Oxford University Press

A Study in Ethics and LawL.W. Sumner explores the ethical and legal status of physician-assisted suicide        and euthanasia, and argues powerfully that these forms of assisted death can claim        the same justification as other widely accepted end-of-life practices. He surveys        the opposing views and legal precedents, and develops a...

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How might Proust's work be understood in relation to issues of class and nation? A la recherche du temps perdu was produced in momentous times - the Dreyfus Affair and the Separation of Church and State; the First World War and the consequent Germanophobia; and the continuing polarization in class politics - which all find echoes in the novel....

This study of young women's lives challenges existing assumptions about working class life and womanhood in England between 1918 and 1950. A wide range of sources, including rich autobiographical accounts, are weaved into this vivid account and highlight the fact that young women forged new patterns of social mobility, were important as workplace...

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