Alexandre A. Martins

The Ethics of Protection

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Western epistemology since the 1600s has had difficulty in addressing nature and social challenges with a holistic perspective. The Cartesian method of dividing to understand and control is the dominant way to approach not only the investigation of the natural sciences, but also societal structures and ethical challenges. This is visible in the CPS and its way of looking at a child's maltreatment and parental neglect of care. It focuses on the most visible fragment of the problem, dismissing the entirety of the societal issue, that includes structures of violence, history of systemic racism, and the reality of families who are failing to care for their children. Rice's book does not fall into this limitation. "From a liberating ethical perspective that includes narratives of families who have lost their children, as well as historical and sociological analyses of racism and oppressive structures, Rice offers a comprehensive account on child welfare in the US. The Ethics of Protection shows that a society cannot protect its vulnerable children if it does not look at families and the oppressive reality they experience. The author invites us to be sensitive to the stories of these families and attentive to the violent structures that make these families, and thus their children, suffer. Separating them does not address the problem, but only remediates a visible fragment, contributing to the maintenance of the existing violent structure.”

The Rising Global Cancer Pandemic

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This book is a call to address cancer in the global health agenda from an interdisciplinary, ethical, and social justice-oriented approach. The editors gathered a truly diverse group of scholars and partitioners to show the challenge that cancer is for people’s health and well-being across the globe, considering health disparities and injustices that impact middle and low-income countries, impoverished communities, and historically marginalized populations. It is a necessary resource for anyone engaged in global health.”