Sociale og etiske spørgsmål

Der er udbrudt krig mellem nordstaterne og sydstaterne, og det store indianeroprør spreder skræk og rædsel – også i de svenske nybyggeres små hjem. Kristina dør som følge af for mange børnefødsler, og endelig må det allersidste brev hjem skrives. "Amerikanerne" er ottende og afsluttende del i Vilhelm Mobergs udvandrersaga.Vilhelm Mobergs udvandrersaga handler om Karl Oskar og Kristina Nilsson, der sammen med andre småfolk fra Småland forlader Sverige for at slå sig ned i Minnesota i midten af 1800-tallet. Serien består af fire bøger; "Udvandrerne", "Indvandrerne", "Nybyggerne ved Ki-Chi-Saga" og "Sidste brev hjem". Hver af de fire bøger er yderligere delt i to, så serien bliver på i alt otte bind.Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1973) var en svensk forfatter, der i dag er bedst kendt for sin serie om "Udvandrerne", der blev til i årene 1949-59. I Vilhelm Mobergs forfatterskab var det ofte den lille mand, der var helten, og historien blev fortrinsvis fremstillet fra folkets perspektiv, hvilket af samme grund gjorde ham til en meget folkekær forfatter. Han var i øvrigt udtalt republikaner og var en af Olof Palmes største kritikere fra venstrefløjen. I 1973 tog Vilhelm Moberg sit eget liv som følge af en langvarig depression.

I 1840’erne slår høsten fejl i Sverige i flere år i træk, og livet i de små landsbyer bliver stadig hårdere. Også i Småland mærker familierne hungersnøden, og Karl-Oskar forsøger ihærdigt at overtale sin kone, Kristina, til at forlade sit hjemland og sin familie og rejse til Amerika for at starte på en frisk. Kristina er modvillig, for hun ved, at hvis hun rejser, vil hun aldrig se sin hjemstavn igen. Da deres ældste barn dør, går det imidlertid op for hende, hvor farlig og dyster fremtiden er i Sverige. Sammen med en række bekendte og slægtninge begiver familien sig ud på den farlige rejse mod det store ukendte land."Udvandrerne" er første bind i Vilhelm Mobergs historiske romanserie "Udvandrersagaen". Bogen er oprindeligt udgivet i 1949. Vilhelm Mobergs historiske romanserie "Udvandrersagaen" fortæller den spændende historie om en svensk familie, der i midten af 1800-tallet rejser til Amerika for at få sig et bedre liv. Romanerne er filmatiseret flere gange, senest af Erik Poppe i 2021. Den svenske journalist, dramatiker og forfatter Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1973) er særligt kendt og elsket for serien "Udvandrersagaen" om de svenske udvandrere, der rejste til Amerika i midten af 1800-tallet. Vilhelm Moberg begik selvmord i 1973, men opnåede inden da stor anerkendelse både i sit hjemland og i udlandet, hvor hans bøger udkom i store oplag.

The atomic bomb marked a catastrophic leap in the history of human achievement. Never before had a man-made instrument dealt out, in an instant, such death and destruction. Once done, it could not be undone. The leap was made; the atomic age begun. To live in this new age, a new spirit was required-a spirit that would prevent mankind becoming the destroyer of all worlds. The father of the atomic bomb himself, J. Robert Oppenheimer, perceived this need, calling for "radical changes not only in spirit, not only in law, but also in conception and feeling" between nations and peoples. And what are those changes? The priest, not the scientist, gives the answer. In God and the Atom, Monsignor Knox re-states the ever-ancient, ever-new principles of God's revelation and commandments, and their application to the conditions of the atomic age.First published in 1945, amid the immediate aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, God and the Atom was one of the first theological considerations of the atomic age and the ramifications and risks of atomic weaponry and proliferation. To a world which refuses to let peace prevail, Knox's work remains deeply-and tragically-relevant.

