Dorothy Nelkin

Workers at risk : voices from the workplace

This book developed out of the authors concern that the burgeoning field of risk assessment was neglecting a key aspect of the problem of occupational health - the perceptions and concerns of workers themselves. The main part of their research consisted of extended and open-ended interviews with people who work with chemicals in a wide range of occupations. They contacted people through international unions, health and safety classes, conferences, Committees on Safety and Health (COSH), and through casual conversations. After a number of preliminary trials, they conducted, taped, and transcribed interviews with 75 workers representing a variety of occupations. Hearing these voices, the authors believe they carry a critical message - that the pervasive presence of chemical risks in the workplace has profound human costs in terms of anxiety as well as of illness. With the proliferation of chemicals in so many occupations, such concerns are likely to have an increasing effect on collective bargaining, on compensation claims, and on the general morale of the work force. Thus the voices of workers, their identification of problems, their insights, and their views must be heard. They are critical to the creation of a more humane working environment.

A Disease of Society. Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS

Acknowledgments Introduction: a disease of society: cultural and institutional responses to AIDS Dorothy Nelkin, David P. Willis and Scott V. Parris Part I. Cultural Images: 1. The implicated and the immune: responses to AIDS in the arts and popular culture Richard Goldstein Part II. Systems of Socialization and Control: 2. AIDS and changing concepts of family Carol Levine 3. AIDS and the prison system Nancy Neveloff Dubler and Victor W. Sidel 4. New rules for new drugs: the challenge of AIDS to the regulatory process Harold Edgar and David J. Rothman: Part III. Systems of Caring: 5. The culture of caring: AIDS and the nursing profession Renee C. Fox, Linda H. Aiken and Carla M. Messikomer 6. AIDS and its impact on medical work: the culture and politics of the shop floor Charles L. Bosk and Joel E. Frader 7. AIDS volunteering: links to the past and future prospects Suzanne C. Ouellette Kobasa Part IV. Rights and Reciprocities: 8. AIDS and the future of reproductive freedom Ronald Bayer 9. The poisoned gift: AIDS and blood Thomas H. Murray 10. AIDS and the rights of the individual: toward a more sophisticated understanding of discrimination Thomas B. Stoddard and Walter Rieman Notes on contributors Index.

God Talk: Confusion between Science and Religion Posthumous Essay

Controversies concerning the religious implications of science have grown increasingly strained in recent years. Creation scientists have deployed new strategies to eliminate the teaching of evolution in public schools; right-to-life groups have obstructed fetal tissue research; and clerical groups have criticized genomics and genetic testing. Meanwhile, the Templeton Foundation has begun promoting the idea that there is no conflict between science and religion. In this paper, I explore emerging efforts to reconcile religion and science. I focus particularly on the use of religious imagery and metaphor by scientists as they seek to convince the public of the power of genes or to allay concerns about new technologies. I suggest that their use of Godtalk may reflect both its wider prevalence in political rhetoric in the United States and its instrumental utility in light of the religious implications of contemporary biology.

Wem gehört eigentlich der Körper

Das Sammeln und Nutzen menschlichen Korpergewebes — von den Sezierpraktiken des 18. Jahrhunderts bis hin zu den Organtransplantationen des 20. Jahrhunderts — hat Fragen sowohl uber die Nutzung von Korperteilen ohne das Einvernehmen betroffener Personen aufgeworfen, als auch uber die psychischen, sozialen und religiosen Auswirkungen des Verlustes korperlicher Integritat, und schlieslich besonders uber die potentielle Ausbeutung der Personen, die als Quelle von Organen und Geweben dienen. Arzte und Wissenschaftler sind bei ihrem Zugriff auf Leichen und Korperteile der Profitgier angeklagt worden, der Gefuhllosigkeit Patienten oder Familienmitgliedern gegenuber und der Verheimlichung unschicklicher Praktiken.

