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Intro -- Introduction -- 1. A History of the Right to Die National Center for Life and Liberty -- 2. Terminally Ill People Should Have the Right to Die Scott Mendelson -- 3. Physician-Assisted Dying Is Ethical Marcia Angell -- 4. Physician-Assisted Dying Is Not Ethical Barbara A. Rockett -- 5. Patients Who Lack Hope Need Advocates, Not Suicide Help Rosemarie Jackowski -- 6. Aid in Dying Is Different from Assisted SuicideBarbara Coombs Lee -- 7. The Death with Dignity Movement Is Gaining Acceptance NationwideSusan Haigh -- 8. The Death with Dignity Movement Endangers People with DisabilitiesDiane Coleman -- 9. Choosing to Die Can Be a Rational Decision for the Elderly Julia Medew -- 10. Vulnerable People Can Be Coerced into Choosing Death Wesley Smith -- 11. Physician-Assisted Suicide Laws Are Actually Seldom Used Serena Gordon -- 12. The Right to Die Is Not a Civil RightIra Byock -- 13. Right-to-Die Laws Could Extend to Healthy People Jacob M. Appel -- 14. Legal Euthanasia for Sick Babies Does Not Increase the Practice Jo Carlowe -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index

"Racial trauma can reverberate for generations, and lead to anxiety, irritability, anger, rage, depression, low self-esteem, shame, and guilt. Teens are especially vulnerable to racial trauma, as they are still developing a sense of self and identity. The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens provides readers with evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to heal the wounds of personal and intergenerational trauma, increase self-awareness, and build confidence"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Social Memorials -- 2 Networked Death -- 3 Disrupted Inheritance -- 4 Haunted Objects -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 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.

South Africa is a context within which Rosemarie Buikema has thought deeply and conducted much of her empirical research for her book Revolts in Critique. This contribution pursues some of the ways in which Buikema's scholarship resonates with contemporary South African currents of thinking towards justice goals, within the academy and in the larger post-apartheid South Africa. Buikema's work provides a valuable philosophical framework for thinking with art for change, particularly through her feminist postcolonial conceptualization of the 'poetics of recycling' which underlines the assertion that the articulation and/or the memory of trauma is not a linear process but a cycle that has to be reiterated, time and again in order to open up alternative imaginaries. I explore in particular the productive possibilities of this framework in thinking with current South African feminist decolonial and queer scholarship, art and activism that deploys imagination and creativity to disrupt the raced, classed, and gendered inequalities and violences that still characterise this local landscape.

Intro -- About the Book -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- Market-Oriented Health Reforms -- Healthcare Reforms in Post-Communism -- Systemic Change: From 'Semashko' to 'Bismarck' -- Policy Change: Introduction of Markets -- Explaining the Variation in Post-Communist Health Reforms: Argument -- Data and Methods -- Overview of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The Politics of Policy Learning -- Introduction -- Alternative Explanations -- Professional Power -- External Actors -- Economic Pressures -- The Politics of Policy Learning -- Ideas, Paradigms, Learning, and Policy Change -- Socialist Health Policy Legacies -- Post-Communist Institutions and Party Competition -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Slovenia -- Introduction -- Slovenian Healthcare Under Socialism -- Introduction of the Socialist Policy Paradigm -- Emergence of Market Idea: Shift to Workers' Self-Management -- The Socialist Healthcare Crisis -- Institutional and Political Context of Post-Communist Health Reform -- Institutions: Light Veto Points Configurations -- Party Politics: Weak Party Divide on Health Policy -- Key Episodes in Post-Communist Healthcare Reform -- Initial Post-Communist Healthcare Reform Debates -- Introduction of Social Health Insurance and Co-payments for Health Services -- Introduction of Complementary Private Insurance -- First Attempt to Abolish Complementary Private Insurance -- Adaptation of Complementary Private Insurance -- Second Attempt to Abolish Complementary Private Insurance -- Limited Privatisation of Primary Care -- Lack of Hospital Privatisation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Czech Republic -- Introduction -- Czech Healthcare Under Socialism -- Introduction of the Socialist Policy Paradigm.

An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death. Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. Death disrupts technologists' plans for platforms. It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism. Big Tech has authority not only over people's lives but over their experiences of death as well. Ordinary users and workers, though, advocate for changes to tech companies' policies around death. Drawing on internet histories along with interviews with founders of digital afterlife startups, caretakers of illness blogs, and transhumanist tinkerers, the technology scholar Tamara Kneese takes readers on a vibrant tour of the ways that platforms and people work together to care for digital remains. What happens when commercial platforms encounter the messiness of mortality?

