Stories
- Article
Are people born violent?
Laura Bui explores how the nature vs nurture debate applies to those who commit homicide.
- Article
Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
Catalogue
- Books
Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships : the social-relational, moral motivational psychology, cultural anthropology and history of war, torture, genocide, animal and human sacrifice, obedience to gods, religious self-torture, homicide, robbery, intimate partner conflict, rape, suicide and self-harm, corporal and capital punishment, trial by ordeal and combat, policing, initiation, castration, fighting for status, contac sports and martial arts, honor, the Iliad and the Trojan War, injurious mortuary rites, and homicidal mourning / Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai ; with a foreword by Steven Pinker.
Fiske, Alan Page, 1947-Date: 2015- Archives and manuscripts
Michael Parker book Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice
Parker, MichaelDate: c.2008-2011Reference: SA/GEC/BPart of: Genethics Club: archives
- Pictures
- Online
Forms of misbehaviour, drunkeness, debauchery, and violence among Sikhs. Coloured transfer lithograph.
Reference: 26043i- Books
The failures of ethics : confronting the Holocaust, genocide, and other mass atrocities / John K. Roth.
Roth, John K.Date: 2015- Books
- Online
Cultural heritage ethics : between theory and practice / edited by Constantine Sandis.
Date: [2014], ©2014
