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  • ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES
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    ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES
    ELYSHIA ASELTINE / SHELDON EKLAND OLSON
    This book explores the seismic shift brought about by the 2022 US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which dramatically changed the constitutional standing of abortion decisions set in place by Roe v. Wade 50 years earlier. The authors describe the history of US Supreme Court’s decision-making around abortion and some of its attendant consid...

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  • WHO LIVES, WHO DIES, WHO DECIDES?
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    WHO LIVES, WHO DIES, WHO DECIDES?
    SHELDON EKLAND-OLSON
    Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? looks at several of the most contentious issues in many societies. The book asks, whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time, and who makes those decisions? This book explores the fundamentally sociological processes which underlie the quest for morality and justice in human societies. The author sheds ligh...

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  • SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY
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    SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY
    SHELDON EKLAND-OLSON / JACK P. GIBBS
    Science and Sociology is from beginning to end an exploration of what this implies for the social sciences, and sociology in particular. The authors argue that over the last several decades, sociology has become less a science and more a quest for isolated assessments of situations, whether they come from demographic analyses, survey research, or ethnographic studies. Above all...

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  • LIFE AND DEATH DECISIONS
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    LIFE AND DEATH DECISIONS
    SHELDON EKLAND-OLSON
    Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time and who makes those decisions? Based on the author’s award-winning and hugely popular undergraduate course at the University of Texas, this book explores thes...

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  • HOW ETHICAL SYSTEMS CHANGE: ABORTION AND NEONATAL CARE
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    HOW ETHICAL SYSTEMS CHANGE: ABORTION AND NEONATAL CARE
    SHELDON EKLAND-OLSON / ELYSHIA ASELTINE
    Roe v. Wade came like a bolt from the blue, but support had been building for years. For many, the idea that life in the womb was not fully protected under the Constitution was simply not acceptable. Political campaigns were organized and protests launched, including the bombing of clinics and the killing of abortion providers. Questions about the protection and support of life...

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  • HOW ETHICAL SYSTEMS CHANGE: EUGENICS, THE FINAL SOLUTION, BIOETHICS
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    HOW ETHICAL SYSTEMS CHANGE: EUGENICS, THE FINAL SOLUTION, BIOETHICS
    SHELDON EKLAND-OLSON
    Mandatory sterilization laws enacted in dozens of states coast-to-coast and approved by the U.S. Supreme Court formed the initial pillar for what became the Final Solution. Following WWII, there was renewed interest in a more inclusive view of social worth and the autonomy of the individual. Social movements were launched to secure broad-based revisions in civil and human right...

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  • HOW ETHICAL SYSTEMS CHANGE: TOLERABLE SUFFERING AND ASSISTED DYING
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    HOW ETHICAL SYSTEMS CHANGE: TOLERABLE SUFFERING AND ASSISTED DYING
    SHELDON EKLAND-OLSON / ELYSHIA ASELTINE
    Medical advances prolong life. They also sometimes prolong suffering. Should we protect life or alleviate suffering? This dilemma formed the foundation for a powerful right-to-die movement and a counterbalancing concern over an emerging culture of death. What are the qualities of a life worth living? Where are the boundaries of tolerable suffering? This book is based on a hugel...

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  • HOW ETHICAL SYSTEMS CHANGE: LYNCHING AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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    HOW ETHICAL SYSTEMS CHANGE: LYNCHING AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
    SHELDON EKLAND-OLSON / DANIELLE DIRKS
    Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century these connections gave rise to a small but well-focused reform movement. Biased and perfunctory procedures were replaced by prolonged trials and appeals, which some found messy and meaningless; DNA profiling clearly established innocent persons had been sentenced to de...

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