving insightful scholarship with beautiful storytelling, Legalized Prostitution in Germany provides readers with a deeper understanding of the complexities of legalized prostitution.Trade ReviewThis thoughtful exploration of legalized prostitution in Neuberg, Germany, includes interactions with sex workers; independent madams; municipal officials; and the owners, employees, and clients of new mega brothels. Staiger (Clarkson Univ.) also discusses Zuhälter—a nebulous category of pimps, traffickers, and others, ostensibly eliminated by the 2002 legalization, that now functions to enforce the new system. Staiger skillfully depicts the paradoxes of German attitudes toward sexuality—on one side, nudity on beaches and in bath houses and spas is not eroticized but acceptable; on the other, public spaces are replete with advertising depicting young, nubile, female bodies, and the heterosexual male gaze and extreme objectification of women are virtually unchallenged. -- A. H. Koblitz, emerita, Arizona State University * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Sex in the Public Sphere2. The Decline of the Red Light District3. The New Red Light Geography and Changing Regimes of Prostitution4. Work and Life at the Flamingo: Portraits of the Girls5. Zuhälter on the Brothel Floor and Labor Discipline6. Prestige, Belonging, and Coercion: The Gift in Sex for Sale7. Sex Clients: At the Club, On the Forum, and at the PubConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTranslated into English for the first time, The Wretched of France contemplates the protest's lasting significance in France as well as its impact within the context of larger and comparable movements for civil rights, particularly in the US.Trade Review"In The Wretched of France, Abdellali Hajjat explores the complex interface between historical patterns of racial and social exclusion and marginalization in France and traces the challenging path to political visibility through activism, mobilization, and protest. The book is of utmost relevance to contemporary global conversations about anti-racism, diversity, inclusivity, and multiculturalism and provides invaluable insights into how ethnic mobilization continues to shape calls for individual freedom, equality, and social justice today."—Dominic Thomas, author of Black France, Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA"The March for Equality and Against Racism was a turning point in the history of France's relationship with its postcolonial immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. In this compelling study, Abdellali Hajjat produces the first rigorous empirical account of the genealogy and sociology of a too often mythicized social movement, masterfully analyzing its political meaning and illuminating its blind spots."—Didier Fassin. James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study"Abdellali Hajjat's The Wretched of France, an exhaustively researched, sharply analytical, elegantly constructed explication of the 1983 March for Equality and against Racism, was pathbreaking when it came out in French in 2013. Now with a new Afterward, sketching the posthistory of racism and revolt, it remains essential reading, in both French and English, today. Melding archival research, interviews, close readings of the press and other media, with deep knowledge of French postcolonial history and the sociological and political science literatures on race and racism, and anti-racist political mobilizations on both sides of the Atlantic, Hajjat offers a uniquely original and powerful explanation for this crucial moment and its afterlives."—Leora Auslander, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Protest March as an Index of Social and Racial Tensions in France1. The Laboratory of Les Minguettes: The Micro-History of a Working-Class District2. Riots or Rebellions? 'Urban Youths' on the Borders of the Political3. The Fear of Rebellion4. The Unlikely Construction of an Anti-Racist National Consensus5. The Ambiguities of the Parisian Apotheosis6. Divided MemoriesConclusion: After the March: The Challenges of Postcolonial PoliticsAfterword: From 1983 to 2020: Reflections on an Enduring Problem of Racism and RevoltAppendicesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines U.S. obscenity trials in the early twentieth century and how they framed a wide-ranging debate about the printed word's power to deprave, offend, and shape behavior.Trade Review“A profound reassessment not only of American censorship issues, Literary Obscenities joins the current rethinking of modernist studies, particularly in terms of the paperback revolution and its long-term cultural impact. This welcome addition to the ongoing discourse in legal studies, book history, cultural studies, and the philosophy of modernism is cause for celebration. Bachman’s well-researched, acutely insightful, accessibly written study will take its place alongside Marjorie Heins’s Not in Front of the Children as a staple in university courses.”—S. E. Gontarski,author of Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze“Provides a historical framework and literary context for perhaps better understanding modern, printed-words-only obscenity prosecutions and why they are now so rare.”—Clay Calvert Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books“[Bachman] offers a historical perspective on modernism and literary naturalism and shrewdly covers the relationship between what is on the page and how readers respond to it.”—D. C. Greenwood ChoiceTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Getting Off the Page2. How to Misbehave as aBehaviorist (if You’re Wyndham Lewis)3. Erskine Caldwell, Smut, and the Paperbacking of Obscenity4. Sin, Sex, and Segregation in Lillian Smith’s Silent SouthConclusion: Off the PageNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers an account of how the Internet is transforming gossip, the way we shame others, and our ability to protect our own reputations. Focusing on blogs, Internet communities, and cybermobs, this book shows that, ironically, the unconstrained flow of information on the Internet may impede opportunities for self-development and freedom.

