Carnegie Corporation's landmark 1989 report, Turning Points: Preparing American Youth for the 21st Century, focused national attention on the long-neglected needs of adolescent youth. In the following decade, hundreds of middle grades schools implemented Turning Points principles and many others adopted similar and complementary measures. Based on these experiences, Turning Points 2000 refines the ideas contained in the original report by blending the wisdom of both the latest research and the best practice. This seminal volume bridges the gap between education researchers and practitioners by translating a wealth of recent research into practical guidance.

Turning Points 2000

Business & Money

Jackson, Anthony

Davis, Gayle

Management & Leadership

Teachers' College Press

The Abortion Act 1967 may be the most contested law in UK history, sitting on a fault line between the shifting tectonic plates of a rapidly transforming society. While it has survived repeated calls for its reform, with its text barely altered for over five decades, women's experiences of accessing abortion services under it have evolved considerably. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this book explores how the Abortion Act was given meaning by a diverse cast of actors including women seeking access to services, doctors and service providers, campaigners, judges, lawyers, and policy makers. By adopting an innovative biographical approach to the law, the book shows that the Abortion Act is a 'living law'. Using this historically grounded socio-legal approach, this enlightening book demonstrates how the Abortion Act both shaped and was shaped by a constantly changing society.

The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law (Law in Context)

O'Neill, Jane

Sheldon, Sally

Parker, Clare

Constitutional Law

Cambridge University Press

A Modern History of the Body: Understanding, Treatment and Regulation in Western Society (Course Companions in the History of Medicine)

The human body is a subject of huge historical importance, and this book explores how powerful organisations in the fields of medicine and law have controlled how the body has been perceived and limited, often in the name of health, safety or virtue. Drawing on archival evidence and contemporary historiographical controversies, A Modern History of the Body explores how the body has been understood or interpreted, treated and controlled, and what social and political values appear to lie behind those understandings and treatments.
Integrating the story of the human body into the wider narrative of modern Western society, and including study resources such as key questions and a further reading list, this book is of great importance to students seeking a historical understanding of how our interpretation and treatment of the body has changed over time.

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Bloomsbury Academic

Against a backdrop of contemporary social and sexual concerns, and potent fears surrounding the moral and physical 'degeneration' of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century society, 'The Cruel Madness of Love' explores a critical period in the developing relationship between syphilis and insanity. General paralysis of the insane (GPI), the most commonly diagnosed of the neurosyphilitic disorders, has been devastating both in terms of its severity and incidence. Using the rich laboratory and asylum records of lowland Scotland as a case study, Gayle Davis examines the evolution of GPI as a disease category from a variety of perspectives: social, medical, and pathological. Through exploring case notes and the impact of new diagnostic techniques and therapies, such as the Wassermann Test and Malarial Therapy, the reader gains a unique insight into both patients and practitioners. Significant insights are gained into the socio-sexual background and medical experience of patients, as well as the clinical ideas and judgmental behaviour of the practitioners confronting this disease. 'The Cruel Madness of Love' will be of interest to anyone wishing to explore the historical relationship between sexuality, morality and disease. Gayle Davis is a Wellcome Trust University Award Holder at the University of Edinburgh. She has published on various aspects of the social history of medicine and sexuality in twentieth-century Britain, and is undertaking a Wellcome-funded research project on the history of infertility in Scotland. She is reviews editor for History of Psychiatry.

The Cruel Madness of Love: Sex, Syphilis and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930 (The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica, 85)

Medical Books

Medicine

Brill Academic Pub

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