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While not entirely out of the norms of Victorian judicial practice, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn's summing-up of the evidence in Regina v. Castro, aka Arthur Orton, aka Roger Tichborne was extraordinary for its length and detail, as well as for its narrative and rhetorical force. This article examines Cockburn's summing-up to the jury, arguing that while it is revealing of nineteenth-century British conceptions of identity, it also uncovers the instability and insufficiency of those conceptions for the juridical determination of identity. Thus the summing-up of evidence, and perhaps the entire Tichborne affair, suggested some of the ways that law, in an age of rapid urbanization and increasing geographical and class mobility, would increasingly require supplementation from extralegal disciplines.

Morrison's Beloved presents a complex anatomy of guilt. This is the perception that underwrites Slavoj Zizek's recruitment of the 1987 novel in his recent discussion of ethics & politics. In Zizek's Fragile Absolute (2000), he claims that Sethe's murder of her child was a privileged instance of what he terms "the ethical act." Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalytic ethics to articulate a relation between the psychic & the political, Zizek argues that the only truly ethical act is one that breaks with the cycle of law & transgression, evading the superego through a suicidal "shooting oneself in the foot." This paper argues that while Zizek's reading of Beloved is in some ways illuminating, Morrison's novel itself offers a profound analysis of Zizek's conception of the "ethical act," exposing the limited nature of this act as part of a larger political strategy. I propose a reading of Morrison's novel that focuses on its exploration of violence & guilt, reading it both alongside & against dominant psychoanalytic conceptions derived from Freud, Lacan, & Zizek's deployment of both. 30 References. [Copyright 2005 Elsevier Ltd.]

Drucilla Cornell's Legacies of Dignity: Between Women and Generations proposes a feminist ethics of self-representation that asks what exclusions are necessary to autobiography's constructions of identity. Focusing on the ways in which alterity, particularly linked with figures of the mother, are silenced, it advances a mourning that is transformational. I question Cornell's use of a Kantian concept of dignity and suggest that Irigaray's engagement with Levinas offers another way of conceptualizing the problematic.

PurposeThe present research aims to understand how and why flexible work arrangement (FWA) policy use by co-workers affects policy non-users by investigating perceived changes to work, fairness and organizational identification as factors that shape policy non-users' job satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachA survey was distributed to 300 Canadian respondents solicited from an online panel owned by Qualtrics Inc. Hypotheses were developed and tested using a moderating mediation model. SPSS Macro Process (Hayes) was used to test the hypotheses.FindingsThis survey found that perceiving negative changes to work stemming from co-worker FWA use corresponded to policy non-user job satisfaction, fairness dimensions mediated this effect and organizational identification moderated the relationship driven by interactional fairness. Policy non-users who care most about organizations seem to be most vulnerable to the negative consequences associated with co-worker FWA policy use.Originality/valueFWA use has been linked to many positive outcomes for policy users. However, the workplace adjustments that occur to accommodate policy use by co-workers could also have implications for policy non-users. This study explores the effects of FWA policy use by co-workers on policy non-users job satisfaction.

The amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) in 2004 reiterate the significance of producing real postsecondary education, employment, and independent living outcomes. However, current employment data continue to show widespread unemployment and very limited access to inclusive community environments and services for adults with severe intellectual disabilities. On the contrary, data from the Transition Service Integration Model (N. J. Certo et al., 2003) demonstrate that these recalcitrant problems could be attenuated if two changes are implemented: The transition from school to adulthood components of IDEIA be strengthened to explicitly authorize school districts to subcontract with appropriate private agencies at the point of transition to produce direct-hire, individualized employment and adult living outcomes and that the federal government amend the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act to provide an entitlement to long-term support, creating a service system which parallels the functions of IDEIA after school exit.

The goal of the STAR Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinical Trial Group (STI CTG) Programmatic meeting on STIs in Pregnancy and Reproductive Health in April 2018 was to review the latest research and develop recommendations to improve prevention and management of STIs during pregnancy. Experts from academia, government, non-profit and industry discussed the burden of STIs during pregnancy, the impact of STIs on adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, interventions that work to reduce STIs in pregnancy, and the evidence, policy, and technology needed to improve STI care during pregnancy. Key points of the meeting are as follows: (i) Alternative treatments and therapies for use during pregnancy are needed; (ii) Further research into the relationship between the vaginal microbiome and STIs during pregnancy should be supported; (iii) More research to determine whether STI tests function equally well in pregnant as non-pregnant women is needed; (iv) Development of new lower cost, rapid point-of-care testing assays could allow for expanded STI screening globally; (v) Policies should be implemented that create standard screening and treatment practices globally; (vi) Federal funding should be increased for STI testing and treatment initiatives supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers of Excellence in STI Treatment, public STD clinics, and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).