Marina Murray in her second book, Scars, takes readers on a journey into the past. A past where she endured the pain and suffering that an abusive marriage can produce. The scars are real, but Marina is a survivor. She wants to encourage her readers that there is hope as well as healing on the other side of abusive relationships. Marina is also the author of Rest for the Weary Soul.

Unlock the secrets to creating a trauma-informed yoga program for supporting asylum seekers, refugees and new immigrants in this accessible, practical guide.Asylum seekers, refugees and new immigrants often suffer with mental health concerns such as posttraumatic stress disorder, due to trauma experienced before, during, and after fleeing their country of origin. Yoga therapy is a holistic and compassionate tool that can help these populations regulate these trauma symptoms. This book is a brilliant, accessible introduction to applying trauma-informed yoga therapy in this setting, with useful insights and shared experience from a yoga therapist who has worked in the frontline for over 5 years.

A captivating history of folk traditions, beliefs, and culturally diverse customs in the early homesteading era on the Canadian prairies.

Full of intrigue, adventure, greed, and tragedy, the enduring legend of Slumach's Gold is examined in riveting forensic detail in this newly expanded edition of a bestselling classic.

I Can't Breathe is a fictional novel set during the time when a video showing George Floyd's final moments and his dying words, "I Can't Breathe," went viral. The novel depicts its global impact and how it empowered individuals to speak out against discrimination by organizing rallies and marches.Khushboo, the novel's main character and a lawyer, is empathetic to women's concerns and helps many women who are trapped in abusive and suffocating relationships. The novel also briefly depicts racism in its various forms, including sexual harassment at work, negligence in care homes, and so on. Although most people face this, the story shows that some individuals are strong enough to deal with it, while some, like Aadrika, a sensitive and fragile woman, cannot. The novel is set against a backdrop of events in Khushboo and Aadrika's lives, including how they are deceived, betrayed, and abandoned by Anil, her father, but even in the pit of darkness, there are hues of rainbow of love and hope that glimmer momentarily throughout the novel.

This book surveys and critiques existing empirical and theoretical literature on the Bourdieu-informed concept of transnational habitus. The term "transnational¿ has been used widely in studies of migration research where it has allowed scholars to have a deeper understanding of the practices not only of migrants moving across national borders but also of agents taking positions in transnational spaces without necessarily criss-crossing different nation states. Focusing on the potential of transnational habitus as an analytical tool, the authors propose a model of transnational habitus to identify integral key factors for the operationalisation in research. Drawing on reflexivity, the authors analyse transnational selves and map transnational spaces of classification. Identifying strengths, inconsistencies and key problems in this rapidly developing body of literature, this interdisciplinary and international book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, migration studies, cultural studies, human geography, as well as diaspora studies.

An urgent call to action on a rising-and preventable-trend.

"This work discusses the cost youths pay for trying to survive in under resourced communities"--

A doctor's firsthand account of the devastating impacts of gun violence-and how we can end this epidemic.

How surveillance perpetuates long-standing injustices woven into the fabric of higher education.

Explores the relationship between the production of enslaved property and the production of the past in the antebellum United States.

The riveting account of how asymptomatic transmission drove COVID-19's global spread and catalyzed interventions to control it.Why was COVID-19 so difficult to contain and so devastating to people and economies worldwide? In Asymptomatic, author Joshua S. Weitz explains how silent transmission enabled COVID-19's massive and tragic global impact. Weaving the science of viral infections together with an insider's look at response efforts, Weitz guides readers through the shockwaves of successive epidemic waves as public health officials and academic research teams confronted the rise and risk of what was then a burgeoning global pandemic. The discovery of asymptomatic spread also fueled competing narratives: either COVID-19 was about to dissipate as quickly as it had emerged or completely disrupt life as we knew it. Weitz, a physicist-turned-biologist who directs a quantitative viral dynamics research group and has been immersed in COVID-19 response efforts, explains both why and how scientists tried to wade through competing narratives and warn the public of COVID-19's profound risk. As explored through a careful analysis of local outbreaks, accessible descriptions of virus dynamics, and the use of predictive models to guide response efforts, Asymptomatic provides readers a unique look into the secret ingredient that allowed COVID-19 to spread across borders and the high-impact interventions needed to fight it and future pandemics.

