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• Introduction: Why Luxury?Part One1. Luxury in History: A Brief Survey2. Neglected Vice: How Luxury Degrades Us, Our Work, and Our Communities3. Neglected Sacramentality: Why Luxury Blocks a Spirituality of Our Material Goods4. Neglecting Positionality: Why Luxury Does Not Necessarily Help the EconomyPart Two5. Luxury Defined6. Luxury and Social Context: Who Has More Than Enough?7. Luxury and Necessity: What Is Enough?8. Luxury and Sacrament: What Is Beyond Enough?Conclusion: Resisting with Discipline, Responding with HopeBibliographyIndex.
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Luxury. The word alone conjures up visions of attractive, desirable lifestyle choices, yet luxury also faces criticism as a moral vice harmful to both the self and society. Engaging ideas from business, marketing, and economics, The Vice of Luxury takes on the challenging task of naming how much is too much in today's consumer-oriented society.David Cloutier's critique goes to the heart of a fundamental contradiction. Though overconsumption and materialism make us uneasy, they also seem inevitable in advanced economies. Current studies of economic ethics focus on the structural problems of poverty, of international trade, of workers' rights-but rarely, if ever, do such studies speak directly to the excesses of the wealthy, including the middle classes of advanced economies. Cloutier proposes a new approach to economic ethics that focuses attention on our everyday economic choices. He shows why luxury is a problem, explains how to identify what counts as the vice of luxury today, and develops an ethic of consumption that is grounded in Christian moral convictions.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Feminist Dreams and Nightmares: The Struggle for Gender Health Equity in Brazil; 2 Black Women's Health Activism and the Development of Intersectional Health Policy; 3 Mapping the Development of Health Policies for the Black Population: From the Centenary of Abolition to the Statute of Racial Equality; 4 Strategies to Challenge Institutional Racism and Color Blindness in the Health Sector; 5 The Alyne Case: Maternal Mortality, Intersectional Discrimination, and the Human Right to Health in Brazil

• 6 Making Race and Gender Visible in Brazil's HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Policy, Advocacy, and ResearchConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Brazil's leadership role in the fight against HIV has brought its public health system widespread praise. But the nation still faces serious health challenges and inequities. Though home to the world's second largest African-descendant population, Brazil failed to address many of its public health issues that disproportionately impact Afro-Brazilian women and men. Kia Lilly Caldwell draws on twenty years of engagement with activists, issues, and policy initiatives to document how the country's feminist health movement and black women's movement have fought for much-needed changes in women's health. Merging ethnography with a historical analysis of policies and programs, Caldwell offers a close examination of institutional and structural factors that have impacted the quest for gender and racial health equity in Brazil. As she shows, activists have played an essential role in policy development in areas ranging from maternal mortality to female sterilization. Caldwell's insightful portrait of the public health system also details how its weaknesses contribute to ongoing failures and challenges while also imperiling the advances that have been made.
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• Introduction: picking up the scent
• Heavenly scents: religions and smell
• Fragrant lucre: the perfume trade
• Odorous others: race and smell
• Seduction and subversion: gender and smell
• Uncommon scents: class and smell
• Mapping the smellscape: smell and the city
• Conclusion: beyond the foul and fragrant.

In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds.This broad survey demonstrates how each community or commodity possesses, or has been thought to possess, its own peculiar scent. Through the meanings associated with smells, osmologies develop--what cultural anthropologists have termed the systems that utilize smells to classify people and objects in ways that define their relations to each other and their relative values within a particular culture. European Christians, for instance, relied on their noses to differentiate Christians from heathens, whites from people of color, women from men, virgins from harlots, artisans from aristocracy, and pollution from perfume.This reliance on smell was not limited to the global North. Around the world, Reinarz shows, people used scents to signify individual and group identity in a morally constructed universe where the good smelled pleasant and their opposites reeked.With chapters including "Heavenly Scents, " "Fragrant Lucre, " and "Odorous Others, " Reinarz's timely survey is a useful and entertaining look at the history of one of our most important but least-understood senses.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Feminist Dreams and Nightmares: The Struggle for Gender Health Equity in Brazil; 2 Black Women's Health Activism and the Development of Intersectional Health Policy; 3 Mapping the Development of Health Policies for the Black Population: From the Centenary of Abolition to the Statute of Racial Equality; 4 Strategies to Challenge Institutional Racism and Color Blindness in the Health Sector; 5 The Alyne Case: Maternal Mortality, Intersectional Discrimination, and the Human Right to Health in Brazil.

