LibGuides: Integrative Studies Theme: The Public Good: General Resources

Specific Resources as examples

Data Action by Sarah Williams
ISBN: 0262044196

Publication Date: 2020-12-08

From MIT Press books. Big data can be used for good-from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations-and for bad-implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of those who control its use; data analytics and algorithms too often exclude women, the poor, and ethnic groups. In Data Action, Sarah Williams provides a guide for working with data in more ethical and responsible ways.

Prison Sourcing: ‘Doing Good’ or ‘Good for Business’?
Sage Business Case

Happiness: a Very Short Introduction by Daniel M. Haybron
ISBN: 9780199590605

Publication Date: 2013-10-01

Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this Very Short Introduction, Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. Haybron reflects on the growing influence of secular Western ideas in the contemporary pursuit of a good life, and considers the influence of social context on our satisfaction and well-being. .

For the Public Good
From the database New Play Exchange.
A healthy patient harbours a deadly disease. Over sixty years later an anonymous email draws together five women to uncover family and state secrets in a derelict asylum. Inspired by a BBC investigation, For The Public Good explores the hidden tragedy behind draconian measures to protect the nation's health.

Human Dignity and Human Rights by Pablo Gilabert
ISBN: 0198827229

Publication Date: 2019-01-22

Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is human dignity, why is it important, and what is its relationship to human rights?This book offers a sophisticated and comprehensive defence of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of human rights. First, it clarifies the network of concepts associated with dignity. Paramount within this network is a core notion of human dignity as an inherent, non-instrumental,egalitarian, and high-priority normative status of human persons. People have this status in virtue of their valuable human capacities rather than as a result of their national origin and other conventional features. Second, it shows how human dignity gives rise to an inspiring ideal of solidaristicempowerment, which calls us to support people's pursuit of a flourishing life by affirming both negative duties not to block or destroy, and positive duties to protect and facilitate, the development and exercise of the valuable capacities at the basis of their dignity. The most urgent of theseduties are correlative to human rights. Third, this book illustrates how the proposed dignitarian approach allows us to articulate the content, justification, and feasible implementation of specific human rights, including contested ones, such as the rights to democratic political participation andto decent labour conditions. Finally, this book's dignitarian approach helps illuminate the arc of humanist justice, identifying both the difference and the continuity between the basic requirements of human rights and more expansive requirements of social justice such as those defended by liberalegalitarians and democratic socialists.Human dignity is indeed the moral heart of human rights. Understanding it enables us to defend human rights as the urgent ethical and political project that puts humanity first.

Databases

Philosopher's Index
Produced by the Philosopher’s Information Center, this current and comprehensive bibliographic database covers scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, this resource features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews.
MIT Press Direct
Over 3,000 titles published from 1943 through 2021, available with no DRM and no simultaneous user limit. This resource covers a wide range of topics, including art, architecture, business and management, cognitive science, computer science and artificial intelligence, design, economics, education, engineering, environmental science, linguistics, mathematics, neuroscience, philosophy, physics, technology, and social theory.
Sage Business Cases
Featuring both SAGE Original Cases and cases from twenty global content partners, this collection of thousands of case spans a wide range business and management disciplines from leadership and entrepreneurship, to family business and women in leadership. Access is to all cases published through 2020
Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions can change the way you think about the things that interest you, and are the perfect introduction to subjects you previously knew nothing about: from Climate to Consciousness, Game Theory to Ancient Warfare, Privacy to Islamic History, Globalization to Literary Theory. Very Short Introductions online bringing together titles from this well-known and established print series, via a highly discoverable and fully cross-searchable platform.
OhioLINK Electronic Book Center
The OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC) contains more than 125,000 e-book titles, covering numerous subjects, and includes scholarly monographs, encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference works. Most e-books are permanently owned by OhioLINK, and some collections in the EBC are available worldwide, such as OSU Brittle Books. There were nearly 773,000 downloads from the EBC in 2015. Content is funded through a combination of member library contributions and OhioLINK central funds.