Against health [[electronic resource] ] : how health became the new morality / / edited by Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MetzlJonathan <1964->
KirklandAnna Rutherford |
Collana | Biopolitics, medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century |
Soggetto topico |
Health - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics Health services accessibility Social medicine |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Against
argues assumption bodily concept good health ideological invisible monolithic norm often practices rendered that universal whose work |
ISBN |
0-8147-5963-7
0-8147-6110-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Why "Against Health"?; PART I: What Is Health, Anyway?; 2 What Is Health and How Do You Get It?; 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of "Health"; 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health; PART II: Seeing Health through Morality; 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality; 6 Fat Panic and the New Morality; 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes); PART III: Making Health and Disease; 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda
9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder10 Obsession: Against Mental Health; 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death; PART IV: Pleasure and Pain after Health; 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality; 13 Be Prepared; 14 In the Name of Pain; 15 Conclusion: What Next?; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458733303321 |
New York, : New York University Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Against health [[electronic resource] ] : how health became the new morality / / edited by Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MetzlJonathan <1964->
KirklandAnna Rutherford |
Collana | Biopolitics, medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century |
Soggetto topico |
Health - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics Health services accessibility Social medicine |
Soggetto non controllato |
Against
argues assumption bodily concept good health ideological invisible monolithic norm often practices rendered that universal whose work |
ISBN |
0-8147-5963-7
0-8147-6110-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Why "Against Health"?; PART I: What Is Health, Anyway?; 2 What Is Health and How Do You Get It?; 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of "Health"; 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health; PART II: Seeing Health through Morality; 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality; 6 Fat Panic and the New Morality; 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes); PART III: Making Health and Disease; 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda
9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder10 Obsession: Against Mental Health; 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death; PART IV: Pleasure and Pain after Health; 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality; 13 Be Prepared; 14 In the Name of Pain; 15 Conclusion: What Next?; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791678303321 |
New York, : New York University Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bodies of War : World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933 / / Lisa M. Budreau |
Autore | Budreau Lisa M. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2009] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 940.4/60973 |
Soggetto topico |
Political culture - United States - History - 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects - United States War memorials - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century War memorials - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century World War, 1914-1918 - Monuments - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
American
Budreau Lisa States United World account commemoration competing component components core efforts fascinating groups history honor interest involved killed living macabre military neglected often politics processes remembrance repatriation return saga soldiers them this three unpacks |
ISBN | 0-8147-8980-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- “Pilgrims,” from Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Map of ABMC Cemeteries and Monuments -- Introduction -- 1. The Journey’s End -- 2. Origins -- 3. A Daunting Pledge -- 4. Charon’s Price -- 5. A Problem of Policy -- 6. Make Way for Democracy! -- 7. Troubled Waters -- 8. Bringing Them Home -- 9. Republican Motherhood Thrives -- 10. A Star of Recognition -- 11. A Reluctant Giant -- 12. A Commission Is Born -- 13. Sacred Space and Strife -- 14. We the People -- 15. Americans Make Waves -- 16. A Country for Heroes? -- 17. Pilgrim or Tourist? -- 18. Commemoration or Celebration? -- 19. Pilgrims’ Progress -- 20. Mothers and Politics -- 21. Mathilda’s Victory -- 22. Stars of Black and Gold -- 23. Highballs on the High Seas -- 24. A Personal Experience -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480122803321 |
Budreau Lisa M. | ||
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2009] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bodies of War : World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933 / / Lisa M. Budreau |
Autore | Budreau Lisa M. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2009] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 940.4/60973 |
Soggetto topico |
Political culture - United States - History - 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects - United States War memorials - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century War memorials - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century World War, 1914-1918 - Monuments - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
American
