In our name [[electronic resource] ] : the ethics of democracy / / Eric Beerbohm

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779275403321
• Autore: Beerbohm Eric Anthony <1975->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-49412-3; 9786613589354; 1-4008-4238-7
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 172
• Soggetti: Democracy - Moral and ethical aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction -- How to value democracy -- Paper stones, the ethics of participation -- Philosophers-citizens -- Superdeliberators -- What is it like to be a citizen? -- Democracy's ethics of belief -- The division of democratic labor -- Representing principles -- Democratic complicity -- Not in my name, macrodemocratic design.
• Sommario/riassunto: When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading theories of democracy. In Our Name explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship. Confronting the ethical challenges that citizens are faced with in a self-governing democracy, Eric Beerbohm proposes institutional remedies for dealing with them. Beerbohm questions prevailing theories of democracy for failing to account for our dual position as both citizens and subjects. Showing that the obligation to participate in the democratic process is even greater when we risk serving as accomplices to wrongdoing, Beerbohm argues for a ; distinctive division of labor between citizens and their representatives that charges lawmakers with the responsibility of incorporating their constituents' moral principles into their reasoning about policy. Grappling with the practical issues of democratic decision making, In Our Name engages with political science, law, and psychology to envision mechanisms for citizens seeking to avoid democratic complicity.

Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797753303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-520-96106-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (891 p.)
• Classificazione: LC 56000
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetti: Social history - 21st century; Life; Death
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Living and Dying in the Contemporary World -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Concept Note -- Section 1. Natality, Sexuality, Reproduction -- 1. Maternal Mortality, Technological Innovations, and Therapeutic Strategies -- 2. Conceiving Life and Death: Stem Cell Technologies and Assisted Conception in India and the Middle East -- 3. The Pregnant Hijra: Laughter, Dead Babies, and Invaluable Love -- 4. New Lives for Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico -- 5. Transnational Adoption and (Im)possible Lives -- 6. "Forced Pregnancy," Humanitarian Access to Reproductive Rights, and Locating "Life" within the Powers of "Death" -- 7. Bleeding Dreams: Miscarriage and the Bindings of the Unborn in ; the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre, South Lebanon -- Section 2. Medical, Legal, and Pharmaceutical Spaces -- 8. Waiting and the Architecture of Care -- 9. The Social Phenomenology of the Next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward -- 10. Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the History of Schizophrenic Violence -- 11. The Wealth of Populations: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China -- 12. Living and Dying with Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis and the Regulation of Anti-tuberculous Drugs in Nepal -- 13. The Juridical Hospital -- 14. The Right of Recovery -- 15. Just Living: Law, Life, Livelihood, and Sexual Assault -- 16. "If You Remember, You Can't Live": Trauma, Insecurity, and the F/utility of "PTSD" in Haiti -- 17. Death as a Resource for Life -- Section 3. Healing: Religious and Secular Bodies -- 18. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics -- 19. Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment -- 20. Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey -- 21. The Good and the Bad Breast: Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Cancer -- 22. Attachments of Life: Intimacy, Genital Injury, and the Flesh of the U.S. Soldier Body -- 23. Key Acts: Organ Transplantation and Subjectivities in the Public Sphere -- 24. Life, Death, and Reverie: Method in a Congolese Medical History -- Section 4. Precarious Lives -- 25. Life and Concept -- 26. Never Quite Given: Calling into Question the Relation between Person and World in Post-invasion Iraq -- 27. Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank -- 28. Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss -- 29. Walking Through: Movement, Schizophrenia, and the Vicissitudes of Presence -- 30. "Not Dead Yet": Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century -- 31. Suffering from Evidence: Expertise, Racial Health Disparities, and the Case of Jerry -- 32. "God Isn't Finished with This City Yet": Disputing Katrina-Related Deaths in Post-disaster New Orleans -- 33. Hunger and Thirst: Crises at Varying Thresholds of Life -- 34. "Tibet on Fire": Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global "N of 1" -- Section 5. Death and Dying -- 35. After Life -- 36. A Good Death, Recorded -- 37. Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality -- 38. Chemonotes -- 39. The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home: On Touching the Other -- 40. Life beside Itself -- 41. Traces of Destruction and the Thread of Continuity in Post-genocide Cambodia -- 42. Corpus Vile: Death and Expendable Youth in Urban Congo -- 43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives -- 44. The Evolution of Mortality Rates by Sex: The Experiences of the Rich and the Uncertainties of the Not-So-Rich -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. Living and Dying in the Contemporary World is not just another reader in medical anthropology but a true tour de force-a deep exploration of all that makes life unbearable and yet livable through the labor of ordinary people. This book comprises forty-four chapters by scholars whose ethnographic and historical work is conducted around the globe, including South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Bringing together the work of established scholars with the vibrant voices of younger scholars, Living and Dying in the Contemporary World will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, health scientists, scholars of religion, and all who are curious about how to relate to the rapidly changing institutions and experiences in an ever more connected world.