A Disease of Society: Index

Acknowledgments Introduction: a disease of society: cultural and institutional responses to AIDS Dorothy Nelkin, David P. Willis and Scott V. Parris Part I. Cultural Images: 1. The implicated and the immune: responses to AIDS in the arts and popular culture Richard Goldstein Part II. Systems of Socialization and Control: 2. AIDS and changing concepts of family Carol Levine 3. AIDS and the prison system Nancy Neveloff Dubler and Victor W. Sidel 4. New rules for new drugs: the challenge of AIDS to the regulatory process Harold Edgar and David J. Rothman: Part III. Systems of Caring: 5. The culture of caring: AIDS and the nursing profession Renee C. Fox, Linda H. Aiken and Carla M. Messikomer 6. AIDS and its impact on medical work: the culture and politics of the shop floor Charles L. Bosk and Joel E. Frader 7. AIDS volunteering: links to the past and future prospects Suzanne C. Ouellette Kobasa Part IV. Rights and Reciprocities: 8. AIDS and the future of reproductive freedom Ronald Bayer 9. The poisoned gift: AIDS and blood Thomas H. Murray 10. AIDS and the rights of the individual: toward a more sophisticated understanding of discrimination Thomas B. Stoddard and Walter Rieman Notes on contributors Index.

A Disease of Society: SYSTEMS OF SOCIALIZATION AND CONTROL

Acknowledgments Introduction: a disease of society: cultural and institutional responses to AIDS Dorothy Nelkin, David P. Willis and Scott V. Parris Part I. Cultural Images: 1. The implicated and the immune: responses to AIDS in the arts and popular culture Richard Goldstein Part II. Systems of Socialization and Control: 2. AIDS and changing concepts of family Carol Levine 3. AIDS and the prison system Nancy Neveloff Dubler and Victor W. Sidel 4. New rules for new drugs: the challenge of AIDS to the regulatory process Harold Edgar and David J. Rothman: Part III. Systems of Caring: 5. The culture of caring: AIDS and the nursing profession Renee C. Fox, Linda H. Aiken and Carla M. Messikomer 6. AIDS and its impact on medical work: the culture and politics of the shop floor Charles L. Bosk and Joel E. Frader 7. AIDS volunteering: links to the past and future prospects Suzanne C. Ouellette Kobasa Part IV. Rights and Reciprocities: 8. AIDS and the future of reproductive freedom Ronald Bayer 9. The poisoned gift: AIDS and blood Thomas H. Murray 10. AIDS and the rights of the individual: toward a more sophisticated understanding of discrimination Thomas B. Stoddard and Walter Rieman Notes on contributors Index.

The Language of Risk: Conflicting Perspectives on Occupational Health

Introduction - Dorothy Nelkin Analyzing Risk The Political Language of Risk - Stephen Hilgartner Defining Occupational Hazards Disputed Knowledge - Michael S Brown Worker Access to Hazard Information Risk in the Press - Chris Anne Raymond Conflicting Journalistic Ideologies Ethical Conflicts in Occupational Medicine - Dorothy Nelkin The Misrule of Law at OSHA - Sheila Jasanoff Sense or Sentiment in Occupational Safety and Health Programs - Mark Sagoff

Book Review: Labor Organizations: African Trade UnionsAfrican Trade Unions. By DaviesIoan. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1966. 256 pp. 5s.

erature of the earlier days of industrial relations in this country. Principles of Labor Legislation was first published in 1916 and was revised and republished four times (4th ed., 1936) before this reprint became available. Although the last edition was written in the midst of the New Deal revolution in labor legislation, it remains a classic in its treatment of the principles underlying such law. The two edited volumes on Trade Unionism and Labor Problems were first published in single editions (1905 and 1921) and they are entirely different in content. The first volume contains twenty-eight reprints and the second, forty-five, with no repetition. Both are still highly useful as historical and theoretical studies in the major fields of security and health, the labor market, labormanagement relations, unions, and labor law. Indeed, they can still be read as textbook supplements in many industrial relations courses currently offered at the university level. A list of the original contributors includes such names as T. W. Glocker, George E. Barnett, Frank Julian Warne, Paul H. Douglas, Leo Wolman, Felix Frankfurter, and F. W. Taussig. Classic reprints of this quality are indeed welcome.