Author: Alexis A. Aronowitz
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: human, global, crime, justice, beings, trade, trafficking, misery
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 2009-03-20
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0275994813
ISBN-13: 9780275994815

Virtually all countries in the world are affected by the scourge of human trafficking, either as a source, transit, or destination country, or combination thereof. While countries have long focused on international trafficking, internal movement and exploitation within countries may be even more prevalent than trans-border trafficking. Patterns of trafficking vary across countries and regions and are in a constant state of flux. Countries have long focused on trafficking solely for the purpose of sexual exploitation, yet exploitation in agriculture, construction, fishing, manufacturing, and th

Author: Robert A. Aronowitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: history, cambridge, studies, medicine, society, american, breast, cancer, unnatural
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 2007-10-08
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521822491
ISBN-13: 9780521822497

In the early nineteenth century in the United States, cancer in the breast was a rare disease. Now it seems that breast cancer is everywhere. Written by a medical historian who is also a doctor, Unnatural History tells how and why this happened. Rather than there simply being more disease, breast cancer has entered the bodies of so many American women and the concerns of nearly all the rest, mostly as a result of how we have detected, labeled, and responded to the disease. The book traces changing definitions and understandings of breast cancer, the experience of breast cancer sufferers, c

Authors:Robert A. Aronowitz, M.D., Robert A. Aronowitz,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: society, disease, science, illness, sense, making
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521558255
ISBN-13: 9780521558259

Making Sense of Illness is a fascinating investigation into the social and clinical factors that determine what constitutes a "legitimate" illness in the twentieth century. By examining six case studies of diseases that have emerged within the past fifty years--from what we now consider to be "straightforward" diseases such as coronary heart disease, to the currently widely-debated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome--Aronowitz examines the historical and cultural factors that influence how doctors think about illness; how illnesses are recognized, named, classified, and finally, what they "mean" in an

Authors:A.A. Aronowitz, D.C.G. Laagland, G. Paulides,
Publisher:
Keywords: european, union, fraud, tax, added, value
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1996-07-07
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 906299136X
ISBN-13: 9789062991365

Authors:Stanley Aronowitz, Peter Bratsis,
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: reconsidered, theory, state, lost, paradigm
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 0816632944
ISBN-13: 9780816632947

With increasing globalization, the meaning and role of the nation-state are in flux. At the same time, state theory, which might help to explain such a trend, has fallen victim to the general decline of radical movements, particularly the crisis in Marxism. This volume seeks to enrich and complicate current political debates by bringing state theory back to the fore and assessing its relevance to the social phenomena and thought of our day. Throughout, it becomes clear that, whether confronting the challenges of postmodern and neo-institutionalist theory or the crisis of the welfare state and

Authors:Stanley Aronowitz, Henry A. Giroux,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: debate, over, schooling, radical, liberal, siege, conservative, education
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1987-10-08
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0710213182
ISBN-13: 9780710213181

Public spending on education is under attack. In this challenging book Aronowitz and Giroux examine the thinking behind that attack, in the USA and in other industrialized countries.

Authors:Mark Poster, Stanley Aronowitz,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theory, culture, art, voices, subject, critical, information
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 9057012421
ISBN-13: 9789057012426

In this collection of essays and interviews, Mark Poster examines theoretical approaches and develops his own position on our information based society. He contends that new communications media disrupt and transfigure the way identities are constituted in cultural exchanges. He looks in detail at several aspects of what might be called "internet culture", including virtuality and democracy.Poster advocates an awareness of the Internet and other new forms of communication, calling for a mobilization to ensure accessibility to all and to configure technology into vehicles of open cultural cr