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  • Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform - Joseph F. Spillane

    Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform - Joseph F. Spillane
    2024/07/16
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    Title: Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform
    Author: Joseph F. Spillane
    Narrator: Auto
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 11:08:09
    Language: English
    Release date: 07-16-2024
    Publisher: Bookwire
    Genres: History, North America

    Summary:
    Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at least since the late eighteenth century. Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform in New York State by focusing on Coxsackie, a New Deal reformatory built for young male offenders. Opened in 1935 to serve 'adolescents adrift,' Coxsackie instead became an unstable and brutalizing prison. From the start, the liberal impulse underpinning the prison's mission was overwhelmed by challenges it was unequipped or unwilling to face—drugs, gangs, and racial conflict. Spillane draws on detailed prison records to reconstruct a life behind bars in which 'ungovernable' young men posed constant challenges to racial and cultural order. The New Deal order of the prison was unstable from the start; the politics of punishment quickly became the politics of race and social exclusion, and efforts to save liberal reform in postwar New York only deepened its failures. In 1977, inmates took hostages to focus attention on their grievances. The result was stricter discipline and an end to any pretense that Coxsackie was a reform institution. Why did the prison fail? For answers, Spillane immerses readers in the changing culture and racial makeup of the U.S. prison system and borrows from studies of colonial prisons, which emblematized efforts by an exploitative regime to impose cultural and racial restraint on others. In today's era of mass incarceration, prisons have become conflict-ridden warehouses and powerful symbols of racism and inequality. This account challenges the conventional wisdom that America's prison crisis is of comparatively recent vintage, showing instead how a racial and punitive system of control emerged from the ashes of a progressive ideal.
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    11 時間 8 分
  • Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives - Adam S. Cifu

    Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives - Adam S. Cifu
    2024/07/16
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    Title: Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives
    Author: Adam S. Cifu
    Narrator: Auto
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:12:38
    Language: English
    Release date: 07-16-2024
    Publisher: Bookwire
    Genres: Science & Technology, Medicine

    Summary:
    Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the medical 'advances' that turned out to be dangerous or useless. What Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad and Dr. Adam S. Cifu call medical reversal happens when doctors start using a medication, procedure, or diagnostic tool without a robust evidence base—and then stop using it when it is found not to help, or even to harm, patients. In Ending Medical Reversal, Drs. Prasad and Cifu narrate fascinating stories from every corner of medicine to explore why medical reversals occur, how they are harmful, and what can be done to avoid them. They explore the difference between medical innovations that improve care and those that only appear to be promising. They also outline a comprehensive plan to reform medical education, research funding and protocols, and the process for approving new drugs that will ensure that more of what gets done in doctors' offices and hospitals is truly effective.
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    8 時間 13 分
  • Rhiannon - Carole Llewellyn

    Rhiannon - Carole Llewellyn
    2023/07/15
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    Title: Rhiannon
    Author: Carole Llewellyn
    Narrator: Anne Cater
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:03:35
    Language: English
    Release date: 07-15-2023
    Publisher: Bookwire
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Sagas

    Summary:
    Wales, 1908. Still grieving the tragic death of her father and deserted by her stepmother, Nellie, Rhiannon Hughes finds herself abandoned and alone. Unable to trust flighty Nellie, Rhiannon and her younger stepsister, Mair, have always relied on each other. But with no money and no one to turn to, Rhiannon must take Mair from the only home they have ever known in the Welsh valleys and head for Cardiff. Their one spark of hope is her aunt, a popular music hall star. Rhiannon is dazzled by this glamourous and exciting new world — and by the handsome young master of ceremonies, Gus Davenport. Then Nellie unexpectedly returns and it all comes crashing down. Mair is lured into Cardiff's sleazy underworld. How will Rhiannon choose between following her dreams and keeping her promise to Mair, who needs her now more than ever?
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    9 時間 4 分