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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: Setting the scene -- 2: Introducing the Temiars -- 3: Boundaries and transformations -- 4: Temiar body: Control and invasion -- 5: Temiar space: Order and disorder -- 6: Dreams, souls and trance -- 7: Women and blood -- 8: Temiar healers: Shaman and midwives -- 9: Healing performances: Dance-dramas of prevention and cure -- 10: The epic metaphor: The paradox of healing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Individual Rights and the Human Good in Hospice -- Issues of Access in a Diverse Society -- Will Assisted Suicide Kill Hospice? -- Ethical Issues in Pain Management -- Focus on the Nurse: Ethical Dilemmas with Highly Symptomatic Patients Dying at Home -- Legal Requirements for Confidentiality in Hospice Care -- The Role of the Physician in Hospice -- The Role of Ethics Committees in Hospice Programs -- Growth in Caring and Professional Ethics in Hospice -- Hospice Organizations' Role in Health Care Improvement -- Hospice and Managed Care -- The Future of Hospice in a Reformed American Health Care System: What Are the Real Questions? -- Index

An Essay Towards a New Theory of VisionA Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge; Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous; De Motu; Alciphron; The Theory of Vision Vindicated; Chapter Four; Introduction; The Chain of Being; Unity and existence; Person in Siris; Evaluation; Man in communion with God; Chapter Five; Synopsis and Evaluation; An Alternative Theory of Dependence; Conclusion; Bibliography

Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and, to some extent, the Hebrides, share both a Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage, and the experience of being surrounded by the ever-present North Atlantic Ocean. This has been a constant in the islanders' history, forging their unique way of life, influencing their customs and traditions, and has been instrumental in moulding their identities. This volume is an exploration of a rich, intimate and, at times, terrifying relationship. It is the result of an international conference held in April 2014, when scholars from across the North Atlantic

Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and bachelor girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain. Described by psychiatrists as immature and neurotic, and widely ignored as taboo by mainstream society, lesbians nevertheless recognised and accepted their same-sex desire and sought out women like themselves.Challenging the conventional picture of the post-war decades as years of austerity and conservative femininity, this book traces the emergence of a vibrant lesbian social scene in Britain, centred on the metropolitan nightclubs of post-war London, but also developing across the country, through lesbian magazines and social organisations.This fascinating book brings to life the rich history of post-war lesbian culture for the scholarly and general reader alike

Introduction: Texans and nineteenth-century warfare -- Tribal warfare of colonial Tejas, 1822-1835 -- The war for Texian independence, 1835-1836 -- Conflicts of the early Texas Republic, 1836-1838 -- Conflicts of the middle Texas Republic, 1838-1840 -- Conflicts of the late Texas Republic, 1841-1845 -- The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 -- Conflicts of antebellum Texas, 1846-1861 -- The war for Confederate independence, 1861-1865 -- Epilogue -- Notes.

THE NATIONAL BIOSURVEILLANCE INTEGRATION CENTER ROLES, CHALLENGES, AND STRATEGIC PLAN -- THE NATIONAL BIOSURVEILLANCE INTEGRATION CENTER ROLES, CHALLENGES, AND STRATEGIC PLAN -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 BIOSURVEILLANCE: CHALLENGES AND OPTIONS FOR THE NATIONAL BIOSURVEILLANCE INTEGRATION CENTER* -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- Biosurveillance Integration -- NBIC's Roles, Responsibilities, and Governance -- Interagency Biosurveillance Community

Introduction : MAN-MADE MILLENNIUM -- The Shakers : AMERICAN ZION -- New Harmony : THE GREAT INFIDEL EXPERIMENT -- The Fourierist Phalanxes : THE LEMONADE SEA -- Icaria : PEOPLE OF THE BOOK -- Oneida : KINGDOM COME -- Conclusion : THE FUTURE AINT WHAT IT USED TO BE

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Rethinking Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness on a Planet in Crisis -- 1. The Social Contract -- 2. Political Economy -- Part II. Natural Being, Cultural Becoming: Nature in Humans -- 3. The Roots and Logic of Social Contract Theory -- 4. The Uses of Nature and Culture: Artifice and Accommodation -- 5. Re-enchanting the Social Contract -- Part III. Terms of an Ecological Contract: Humans in Nature -- 6. Agency, Rules, and Relationships in an Ecological Social Contract -- 7. Wealth: From Affluence to Plenitude -- 8. Property: From Commodity to Commons -- 9. Freedom: Relational Interdependence -- 10. Citizenship: From Electoral Consumer to Ecological Trustee -- Part IV. The Political Economy of Climate Change-Democracy, If We Can Keep It -- 11. The Ecological Contract and Climate Change -- 12. An Inquiry into the Democratic Prospect -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- About the Author.

Drawing from extensive archival research, Out of the Horrors of War demonstrates that disabled citizens in the World War II era organized a national movement for economic security and full citizenship, reshaping the U.S. welfare state and laying the foundation for the disability rights movement

Cover -- Emergency Ethics -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Ethical Aspects of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response -- 2 Justice, Resource Allocation, and Emergency Preparedness: Issues Regarding Stockpiling -- 3 Vulnerable Populations in the Context of Public Health Emergency Preparedness Planning and Response -- 4 Public Engagement in Emergency Preparedness and Response: Ethical Perspectives in Public Health Practice

From workplace accidents to polio epidemics and new waves of immigration to the returning veterans of World War II, the first half of the twentieth century brought the issue of disability—what it was, what it meant, and how to address it—into national focus. Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II America explores the history of disability activism, concentrating on the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped (AFPH), a national, cross-disability organization founded during World War II to address federal disability policy. Unlike earlier disability groups, which had been organized around specific disabilities or shared military experience, AFPH brought thousands of disabled citizens and veterans into the national political arena, demanding equal access to economic security and full citizenship. At its core, the AFPH legislative campaign pushed the federal government to move disabled citizens from the margins to the center of the welfare state.Through extensive archival research, Audra Jennings examines the history of AFPH and its enduring legacy in the disability rights movement. Counter to most narratives that place the inception of disability activism in the 1970s, Jennings argues that the disability rights movement is firmly rooted in the politics of World War II. In the years immediately following the war, leaders in AFPH worked with organized labor movements to advocate for an ambitious political agenda, including employer education campaigns, a federal pension program, improved access to healthcare and education, and an affirmative action program for disabled workers. Out of the Horrors of War extends the arc of the disability rights movement into the 1940s and traces how its terms of inclusion influenced the movement for decades after, leading up to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

"Ecological Governance is an ethicist's reckoning with how our political culture, broadly construed, must change in response to climate change. Jennings argues that during the Anthropocene era a social contract of consumption has been forged. Under it people have given political and economic control to elites in exchange for the promise of economic growth. In a new political economy of the future, the terms of the consumptive contract cannot be met without severe ecological damage"--