• 6 Making Race and Gender Visible in Brazil's HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Policy, Advocacy, and ResearchConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Brazil's leadership role in the fight against HIV has brought its public health system widespread praise. But the nation still faces serious health challenges and inequities. Though home to the world's second largest African-descendant population, Brazil failed to address many of its public health issues that disproportionately impact Afro-Brazilian women and men. Kia Lilly Caldwell draws on twenty years of engagement with activists, issues, and policy initiatives to document how the country's feminist health movement and black women's movement have fought for much-needed changes in women's health. Merging ethnography with a historical analysis of policies and programs, Caldwell offers a close examination of institutional and structural factors that have impacted the quest for gender and racial health equity in Brazil. As she shows, activists have played an essential role in policy development in areas ranging from maternal mortality to female sterilization. Caldwell's insightful portrait of the public health system also details how its weaknesses contribute to ongoing failures and challenges while also imperiling the advances that have been made.
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• List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface 'Ghastly Statistics': a Word of Warning
• 1. The Black Spot on the Mersey
• 2. Policing
• 3. Prison and Punishment
• 4. Children and Women in the Justice System 5 'The Scum ofIreland'
• 6. Protest, Riot and Disorder 7 The Lowest Circle of Hell 8 The Demon Drink
• 9. Violence
• 10. Maritime Crime
• 11. Street Robbery
• 12. Burglary and Property Theft 13 Poaching Wars
• 14. Scams
• 15. Victorian Family Values
• 16. 'The Devil's Children'
• 17. Gangs and Anti-Social Behaviour
• 18. Prostitution
• 19. Sport and Gambling Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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In the nineteenth century Liverpool gained an unenviable reputation as the most crime-ridden place in the country. Dock theft, alcohol-related crime, prostitution, sectarian violence, a high level of female offending and armies of juvenile thieves made Liverpool a distinct criminal landscape, `the black spot on the Mersey'. Using contemporary newspapers and journals (both local and national), autobiographies and first-hand accounts gleaned from parliamentary and prison reports, Michael Macilwee explores the social background, conditions and events that helped create and sustain the variety and high level of criminality in Liverpool. The book provides accounts, statistics and analysis of criminal practices ranging from poaching to pocket-picking to prostitution. It also makes space for the voices of the long-forgotten Liverpool poor and members of the so-called `criminal classes', exhuming fascinating first-person accounts of motives, fears and aspirations long buried in archives. Macilwee also considers the ways in which various institutions, including the police, courts, prisons, churches and philanthropic organizations, attempted to bring order to the streets and improve the behaviour of the Liverpool public. Finally, the book suggests that we are still struggling with the legacy of Victorian social problems and their possible solutions, particularly in relation to debates about alcohol, prostitution and the usefulness of prison as a punishment.
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• Preface - Charlotte Roberts
• 1. Introduction William Southwell-Wright, Rebecca Gowland and Lindsay Powell
• Section 1: Care and the Life Course
• 2. Childcare in the Past Mary Lewis
• 3. The "Terrible Tyranny of the Majority": Recognising Population Variability and Individual Agency in Past Infant Feeding Practices Ellen Kendall
• 4.-Precious Things: Examining the Status and Care of Children in Late Medieval England Through the analysis of Cultural and Biological Markers Heidi Dawson
• 5. "That Tattered Coat Upon a Stick the Ageing Body": Evidence for Elder Marginalisation and Abuse in Roman Britain Rebecca L. Gowland
• Section 2: Care Impairment and Disability
• 6. The Palaeolithic Compassion Debate - Alternative Projections of Modern Day Disability into the Distant Past Nick Thorpe
• 7. Setting the Scene for an Evolutionary Approach to Care in Prehistory: A Historical and Philosophical Journey David Doat
• 8. "A Long Waiting for Death": Dependency and the Care of the Disabled in a Nineteenth Century Asylum Shawn Phillips
• 9 Prayers and Poultices: Medieval Health Care at the Isle of May, Scotland. C. AD 430-1580 Marlo Willows
• Section 3: Animal and Plant Evidence for Care
• 10. Towards a Zooarchaeology of Animal `Care' Richard Thomas
• 11. Rare Secrets of Physicke: Insect Medicaments in Historical Western Society Gary King
• 12. Conclusion Lindsay Powell, William Southwell-Wright, Rebecca Gowland.
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Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As such, care-giving, and the form it takes, is a central experience of being a human and one that is culturally mediated. Archaeology has tended to marginalise the study of care, and debates surrounding our ability to recognise it within the archaeological record have often remained implicit rather than a focus of discussion. In order to address this, the 12 papers in this volume bring together archaeological, historical, and philosophical perspectives to examine the topic of care in past societies, and how we might recognise the provision of care in archaeological contexts. The topic of care is examined through three different strands: care throughout the life course, namely that provided to the youngest and oldest members of society; care-giving and attitudes towards impairment and disability; and the role of animals as both recipients of care and as tools for its provision.