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Book SynopsisFor engineering and scientific endeavors to progress there must be generally accepted ethical guidelines in place to which engineers and scientists must adhere. This book explores the various scientific and engineering disciplines, examining the potential for unethical behavior by professionals.Trade Review“Overall, Speight and Foote present a wide-ranging discussion of ethics from a theoretical and applied perspective making Ethics in Science and Engineering a valuable reference book.” (Journal of Chemical Education, 30 November 2012)Table of ContentsPreface ix 1. Explaining Ethics 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 The Impact of Science and Engineering 8 1.3 The Framework of Ethics 12 1.4 Ethics in Professional Life 19 References 24 2. Scientists and Engineers 27 2.1 Introduction 27 2.2 Definitions 32 2.3 Scientific Disciplines 35 2.4 Engineering Disciplines 39 2.5 Expert Witness 41 2.6 Professionalism 43 References 50 3. The Psychology and Philosophy of Ethics 53 3.1 Introduction 53 3.2 Ethical Responsibilities in Research 56 3.3 Ethics in Science and Engineering 63 3.4 A Phenomenological Theory of Ethics 72 3.5 Conflicts of Interest 76 References 82 4. Education of Scientists and Engineers 85 4.1 Introduction 85 4.2 The High School Experience 87 4.3 The Baccalaureate Experience 91 4.4 The Graduate Degree Experience 102 4.5 Postdoctoral Education 106 4.6 Morals and Values 108 4.7 Evaluating Scientists and Engineers 113 4.8 Intellectual Property 114 References 119 5. Scientific and Engineering Societies 123 5.1 Introduction 123 5.2 Scientific Societies 127 5.3 Engineering Societies 131 5.4 Codes of Ethics and Ethical Standards 134 5.5 Promoting Research Integrity 138 5.6 The Effectiveness of Society Activities 140 5.7 Academic Freedom 148 References 153 6. Codes of Ethics and Ethical Standards 157 6.1 Introduction 157 6.2 Ethics 166 6.3 Codes of Ethics 179 6.4 The Premise Behind Codes of Ethics 184 6.5 Codes of Ethics and Peer Reviews 188 References 191 7. Integrity in Research 195 7.1 Introduction 195 7.2 The Nature and Conduct of Research 205 7.3 Collecting Research Data 216 7.4 The Controls 226 References 231 8. Publication and Communication 235 8.1 Introduction 235 8.2 The Scientific and Engineering Literature 241 8.3 The Journals 242 8.4 Data Manipulation for Publication 247 8.5 Detecting Falsified Data 248 8.6 Peer Reviewers and Their Duties 249 8.7 Duties and Responsibilities of a Journal Editor 252 References 257 9. Enforcement of Codes of Ethics 259 9.1 Introduction 259 9.2 Following a Code of Ethics 262 9.3 Enforcing a Code of Ethics 264 9.4 Reporting Misconduct 274 9.5 Published Examples of Unethical Behavior 280 References 288 Glossary 291 Index 301

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Book SynopsisEthical Psychological Practice goes far beyond the basics of ethical theory to show how experts in the field are debating and re-interpreting ethical doctrines to create workable policies and principles for today and tomorrow.Table of ContentsList of Tables. Notes on Contributors. Foreword. Preface. 1 Introduction (Alfred Allan). 2 The Development of the 2007 Code (Alfred Allan and Mick Symons). 3 The Functionality of the Australian Psychological Society’s 1997 and 2007 Codes of Ethics (Alfred Allan). 4 Is a Psychologist Always a Psychologist, Ethically? Some Observations Through a Wide Lens (William Warren). 5 The Australian Psychological Society’s 2007 Code of Ethics: An Observer’s Perspective (David Collier). 6 The Principles that Underlie the 2007 Code (Alfred Allan). 7 Consent, Privacy and Confidentiality (Graham R. Davidson, Alfred Allan and Anthony W. Love). 8 The 2007 APS Code in Relation to Professional Ethics Education (Anthony W. Love). 9 Exploration of Psychologists’ Social Responsibilities: How Does the 2007 APS Code of Ethics Measure Up? (Graham R. Davidson). 10 Reviewing the APS Code of Ethics with Young People in Mind (Marie R. Joyce). 11 Boundaries and Multiple Relationships (Sabine Hammond). 12 The Regulation of Sexual Activity Between Psychologists and Their Clients and Former Clients (Alfred Allan and Donald M. Thomson). 13 Looking Forward (Anthony W. Love and Alfred Allan). Appendix: Code of Ethics. Index.

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Book SynopsisSeeking the historical and cultural roots of the conflict between Soviet-aligned Marxists and the religious extremists inspired by Egyptian and Pakistani brands of 'fundamentalist' Islam, this work examines the lives of three significant figures of the late nineteenth century - a tribal khan, a Muslim saint, and a prince.Table of ContentsList of Maps Acknowledgments List of Significant Persons 1. INTRODUCTION Beginnings Recollecting the Past Contested Domains 2. THE MAKING OF SULTAN MUHAMMAD KHAN Myth and History Fathers and Sons Men and Women Friends and Enemies Coda: Jandad's Punishment 3. THE REIGN OF THE IRON AMIR Mapping the State The Once and Future King The Armature of Royal Rule Kingship and Honor Coda: The Death of the King 4. THE LIVES OF AN AFGHAN SAINT Twice-Told Tales Fathers and Sons Identity and Place Discipline and Power Benefit and Gratitude Purity and Politics Pirs and Princes Coda: The Journey to Koh-i Qaf 5. MAD MULLAS AND ENGLISHMEN A Passage to India The Events of :1897 and Their Explanation Waging Jihad The Fault Lines of Authority Tales of Jarobi Glen Conclusion 6. EPILOGUE Re: Posting on the Internet Embedded Codes Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamining the conflict in Iraq, this work reveals the government's assault on the constitutional freedoms of the American media during Operation Desert Storm.

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Book SynopsisOffering an analysis of legislative responses to surrogacy in the bellwether states of New York and California, this book explores how discourses about gender, family, race, genetics, rights, and choice have shaped policies. It examines the views of key players, including legislators, women's organizations, religious groups, the media, and others.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Unfamiliar Families? 1. The New Problem of Surrogate Motherhood: Legislative Responses 2. "Choice" and the "Best Interests of Children": Claiming the Problem of Surrogate Motherhood 3. "Moral Conundrums and Menacing Ambiguities": Framing the Problem of Surrogate Motherhood 4. Competing Frames of Surrogacy: Comparing Newspapers' Coverage of "Horror Stories" 5. Unity, Divisions, and Strange Bedfellows: Divergent Legislative Responses to Surrogate Motherhood 6. A Brave New World? Reproductive Politics from the Past to the Present Appendix A: A Note on Methods and Data Appendix B: A Multistate Comparison of the Impact of Sponsor's Gender and Prochoice Position on the Success of Surrogacy Bills Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDeals with love, sexuality, and politics in contemporary Cuba. In this narrative, the author explores the role of women in Cuban political culture by examining the rise of economies of sex, romance, and money since the early 1990s.Trade Review"She has succeeded -- crafting an engrossing, complex text that will be useful for scholars across a wide range of disciplines: women and gender studies, sociology, political science, criminology, law and society, and international studies. Additionally, her strong methodological focus is a useful guide