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"SAGE Readings for Social Problems, is a convenient and economical option for instructors who want to introduce students to scholarly literature in their social problems courses. It contains 16 short readings on topics covered in typical courses, including economic inequality, race, gender, crime, substance abuse, education, health/medicine, the environment, family, and the social construction of social problem. The articles in this collection were all chosen because they are accessible to undergraduate, avoid complicated statistical analysis, and demonstrate the range of methodological approaches to studying social problems. Adopters of our own Social Problems text will be able to bundle SAGE Readings for Social Problems for a small up-charge and non-SAGE customers can order it as a stand-alone text"--

"A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system--a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time. When family physician Dr. Benjamin Gilmer began working at the Cane Creek clinic in rural North Carolina, he was following in the footsteps of a man with the same last name. His predecessor, Dr. Vince Gilmer, was beloved by his patients and community--right up until the shocking moment when he strangled his ailing father and then returned to the clinic for a regular day of work after the murder. He'd been in prison for nearly a decade by the time Benjamin arrived, but Vince's patients would still tell Benjamin they couldn't believe the other Dr. Gilmer was capable of such violence. The more Benjamin looked into Vince's case, the more he knew that something was wrong. Vince knew, too. He complained from the time he was arrested of his "SSRI brain," referring to withdrawal from his anti-depressant medication. When Benjamin visited Vince in prison, he met a man who was obviously fighting his own mind, constantly twitching and veering off into nonsensical tangents. Enlisting This American Life journalist Sarah Koenig, Benjamin resolved to get Vince the help he needed. But time and again, the pair would come up against a prison system that cared little about the mental health of its inmates--despite an estimated one third of them suffering from an untreated mental illness. In The Other Dr. Gilmer, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer tells of how a caring man was overcome by a perfect storm of rare health conditions, leading to an unimaginable crime. Rather than get treatment, Vince Gilmer was sentenced to life in prison--a life made all the worse by his untrustworthy brain and prison and government officials who dismissed his situation. A large percentage of imprisoned Americans are suffering from mental illness when they commit their crimes and continue to suffer, untreated, in prison. In a country with the highest incarceration rates in the world, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer argues that some crimes need to be healed rather than punished"--

Raised on Mars : Reagan and the Power of Narrative -- Friendly Witness : Politics, Belief, and Narrative -- Cowboy Values : Donning a Gray Hat -- Up from the Depths : The Means and the Will -- Techno-Thriller Rising : How to Win the War -- Pebbles from Space : SDI, Cultural Division, and Strategic Success.

Wurzelnd in seiner Jugenderfahrung mit dem Ende des Nationalsozialismus wollte Günter Gaus politisch wirken. Seine Fernsehinterviews "Zur Person" und "Zu Protokoll" verschafften ihm ab den sechziger Jahren den entscheidenden Rückenwind. Mit genial formulierten Fragen und psychologischen Tricks erzielte Günter Gaus Antworten, die zum kritisch-rationalen Hinterfragen anregen. Mittels Aussagen von Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt, Gustav Heinemann, Helmut Schmidt, Hannah Arendt und Rudi Dutschke reflektierte Günter Gaus den ersten Bundeskanzler der Republik, verglich Konsens mit Kritik und zog Parallelen zwischen deutscher Vergangenheit und den Zielen der 68er-Bewegung. Günter Gaus war ein Fragender, der die Antworten schon kannte.

Cover -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Introduction. The White House: "I want to grow up and so should you" -- 1. Weather: "Bodies tell stories that people will not tell" -- 2. Hunted: "Where life is precious, life is precious" -- 3. Lies: "What are we pretending not to know today?" -- 4. Grind: "You are not a machine, stop grinding" -- 5. Exposed: "Your baby is beautiful and so are you" -- 6. Trust: "We want to be at the table, not on the table" -- 7. La Casa Azul: "Be willing to be transformed in the service of the work" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.