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Bergner, Gwen S. Taboo subjects: Race, sex, and psychoanalysis. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
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Taboo subjects: Race, sex, and psychoanalysis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
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Donoghue, Emma. Touchy subjects: Stories. Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 2005.
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Mattelaer, Johan. For this Relief, Much Thanks ... Translated by Ian Connerty. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462987326.
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Even though peeing is something we all do several times a day, it is still a taboo subject. From an early age, we are taught to master our urinary urges and to use decent words for this most necessary physiological activity. This paradox has not gone unnoticed by artists through the ages. For this Relief, Much Thanks! Peeing in Art is a journey through time and space, stopping along the way to look at many different art forms. The reader-viewer will see how peeing figures - men and women, young and old, human and angelic - have been depicted over the centuries. You will be amazed to discover how often, even in famous works of art, you can find a man quietly peeing in a corner or a putto who is 'irrigating' some grassy field. A detail you will never have seen before, but one that you will never forget when confronted with those same art works in future! Artists have portrayed pee-ers in a variety of different ways and for a variety of different reasons: serious, frivolous, humorous, to make a protest, to make a statement... Whatever their purpose, these works of art always intrigue, not least because of their secret messages and symbolic references, which sometimes can only be unravelled by an expert - like the author of this book. The extensive background information about the artists and their work also gives interesting insights into the often complex origins of the different art forms. In short, a fascinating voyage of discovery awaits you!
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Beiner, Guy. Restored Forgetting. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749356.003.0007.
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Social forgetting is reinforced by prohibitions on memories that do not correspond to the official ethos. Following Partition, the unionist state in Northern Ireland effectively proscribed commemoration of the United Irishmen. Nonetheless, interest in 1798 found expression in various cultural productions that broke the silence on this taboo. Local folk history traditions persisted into the twentieth century. However, during the violent years of the Troubles, open remembrance was once again subject to decommemorating and forms of censorship. Silencing was undermined by a number of nonconformist writers, who unflinchingly engaged with the ambiguous legacy of the United Irish rebellion.
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Donoghue, Emma. Touchy Subjects. Harcourt, 2007.
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Thomas, Keri, Ben Lobo, and Karen Detering, eds. Advance Care Planning in End of Life Care. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802136.001.0001.
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Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an essential part of quality end of life care in the UK and in most developed countries, enabling more people to live well and die well as they would choose. In the context of the ageing population, with increasing possibilities for medical interventions, ACP is an crucial consideration, with important implications for the individual person and their family and for our wider population. This book takes a comprehensive look at the subject, helps readers explore a wide range of issues and practicalities in providing ACP; frames the purpose, process, and outcomes; provides updates on national and international research, policy, and practice and includes contributions from experts from around the world. Death will affect us all; it is the one certainty in life. Yet the subject of death remains something of a taboo, we rarely discuss what our preferences would be at end of life, what we would want, where we would want to be cared for, not even with loved ones.
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Morningstar, MIchelle. On Politics and Other Taboo Subjects: A Collection of Poetry. Independently Published, 2017.
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Morningstar, MIchelle. On Politics and Other Taboo Subjects: A Collection of Poetry. Independently Published, 2017.
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Donoghue, Emma. Touchy Subjects: Stories. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2007.
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Donoghue, Emma. Touchy Subjects: Stories. Harcourt, 2006.
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Fuchs, Michael, Dorothea Greiling, and Michael Rosenberger, eds. Gut versorgt? Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845294872.
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Is it ethical to exclude ill people from medical treatment because it is too expensive? And vice versa, how can the healthcare system be financially sustainable if everybody receives all the effective medical treatment available irrespective of its costs. While rationing of healthcare and care services is a politically taboo topic, it is a subject that has been addressed intensively in academia for more than a decade. Resulting from a joint series of lectures by the Catholic Private University and the Johannes Kepler University in Linz in the winter semester 2017/18, this publication provides an interdisciplinary overview of the key issues involved in this debate. It addresses the inherent tensions between economic and ethical approaches and, based on the interdisciplinary dialogue between ethics, economics and theology, outlines ways of realising good healthcare and care provision with limited means. With contributions by Bernhard Emunds, Michael Fuchs, Gerd Glaeske, Dorothea Greiling, Christine Haberlander, Michaela Haunold, Lukas Kaelin, Bettina Leibetseder, Elisabeth Menschl, Walter Mitterndorfer, Peter Niedermoser, Michael Rosenberger, Claudia Wild
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Karlan, Dean, and Jacob Appel. Failing in the Field. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691183138.001.0001.
