Lesser Harms

Sydney A Halpern

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• Research physicians face intractable dilemmas when they consider introducing new medical procedures. Innovations carry the promise of preventing or cu... Lees meer

Soft Patriarchs, New Men

W Bradford Wilcox

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• In the wake of dramatic, recent changes in American family life, evangelical and mainline Protestant churches took markedly different positions on fam... Lees meer

For the Sake of the Children

Carol a Heimer

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• For the Sake of the Children examines the social organization of responsibility by asking who takes responsibility for critically ill newborns. Drawin... Lees meer

Public and Private in Thought and Practice

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• These essays, by widely respected scholars in fields ranging from social and political theory to historical sociology and cultural studies, illuminate... Lees meer

Living Faith

Susan Crawford Sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women's lives can be difficult as they go about search... Lees meer

The Catholic Social Imagination

Joseph M Palacios

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• The reach of the Catholic Church is arguably greater than that of any other religion, extending across diverse political, ethnic, class, and cultural ... Lees meer

Beyond Caring

Daniel F Chambliss

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revel... Lees meer

Healing Powers

Fred M Frohock

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• The personal testimony of individuals engaged in healing practices and the opposing voices of orthodox and alternative medicines are the center of Hea... Lees meer

Faith in Action

Richard L Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• Over the past fifteen years, associations throughout the U.S. have organized citizens around issues of equality and social justice, often through loca... Lees meer

Citizen Speak

Andrew J Perrin

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• When we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter writing, and paying attention to the news spring to ... Lees meer

Rationality and Power

Bent Flyvbjerg

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society | nr. 1998
• "It's like the story of Little Town," an influential actor says in Rationality and Power when choosing a metaphor to describe how he manipulated ratio... Lees meer

The Making of Pro-life Activists

Ziad W Munson

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• How do people become activists for causes they care deeply about? Many people with similar backgrounds, for instance, fervently believe that abortion ... Lees meer

Heartwood

Wendy Cadge

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• Theravada is one of the three main branches of Buddhism. In Asia it is practiced widely in Thailand, Laos, Burma, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia. This fascin... Lees meer

Money, Morals, and Manners

Michèle Lamont

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michèle Lamont provides a rare and revealing... Lees meer

More Than Victims

Donald Alexander Downs

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• In More Than Victims , Donald Downs offers a sympathetic and powerful analysis of the problems attending the use of battered-woman syndrome as a legal... Lees meer

God and Government in the Ghetto

Michael Leo Owens

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received gra... Lees meer

Streets of Glory

Omar M McRoberts

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• Long considered the lifeblood of urban African American neighborhoods, churches are held up as institutions dedicated to serving their surrounding com... Lees meer