How a coalition of Black health professions schools made health equity a national issue.Racism in the US health care system has been deliberately undermining Black health care professionals and exacerbating health disparities among Black Americans for centuries. These health disparities only became a mainstream issue on the agenda of US health leaders and policy makers because a group of health professions schools at Historically Black Colleges and Universities banded together to fight for health equity. We'll Fight It Out Here tells the story of how the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS) was founded by this coalition and the hard-won influence it built in American politics and health care. David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan, former secretary of health & human services, detail how the struggle for equity has been fought in the field of health care, where bias and disparities continue to be volatile national issues. Chanoff and Sullivan outline the history of Black health care, from pre-Emancipation to today, centering on the work of AMHPS, which brought to light health care inequities in 1983 and precipitated virtually all minority health care legislation since then. Based on extensive research in the literature, as well as more than seventy interviews with the people central to this fight for legislative and policy change, We'll Fight It Out Here is the important story of a vital coalition movement, virtually unknown until now, that changed the national understanding of health inequities.The work of this coalition of Black health schools continues, both in supporting the training of more doctors and health professionals from minority backgrounds and in advancing issues related to health equity. By highlighting these endeavors, We'll Fight It Out Here brings attention to a pivotal group in the history of the health equity movement and provides a road map of practical mechanisms that can be used to advance it.

Outlines how the social dimensions of medical diagnosis can deepen our understanding of health.Diagnosis is central to medicine. It creates order, explains illness, identifies treatments, and predicts outcomes. In Putting a Name to It, Annemarie Jutel presents medical diagnosis as more than a mere clinical tool, but as a social phenomenon with the potential to deepen our understanding of health, illness, and disease. Jutel outlines how the sociology of diagnosis should function by situating it within the broader discipline, laying out the directions it should explore, and discussing how the classification of illness and the framing of diagnosis relate to social status and order. This second edition provides important updates to the groundbreaking first edition by incorporating new research that demonstrates how the social nature of diagnosis is just as important as the clinical. It includes new perspectives on diagnostic recognition, diagnostic coding, lay diagnosis, crowdsourced diagnosis, algorithmic diagnosis, diagnostic exploitation, diagnostic systems, stigmatizing diagnosis, and contested diagnosis. The new edition also features a case study of COVID-19 from a critical sociological perspective and a new conclusion.Both a challenge and a call to arms, Putting a Name to It is a lucid, persuasive argument for formalizing, professionalizing, and advancing long-standing practice. Jutel's innovative, open approach and engaging arguments illustrate how diagnoses have the power to legitimize our medical ailments--and stigmatize them.

Critical Geography examines the power structures, inequality, and the dominant ideologies that shape physical space. By critically analyzing these forces, the publication stimulates conversations about social justice, environmental sustainability, and transformative change. The artistic practices featured in the book shed light on systemic oppression, violence, and pressing environmental issues, and encompass a wide range of image-based practices that make inequality visible in both colonial and postcolonial contexts, including mapping, social media, and technology. FOTOFEST is a Houston-based contemporary arts organization co-founded by photojournalists Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss. The use of photography or related media to examine social, cultural, and political histories as well as contemporary life is central to FotoFest's mission. In addition to year-round programming, FotoFest organizes a city-wide biennial project that includes large-scale central exhibitions, curated lectures, performances, a symposium, and a film program.

