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Bioethics concerns the relationship between the medical professions and the cultures in which they operate. Sarah Ferber has developed an invaluable introduction to contemporary bioethics which incorporates historical and broader cultural approaches, appealing and relevant to students and practitioners alike.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- The Body Divided in Time and Place: An Introductory Essay -- 1 A Body Buried is a Body Wasted -- 2 Cadavers and the Social Dimension of Dissection -- 3 Dissection, Anatomy Acts and the Appropriation of Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Australia -- 4 Bodies of Evidence -- 5 A Judicious Collector -- 6 The Leprosy-Affected Body as a Commodity -- 7 Gifts, Commodities and the Demand for Organ Transplants -- 8 Science Fiction, Cultural Knowledge and Rationality -- 9 Inventing the Healthy Body -- Epilogue -- Index.

This article provides an analysis of R v Vollmer and Others, Australia's most famous 'exorcism-manslaughter' case, in which a woman, Joan Vollmer, underwent an 'exorcism' performed by four people, resulting in her death. We examine how taken-for-granted distinctions were collapsed during the resulting trial - distinctions between crime and punishment, exorcism and punishment, church and state, the past and the present, law and religion, reason and unreason and between a demon and a woman. We show how the defence argument for the reality of demonic possession normalized the bizarre, while simultaneously exoticizing the mundane or 'traditional' criminal case involving a husband defendant and a dead wife. The apparent assumption on the part of the police and the media that this case was bizarre serves to veil the fact of its relative ordinariness. A wife is killed, and the lethal punishing violence inflicted on her body downplayed, to be reinterpreted in the legal context as somehow a consequence of something she herself precipitated. Our analysis of the Vollmer case provides a novel perspective on that always intriguing conundrum of crime and punishment.

AbstractA'Hearn, Delfino, and Nuvolari recently argued in this journal that the indicator function of age heaping for education, and numeracy in particular, is quite limited. In contrast, we show empirically that by applying the methodological elements that were developed over the past decade, age‐heaping‐based numeracy research can be an important tool for economic history.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: IVF and Assisted Reproduction: Global Visions, Local Stories -- Chapter Outline and Historical Overview -- Language, Narrative and Media -- The Power of Analogy -- Rights and Needs -- Words Unsaid -- Assisted Reproduction: An Intimate Industry -- 2: Towards the Two 1978 Births -- Disciplines and Imaginaries -- Clinical and Scientific Disciplines -- The IVF Imaginary -- Bringing Together Ideas and Materials -- Materials, Tools and Techniques -- Tortuous Paths to IVF -- Global Contexts, National Priorities -- 'Making' IVF 'Right': Technical Promises, Ethical Issues and Women Pioneers117 -- 'Assembling' for 'Success' in the UK and India -- Conclusions -- 3: The Foundations of Global Assisted Reproduction -- Fertility Drugs and New Patient Cohorts -- The First Bourn Hall Meeting -- Media Responses -- Institutionalising Assisted Reproduction: Associations, Meetings, Journals -- International Training -- Money -- Commercial Ties: Drugs and Devices -- News Media and Public Relations -- Nations, Natalism and Assisted Reproduction -- Population and Procreation -- Eugenic Thinking and Assisted Reproduction -- Conclusions -- 4: Regulation and Risk -- Early Regulatory Moves -- Regulatory Activism: The Role of Religion -- Religion and Compliance -- Religion, AR and 'Left' Versus 'Right' -- Regulatory Activism: Peer Regulation -- Regulatory Activism: Feminist Interventions -- Case Study: Italy's Law 40/2004 -- Soft Regulation, Risk Management and Compliance Strategies -- Clinical Risk: The Example of Multiple Births -- Multiple Births and Patients' Perspectives -- Donor Anonymity -- Success Rates -- Conclusions -- 5: Oocytes, Surrogacy and Cross-Border Reproduction -- Donation and Selling of Oocytes -- Egg Donation -- Egg Sharing -- Egg Selling -- Oocyte Provider Profiling.