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Volume 2 Number 2 June 2003
Special Issue: Human Frailty
EDITOR'S NOTE
Thomas Cushman
IN THIS ISSUE
Introduction: towards the ontology of frailty and rights
Anthony Elliott and Bryan S. Turner
From bystander to actor
Zygmunt Bauman
Modern torture as a civic marker: solving a global anxiety with a new political
technology
Darius Rejali
Lost childhood, lost generations: the intergenerational transmission of
trauma
Jeffrey Prager
'Your stomach makes you feel that you don't want to know anything about
it': desensitization, defence mechanisms and rhetoric in response to human
rights abuses
Bruna Irene Seu
Rotten trade: millennial capitalism, human values and global justice in
organs trafficking
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The ethics of human frailty
Nicholas Buttle
Care in the time of catastrophe: citizenship, community and the ecological
imagination
Nigel Clark and Nick Stevenson
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
David Rieff's A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
An impossible yet necessary ethic of resistance
Alan Woolfolk
Humanitarianism, humanity, human
Jenny Edkins
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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