for students beginning fieldwork with hidden populations or engaging controversial topics." Criminal Law and Criminal Justice BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Ochun and Yemaya 1. From Mulata to Jinetera: Prostitution as Image of Thought 2. Love, Sex, Money, and Meaning: Interrogating Jineterismo on the Ground 3. Lessons in Subterfuge: Everyday Acts of Repression and Resistance 4. There Is Only One Revolution: State Institutions and the Moral Revolution 5. Conduct Unbecoming: Bodily Resistance and the Ethics of the Self Conclusion: On the Malecon Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the late 1970s, the adult film industry began the transition from celluloid to home video. This book traces this change and examines the cultural and legal efforts to regulate, contain, limit, or eradicate pornography. Drawing on a wide variety of materials, it de-centers the film text in favor of industry histories and contexts.Trade Review"Alilunas explores the complex route adult video took from taboo suburban scourge to a fixture of neighborhood video boutiques ... Summing up: Highly recommended." CHOICETable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue. Naked Ladies and Ice Cream Bars Introduction. Smaller Than Life: Adult Video, Pleasure, and Control 1. Panorams, Motels, and Pirates: The Origins of Adult Video 2. Adult Video News: Selling XXX without the Sex 3. The Means of Production: Vivid Video and Femme Productions 4. Saving the Family: Video Rental Stores and the Toxicity of Pornography Epilogue. Limousines and Legacies Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called fusion centers. These centers were ostensibly set up to prevent terrorism, but politicians, the press, and policy advocates have criticized them for failing on this account. So why do these security systems persist? Pacifying the Homeland travels inside the secret world of intelligence fusion, looks beyond the apparent failure of fusion centers, and reveals a broader shift away from mass incarceration and toward a more surveillance- and police-intensive system of social regulation. Provided with unprecedented access to domestic intelligence centers, Brendan McQuade uncovers how the institutionalization of intelligence fusion enables decarceration without fully addressing the underlying social problems at the root of mass incarceration. The result is a startling analysis that contributes to the debates on surveillance, mass incarceration, and policing and challenges readers to see surveillance, policing, mass incarceration, and the security state in an entirely new light.Trade Review"Through comprehensive research, McQuade offers a substantial contribution to studies in policing, surveillance, historical sociology, and social justice. . . . As the book makes clear, “mass supervision, an outgrowth and extension of mass incarceration, helps maintain the stark—and starkly racialized—inequalities that characterize the United States." Understanding intelligence fusion and mass supervision is necessary to challenge such conditions, an effort Pacifying the Homeland contributes to greatly." * Journal of Criminal Justice Education *"Pacifying the Homeland is part of a wave of much needed critical policing studies that at once echo an earlier era in the study of radical criminology, while also heralding the arrival of a new interventionist, unapologetic structural analysis of policing." * Punishment & Society *"This is a vitally important book." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: Policing Camden’s crisis 1. Connecting the dots beyond counterterrorism and seeing past organizational failure 2. The rise and present demise of the workfare-carceral state 3. The institutionalization of intelligence fusion 4. Policing decarceration 5. Beyond cointelpro 6. Pacifying poverty Conclusion: The Camden model and the Chicago challenge Appendix: Research and the World of Official Secrets Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisPolice Visibility presents empirically grounded research into how police officers experience and manage the information politics of surveillance and visibility generated by the introduction of body cameras into their daily routines and the increasingly common experience of being recorded by civilian bystanders. Newell elucidates how these activities intersect with privacy, free speech, and access to information law and argues that rather than being emancipatory systems of police oversight, body-worn cameras are an evolution in police image work and state surveillance expansion. Throughout the book, he catalogs how surveillance generates information, the control of which creates and facilitates power and potentially fuels state domination. The antidote, he argues, is robust information law and policy that puts the power to monitor and regulate the police squarely in the hands of citizens. Trade Review"Newell’s informed recommendations move the policy conversation in a productive direction. They serve as an important bulwark against the ‘surveil now, ask questions later’ ethos undergirding much of the body camera policies currently in place." * Jotwell *"An exemplary case of an ethnography of a particularly difficult to reach group." * Surveillance & Society *"Bryce Newell has produced a well-researched study. . . .for those researching and writing on the efficacy and potential pitfalls of police [body-worn cameras]s, Newell’s necessary and impressive work should be your starting point." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note about Prior Publications Introduction 1 Visibility, Surveillance, and the Police 2 Privacy, Speech, and Access to Information 3 Bystander Video and "the Right to Record" 4 Policing as (Monitored) Performance 5 The (Techno-)Regulation of Police Work 6 Public Disclosure as "Direct to YouTube" Alternative Conclusion Methodological Note Appendix A. Tables Appendix B. Figures Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisZygmunt Baumana s powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way. Our era, he suggests, may actually represent a dawning, rather than a twilight, for ethics.Trade Review"Bauman must be given credit for placing what Kant called the mysteries of 'moral law inside me' as the ultimate riddle of morality. His criticism of all moral theories that reduce morality to the utilitarian rational choice of social actors is convincing." Jose Casanova, New School for Social ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Moral Responsibilities, Ethical Rules. 2. The Elusive Universality. 3. The Elusive Foundations. 4. The Moral Party of Two. 5. Beyond the Moral Party. 6. Social Spaces: Cognitive, Aesthetic, Moral. 7. Private Morals, Pubic Risks. 8. An Overview: In the End is the Beginning. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Wide coverage and introduction to the main issues and arguments of applied ethics. aeo Each chapter specially commissioned to introduce newcomers. aeo Comprehensive notes and reading guides.Trade Review"Although the level of Almond's language is too high for many A-level students, her book makes a good revision text for more advanced candidates." Jonathan Webber, Dialogue, 1996 "This excellent, handy collection will be found useful by anyone who wants to show how philosophy is 'relevant'." Richard Ashcroft, University of Liverpool, Society for Applied Philosophy, 1996 "This volume provides a most valuable collection of articles arranged in five sections dealing with family relationships, the professions, crime and punishment, economics and politics, and international and global dimensions. The contributors are leading philosophers and ethicists. There can be few better ways of approaching such a wide range of issues." The Expository TimesTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Introduction. Ethical Theory and Ethical Practice: Brenda Almond (University of Hull). Part I: The Personal Dimension: Family and Relationships:. 