Just Revenge

Just Revenge

Author: Mark Costanzo

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1997-10-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780312179458

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A professor of social psychology explores the history of execution in America, weighing its social costs, discussing its potential benefits and problems, and building a new model for understanding the politics behind the death penalty.


Life and Death Design

Life and Death Design

Author: Katie Swindler

Publisher: Rosenfeld Media

Published: 2022-01-11

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 193382008X

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Emergencies—landing a malfunctioning plane, resuscitating a heart attack victim, or avoiding a head-on car crash—all require split-second decisions that can mean life or death. Fortunately, designers of life-saving products have leveraged research and brain science to help users reduce panic and harness their best instincts. Life and Death Design brings these techniques to everyday designers who want to help their users think clearly and act safely.


The Consequences of Maternal Morbidity and Maternal Mortality

The Consequences of Maternal Morbidity and Maternal Mortality

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2000-03-21

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 030917211X

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In 1997 the committee published Reproductive Health in Developing Countries: Expanding Dimensions, Building Solutions, a report that recommended actions to improve reproductive health for women around the world. As a follow- on activity, the committee proposed an investigation into the social and economic consequences of maternal morbidity and mortality. With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the committee organized a workshop on this topic in Washington, DC, on October 19-20, 1998. The Consequences of Maternal Morbidity and Maternal Mortality assesses the scientific knowledge about the consequences of maternal morbidity and mortality and discusses key findings from recent research. Although the existing research on this topic is scarce, the report drew on similar literature on the consequences of adult disease and death, especially the growing literature on the socioeconomic consequences of AIDS, to look at potential consequences from maternal disability and death.


Grief After Suicide

Grief After Suicide

Author: John R. Jordan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-01-19

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 1135849269

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A suicide leaves behind more victims than just the individual. And yet there are very few professional resources that provide the necessary background, research, and tools to effectively work with the survivors. This edited volume addresses the need for an up-to-date, professionally oriented summary of the clinical and research literature on the impact of suicide bereavement on survivors.


Border Deaths

Border Deaths

Author: Paolo Cuttitta

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-12

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9789463722322

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Border deaths are a result of dynamics involving diverse actors, and can be interpreted and represented in various ways. Critical voices from civil society (including academia) hold states responsible for making safe journeys impossible for large parts of the world population. Meanwhile, policy-makers argue that border deaths demonstrate the need for restrictive border policies. Statistics are widely (mis)used to support different readings of border deaths. However, the way data is collected, analysed, and disseminated remains largely unquestioned. Similarly, little is known about how bodies are treated, and about the different ways in which the dead - also including the missing and the unidentified - are mourned by familiars and strangers. New concepts and perspectives contribute to highlighting the political nature of border deaths and finding ways to move forward. The chapters of this collection, co-authored by researchers and practitioners, provide the first interdisciplinary overview of this contested field.


Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

Author: Floris Tomasini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1137538287

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of the dead, and makes connections to a historical oeuvre, to add critical value to similar concepts in history that are overlooked by most philosophers. There is a long historical view of case studies that illustrate the conceptual character of posthumous punishment; that is, dissection and gibbetting of the criminal corpse after the Murder Act (1752), and those shot at dawn during the First World War. A long historical view is also taken of posthumous harm; that is, body-snatching in the late Georgian period, and organ-snatching at Alder Hey in the 1990s.


Investigating Obsolescence

Investigating Obsolescence

Author: Nancy C. Dorian

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-09-03

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780521437578

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This collection will certainly stimulate further and better co-ordinated research into a topic of direct relevance to sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics.


Angel & Faith Volume 4: Death and Consequences

Angel & Faith Volume 4: Death and Consequences

Author: Joss Whedon

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1621158152

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When a demon from Giles's past emerges in London; Angel has his chance to capture the final piece of Giles's soul. But when Faith's innocent Slayer friends end up standing between the guilt-ridden vampire and his prize; Angel is unwilling to sacrifice new lives for one that was already lost—even if it destroys his quest altogether! * Executive produced by Joss Whedon!


Bereavement

Bereavement

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1984-02-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0309034388

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"The book is well organized, well detailed, and well referenced; it is an invaluable sourcebook for researchers and clinicians working in the area of bereavement. For those with limited knowledge about bereavement, this volume provides an excellent introduction to the field and should be of use to students as well as to professionals," states Contemporary Psychology. The Lancet comments that this book "makes good and compelling reading....It was mandated to address three questions: what is known about the health consequences of bereavement; what further research would be important and promising; and whether there are preventive interventions that should either be widely adopted or further tested to evaluate their efficacy. The writers have fulfilled this mandate well."


Courting Death

Courting Death

Author: Carol S. Steiker

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-11-07

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0674737423

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Before constitutional regulation -- The Supreme Court steps in -- The invisibility of race in the constitutional revolution -- Between the Supreme Court and the states -- The failures of regulation -- An unsustainable system? -- Recurring patterns in constitutional regulation -- The future of the American death penalty -- Life after death