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A Textured Life

By Alison Pedlar, Lawrence Haworth, Peggy Hutchison, Andrew Taylor, and Peter Dunn
Subjects: Social Science, Social Work, Philosophy

Thirty years ago, spending one’s life in a large institution was, for most adults with developmental disabilities, the norm. Three decades later, theirs is a very different world. Deinstitutionalization ...

Science, Pseudo-Science and Society

Edited by Marsha Hanen, Margaret Osler, and Robert Weyant
Subjects: Philosophy, Technology & Engineering, Social Science

 

This volume collects the papers presented at a conference on “Science, Pseudo–science and Society,” sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities and held at the University of Calgary, ...

Clothed in Integrity

By Barbara Paleczny
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

Barbara Paleczny, herself a daughter of garment workers, tugs at the threads of homeworking in the garment industry to reveal a low-wage strategy that rends the fabric of social integrity and exposes ...

Bodied Mindfulness

By Winnie Tomm
Subjects: Religion, Spirituality, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Philosophy

“I see spirituality and social change to be integrally related to each other. I believe that liberation efforts that are supported by spiritual experiences of integration promote human dignity as well ...

Controversial Kierkegaard

By Gregor Malantschuk
Translated by Edna Hong & Howard Hong
Subjects: Philosophy, Social Science, Gender Studies

A widespread misapprehension of Søren Kierkegaard is that his concern for the individual and the individual's relation to the divine excluded any significant attention to social and political problems. ...

The Moral Parameters of Good Talk

By Maryann Neely Ayim
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Social Science, Women’s Studies

Should we not apply the same moral standards to language as we do to behaviour? Should we not demand fair treatment in how others speak to us or include us in conversations?
In The Moral Parameters ...

Taking Responsibility for Children

Edited by Robert Noggle & Samantha Brennan
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Philosophy, Ethics, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in Taking Responsibility for Children offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches ...

Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Philosophy, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought has intrigued readers from feminist-philosopher J.S. Mill (who used it in his The Subjection of Women) to the latest generation of women’s activists. ...

Something to Cry About

By Susan M. Turner
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Political Science, Social Policy, Philosophy, Social Science, Social Work
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Why does our society think it is okay to hit children?
Almost everyone thinks it is wrong to abuse a child. But many parents and teachers believe it is okay to spank children, rap their knuckles, slap ...