Das Buch wendet sich vorderhand an Lehrende und Lernende des Fachs Ethik, des Weiteren an alle Interessierte moderner Wertedebatten. Es kommt also moralphilosophisch daher, beinhaltet aber reichlich kritischen, insbesondere ideologiekritischen Bezug zu unserer gesellschaftlichen Wirklichkeit. Schwerpunkt ist eine Durchsicht relevanter historischer wie zeitgenössischer ethischer Argumentationslinien. Im letzten Teil wird versucht, Wertvolles der philosophischen Debatte zu retten, nämlich im Wesentlichen den Kantschen "Kategorischen Imperativ" (in der diskursethischen Fassung), aber freilich nicht im Gegensatz, sondern gerade im Einklang mit einem wohlverstandenen Eigeninteresse. "Egoismus" wird also nicht im verbreiteten Sinne verwendet, ist das Gegenteil von borniertem (Konkurrenz-)Egozentrismus und "rational" wird zweimal unterstrichen! An diesem humanistischen Ethikkonzept blamiert sich dann das kapitalistische Geldvermehrungsprinzip und stellt sich als damit unverträglich heraus.

Women make over 80 percent of healthcare decisions in the U.S. yet have been excluded from designing the health system for too long. It was only 1993 when women and people of color were officially included in clinical trials. Heart attacks are the number one killer of women worldwide, but women are 50 percent more likely to be given a wrong diagnosis. Only four percent of all healthcare research and development is focused on women's health issues. From periods and childbirth to menopause, female pain has been normalized, as society shrugs and says "Welcome to being a woman" instead of coming up with better solutions.In The Vagina Business, award-winning journalist Marina Gerner PhD takes an eye-opening-and often times shocking-look at the inequities when it comes to scientific research and the funding of female-focused health companies. She exposes the obstacles entrepreneurs around the world face in the boardroom and beyond. Most of all, she shows us that it doesn't have to be this way. From a life-saving bra to non-hormonal contraception and new takes on fertility and menopause, she shines a light on innovation that matters. Women should not be denied solutions to health issues just because people are embarrassed to talk about vaginas. We deserve much better.

En France, des millions de personnes ont été injectées avec des produits expérimentaux dont on ne sait rien ou si peu. Environ 200¿000 d'entre elles ont déclaré des effets indésirables, dont 25¿% seraient graves (ANSM, 28 août 2023), chiffres officiels considérés comme largement sous-estimés par défaut de déclaration.Cette situation aurait probablement été évitée si les autorités, au lieu de s'enferrer dans ce qui apparaît de plus en plus comme un mensonge sur la sécurité de ces vaccins , avaient simplement utilisé les outils de la science, dont le microscope.C'est l'investissement qu'ont réalisé les deux auteurs, qui nous livrent leurs observations à travers un récit chronologique et plus d'une centaine de clichés en couleur inquiétants, car ils dévoilent des éléments synthétiques dans le sang, qui ne devraient pas s'y trouver, dont ce qui ressemble à des micro-antennes, des micro-puces... ainsi que des structures artificielles et bien d'autres anomalies affectant les globules blancs et rouges, les plaquettes...Comment s'étonner ensuite de tous ces effets indésirables graves, dont les décès ? Et pourquoi les institutions en charge de la santé publique n'ont-elles pas effectué ces analyses ? Avec Injections Covid-19 - Ce que révèle le microscope , il n'est plus possible de masquer la réalité. Un livre édifiant et incontournable.

"The contested creation of free movement, for people and goods, in the Schengen area of Europe. Europe is a place of free movement among nations, or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-seven European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders without restraint. Schengen transformed European life, advancing both a democratic project of transnational citizenship and a neoliberal project of international free trade. But the right of free movement always excluded non-Europeans, especially migrants of color from former colonies of the Schengen states. In Europe without Borders, Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement in Schengen, from treatymaking at European summits and disputes in international courts to the street protests of undocumented immigrants who claimed free movement as a human right. Schengen laid the groundwork for the making of a single market and the founding of the European Union. Yet its emergence is one of the great untold stories of modern European history, one hidden in archives long embargoed. Stanley-Becker is among the first to have access to records of the treatymaking-such as letters between France's Franðcois Mitterrand and West Germany's Helmut Kohl-and Europe Without Borders offers a pathbreaking account of Schengen's creation. Stanley-Becker argues that Schengen gave a humanist cast to a market paradigm; but even in pairing the border crossing of human beings with the principles of free-market exchange, this vision of free movement was hedged by alarm about foreign migrants. Meanwhile, these migrants-the sans papiers-saw in the promise of a borderless Europe only a neocolonial enterprise"--

