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  • The Virtues of Vulnerability

    Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity

    by Sara Rushing ...
    Within the liberal tradition, the physical body has been treated as a focus of rights discussion and a source of economic and democratic value; it needs protection but it is also one's dominion, tool, and property, and thus something over which we should be able to exercise free will. However, the day-to-day reality of how we live in our bodies and how we make choices about them is not something ... Read more

    $77.59 CAD

  • Histories of Postmodernism

    Edited by Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, Sara Rushing ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism. The increasingly dominant historical narrative depicts a relatively smooth development of ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, through a range of French theorists, most notably Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, to contemporary American thinkers such as ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

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    This study guide contains fundamental sociological definitions and principles which are specifically designed to aid students. Topics covered include: social structure & culture, formal organizations, socialization & deviance, basic concepts of demography, population changes, social inequality & stratification, social classes, race, gender & inequality, economy, politics & education, family, ... Read more

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  • Medical Ethics

    General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series

    by Kerryn Phelps, Craig Hassed ...
    Medical Ethics - General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series - ‘Ethics’ is a word derived from the Greek ethikos, which means ‘habit’ or ‘custom’. Put simply, in modern usage it is the study of how we ought to live or act in response to the situations confronting us in daily life. Medical ethics in particular is a branch of bioethics and is the study of how we ought to live or act as doctors ... Read more

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  • The Ethical Imagination

    by Margaret Somerville ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Science and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and our world, and how we find meaning in life. How we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world? In her 2006 CBC Massey Lectures, ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maternal Theory

    Essential Readings

    by Andrea O’Reilly ...
    Theory on mothers, mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct body of knowledge within Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory more generally. This collection, the first ever anthology on maternal theory, introduces readers to this rich and diverse tradition of maternal theory. Composed of 50 chapters and covering more than three decades of scholarship, Maternal Theory includes all the ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • The Body

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Shilling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a rising awareness of how our bodies, and our perception of them, are influenced by the social, cultural and material contexts in which humans live. ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Vaccine Hesitancy

    Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science

    by Maya Goldenberg ...
    Winner, 2022 PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science AwardThe public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Although Wakefield’s findings were later ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences

    A Reader

    Edited by Andrea O’Reilly ...
    Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences, the first-ever Reader on the subject matter, examines the meaning and practice of mothering/ motherhood from a multitude of maternal perspectives. The Reader includes 22 chapters on the following maternal identities: Aboriginal, Adoptive, At-Home, Birth, Black, Disabled, East-Asian, Feminist, Immigrant/Refuge, Latina/Chicana, Poor/Low ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Intensive Mothering

    The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood

    Edited by Linda Rose Ennis ...
    To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sharon Hays’ landmark book, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, this collection will revisit Hays’ concept of “intensive mothering” as a continuing, yet controversial representation of modern motherhood. In Hays’ original work, she spoke of “intensive mothering” as primarily being conducted by mothers, centered on children’s needs with methods ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • The Maternal Factor

    Two Paths to Morality

    by Nel Noddings ...
    In this provocative new book, renowned educator and philosopher Nel Noddings extends her influential work on the ethics of care toward a compelling objective—global peace and justice. She asks: If we celebrate the success of women becoming more like men in professional life, should we not simultaneously hope that men become more like women—in caring for others, rejecting violence, and valuing the ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD