Jean-Marie Kauth – författare

Substance, Judgment and Evaluation: Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education selectively presents the thoughts of scholars and teachers of liberal arts, core text education on how their programs formulate and advance a "value-centered" education. What emerges from this selection is the wide scope of core text programs underlying the semantic intention of words such as "value-centered," "judgment," or even "liberal arts" or "collegiate" and "colleague." This volume records the cooperation and thoughtful consideration of faculty from a wide range of higher education institutions - research universities, comprehensive universities, colleges, and community colleges - who have chosen to come together to form such programs across North America. This volume should be of value to any dean, director, or faculty member who seeks to work with colleagues and texts across disciplines to form a coherent undergraduate program of study within general education.

A powerful examination of how environmental contamination is shaping children's health—and what we can do to protect future generations.Every child deserves a healthy start in life. Yet today, children are born carrying traces of thousands of synthetic chemicals linked to cancer, developmental disorders, respiratory illness, and other serious health conditions. How did this become our new normal—and what would it take to change it? In Poisoning Our Children, Jean-Marie Kauth combines deeply personal experience with decades of scientific research to examine one of the defining public health challenges of our time.After losing her eight-year-old daughter to leukemia, Kauth devoted her career to studying children's environmental health. Through interviews with leading researchers, physicians, policymakers, advocates, and families affected by toxic exposures, she traces the devastating connections between industrial pollution, pesticides, forever chemicals, climate change, and the rising burden of disease in children. Grounded in ethnographic research and informed by her work as an environmental health scholar and EPA advisor, the book offers readers an accessible introduction to the scientific, ethical, political, and social dimensions of children's environmental health.Ideal for courses in public health, environmental health, environmental studies, medical humanities, sociology, and public policy, as well as for parents and anyone interested in children's environmental health, Poisoning Our Children equips readers to understand the complex forces shaping children's health today. It challenges future practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to rethink prevention, environmental responsibility, and the policies needed to protect future generations.

Substance, Judgment and Evaluation: Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education selectively presents the thoughts of scholars and teachers of liberal arts, core text education on how their programs formulate and advance a "value-centered" education. What emerges from this selection is the wide scope of core text programs underlying the semantic intention of words such as "value-centered," "judgment," or even "liberal arts" or "collegiate" and "colleague." This volume records the cooperation and thoughtful consideration of faculty from a wide range of higher education institutions - research universities, comprehensive universities, colleges, and community colleges - who have chosen to come together to form such programs across North America. This volume should be of value to any dean, director, or faculty member who seeks to work with colleagues and texts across disciplines to form a coherent undergraduate program of study within general education.

This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment, and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that we need to survive, the corporate-controlled media saturate worldwide audiences with a barrage of hypnotic images and narratives to stimulate over-consumption and to distract us from the consequences of rampant consumerism, while remaining silent about the systematic destruction of the environment and our future. Academicians from the across the sciences, the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities engage in an interdisciplinary discussion informed by a vision of an interconnected humanity and focused on the role of the media in forging public discourse. Contributors to the collection argue that today’s media are failing humanity. Rather than providing pictures of reality on which the world’s citizens can act, the corporate-controlled media are widely used as instruments of commercial and political propaganda, creating an immense web of images and narratives that their creators know to be not true–-fabrications designed to sell, to manipulate, in a sense to enslave worldwide audiences. At the core of the discussion in this book is a utopian vision of one unified humanity—billions of people whose destinies and dreams are imbricated and interdependent, and who share the same world, the same habitats. It is a vision of a world that cherishes diversity but is also united—a world where our differences are no longer a cause for conflict and where separate countries or separate ethnic or religious communities no longer have to compete or wage war to exploit available resources. As extensions of humans, the media can be instruments of salvation instead of destruction, liberation instead of oppression. But first, we must recognize the challenges we face.