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All across the social sciences, from development economics to political science departments, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the world. While much has been gained from the successes of randomized controlled trials, stories of failed projects often do not get told. This book delves into the common causes of failure in field research, so that researchers might avoid similar pitfalls in future work. Drawing on the experiences of top social scientists working in developing countries, the book investigates failed projects and helps guide practitioners as they embark on their research. From experimental design and implementation to analysis and partnership agreements, the book shows that there are important lessons to be learned from failures at every stage. The book describes five common categories of failures, reviews six case studies in detail, and concludes with some reflections on best (and worst) practices for designing and running field projects, with an emphasis on randomized controlled trials. There is much to be gained from investigating what has previously not worked, from misunderstandings by staff to errors in data collection. Cracking open the taboo subject of the stumbles that can take place in the implementation of research studies, this is a valuable ‘how-not-to’ handbook for conducting fieldwork and running randomized controlled trials in development settings.
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Kahn, Andrew. Mandelstam's Worlds. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857938.001.0001.
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Rightly appreciated as a ‘poet’s poet’, Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is ‘as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce’s Ulysses or Eliot’s Waste Land’. Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of their times, and Mandelstam’s poems represent the worlds of politics, history, art, and ideas about intimacy and creativity. The interconnections between these domains and Mandelstam’s writings are the subject of this book, showing how engaged the poet was with the history, social movements, political ideology, and aesthetics of his time. The importance of the book also lies in showing how literature, no less than history and philosophy, enables readers to confront the huge upheaval in outlook that can be demanded of us; thinking with poetry is to think through the moral compromise and tension felt by individuals in public and private contexts, and to create out of art experience in itself. The book further innovates by integrating a new, comprehensive discussion of the Voronezh Notebooks, one of the supreme achievements of Russian poetry. Mandelstam’s controversial political poetry has been virtually a taboo topic (despite sporadic attempts at assessment). This book considers the full political dimension of works that explore the role of the poet as a figure positioned within society but outside the state, caught between an ideal of creative independence and a devotion to the original, ameliorative ideals of the revolution.
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Lanters, José. Thomas Kilroy and the Idea of a Theatre. Edited by Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198706137.013.22.
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In the late 1950s Thomas Kilroy wrote a series of formative articles, which collectively form something like a manifesto for Irish theatre since 1960. ‘In the past twenty years,’ Kilroy wrote in ‘Groundwork for an Irish Theatre’, ‘few Irish dramatists have been in any way exciting technically.’ Responding to Hugh Leonard’s scenographically originalStephen D(1962) and Brian Friel’s experiments with memory and subjectivity inPhiladelphia, Here I Come!(1964), Kilroy answered his own challenge in the innovative form and subjects of his drama: the metatheatrical history playThe O’Neill(1969); the radical treatment of the then taboo theme of homosexuality inThe Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche(1968); the surrealTea and Sex and Shakespeare(1976); and the brilliantly inventive use of scenic space in the dramatization of the life of Matt Talbot inTalbot’s Box(1977).
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Collins, Richard, and Dale Oesterle. The Colorado State Constitution. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190907723.001.0001.
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The Colorado State Constitution (2020) is the second edition of the state’s contribution to The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States. The book opens with a detailed history of the constitution that focuses on events and amendments that transformed the state. As expected in the West, it features some lively adventure stories. Since the first edition in 2002, the state’s population has grown by more than a third. The book explains the many new challenges its legal system has faced. The main section analyzes in detail every provision of the constitutional text. All relevant judicial interpretations are examined. A comprehensive index and a table of cases guide researchers. Interaction with the federal Constitution is carefully explained. Background and interpretations of Colorado’s complex and unique tax revolt, known as TABOR, are carefully analyzed. The state’s extensive provisions for direct democracy, the initiative, veto referendum, and recall of elected officials, are studied in detail. The Colorado Bill of Rights is fully reviewed. The state’s strong system for constitutional home rule for cities, counties, and towns is examined from its adoption into today’s governing system. The state’s strong system for all levels of public education is explained. Its leadership in the marijuana legalization movement is another subject well covered.