Budreau Lisa States United World account commemoration competing component components core efforts fascinating groups history honor interest involved killed living macabre military neglected often politics processes remembrance repatriation return saga soldiers them this three unpacks |
ISBN | 0-8147-8980-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- “Pilgrims,” from Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Map of ABMC Cemeteries and Monuments -- Introduction -- 1. The Journey’s End -- 2. Origins -- 3. A Daunting Pledge -- 4. Charon’s Price -- 5. A Problem of Policy -- 6. Make Way for Democracy! -- 7. Troubled Waters -- 8. Bringing Them Home -- 9. Republican Motherhood Thrives -- 10. A Star of Recognition -- 11. A Reluctant Giant -- 12. A Commission Is Born -- 13. Sacred Space and Strife -- 14. We the People -- 15. Americans Make Waves -- 16. A Country for Heroes? -- 17. Pilgrim or Tourist? -- 18. Commemoration or Celebration? -- 19. Pilgrims’ Progress -- 20. Mothers and Politics -- 21. Mathilda’s Victory -- 22. Stars of Black and Gold -- 23. Highballs on the High Seas -- 24. A Personal Experience -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788372403321 |
Budreau Lisa M. | ||
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2009] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disability harassment [[electronic resource] /] / Mark C. Weber |
Autore | Weber Mark C. <1953-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina | 342.7308/7 |
Collana | Critical America Series |
Soggetto topico |
Discrimination against people with disabilities - Law and legislation - United States
Harassment - Law and legislation - United States People with disabilities - Legal status, laws, etc - United States Students with disabilities - Legal status, laws, etc - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Building
Mark Weber artificial attitudinal barriers both civil damaging disability disabled environment examination frames group harassment insights members minority must negotiate often people physical premise rights scholars studies that |
ISBN |
0-8147-8468-2
0-8147-9507-2 1-4294-9025-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Harassment narratives -- Harassment, exclusion, and equality -- Comparisons to race and sex harassment -- A new approach to legal claims for harassment in the workplace and other settings -- Liability for harassment in the public schools -- New approaches to liability for harassment in the public schools -- Common law remedies for disability harassment -- Constitutional objections to anti-harassment policies -- An agenda for legal and social change. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778131303321 |
Weber Mark C. <1953-> | ||
New York, : New York University Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Divide and deal [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of distribution in democracies / / edited by Ian Shapiro, Peter A. Swenson, and Daniela Donno |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
Disciplina | 339.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ShapiroIan
SwensonPeter DonnoDaniela |
Soggetto topico |
Distribution (Economic theory) - Political aspects
Income distribution - Political aspects Distributive justice Democracy - Economic aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
Taking
broad coalitions contribute distribution distributive encompassing explores individuals inequality institutions often politics risk status surprising this turns twists view volume wealth well-being |
ISBN |
0-8147-0883-8
0-8147-4076-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Institutions -- Welfare regimes and redistribution in the South / Jeremy Seekings -- Distributional conflicts in mature welfare states / Isabela Mares -- The politics of tax structure / Steffen Ganghof -- AIDS, inequality, and access to antiretroviral treatment / Nicoli Nattrass -- Distributive politics and formal institutions in new democracies : the effect of electoral rules on budget voting in the Russian state duma, 1994-2003 / Jana Kunicová -- Individuals -- Religion and social insurance : evidence from the United States, 1970-2002 / Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage -- Moral values and distributive politics : an equilibrium analysis of the 2004 U.S. election / Woojin Lee and John Roemer -- Giving the people what they want? Age, class, and distribution in the United States / Christopher Howard -- Coalitions -- Good distribution, bad delivery, and ugly politics : the traumatic beginnings of Germany's health care system / Peter A. Swenson -- Democracy and distributive politics in India / Pranab Bardhan -- The political uses of public opinion : lessons from the estate tax repeal / Mayling Birney, Ian Shapiro, and Michael J. Graetz. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781915603321 |
New York, : New York University Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Living through the hoop [[electronic resource] ] : high school basketball, race, and the American dream / / Reuben A. Buford May |
Autore | May Reuben A. Buford <1965-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 p.) |
Disciplina | 796.323/62 |
Soggetto topico |
Basketball - Moral and ethical aspects - United States
Basketball - United States - Sociological aspects Basketball players - Georgia |
Soggetto non controllato |
African
American Hoop Living South Through about area basketball boys compelling detailed environment ethnographic find high hopeless mens offers often portrait school story struggle team their urban young |
ISBN |
0-8147-8990-0
0-8147-9561-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | A look through the hoop -- For the good of all -- The three D's : drugs, drinking, and delinquency -- Race and hoops everyday -- Knight style masculinity -- Sportsmanship and the need to win -- The dirty trick -- Epilogue : the death of Calvin Cody. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778246403321 |
May Reuben A. Buford <1965-> | ||
New York, : New York University Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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