An honest confrontation of systemic racism in faculty hiring-and what to do about itWhile colleges and universities have been lauded for increasing student diversity, these same institutions have failed to achieve any comparable diversity among their faculty. In 2017, of the nation's full-time, tenure-track and tenured faculty, only 3 percent each were Black men, Black women, Hispanic men, and Hispanic women. Only 6 percent were Asian/Pacific Islander men, 5 percent were Asian/Pacific Islander women, and 1 percent were American Indian/Alaska Native. Why are the numbers so abysmal? In Doing the Right Thing, Marybeth Gasman takes a hard, insightful look at the issues surrounding the recruitment and hiring of faculty of color. Relying on national data and interviews with provosts, deans, and department chairs from sixty major universities, Gasman documents the institutional forces stymieing faculty diversification, and she makes the case for how such deficiencies can and should be rectified.Even as institutions publicly champion inclusive excellence and the number of doctoral students of color increases, Gasman reveals the entrenched constraints contributing to the faculty status quo. Impediments to progress include the alleged trade-off between quality and diversity, the power of pedigree, the rigidity of academic pipelines, failures of administrative leadership, lack of accountability among administration and faculty, and the opacity and arbitrariness of the recruitment and hiring process. Gasman contends that leaders must acknowledge institutional failures of inclusion, pervasive systemic racism, and biases that restrict people of color from pursuing faculty careers.Recognizing that individuals from all backgrounds are essential to the creation and teaching of knowledge, Doing the Right Thing puts forth a concrete call for colleges and universities to take action and do better.

Architecture is at a tipping point. Voices of the under-represented have been increasing in volume and are agitated for change. If we don't collectively listen, re-adjust and change our future outlook, we limit the potential relevance of the profession in today's society and, ultimately, the places we create.

Intelligente Königin oder unheilbare Verrückte?The Outer Realms 1862 m.Z. - Die Westreiche zerfallen und die Industrienationen stecken in einer tiefen Krise, während Königin Marybeth isoliert im Shelwynn Sanatorium ihr Dasein fristet, einem Ort für untragbare Adelskinder.Ihr Schicksal nimmt eine Wendung, als sie aus ihrer Isolation geholt wird, um bei einer Gedenkfeier zu sprechen. Ein brutales Attentat erschüttert die Veranstaltung, und Marybeth findet sich in einem Strudel aus Gefahr und Intrigen wieder.Als die Natur selbst gegen die Führung der Industrienationen zu rebellieren scheint, erkennt Marybeth ihre Chance.Kann sie sich aus den Fesseln ihrer Vergangenheit befreien und die Königin werden, die das Reich dringend benötigt?

Eine intensive wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit den Familiendarstellungen in den Angestelltenromanen der Weimarer Republik ist bislang nicht erfolgt. Es ist die Motivation der vorliegenden Untersuchung, einen Beitrag zum Schließen dieser Forschungslücke zu leisten. Die Leitfrage lautet, wie und mit welcher Intention die Familien und andere persönliche Beziehungen in den Romanen dargestellt werden. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass diese Darstellungen wesentliche Funktionen innerhalb der Romane übernehmen, da die Autorinnen und Autoren mit ihrer Hilfe die prekäre Situation der Familie und der Angestellten offenlegen, beide kritisch hinterfragen und auch Zusammenhänge herstellen. Dem soziologischen bzw. literatursoziologischen Interesse der Arbeit folgend dienen kontextorientierte Methodenansätze dabei als Grundlage.