Donald Childs shows how Woolf, Eliot, and Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language of the modern imagination. He traces the impact of eugenics on such modernist works as Mrs Dalloway, The Waste Land, and Y…
"What information should jurors have during court proceedings to render a just decision? Should politicians know who is donating money to their campaigns? Will scientists draw biased conclusions about drug efficacy when they know more about the patient or study population? The p…
Explores a wide range of psychological effects in the way think, judge, and remember in our everyday lives.
by Lorber, Judith, Moore, Lisa Jean
fromGender lens
In this text, the authors consider the interface between gender as a social institution on one hand and Western medicine as a social institution on the other, and analyses issues of power and politics which pervade the study of both topics.
Prejudicial appearances: the logic of American antidiscrimination law / Robert C. Post -- Stereotypes and the shaping of identity / Anthony Appiah -- "Appearances aside" / Judith Butler -- Cover blindness / Thomas C. Grey -- Discrimination in the eyes of the law: how "color blin…
A dialogue among five eminent scholars--in law and philosophy--about laws based on appearance.
