Vanderbilt University Press

In these hard times of global financial peril and growing social inequality, injuries to dignity are pervasive. "e;Indignity has many faces,"e; one man told Nora Jacobson as she conducted interviews for this book. Its expressions range from rudeness, indifference, and condescension to objectification, discrimination, and exploitation. Yet...

A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, Revised and Expanded EditionExpanded by two-thirds from the 2004 edition, the new edition features two new role plays, a new chapter on how to write chart notes, and a discussion of new understandings of the role of the clinical ethics consultant.  ****Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients,...

Now back in print! The first English translation of this epic masterpiece of Chilean poetry....

Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in ChileThe end of the Pinochet regime in Chile saw the emergence of an organized feminist movement that influenced legal and social responses to gender-based violence, and with it new laws and avenues for reporting violence that never before existed. What emerged were grassroots women's rights...

The Story of Agent OrangeThe war in Vietnam, spanning more than twenty years, was one of the most divisive conflicts ever to envelop the United States, and its complexity and consequences did not end with the fall of Saigon in 1975. As Peter Sills demonstrates in Toxic War, veterans faced a new enemy beyond post-traumatic stress disorder or...

Overcoming the Two-Tier SystemVice President Joseph Biden has blamed tuition increases on the high salaries of college professors, seemingly unaware of the fact that there are now over one million faculty who earn poverty-level wages teaching off the tenure track. The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story entitled "e;From Graduate School to...