1. Trouble with Familes?: Mary Midgley and Judith Hughes (Both at Newcastle). 2. Love and Personal Relationships: Paul Gregory (Germany). 3. Between the Sexes: Care or Justice?: Moira Gatens (Sydney). 4. Children Who Run: Ethics and Homelesness: Michael Parker (Middlesex). Part II: Public and Professional Dimensions: Ethics and the Professions:. 5. Education: Conserving Tradition: John Haldane (St. Andrews). 6. Ethics, Law and the Quality of the Media: Andrew Belsey (University of Wales College of Cardiff). 7. Reconciling Business Imperatives and Moral Virtues: Jennifer Jackson (Leeds). 8. The Gene Revolution: Ruth Chadwick (Cardiff). 9. Information and Accountability in Science: Dick Holdsworth (Luxembourg). 10. Psychiatry, Compulsory Treatment and the Value-Based Model of Mental Illness: W. Fulford (Warneford Hospital). Part III: The Legal Dimensions: Crime and Punishment:. 11. Crime and Responsibility: H. Tam (Cambridge). 12. Is Psychopathy a Moral Concept?: M. Bavidge and A. Cole (Both at Newcastle). 13. Life, Death and the Law: Robert Campbell (Bolton Institute). 14. Ethical Questions Facing Law Enforcement Agents: John Kleinig (CUNY). Part IV: Economic and Political Dimensions: Politics and Society:. 15. Is Efficiency Ethical? Resource Issues in Health Care: Donna Dickenson (Open University, Milton Keyne). 16. Liberty or Community? Defining the Postmarxist Agenda: Brenda Almond (Hull). 17. A Defence of Property Rights and Capitalism: Tibor Machan (Auburn). 18. Nationalism and Intervention: A. J. Coady (University of Melbourne). Part V: International and Global Dimensions: Extending the Moral Community:. 19. Rich and Poor: Jennifer Trusted (Exeter). 20. War, Terrorism and Ethical Consistency: Gerry Wallace (Hull). 21. Enlarging the Community: Companion Animals: Stephen Clark (Liverpool). 22. Ethics and the Environment: the Global Perspective: Robin Attfield (Cardiff). Bibliographies. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is a study of the multi-faceted dimensions of the genetic revolution and its philosophical, ethical, social, and political significance. It brings together the best and most influential contemporary writing about genetics.Trade Review“The editors are to be congratulated on compiling such a stimulating and provocative volume. This is for those who wish to examine the basis of human bioethics thoroughly, whether they be novice or expert. Those who think they have clear attitudes to many of the ethical and social issues raised by developments in human genetics are likely to be forced to rethink at least some of their positions by the challenging and well-presented arguments that have been gathered together here." Angus Clarke, University of Wales "This timely book makes clear that genetic research will transform healthcare, choices about children, and standards of property. The contributors here stake out key questions facing health professionals and social policy makers, and they have insightful things to say about how we should go about answering those questions." Timothy F. Murphy, University of IllinoisCollege of Medicine at Chicago " ... Genethics makes some important contributions, offering a primer on key aspects of contemporary genetics before focusing on some of the most important ethical, legal, economic, political issues facing researchers, politicians, and, to some extent, the general population ... The book's strengths are its multidisciplinary approach, the overall quality of its contributions, and the refusal of most contributors to oversimplify and risk the microdeterminism of many popular essays." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction : Justine Burley (University of Manchester and Exeter College, Oxford) and John Harris (University of Manchester). 1. Stem cells: C.N. Svendsen (University of Cambridge). 2. Gene therapy for neurological disorders: P.R. Lowenstein (Gene Therapeutics Institute). 3. Cloning in biology and medicine: Ian Wilmut (Roslin Institute)Genetics of old age: Thomas B.L. Kirkwood (University of Newcastle). 4. The ethical legacy of Nazi medical war crimes: Paul Weindling (Oxford Bookes University). 5. Biotechnology and animals: Bernard E. Rollin (Colorado State University). 6. The role of informed consent in genetic experimentation: SørenHolm (University of Oslo). 7. Testing children and adolescents: Dorothy Wertz (University of Massachusetts). 8. Genetic testing of children: Lainie Friedman Ross (University of Chicago). 9. Mapping the human genome and "Monster Mythology": George J. Annas (Boston University). 10. The moral status of the gene: Mary Anne Warren (San Francisco State University). 11. The ethical use of human embryonic stem cells in research and therapy: John Harris (University of Manchester). 12. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and embryo selection: Bonnie Steinbock (State University of New York at Albany). 13. Individual autonomy and genetic choice: Matthew Clayton (Brunel University). 14. Cloning and public policy: Ruth Macklin (Albert Einstein College of Medicine). 15. Sex-selection: The feminist response: Diemut Bubeck (London School of Economics). 16. Creating perfect people: Philip Kitcher (Columbia University). 17. Genetics and personal identity: Carol Rovane (Columbia University). 18. Genetic determinism and gene selection: Richard Dawkins (University of Oxford and New College). 19. The "Darwin Wars" and the human self image: Janet Radcliffe Richards (University College London. 20. Religion and Gene Therapy: Gerald McKenny (Rice University). 21. ‘Race', genetics and human difference: Hussein Kassim (University of London). 22. Self-ownership, begetting and germ-line information: Hillel Steiner (University of Manchester). 23. Justice, genetics and lifestyles: Inez de Beaufort (Erasmus University). 24. Commercial exploitation of the human genome: Ruth Chadwick (Lancaster University) and Adam Hedgecoe (University College London). 25. Forensic DNA typing: David Wasserman (University of Maryland). 26. Privacy and genetics: Madison Powers (Georgetown University). 27. DNA banking: Bartha Maria Knoppers (University of Montreal). 28. Genetic difference in the workplace: Michael Yesley (Los Alamos National Laboratory). 29. The insurance market and discriminatory practices: Tom Sorell (University of Ethics). 30. Legal and ethical issues in biotechnology patenting: Pilar Ossorio (American Medical Association. 31. Patented genes: Mark Sagoff (University of Maryland, College Park). 32. Property, patents, and genetic material: Stephen Munzer (University of California, Los Angeles). 33. Genetic screening from a public health perspective: Scott Burris (Temple University) and Lawrence Gostin (Georgetown University). Afterword: Sir David Weatherall (University of Oxford). Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the impact of thinking with gender on modern ethics, and considers the insights that postmodern gender theory might bring to the ethical project. It concludes with the possibility of another way of self-understanding and of renewal in theological ethics for our time.Trade Review"This is a demanding but rewarding book. Dr. Parsons wants to reconstrue theological ethics by developing our critical sensitivity to the ways we are made by our cultures. That human beings are richly complex and positively creative is a key feature of what she has to say about 'gender'. This profoundly theological book centres on the virtue of hope and the transfiguration of human relationships. No crying for the moon here, but something which is a serious possibility." Ann Loades, University of Durham, UK "This work is a fine achievement. There is an impressive range of treatments, remarkable erudition, consistent clarity, and imaginative glimpses of a new future for recognizably Christian ethics. It is certain to be discussed for several years." TheologyTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. On Ethics and Gender. 2. Feminism as an Ethics of Gender. 3. Is Ethics a Man's Subject?. 4. The Matter of Bodies. 5. The Subject of Language. 6. The Power of Agency. 7. Engendering Ethics. 8. Conceiving of Difference. 9. Subjected in Hope. 10. For Love of God. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the impact of thinking with gender on modern ethics, and considers the insights that postmodern gender theory might bring to the ethical project. It concludes with the possibility of another way of self-understanding and of renewal in theological ethics for our time.Trade Review"This is a demanding but rewarding book. Dr. Parsons wants to reconstrue theological ethics by developing our critical sensitivity to the ways we are made by our cultures. That human beings are richly complex and positively creative is a key feature of what she has to say about 'gender'. This profoundly theological book centres on the virtue of hope and the transfiguration of human relationships. No crying for the moon here, but something which is a serious possibility." Ann Loades, University of Durham, UK "This work is a fine achievement. There is an impressive range of treatments, remarkable erudition, consistent clarity, and imaginative glimpses of a new future for recognizably Christian ethics. It is certain to be discussed for several years." TheologyTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. On Ethics and Gender. 2. Feminism as an Ethics of Gender. 3. Is Ethics a Man's Subject?. 4. The Matter of Bodies. 5. The Subject of Language. 6. The Power of Agency. 7. Engendering Ethics. 8. Conceiving of Difference. 9. Subjected in Hope. 10. For Love of God. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisMark Jordan has written a provocative and stimulating introduction to the issues surrounding sexual ethics and sexuality and theology, filling a much--needed void in this field. Jordan summarizes key topics and themes in the teaching and discussion of religious ethics as well as pushing forward the debate in interesting and original directions.Trade Review"This genealogical approach to Christian sexual ethics is as refreshing as it is illuminating. If this book is taken seriously, and it should be, it could transform the current and totally hackneyed debates." Graham Ward, University of Manchester "This book provides an informative foundation for a serious study of religious sexual teachings and a helpful survey of current debates in religious circles regarding sexual ethics." Choice "Occasionally a book appears that stimulates such thoughtful controversy that one can welcome its arrival with a certain delight. Such a book is The Ethics of Sex by Mark Jordan." International Academy for Marital Spirituality Review "The Ethics of Sex is perhaps the best undergraduate sexual ethics book available today." Journal of the American Academy of Religion "(A) thought-provoking challenge to all ethicists (theological or secular) who aspire to offer an account of the 'ethics of sex'" Women's Philosophy ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Prologue: Candid Advice to the Reader. 1 The Vices of Christian Ethics. 2 Scriptural Authorities. 3 A New Life Beyond Sex. 4 Crimes against Nature. 5 Marriage Acts. 6 "Attack" upon Christendom. 7 Redeeming pleasures. Epilogue: Sex and Schism. Works Cited. Subject Index. Index of Biblical References.

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Book SynopsisApplied Ethics focuses the central concepts of traditional morality - rights, justice, the good, virtue, and the fundamental value of human life - on a number of pressing contemporary problems, including abortion, euthanasia, animals, capital punishment, and war.Trade Review"The best accessible guide to “just war” theory, and the whole Aquinas approach to philosophy, is Applied Ethics by David S. Oderberg, published by Blackwell." Michael Gove, The Times, September 26, 2001 "It is a robust and uncompromising defence of traditional values." Stuart Reid, The Spectator, 25th November 2000 "Not the least merit of Oderberg's treatment of [the themes in Applied Ethics] is attention to the detail of realistic cases. This is casuistry in the true sense, designed to reveal and develop the lineaments of our actual moral thinking..." Anthony O'Hear, Salisbury Review "Oderberg's discussion of [the] issues is rich and thought provoking. [The] work is, even for non-believers, an important and engaging statement of non-consequentialist moral theory" Kaspar Lippert-Rasmussen, The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 51, no. 204, July 2001 "...very carefully written work that contributes to the diversification of literature available for bioethical formation and which intervenes critically in the ongoing bioethical debate in western societies." Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Vol. 6, 2003Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. Part I: Abortion:. 1. The Problem of Abortion Today. 2. The Basic Argument and Some Responses. 3. Sentience: A Bad Argument Against Abortion. 4. A Return to the Basic Argument. Objection from Brain Activity. Objection from Sorites Paradoxes. Objection from Begging the Question. Objection from Sperm and Egg. Objection from Fission and Totipotency. Objection from Cloning and Parthenogenesis. 5. A Feminist Argument for Abortion. 6. The Foetus, the Person and the Person. 7. Abortion, the Law and the Public Good - a Concluding Note. 'I Personally Disapprove of Abortion But Would Not Impose my Opinion on Other People.'. 'It is Not the Business of the Law to Interfere with Such a Difficult Decision.'. The 'Backstreet' Objection. 8. Conclusion. Part II: Euthanasia:. 9. Introduction. 10. Varieties of Euthanasia. 11. Voluntary Euthanasia and Autonomy. 12. Non-Voluntary Euthanasia and 'Quality of Life'. 13. Active and Passive Euthanasia. 14. Ordinary and Extraordinary Means. 15. Euthanasia, Death and 'Brain Death'. 16. Euthanasia and Nazism. Part III: Animals:. 17. The Problem. 18. The Conditions for Rights - What They Are Not. Consciousness. Beliefs and Desires. Language. Self-Consciousness. Action in Pursuit of Desires and Goals. 19. The Conditions for Rights - What They Are. Knowledge of Purpose. Free Will. 20. Two Dilemmas for the View that Animals Have Rights. 21. So How Should we Treat Animals?. Part IV: Capital Punishment:. 22. A Conflict?. 23. Punishment - General Principles. 24. Capital Punishment - the Argument. 