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Prekäre Intimität: Eine Ethnografie der Körperarbeit in Nagel- und Kosmetikstudios (Geschlecht und Gesellschaft #78)
by Isabel KleinDas Buch entwickelt einen affekttheoretisch informierten Begriff prekärer Intimität auf Grundlage ethnografischer Feldforschung. Intimität und intime Arbeit führen zu einer spezifischen Form der Prekarisierung, deren Konzeptualisierung auch über das untersuchte Feld hinausreicht und wichtige Impulse für die Erforschung des Wandels der Arbeits- und Geschlechterverhältnisse liefert. Mit Hinblick auf das Forschungsdesiderat sogenannter einfacher feminisierter Dienstleistungen zeigt die Autorin, dass Arbeit, die sich mit dem Lebendigen befasst, weit mehr als Care-Arbeiten umfasst; Begriffe wie „einfache” Dienstleistungen reproduzieren diesen Ausschluss und verkennen die Komplexität der verrichteten Arbeit an anderen Körpern.
Prekäre Verbindlichkeiten: Studien an den Problemschwellen normativer Ordnungen (Wissen, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft)
by Jürgen Raab Justus HeckVertrauensverluste und Glaubwürdigkeitskrisen von gesellschaftlichen Institutionen sind Ausdruck der Pluralisierung von Werten und Normen und der zunehmenden Verhandelbarkeit, Labilität und Ungewissheit für allgemein und beständig genommener Verbindlichkeiten. Die im Band versammelten Studien zu Sprechweisen, Freiheitsdiskussionen, Rechtsfindungen und Polizeiarbeiten geben solch prekäre Verbindlichkeiten als Problemschwellen normativer Ordnungen zu erkennen. Ihre Komplexität fordert die Geistes-, Kultur und Sozialwissenschaften heraus, tradierte Verständnisse, Begriffe und Methoden zu prüfen, zu aktualisieren, zu erweitern und zu verfeinern. Diese Sondierungs- und Präzisierungsarbeiten sind nur interdisziplinär zu leisten. Hierfür stellt das hier unterbreitete Forschungskonzept der prekären Verbindlichkeiten ein vielversprechendes Potential in Aussicht.
Prelude to Hospice: Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
by Emily K. AbelHospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, Prelude to Hospice expands our understanding of the history of U.S. hospices. Compiled largely by Florence Wald, the founder of the first U.S. hospice, the records provide a detailed account of her experiences studying and caring for dying people and their families in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although Wald never published a report of her findings, she often presented her material informally. Like many others seeking to found new institutions, she believed she could garner support only by demonstrating that her facility would be superior in every respect to what currently existed. As a result, she generated inflated expectations about what a hospice could accomplish. Wald’s records enable us to glimpse the complexities of the work of tending to dying people.
Prelude to Political Economy: A Study of the Social and Political Foundations of Economics
by Kaushik BasuMainstream economics was founded on many strong assumptions. Institutions and politics were treated as irrelevant, government as exogenous, and social norms as epiphenomena. As an initial gambit this was fine. But as the horizons of economic inquiry have broadened, these assumptions have become hindrances rather than aids. If we want to understand why some economies succeed and some fail, why some governments are effective and others not, why some communities prosper while others stagnate, it is essential to view economics as embedded in politics and society. <p><p>Prelude to Political Economy is a study of this embeddedness; it argues for an 'inclusive' approach to institutions and the state. Modern economics recognizes that individuals' pursuit of their own selfish ends can result in socially suboptimal outcomes -- the Prisoner's Dilemma being the stark example. It has been suggested that what we need in such an eventuality is 'third-party' intervention, which can take the form of imposing punishment on players. Kaushik Basu objects to this method of wishing third parties out of thin air. He argues that if a third party that could impose its will on others were available, then it should have been modeled as a player to start with. <p><p>The adoption of such an inclusive approach has implications for our conception of the state and the law. It means that the law cannot be construed as a factor that changes the game that citizens play. It is instead simply a set of beliefs of citizens; and, as such, it is similar to social norms. What the law does for an economy, so can social norms. The book discusses how the nature of policy advice and our conception of state power are affected by this altered view of the state and the law. As corollaries, the book addresses a variety of important social and philosophical questions, such as whether the state should guarantee freedom of speech, whether determinism is compatible with free will, and whether the free market can lead to coercion.
Premarital Abortion in China: Intimacy, Family and Reproduction (Routledge Contemporary China Series)
by Ruby Y.S. LaiDrawing on participant observations, in-depth interviews, and content analysis of online materials, Lai investigates the role of individual choice, relationships, and institutions in unmarried Chinese women’s decisions to terminate their pregnancies. Where many previous studies have focused on abortion in China as a state-mandated procedure to enforce the one-child policy, Lai looks at a new era, where abortion is primarily based on individuals’ decisions. While young women in China enjoy greater freedom to pursue their personal, sexual, and reproductive aspirations, their autonomy remains constrained by structural inequalities of gender, class, and migration status, which are reproduced through the intersection of state policies, market forces, and patriarchal family culture. In this book, Lai recounts the stories and presents the voices of unmarried young adult women, and documents the impact of sweeping socioeconomic transformation on their reproductive experiences in contemporary China amidst the ending of the one-child policy. Essential reading for scholars of Chinese society and of family and gender studies globally.
