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Virginia Ricard

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Saving or Leaving to Die

Medical Ethics and Disaster

by Frédérique Leichter-Flack & translated by Virginia Ricard, 29 April 2011

Extreme conditions during disasters make it impossible to provide the individual medical care that victims require. It is sometimes necessary to make choices, to prioritize need, and sometimes (...)

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Is a History of Trust Possible?

Remarks on the Historic Imagination of Two Economists

by Nicolas Delalande & translated by Virginia Ricard, 13 April 2011

How can historians measure and analyse the fluctuations of trust and civic feeling? In spite of the remarkable success enjoyed by Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc’s La société de défiance, the book’s (...)

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A Sociologist in the Ghetto

About: S. Venkatesh, Off the Books, Harvard University Press.

by Jules Naudet & translated by Virginia Ricard, 11 April 2011

After several years of field work in a Chicago black ghetto, sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh gives a lively and thorough analysis of the survival strategies of its inhabitants. Halfway between (...)

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A Moral History of Human Guinea Pigs

About: G. Chamayou, Les Corps vils, La Découverte.

by Ariel Suhamy & translated by Virginia Ricard, 6 April 2011

Is scientific progress necessarily moral? In his history of experiments on human guinea pigs, Grégoire Chamayou attempts to show that modern science, although apparently neutral, has a share in (...)

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Liberty, Equality, or Fraternity between the Generations?

About: A. Masson, Des liens et des transferts entre les générations, Editions de l’EHESS.

by Cécile Van de Velde & translated by Virginia Ricard, 23 March 2011

Liberty, equality, or fraternity between the generations — how should we think about “fair” transfers from one generation to the next? In a meticulous and bold essay, André Masson demonstrates that (...)

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