25. Objections. What if an Innocent Person is Executed?. Capital Punishment is Irreversible. Capital Punishment is not a Deterrent. Capital Punishment is Just State-Sanctioned Murder. Capital Punishment is Cruel and Inhuman. What about Mercy and Compassion?. Capital Punishment Fails to Respect Persons. 26. Concluding Remarks on Hypocrisy. Part V: War:. 27. Some Questions. 28. War, Pacifism and Self-Defence. Self-Defence - Basic Principles. 29. Going to War. Basic Principles of the Just War. Just Cause. Questions about the Justice of the Cause. Conduct During War. 30. Globalism. Notes and Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisRiddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the 17th century with forays into Victorian England. He explores whether it was possible for premodern people to regulate their reproduction without resorting to dangerous surgical abortions, the killing of infants, or the denial of biological urges.Trade ReviewRiddle’s study is a true turning point in the history of contraception and abortion, which may have large implications for the history of the medical and psychic experience of women in antiquity, folk medicine, and premodern demography. -- W. V. Harris * New York Review of Books *Riddle shows us that ancient contraceptive medical practices were safe, effective and commonly used. Sociological studies on their use remain to be carried out. But it is possible that, between the Middle Ages and the rise of modern contraception, the well-off and city dwellers had little access to effective contraception, thanks to the growth of conventional medicine and the soaring social power of the physician. This is just one of the many intriguing lines of investigation to arise from this book, which shines a different light on what we are generally taught about the ‘progress’ of the modern world. -- Michel Raymond * Nature *[Riddle’s] findings carry important implications for the history of theology, casuistry, pastoral care, social history, the history of sexuality, and the history of popular culture, as well as the history of botany, pharmacy, medicine, and biochemistry… These findings should earn Riddle the gratitude of the numerous historians for whom the reproductive strategies of past generations are an important issue. -- James A. Brundage * American Historical Review *Gives us a valuable glimpse of the long reach of history on fertility and provides food for thought on possible options that science should research for both safety and efficacy. -- Portia Meares * Herb Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Population and Sex Evidence for Oral Contraceptives and Abortifacients Soranus on Antifertility Agents Terminology in Dioscorides' De materia medica Early Stage Abortifacients in Dioscorides and Soranus Ancient Society and Birth Control Agents Egyptian Papyrus Sources Greek and Roman Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen The Late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages The Middle Ages: The Church, Macer, and Hildegard Salerno and Medicine through the Twelfth Century Islam, Arabic Medicine, and the Late Middle Ages Knowledge of Birth Control in the West The Renaissance Later Developments Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the interplay between sexual science and legal decision-making, giving insights into such controversial social and sexual topics as rape, pornography, lesbian motherhood, and sex discrimination. Green examines how the law weighs the desires of the individual against social standards.Table of ContentsFornication; child custody and homosexual parents; homosexuality as a fundamental right; homosexuals as a suspect class; immigration and homosexuality; transexualism; pornography; intergenerational sexuality; sex education; prostitution; abortion; surgical or chemical castration of sex offenders; sex-linked defenses to criminal behaviour; sexual science and sexual privacy.

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Book SynopsisProvides an overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia. This work assesses the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary ethical arguments for assisted suicide and euthanasia. It explores evidence and case histories from the Netherlands and Oregon, where the practices have been legalized.Trade Review"I believe that anyone who is concerned about the issue must engage with [Gorsuch's] arguments."--Raymond Tallis, Times Literary Supplement "Gorsuch lucidly lays out the key ethical and philosophical arguments on both sides... [This] is the most important book published so far in consideration of ethical and legal issues."--Kevin Yuill, Spiked Review of Books "The author provides a thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia, as well as the most comprehensive argument against their legalization."--Issues in Law & Medicine "Gorsuch reviews the case law and the range of ethical and legal issues surrounding assisted suicide and offers a strong argument against legalization of these practices, even as he considers both positions in the debate."--Law & Social Inquiry "For those who need insight into the part played by legislators and courts of justice in recent euthanasia discussions, Neil M. Gorsuch's book ... is an excellent source... [C]omprehensive and well argued."--Theo A. Boer, Journal of Religious Ethics "Neil M. Gorsuch builds a powerful moral and legal argument against [assisted suicide's] legalization, one based on a principle that has largely been overlooked in the debate--the idea that human life is intrinsically valuable and that intentional killing is wrong."--New Oxford Review "Thoroughly researched... Gorsuch is especially successful when exploring the relevant legal cases raised by assisted-suicide and euthanasia advocacy."--Wesley J. Smith, First Things "Goruch's book is an exceptional contribution to a debate that is both significant and topical. Every reader, whether or not ultimately persuaded by his arguments, will emerge better equipped to tackle the profound questions surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide. it is essential reading for advocates and opponents alike."--Wendy E. Hiscox, Studies in Christian EthicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: The Glucksberg and Quill Controversies: The Judiciary's (Non)Resolution of the Assisted Suicide Debate 8 2.1 The Washington Due Process Litigation 8 2.2 The New York Equal Protection Litigation 11 2.3 The Final Battle? The Supreme Court Does (and Does Not) Decide 14 2.4 The Aftermath of Glucksberg and Quill 17 Chapter 3: The Debate over History 19 3.1 Which History? 20 3.2 The Project 22 3.3 The Ancients 22 3.4 Early Christian History 25 3.5 English Common Law 28 3.6 Colonial American Experience 29 3.7 The Modern Consensus on Suicide and Its Assistance 30 3.8 The Euthanasia Movement 33 3.9 Prevailing Law Today 43 3.10 Conclusion 46 Chapter 4: Arguments from Fairness and Equal Protection: If a Right to Refuse, Then a Right to Assisted Suicide? 48 4.1 An Act /Omission Distinction? 49 4.2 A Causation-Based Distinction? 