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  • Ethics by Committee

    A History of Reasoning Together about Medicine, Science, Society, and the State

    by Noortje Jacobs ...
    How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.Ethics boards have become obligatory passage points in today's medical science, and we forget how novel they really are. The use of humans in experiments is an age-old practice that records show goes back to at least the third century BC, and it has been popular ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

    Edited by Alison Bashford, Philippa Levine ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography

    Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions

    Edited by Peter Jakobsen, Erik Jönsson, Henrik Gutzon Larsen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book is about socio-spatial theory in, and the nature of, Nordic geography. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book engages with theorisations of geography in the Nordic countries. Including chapters by geographers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, it reflects how theories about the relations between the social and the spatial have been ... Read more

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  • The Netherlands

    Globalization and National Identity

    by Frank J. Lechner ...
    Series series Global Realities
    The Netherlands is the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries, but because of relatively recent demographic changes, it has become symbolic of the clash of European and Islamic cultures. Perhaps the most secular nation in the world, it now houses a very large Islamic population. That ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Diploma Democracy

    The Rise of Political Meritocracy

    by Mark Bovens, Anchrit Wille ...
    Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically opposed to this constitutional ideal. Most democracies in Western Europe are diploma democracies - ruled by those with the highest formal qualifications. Citizens with low or medium educational qualifications ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Rethinking Nordic Courts

    Edited by Laura Ervo, Pia Letto-Vanamo, Anna Nylund ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access book examines whether a distinctly Nordic procedural or court culture exists and what the hallmarks of that culture are. Do Nordic courts and court proceedings share a distinct set of ideas and values that in combination constitute the core of a regional legal culture? How do Europeanisation, privatisation, diversification and digitisation influence courts and court proceedings in ... Read more

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  • Solidarity and Justice in Health and Social Care

    by Ruud ter Meulen ...
    Series Book 41 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    In this timely book, Ruud ter Meulen argues that the current trend towards individual financial responsibility for health and social care should not be at the expense of the welfare of vulnerable and dependent individuals. Written with a multidisciplinary perspective, the book presents a new view of solidarity as a distinct concept from justice with respect to health and social care. It explains ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Contemporary Western European Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)

    by Gisela Kaplan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
    Contemporary Western European Feminism is a ground-breaking history of feminism. Gisela Kaplan invites a critical analysis of current ideas, terms and assumptions about our modern world.Written confidently and with compassion, this is the story of a long revolution that has set out to change predominant attitudes and transform value hierarchies and human lifestyles. By outlining the postwar ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Dynamics in Education Politics

    Understanding and explaining the Finnish case

    by Hannu Simola, Jaakko Kauko, Janne Varjo, Mira Kalalahti, Fritjof Sahlstrom ...
    Dynamics in Education Politics: Understanding and Explaining the Finnish Case introduces a new theoretical framework characterised as Comparative Analytics of Dynamics in Education Politics (CADEP). Albeit the topicality of comparative research is obvious in the current era of global large-scale assessment, with its concomitant media visibility and political effects, comparative education is still ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Morality

    The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland

    by Joanna Mishtal ...
    Series series Polish and Polish-American Studies Series
    After the fall of the state socialist regime and the end of martial law in 1989, Polish society experienced both a sense of relief from the tyranny of Soviet control and an expectation that democracy would bring freedom. After this initial wave of enthusiasm, however, political forces that had lain concealed during the state socialist era began to emerge and establish a new religious-nationalist ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model

    Challenges in the 21st Century

    Edited by Anu Koivunen, Jari Ojala, Janne Holmén ...
    The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth, quality of life, prosperity, and equality – start doubting themselves and their future? Is the Nordic ... Read more

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  • Observing Bioethics

    by Renee C. Fox, Judith P. Swazey ...
    Observing Bioethics examines the history of bioethics as a discipline related not only to modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the core values and beliefs of American society and its courts, legislatures, and media. The book is written from the perspective of two social scientists--a sociologist of medicine(Renee C. Fox) and a historian of medicine (Judith P. Swazey)--who have ... Read more

    $53.09 USD