Rising without compromising -- The myths that keep us down -- Balance is bullshit : blend instead -- Moving up vs. rising : how to use this book to lift up every area of your life -- V squared : how to know your values and know your value -- Vision boards are bullshit : how to set effective goals -- Make it about the journey : how and why to write your bucket list -- Filling up your soul : how to stay stable and ride the roller coaster -- Breaking out of your bubble : how to keep growing into the person you want to be -- Choose your own adventure : how to make career moves that match your values -- Work-life blend : how to ditch balance and get people on board with blending -- When breadwinning doesn't feel like 'winning' : how to cope with pressure and keep your financial promises -- "Thanks for asking." : how to name expectations, make agreements and carry your own bags -- "Mommy, don't go!" : how to get over guilt and be the parent you want to be -- The business of family : how to build culture and be a leader at home -- Territory vs. tribe : how to foster friendships that bring out your best -- Why blending matters : how to get laser focus to create your legacy -- 'Things to do because I want to' : build your own blended life.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Development of Secularism -- The European Experience: From Empire to Nation-States -- Nation or State? -- Europe's Age of Religious Warfare -- Separating Religious from Political Authority -- The Reality of Secularism -- 2 Islamic Decentralization and Initial Responses -- The Medieval Islamic World -- Decentralizing Pressures in the Arab World -- Sources of Islamic Political Fragmentation -- Caliphal Attempts to Consolidate Central Control -- The First Foreign Invasions -- Intellectual Responses to Caliphal Decentralization -- A Reformulation of Islamic Thought -- Distinguishing Religious from Political Unity -- Conditional Political Authority -- 3 The Ottoman Interlude -- The Ottomans Assume the Caliphal Legacy -- Ottoman Success Is Fleeting -- Conditions in the Arab Provinces -- Ottoman Egypt -- Syria -- European Attempts to Keep the Ottoman World Weak -- The Wahhabi Affair -- The First Stirring of Arab Nationalism -- 4 The Emergence of National Self-Awareness in Syria and Egypt -- Education as Catalyst -- Syrian Arab Nationalism -- Sectarian Rivalry Invites European Intervention -- Egyptian Nationalism -- Europe as Catalyst to Emerging Nationalism -- Al-Afghani -- Al-Afghani's Legacy: 'Abduh -- Europe Exploits Waning Ottoman Power in Egypt -- Renewed Ottoman Pressure Boosts Syrian Nationalism -- Syrian and Egyptian Nationalism Progress -- Egyptian Political Organization -- Syrian Political Organization -- 5 The Arab Revoit and Its Aftermath -- The Nationalists Find a Leader -- The Arab Revolt -- European Treachery -- Initial Arab Responses and British Reassurance -- Europe's Blueprint for Arab Instability -- The Palestine Problem -- More European Assurances -- "The Counterfeit Peace" -- The Will of the Population.

Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800. While not encyclopedic, the selected topics greatly advance our sense of this trade picture. Throughout the book, multi-part trade structures are excavated; the presence of European powers within the Asian trade nexus features as part of this narrative. Visual goods are highlighted, including lacquerwares, musical instruments, Chinese bronze coins, unfired ceramic portrait figurines, and Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian ceramic vessels. These essays underscore the significance of Asian industries producing multiples, and the rhetorical charge of these goods, shifting in meaning as they move. Building reverberations between merchant networks and the look of the objects themselves, this richly-illustrated book brings to light the Asian trade engine powering the early modern visual cultures of East and Southeast Asia, the American colonies, and Europe

"In Youth Squad, Tamara Myers chronicles the development of youth consciousness among North American police departments. Starting in the 1930s, urban police forces, from Montreal to New York City to Vancouver, established youth squads and crime prevention programs, dramatically changing the nature of contact between cops and kids. Gone was the beat officer who scared children and threatened youth. In his stead, a new breed of officer – many of them women - emerged whose intentions were explicit: befriend the rising generation. Good intentions, however, produced paradoxical results. Police were late arrivals to the juvenile justice revolution but at midcentury, law enforcement embraced what Myers calls the 'youth turn.' By targeting the environment that gave rise to delinquents and criminals, police aimed for access to children, adolescents, and their cultural spaces, landing youth squads squarely in the oversight and molding of childhood. Police forces intensified their presence in children's lives through juvenile curfew laws, police athletic leagues, traffic safety and anti-corruption campaigns, and school programs. This youth-conscious policing amounted to pervasive supervision and surveillance of young people. Thus, born of a liberal ideal to integrate salvageable working-class youth, mostly boys, into society, the result was to normalize the police presence in childhood. A work at the intersection of juvenile justice, policing and childhood history, Youth Squad illuminates the era between the interwar period -when new solutions to criminal and delinquent behavior were sought - and the punitive turn in the 1970s. Myers demonstrates how the over-policing of young people today is rooted in so-called "child-friendly" schemes of the mid-twentieth-century."--

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Differential Development among Twenty-Three Villages -- Puzzling differences between contiguous villages -- Different approaches in China's rural stratification research -- History, institutions and village development in Ganglong -- How the book is organized -- Chapter 2. Jinghai County and Ganglong Township in Historical and Regional Perspective -- Geography -- Administrative history and current administration -- Commerce, agriculture and industry in today's Ganglong -- Jinghai economy during the republican period and prior to collectivization (1949-1952) -- Ganglong villages on the eve of land reform (1949-1952) -- Collectivization, communes, and beyond-a brief overview of Ganglong's political economy, 1954-1995 -- Socioeconomic development in Jinghai and Ganglong in the mid-nineties -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. One Township, Twenty-Three Villages -- Village differences -- A closer look: The six survey villages -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Outlining Well-Being in Ganglong, 1994-1995 -- Dimensions of well-being: Household-level factors -- Land assets, farming and well-being -- Village industry jobs and employment -- Conclusion: Well-being in Ganglong -- Chapter 5. Household-Village Links and the Other Seventeen Ganglong Villages -- The household-village connection -- Bringing in the other Ganglong villages -- Ranking the villages -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Back to the Future: Village Well-Being in the 1990s -- Village location in relation to the Grand Canal, roads,rail and Shimiao market -- Initial land assets and subsequent adjustments -- Human capital and social capital -- Explaining the northwest/southeast village anomalies -- Statistial exploration of the determinants of village well-being in 1994 -- Conclusion