
The Lives of Infamous Children: Living Children’s Roles in Cases of Suspicious Infant Deaths and Infanticide in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ontario

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This is the seventh installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present.
Marvin Gaye’s 1983 performance of the national anthem transforms the song into a soulful elegy, a bittersweet reflection on freedom and its possibilities.
Copies of the International Times, seized in raids on their offices in 1969.
The Finnish Broadcasting Company was established in 1926 and the first school radio programmes were aired in the autumn of 1934.[1] One of their explicit aims was to reduce inequalities between urban and rural areas by allowing even “students from peripheral schools to come into contact with leading cultural personalities”. [2] Simultaneously, the school radio was viewed as an incremental tool in strengthening the pupils’ enthusiasm for learning and schoolwork. This was not atypical. As Fleming and Toutant have formulated it, school radio of the 1920s and 1930s was viewed as “‘a modern box of magic,’ an appliance that could make school lessons come to life in a way they never had before”.[3]
This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as ‘star men’, convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms. ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879–1948 investigates the origins of the star class in the years leading up to its establishment in 1879, and charts its subsequent development during the late-Victorian, Edwardian, and interwar decades.
History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
Care has become an overdetermined word in the medical humanities and beyond, a focus not only of debate around the nature and purpose of the field, but also of the wider issue of the status of medicine in relation to society and the individual. As a symptom of this problematic, this article proposes care as an ‘untranslatable’, in the sense defined by Barbara Cassin. This is pursued via an engagement with the history of the ethics of care and with its translation into francophone contexts as une éthique du care, in tension with the philosophie du soin elaborated in the work of Frédéric Worms, and then with the several translations into French and English of Sorge and its derivations Besorgen and Fürsorge in Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit (Being and Time). A genealogy of care is thus established, and what emerges as the principal motif of its untranslatability is the relation between a primary form of relationality and the socio-technical dimension in which we may recognise healthcare.
New Zealand’s 1875 Anatomy Act mirrored British laws that allowed the use of unclaimed bodies from public institutions, like hospitals and asylums, for anatomical study. These laws disproportionately affected impoverished families. Hospitals were able to retain custody of the deceased when families lacked financial means for burial or an individual’s body lay “unclaimed”.