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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Natural law and universal arguments -- Rights interpretation and universality: An overview -- 2 Universal arguments in american constitutionalism -- Universal arguments in political discourse -- Roots of universal arguments in american constitutionalism -- Universal arguments and the judiciary -- 3 Universal arguments in constitutional law -- Universal arguments and economic due process -- Confusion in the use of universal arguments -- Foreign law in constitutional interpretation -- The eighth amendment and the debate over universal arguments -- How the court's jurisprudence undermines rights -- 4 Universal arguments in constitutional theory -- Fixed exclusivism -- Evolutionary exclusivism -- Constitutional aspirationalism -- Universalistic theories of interpretation -- Framers' natural law -- 5 A role for universal arguments -- The Persistent puzzle -- Primary reliance on particular arguments -- The limited role of universal arguments -- Addressing objections -- 6 Conclusion: universal rights discourse -- A place for universal rights discourse -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Why this book? -- Praise -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by Baroness Susan Greenfield -- Introduction -- 1 What is dementia? -- 2 Symptoms of dementia -- 3 First steps to finding a diagnosis -- 4 At the memory clinic -- 5 Medical treatments -- 6 Natural and alternative remedies -- 7 Dealing with troublesome symptoms -- 8 Legal and financial help for those with dementia -- 9 Can dementia be prevented? -- 10 Some final thoughts -- Appendix A: The brain made easy -- Appendix B: Sources of help and advice -- Appendix C: Useful resources

Sakaue Toshié was born on August 14, 1925, into a family of tenant farmers and day laborers in the hamlet of Kosugi. The world she entered was one of hard labor, poverty, dirt, disease, and frequent early death. By the 1970s, that rural world had changed almost beyond recognition. Toshié is the story of that extraordinary transformation as witnessed and experienced by Toshié herself. A sweeping social history of the Japanese countryside in its twentieth-century transition from "peasant" to "consumer" society, the book is also a richly textured account of the life of one village woman and her community caught up in the inexorable march of historical events. Through the lens of Toshié's life, Simon Partner shows us the realities of rural Japanese life during the 1930s depression; daily existence under the wartime regime of "spiritual mobilization"; the land reform and its consequences during occupation; and the rapid emergence of a consumer culture against the background of agricultural mechanization during the 1950s and 1960s. In some ways representative and in other ways unique, Toshié's narrative raises questions about conventional frameworks of twentieth-century Japanese history, and about the place of individual agency and choice in an era often seen as dominated by the impersonal forces of modernity: technology, state power, and capitalism