Premature Burial: How It May Be Prevented
by Walter Hadwen Walter R. HadwenLong out of print, this book was written by a prominent physician to reassure the many 19th century people who were worried about being buried aliveOne of the authors himself had a narrow escape with live burial, as his collaborator writes: "Dr. Vollum first became interested in the important question of Premature Burial in consequence of his own very narrow escape from live sepulture, having been pronounced dead from drowning, and prepared, for interment, when consciousness happily returned spontaneously." This edited version of the book extracts the most spine-chilling stories of narrow escapes and living burials from a mass of historical material. It includes such chapters as Animal and So-called Human Hibernation, Narrow Escapes from Premature Burial, Premature Burial of Doubtful Cases, Death-Counterfeits, The Danger of Hasty Burials, Sudden Death, Embalming and Dissections, and Count Karnice-Karnicki's Invention.
Premature Death in the New Independent States
by Committee on PopulationIn recent years there have been alarming reports of rapid decreases in life expectancy in the New Independent States (former members of the Soviet Union). To help assess priorities for health policy, the Committee on Population organized two workshops--the first on adult mortality and disability, the second on adult health priorities and policies. Participants included demographers, epidemiologists, public health specialists, economists, and policymakers from the NIS countries, the United States, and Western Europe. This volume consists of selected papers presented at the workshops. They assess the reliability of data on mortality, morbidity, and disability; analyze regional patterns and trends in mortality rates and causes of death; review evidence about major determinants of adult mortality; and discuss implications for health policy.
Premchand in World Languages: Translation, reception and cinematic representations
by M. AsaduddinThis volume explores the reception of Premchand’s works and his influence in the perception of India among Western cultures, especially Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. The essays in the collection also take a critical look at multiple translations of the same work (and examine how each new translation expands the work’s textuality and annexes new readership for the author) as well as representations of celluloid adaptations of Premchand’s works. An important intervention in the field of translation studies, this book will interest scholars and researchers of comparative literature, cultural studies and film studies.
Premodern Beliefs and Witch Trials in a Swedish Province, 1669-1672 (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)
by Göran MalmstedtThis book examines the worldview and perceptions of reality that formed the setting for the witch trials held in the Swedish province of Bohuslän in 1669-1672. The first part of the book explores the conduct of the trials and provides, among other things, an analysis of the defendants and of the various accusations from neighbours and the court. The following parts analyse the perceptions of reality found in the statements made in court by witnesses and the accused. The topics addressed include the relationship between dreams and reality, belief in shape-shifting, the power of words, emotions, and magically charged matters, as well as perceptions of God and the Devil. The beliefs that surfaced during the trials were part of a general mentality that characterised people’s perception of the world, both before and after the trials. As the records from the prolonged cross-examinations of the accused are unusually detailed, the defendant’s statements, together with accusations, testimonies, and the courts’ questions, provides a unique insight into premodern worldviews.
Premodern Sexualities
by Carla Freccero Louise FradenburgPremodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in the historicist interpretation of early textualizations of sexuality. Premodern Sexualities clarifies the contributions literary studies can make--through its emphasis on reading strategies--to the historiography of sexuality.
Prentice Hall America History of Our Nation Beginnings Through 1877
by James West DavidsonNIMAC-sourced textbook
Prentice Hall Brief Review Global History and Geography (New York Edition)
by Steven Goldberg Judith Clark DupréExam Prep for Global History and Geography for New York High School Students
Prentice Hall United States History
by Alan Taylor Randy Roberts Peter B. Levy Emma J. Lapsansky-WernerNIMAC-sourced textbook
Prentice Hall United States History: Reconstruction to the Present (Ohio)
by Alan Taylor Randy Roberts Peter B. Levy Emma J. Lapsansky-WernerNIMAC-sourced textbook
Prentice Hall World History
by Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis Anthony EslerGrades 9-12. Textbook includes history from the beginning of civilization to the present.
Prentice Hall World History Michigan
by Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis Anthony EslerWorld History-Michigan edition
Prentice Hall World History Tennessee
by Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis Anthony EslerNIMAC-sourced textbook
Prentice Hall World History The Modern Era
by Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis Anthony EslerNIMAC-sourced textbook
Prentice Hall World History: Connections to Today
by Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis Anthony Esler Burton F. BeersYou can use this book as a tool to master world history. Spend a few minutes to become familiar with the structure of the book and see how you can unlock the secrets of world history.
Prentice Hall World Studies: Eastern Hemisphere
by Prentice Hall StaffSocial Studies textbook for middle school students
Prentice Hall World Studies: Eastern Hemisphere
by Prentice Hall StaffSocial Studies textbook for middle school students
Prentice Hall, World Geography, Building a Global Perspective
by Celeste Fraser Thomas J. BaerwaldNIMAC-sourced textbook