Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Health & Well-being

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Beyond Control: Medical Power, Women and Abortion Law

This is a presentation of the case for challenging complacency and reconsidering the extent to which British law has interpreted abortion and constructed a medical model in such a way as to place the control over access to abortion services with the medical profession.

Sally Sheldon, Pluto Books, 13 June 1997

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The Value of Life

An introduction to medical ethics

John Harris, Routledge, 1985

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The Philosophical Surgeon
In defence of scientific medicine
Michael Baum, Manifesto Club

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Religious Freedom & Catholic Health Care
Over the last decade, there have been attempts to turn the meaning of religious freedom on its head. These attempts have occurred in the arena of health care, specifically over legislative efforts to counteract out-of-date regulatory policies and unethical and questionable religious restrictions on some services at Catholic and Catholic-controlled hospitals.
Catholics for Choice

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Parents and Kids
spiked articles on the issue of parents and kids
spiked

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Do you think that we have a need in society to demonise parents who don't play by the rules?
Edited transcript of a live online chat with sociologist Frank Furedi, author of Paranoid Parenting
mumsnet

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Abortion
The abortion debate asks whether it can be morally right to terminate a pregnancy before normal childbirth.
BBC Religion and Ethics,

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Neuroscience and Education: Issues and Opportunities
Explores the scope for our emerging knowledge of the working of the brain to contribute to better educational outcomes, especially for children.
Teaching and Learning Research Programme

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TalkingAlcohol.com
SAB Miller alcohol information website
SABMiller

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Festival Buzz

Battle for Truth - Frank Furedi

"A rigorous and invigorating exchange of ideas that transcended cliché."
Cory Doctorow, Novelist; co-editor, BoingBoing.net