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• Introduction--
• 1. Charity and state-building--
• 2. Gender, lineage ideology, and the development of a status culture--
• 3. Law and the majesty of practice--
• 4. Innocence and danger: pedagogy, discipline, and the culture of masculinity--
• 5. From putte to puttane: female foundlings and charitable institutions--
• 6. Unruly nuns: convents and cloistering-- Conclusion.
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This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease and growing economic inequality on the Italian peninsula displaced hundreds of thousands of families during this period. In order to handle the social crises generated by war, competition for social position and the abandonment of children, a series of private and public initiatives expanded existing charitable institutions and founded new ones. Philip Gavitt's research reveals the important role played by lineage ideology among Florence's elites in the use and manipulation of these charitable institutions in the often futile pursuit of economic and social stability. Considering families of all social levels, he argues that the pursuit of family wealth and prestige often worked at cross-purposes with the survival of the very families it was supposed to preserve.
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• Preface Introduction
• * Setting Public Policy on Drugs: A Choice of Social Values by Line Beauchesne (University of Ottawa) * Unmaking Manly Smokes: Church, State, Governance and the First Anti-Smoking Campaign in Montreal, 1892-1914 by Jarrett Rudy (McGill University) * From Flapper to Sophisticate: Canadian Women University Students as Smokers, 1920-1960 by Sharon Anne Cook (University of Ottawa) *"Their Medley of Tongues and Eternal Jangle": Liquor Control & Ethnicity in Ontario, 1927-44 by Dan Malleck (Brock University) * Becoming a "Hype": Drug Law, Subculture Formation and Resistance in Canada, 1945-61 by Catherine Carstairs (University of Guelph) *"Just Say Know": Criminalizing LSD and the Politics of Psychedelic Expertise, 1961-68 by Erika Dyck (University of Saskatchewan) * Setting Boundaries: LSD Use and Glue-Sniffing in Ontario in the Sixties by Marcel Martel (York University) * From Beverage to Drug: Alcohol and Other Drugs in 1960s and 1970s Canada by Greg Marquis (University of New Brunswick, Saint John) * Considering the Revolving Door: The Inevitability of Addiction Treatment in the Criminal Justice System by Dawn Moore (Carleton University) * Biopolitics, Geopolitics and the Regulation of (Club) Drugs in Canada by Kyle Grayson (York University) * Afterword: A Personal Reflection on the Law and Illicit Drug Use by Alan Young (Osgoode Hall Law School) Contributors.
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Recent debate around the potential decriminalization of marijuana, along with a growing perception that illicit drug use is on the rise, has brought the role of the state in controlling intoxication to the forefront of public discussion. Until now, however, there has been little scholarly consideration of the legal and social regulation of drug use in Canada. In The Real Dope, Edgar-Andre Montigny brings together leading scholars from a diverse range of fields-including history, law, political science, criminology, and psychology-to examine the relationship between moral judgment and legal regulation. Highlights of this collection include rare glimpses into how LSD, cocaine, and ecstasy have historically been treated by authority figures. Other topics explored range from anti-smoking campaigns and addiction treatment to the relationship between ethnicity and liquor control. Readers will find intriguing links across arguments and disciplines, providing a much-needed foundation for meaningful discussion.
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• Science in the marketplace : an introduction / Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman
• How scientific conversation became shop talk / James A. Secord
• The diffusion of phrenology through public lecturing / John van Wyhe
• Lecturing in the spatial economy of science / Bernard Lightman
• Publishing "popular science" in early nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan R. Topham
• Sensitive, bashful, and chaste? articulating the mimosa in science / Ann B. Shteir
• Reading natural history at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum / Aileen Fyfe
• Illuminating the expert-consumer relationship in domestic electricity / Graeme Gooday
• Natural history on display : the collection of Charles Waterton / Victoria Carroll
• Science at the crystal focus of the world / Richard Bellon
• "More the aspect of magic than anything natural" : the philosophy of demonstration / Iwan Rhys Morus
• The museum affect : visiting collections of anatomy and natural history / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.

The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science, for education, entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain, science could be encountered in myriad forms and in countless locations: in panoramic shows, exhibitions, and galleries; in city museums and country houses; in popular lectures; and even in domestic conversations that revolved around the latest books and periodicals. "Science in the Marketplace" reveals this other side of Victorian scientific life by placing the sciences in the wider cultural marketplace, ultimately showing that the creation of new sites and audiences was just as crucial to the growing public interest in science as were the scientists themselves. By focusing attention on the scientific audience, as opposed to the scientific community or self-styled popularizers, "Science in the Marketplace" ably links larger societal changes - in literacy, in industrial technologies, and in leisure - to the evolution of "popular science.".
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