1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784919103321

Autore

Garber Marjorie B

Titolo

Academic instincts [[electronic resource] /] / Marjorie Garber ; [illustrated by Sir John Tenniell]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2001

ISBN

1-4008-1426-X

1-282-66564-2

9786612665646

1-4008-2467-2

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TennielJohn <1820-1914>

Disciplina

001.3/071/1

Soggetti

Humanities - Study and teaching (Higher)

Literature - Study and teaching (Higher)

Universities and colleges - Curricula

Academic writing

Humanities - Philosophy

Learning and scholarship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Cover title.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Amateur Professional and the Professional Amateur -- 2. Discipline Envy -- 3. Terms of Art -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates are essential to intellectual life. Garber argues that the very things deplored or defended in discussions of the humanities cannot be either eliminated or endorsed



because the discussion itself is what gives humanistic thought its vitality. Written in spirited and vivid prose, and full of telling detail drawn both from the history of scholarship and from the daily press, Academic Instincts is a book by a well-known Shakespeare scholar and prize-winning teacher who offers analysis rather than polemic to explain why today's teachers and scholars are at once breaking new ground and treading familiar paths. It opens the door to an important nationwide and worldwide conversation about the reorganization of knowledge and the categories in and through which we teach the humanities. And it does so in a spirit both generous and optimistic about the present and the future of these disciplines.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783273003321

Titolo

Regulating tobacco [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert L. Rabin & Stephen D. Sugarman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-772033-1

9786610481149

1-280-48114-5

1-282-36714-5

9786612367144

0-19-803183-1

0-19-534902-4

0-19-530303-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RabinRobert L

SugarmanStephen D

Disciplina

362.29/66/0973

Soggetti

Tobacco industry - Government policy - United States

Cigarette industry - Government policy - United States

Tobacco use - Health aspects - United States

Tobacco use - Prevention - Government policy - United States

Cigarette smoke - Health aspects - United States

Advertising - Cigarettes - Government policy - United States

Youth - Tobacco use - Prevention - Government policy - United States

Medical policy - United States

Tobacco industry - Law and legislation - United States

Smoking - Law and legislation - United States



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

Contents; About the Contributors; 1 Perspectives on Policy: Introduction; 2 The Politics of Tobacco Regulation in the United States; 3 Taxing Tobacco: The Impact of Tobacco Taxes on Cigarette Smoking and Other Tobacco Use; 4 Marketing Policies; 5 Reducing Harm to Smokers: Methods, Their Effectiveness, and the Role of Policy; 6 Reducing the Supply of Tobacco to Youths; 7 The Third Wave of Tobacco Tort Litigation; 8 Clean Indoor Air Restrictions: Progress and Promise; 9 International Aspects of Tobacco Control and the Proposed WHO Treaty; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R

ST; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

The proliferation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry has had profound implications for American health policy, tort law, civil law, and welfare and social policy. Since the publication of Rabin and Sugarman's Smoking Policy, class action suits, FDA regulation, clean air legislation, health insurance reimbursement, and extensive advertising have brought tobacco to the forefront of national and public policy debates. This collection includes essays by eleven leading public health experts, economists, physicians, political scientists, and lawyers, whose activities encompass Congressional te