51 4.3 Toward an Intent-Based Distinction: The Insight of the Double Effect Principle 53 4.4 Some (Initial) Arguments against Double Effect: Conflating Intent and Foresight 57 4.5 Distinguishing Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia from the Right to Refuse: Intending versus Foreseeing Death 62 4.6 Some (Additional) Criticisms of Double Effect as Applied to the Assisted Suicide Debate 69 4.7 Conclusion 75 Chapter 5: Casey and Cruzan: Do They Intimate a Right to Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia? 76 5.1 The "Reasoned Judgment" Test and Its Critics 76 5.2 Casey-Based Arguments 79 5.3 Cruzan-Based Arguments 82 5.4 Conclusion 84 Chapter 6: Autonomy Theory's Implications for the Debate over Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia 86 6.1 The Autonomy Debate 86 6.2 The Neutralist View of Autonomy 87 6.3 The Harm Principle's Competing View 89 6.4 Perfectionism and Autonomy 90 6.5 The Implications of Autonomy Theory for the Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debate 93 Chapter 7: Legalization and the Law of Unintended Consequences: Utilitarian Arguments for Legalization 102 7.1 The Dutch Experience: "Virtually Abuse-Free"? 103 7.2 The Oregon Experience: An "All-Too Conscientious" Statutory Regime? 115 7.3 Legalization and Other Unintended Consequences 125 7.4 Decriminalization as a "Costless" Enterprise? 132 7.5 How to "Balance" the Costs and Benefits of Legalization? 138 7.6 Conclusion 141 Chapter 8: Two Test Cases: Posner and Epstein 143 8.1 Posner's Utilitarian Case for Assisted Suicide 143 8.2 Posner's and Epstein's Libertarian Case for Assisted Suicide 152 Chapter 9: An Argument against Legalization 157 9.1 The Inviolability of Human Life 157 9.2 What Does It Mean to Respect Human Life as a Basic Good? 163 9.3 Some Objections 167 9.4 The Future of the Oregon Experiment? 176 Chapter 10: Toward a Consistent End-of-Life Ethic: The "Right to Refuse" Care for Competent and Incompetent Patients 181 10.1 The Inviolability of Life and the "Right to Refuse" for Competent Persons 182 10.2 The "Right to Refuse" and Infant Patients 191 10.3 The "Right to Refuse" and Incompetent Adult Patients 204 10.4 Conclusions 215 Epilogue 219 Appendix A: Certain American Statutory Laws Banning or Disapproving of Assisted Suicide 227 Appendix B: Statistical Calculations 229 Notes 231 Bibliography 285 Index 303

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year""Winner of the Easton Award, Foundations of Political Thought section of the American Political Science Association""The Idea of Prison Abolition is the work of a well-read, clear-headed, and sober-minded thinker, and it seldom gives good cause to disagree with its careful arguments. It will be indispensable for anyone working on its subject."---Benjamin Ewing, Mind"Necessary reading."---Mike Nellis, Punishment & Society"The time is right for a book like Tommie Shelby’s The Idea of Prison Abolition—one that closely and carefully examines, in detail and with rigor, some of the best arguments on behalf of abolishing prisons, and does so with philosophical sophistication, crystal-clear prose, and admirable breadth."---Jennifer Lackey, Journal of Philosophy"A good intellectual case against abolitionism."---Andy West, The Philosopher

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Book Synopsisaeo This book is a basic but very lively introduction to moral philosophy and ethics. It does not assume any prior knowledge of philosophy. aeo Clear and accessible, the book focuses on practical and topical questions whilst avoiding technical jargon.Trade Review'This is an eminently readable introduction to moral philosophy. A useful introductory text.' Gail Tulloch, Griffith University 'It is good to find an 'introductory text' on ethics which uses the first person and puts its cards directly on the table: ... Nuttall takes a 'problems' approach to ethics, with a strong emphasis on the personal.' Australian Journal of Philosophy 'Moral Questions can be recommended to anyone beginning moral philosophy, but especially to those with only a small or no experience of philosophy. Jon Nuttall is a good guide to the moral maze. He knows his way through whilst not missing what there is to be seen of interest on the way. It would be particularly suitable for 'A' level students and first-year undergraduates. One would also recommend it to students taking moral philosophy as part of another discipline or training - nurses, midwives, doctors or business students.' Robert Campbell, Principal Lecturer in Philosophy, Bolton Institute, and Chief Examiner, 'A' Level Philosophy, A. E. B. (1987-92) 'The book is written with a commendable clarity and lack of technicality ... stimulating and useful.' The PhilosopherTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Applying Philosophy to Moral Issues. 2. Giving Reasons and Making Judgements. 3. Finding Grounds for Moral and Religious Education. 4. Punishment and Responsibility. 5. Sex and Morality. 6. Pornography, Violence and Censorship. 7. Abortion. 8. Persons, Children and Embryos. 9. Suicide and the Value of Life. 10. Euthanasia. 11. War, Terrorism and Protest. 12. Animal Rights. 13. Fitting Persons into Theories. Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisFeminists have long differed in their view of prostitution. While some regard it as a classic form of exploitation and degradation, others offer a more sympathetic interpretation of women''s involvement in the sex industry. In this important new book, Maggie O''Neill seeks to explore the theoretical debates on prostitution and the relevance of these to the everyday lived experiences of women working on the streets. Based upon her own ethnographic research - defined as ethno-mimesis - the author seeks to undermine and demystify stereotypical images of prostitutes. She explores the narratives offered by prostitutes themselves, as well as other forms of their representation in film, art and photography, and shows how these various mediums may be used to shed light on the socio-economic processes and structures which lead women into prostitution. These personal accounts produce what O''Neill refers to as ''a politics of feeling'', which, she argues, may be used to transform attituTrade Review‘Prostitution and Feminism is a great examples of feminist research, developing new theoretical concepts and methodological approaches for a feminism that can entwine critical conceptual explorations with an ethnographic approach that brings life to the broader analysis. A wide-ranging, readable and authoritative book.’ – Vikki Bell, Goldsmiths College, University of London ‘By working across traditional disciplinary divides, O’Neill provides a stimulating and fresh approach to feminist work in the area of prostitution, at the same time making timely demands on the reader to think more deeply about the nature and purpose of feminist theory and research.’ – Jenny Ryan, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: Socio-cultural Contexts-Renewed Methodologies for Social Research. Part I Feminist Knowledge and Social Research: Understanding Prostitution. 1 Feminism(s) and Prostitution. 2 Feminist Knowledge and Social Research: Ethno-mimesis as Perfomative Praxis. Part II Interpretive Ethnographies: Life History Work. 3 Women's Voices, Women's Lives. 4 Adolescent Prostitution: Runaways, Homelessness and Living in Local Authority Care. III Feminist Postmodernisms and Ethnographies of Difference: between Modernity and Postmodernity. 5 Imagining Women: Prostitution, the Aestheticization of the Whore and the Social Organization of Desire. 6 The City, Masculinity and the Social Organization of Desire: Pimps and Punters. 7 Conclusion: Towards a Politics of Feeling. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThose who love and live by art, tell us that it is the most exalted expression of civilized life. In this provocative new book Jonathan Dollimore argues that, far from confirming humane values, literature more often than not violates them.Trade Review‘In his original and exciting new book, Jonathan Dollimore sets out to liberate art from contemporary conservative and radical agendas, both of which, as he brilliantly shows, weaken the power of art by their naive faith in its cultural and moral efficacy. Great literature, like the best psychoanalytic theory, argues for the inevitable conflict between humane values and human desire: if we could agree to trust art less we might begin to accord it the seriousness it deserves.' Leo Bersani, University of California at Berkeley ‘No one grasps more fully than Jonathan Dollimore the challenges, evasions and deceptions in the volatile theorizing of identity and desire, past and present. His brilliant, theoretical synthesis combines with graphic experiential and literary analysis to render Sex, Literature and Censorship never less than enthralling. Erudite, provocative and delightful to read, what more could he do for us?' Lynne Segal, author of Why Feminism? ‘Jonathan Dollimore's Sex, Literature and Censorship continues his remarkably resonant inquiry into the darker, defiant regions of the creative imagination. The ethical aim of critical thinking, Dollimore provocatively suggests, requires us to intervene in the corporate consensus of the culture industry, and to resist the pedagogical etiquette of academia. He argues that we must explore the daemonic power of those subjects and objects that offend our tastes and traditions. We applaud and oppose him, following the dialectical destiny of dissidence to which he has skilfully introduced us.' Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University '[A] feverish, political polemic.' Steven Poole, The Guardian 'Dollimore speaks an important truth when he suggests that some of the most compelling literature, past and present, hinges on the tension between, if not the incompatibility of, "the ethical conscience and the creative imagination".' The Independent 'Looking at the contradictions of identity-based sexual politics movements, [Dollimore] examines the ethics of knowledge and practice that circulate around ideas of danger - dangers to the self, dangerous knowledge - connecting these with questions posed by art as a site of danger in itself.' Radical Philosophy 'Sex, Literature, and Censorship is a book worth reading; it says provocative things we will ponder long after setting it down' Times Literary Supplement 'Biographical and autobiographical anecdote are one of the chief amusements of this book. Dollimore tells us of his first gay affair, his subsequent relationship with a woman, his particular sexual preferences. It is calculated to shock, performing the dissidence it preaches. Indeed, if I have criticism of the book, it is that it has nothing to say about the tenderness of sexual desire, but that probably reveals precisely how unradical i am.' Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Part I: Desire and Theory. Chapter 1: ' Too Hot For Yale'? The Challenge of Queer Theory. Chapter 2: The New Bisexuality. Chapter 3: Wishful Theory. Chapter 4: Sexual Disgust . Part II: Dangerous Knowledge. Chapter 5: Daemonic Desires. Chapter 6: Dangers Within. Part III: Desire and Art. Chapter 7: Those Who Love Art the Most Also Censor it the Most. Chapter 8: Critical Wars and Academic Censors. Chapter 9: Shakespeare at the Limits of Political Criticism. Chapter 10: The Aesthetic Attraction of Fascism. Chapter 11: Desire: Art Against Philosophy?. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index

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Book SynopsisAgainst Management argues that management is increasingly being seen as a problem, and not a solution. Martin Parker argues that managing is not the only way to organize and that managerialism is a global form of ideology, which is being used to justify considerable cruelty and inequality.Trade Review"At last the omnipotent Manager faces a serious and worthy opponent in Parker's Against Management. This is a sophisticated polemic that ought to be compulsory reading for all managers, management students and citizens." Keith Grint, Templeton College, Oxford "I really enjoyed reading this book. It is original; it is provocative; it is scholarly in a positive way. It is extraordinarily well written – lucid as well as witty." Christopher Grey, The Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge "Parker's capacity to combine solid scholarship with the publicist's flair is invaluable in a field often trapped in hyper-intellectualism." OrganizationTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Chapter 1. Managerialism and its Discontents. Chapter 2. McBureaucracy: Liberalism and the Iron Cage. Chapter 3. Citizenship: The Corporate State. Chapter 4. Community: The Freedom to Work. Chapter 5. The Business of Business Ethics. Chapter 6. Criticising Critical Management Studies. Chapter 7. The Culture Industries and the Demonology of Big Organisations. Chapter 8. Anti-Corporate Protest. Chapter 9. For Organisation. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisArgues for regulation of genetic research and technologies to avoid severe division and disease rather than cohesion and health.Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1: Twenty-first Century Babel Chapter 2: Basic Genetics Chapter 3: The Tool of Babel Chapter 4: Medical Motives Chapter 5: Cloning Confusion Chapter 6: Genetics and the Person Chapter 7: Genetics and Personality Chapter 8: Babies by Design Chapter 9: Information Wars Chapter 10: Stepping Out Includes a Glossary, Bibliography and Index.

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Book SynopsisLeading Canadian experts discuss when and if sociologists should intervene in public debates and engage in social activism.Table of ContentsForeword / Michael BurawoyIntroduction: Burawoy’s “Normative Vision” of Sociology / Ariane Hanemaayer and Christopher J. SchneiderPart 1: Debating the Normative Dimensions of Professional Sociology1 Returning to the Classics: Looking to Weber and Durkheim to Resolve the Theoretical Inconsistencies of Public Sociology / Ariane Hanemaayer2 Public Sociology, Professional Sociology, and Democracy / Axel Van Den BergPart 2: Critical Reflections on the Possibility of Public Sociology3 L’Ouverture des bouches: The Social and Intellectual Bases for Engaged and Public Social Theory / Scott Schaffer4 Precarious Publics: Interrogating a Public Sociology for Migrant Workers in Canada / Jill Bucklaschuk5 Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Teaching Public Sociology / Susan PrenticePart 3: Blurring the Line between Policy and Public Sociology6 Public Sociology and Research Ethics / Anne Mesny7 Coral W. Topping, Pioneer Canadian Public Sociologist: “A Veteran Warrior for Prison Reform” / Rick Helmes-HayesPart 4: Innovative Engagements in Public Scholarship8 Social Media and e-Public Sociology / Christopher J. Schneider9 Public Ethnography as Public Engagement: Multimodal Pedagogies for Innovative Learning / Phillip Vannini and Laura MilneConclusion / Ariane Hanemaayer and Christopher J. SchneiderEpilogue: Student Reflections on a Public Sociology Course at UBC, Okanagan Campus / Kyle NolanAppendix 1: Theory and Practice of Sociology Syllabus, University of ManitobaAppendix 2: Public Sociology Syllabus, UBC, Okanagan CampusContributors; Index

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