- Health and Social Change in International Perspective
- Lincoln C. Chen, Editor
- Arthur Kleinman, Editor
- Norma Ware, Editor
- Paperback
- Just Work
- Russell Muirhead
- This elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and the kind of work we do. Muirhead shows how the common hope for work that fulfills us involves more than personal interest; it also points to larger understandings of a just society. We are defined in part by the jobs we hold, and Muirhead has something important to say about the partial satisfactions of the working life, and the increasingly urgent need to balance the claims of work against those of family and community.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2007
- Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes
- Frederick Schauer
- When the law makes decisions about groups based on averages, the public benefit can be enormous. On the other hand, profiling and stereotyping may lead to injustice. How can we decide which stereotypes are accurate, which are distortions, which can be applied fairly, and which will result in unfair stigmatization? These decisions must rely not only on statistical and empirical accuracy, but also on morality. As Schauer argues, there is good profiling and bad profiling. If we can effectively determine which is which, we stand to gain, not lose, a measure of justice.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
- Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health
- Michael R. Reich, Editor
- Paperback 2002
- Regulating a New Society
- Morton Keller
- A leading scholar of twentieth-century American history looks again at the beginning of the century, this time giving us a remarkable portrait of the emergence of modern society and its distinctive transformations and social problems. Keller integrates political, legal, and governmental history, now providing the first comprehensive study of the ideas and interests that shaped early twentieth-century American social policy.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- Rethinking Multiculturalism
- Bhikhu Parekh
- Bhikhu Parekh argues for a pluralist perspective on cultural diversity. Writing from both within the liberal tradition and outside of it as a critic, he challenges what he calls the "moral monism" of much of traditional moral philosophy, including contemporary liberalism--its tendency to assert that only one way of life or set of values is worthwhile and to dismiss the rest as misguided or false. He defends his pluralist perspective both at the level of theory and in subtle nuanced analyses of recent controversies.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- The Sandbox Investment
- David L. Kirp
- The rich have always valued early education, and for the past forty years, millions of poorer kids have had Head Start. Now, more and more middle class parents have realized that a good preschool is the smartest investment they can make in their children's future in a competitive world. Writing with the verve of a magazine journalist and the authority of a scholar, Kirp makes the ideal guide to this quiet movement and campaign.
- Hardcover 2007
- Socializing Security
- David A. Moss
- Socializing Security examines the early movement for worker-security legislation in the United States. The author focuses on a group of academic economists who became leading proponents of social insurance and protective labor legislation during the first decades of the twentieth century and founded the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL).
- Hardcover 1995
- Taking Faith Seriously
- Edited by Mary Jo Bane
- Edited by Brent Coffin
- Edited by Richard Higgins
- Whether simply uneasy or downright hostile, the relation between religion and liberal democracy in this country has long been vexed and complex--and crucial to what America is and aspires to be. Amid increasingly contentious exchanges over fundamentalism, abortion rights, secularism, and pluralism, this book reminds us of the critical role that religion plays in the health and well-being of a democracy.
- Hardcover 2005
- Why Race Matters in South Africa
- Michael MacDonald
- This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without raising most of them from poverty. Although democratic South Africa is officially "non-racial," the book shows that racial solidarities continue to play a role in the country's political economy.
- Hardcover 2006