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'I have quite a bit of understanding of white man's ways, but it is difficult for me to understand this one.' An Australian Senate committee investigation of the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995, the first legislation in the world that allowed doctors to actively assist patients to die, found that for the vast majority of Indigenous Territorians, the idea that a physician - or anyone else - should help end a dying, suffering person's life was so foreign that in some instances it proved almost impossible to translate. The Good Death Through Time asks how such a death became a 'thinkable'-even desirable-way to die for so many others in Western cultures. For centuries a good death - the 'euthanasia' - meant a death blessed by God that might well involve pain, for suffering was seen as ultimately redemptive. But in the Victorian age, when doctors started to treat the dying with painkillers as well as prayers, a painful death came to be thought of as an aberrant, dehumanising experience. As this book explores, the modern idea that a good death should be painless spurred sometimes troubling developments in palliative medicine as well as an increasingly well-organised assisted dying movement. Delving into what euthanasia activists, doctors, lawyers, religious leaders and lay people have thought and felt about dying, The Good Death Through Time shows that understanding the radical historical shift in Western attitudes to managing dying and suffering helps us better grasp the stakes in today's contestations over what it means to die well

Delving into what euthanasia activists, doctors, lawyers, religious leaders and lay people have thought about dying, The Good Death Through Time shows that understanding the radical historical shift in Western attitudes to managing dying and suffering helps us better grasp the stakes in today's contestations over what it means to die well.

Germany welcomed over a million refugees following the so-called "long summer of migration" in 2015. Today, however, seeking asylum in Germany has become ever more difficult. Amongst other "undeserving" economic refugees, the Afghans and Pakistanis are suffering from a shift in the German asylum regime that aims to restrict migration from "safe countries." As elsewhere in Europe, asylum in Germany is increasingly being defined by narrow ideas of deservingness and humanitarianism to seek out "deserving" political refugees. Simultaneously, two methods for the removal of rejected asylum seekers are being practised to deter "undeserving" refugees: namely, deportations and "voluntary" returns. Focusing on the latter form of removal, I scrutinize the voluntariness and sustainability of "voluntary" returns to Pakistan in this essay. I start by questioning contemporary ideas of deservingness when it comes to the right to be mobile, and provocatively try to blur the alleged humanitarian division between two categories of mobile bodies: the "deserving" political refugee vis-à-vis the "underserving" economic refugee. Then, with the help of ethnographic material from my ongoing research and three measures or scales of assessment (choice, information and assistance), I take a critical look at "voluntary" returns from Germany. In doing so, I discuss the sustainability and ethics of inducing return through such modes of repatriation to Pakistan.

Rural Revolt in Mexico: U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics. Daniel Nugent. ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 384 pp.

The measurement of poverty is necessarily subjective, whether it be defined from above by a measurement institution, or bottom-up, by the impoverished group itself. A poverty self-rating system was employed annually in the Philippines, 1981-1992 (annual N = approximately 1,200), while the government's Family Income & Expenditure Survey (FIES) was run only in 1985, 1988, & 1991. Per the self-rating approach, poverty was very volatile during the periods, 1983-1985, 1987/88, & 1990-1992; no such volatility was apparent in the 3 FIESs. Time-series regression analyses placed the self-reported volatility in relation to changes in the rates of inflation & unemployment. 4 Tables, 2 Figures, 13 References. Adapted from the source document.