Criticism of the Western Society & Civilization - Collection 5:

This upload examines other negative aspects of the Western society and civilization: domestic violence, man-made environmental disasters, and teenage sex and pregnancy.

While the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from the BP Deep Horizon oil rig explosion is currently dominating the news, the worst man-made environmental disaster is perhaps the Bhopal Gas Tragedy that occurred on the night of December 2-3, 1984 at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. One estimate to the casualties of that disaster put the death number at about 16,000:  8,000 died within the first weeks and another 8,000 have since died from gas-related diseases. A government affidavit filed in the Supreme Court in 2006 stated that of the 558,125 cases of injury resulting from the disaster, 516,406 (92.5%) were minor, 38,478 (6.8%) were temporary partial disablement while 0.7% (~3,900) were severely and permanently disabled.


There are 52 titles in this UL distributed over the main directory and 2 subdirectories. The MD contains 6 titles:

- Hankiss - Fears and Symbols; An Introduction to the Study of Western Civilization (2001)

- Keane - Violence and Democracy (2004)

- McKillop & Newman - The Final Energy Crisis (2005)

- Newman & Jacobs - Who Cares (2010)

- Pinsky - The Mirror Effect; How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America (2009)

- Steuter & Wills - At War with Metaphor; Media, Propaganda, and Racism in the War on Terror (2008)


13 titles are in the SD [Domestic Violence]:

- Finkelhor - Childhood Victimization; Violence, Crime and Abuse in the Lives of Young People (2008)

- Foyster - Marital Violence, An English Family History, 1660-1857 (2005)

- Furio - Letters from Prison; Voices of Women Murderers (2001)

- Goodman & Epstein - Listening to Battered Women (2008)

- Hattery - Intimate Partner Violence (2009)

- Helander - Children and Violence; The World of the Defenceless (2008)

- Hester - Making an Impact; Children and Domestic Violence  (2007)

- Keeling & Mason - Domestic Violence; A Multi-Professional Approach for Healthcare Practitioners (2008)

- McCue - Domestic Violence; A Reference Handbook (1995)

- Roberts & White - Battered Women and Their Families (2007)

- Shannon - Domestic Violence Sourcebook (2009)

- Van Wormer & Roberts - Death by Domestic Violence; Preventing the Murders and Murder-Suicides (2009)

- Walker - The Battered Woman Syndrome (2009)


21 titles are in the SD [Environmental Disasters];

- 6 Ecological Disasters You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

- Basili - Environment, Inequality and Collective Action (2006)

- Cherni - Economic Growth versus the Environment (2002)

- Desonie - Our Fragile Planet; Hydrosphere, Freshwater Sytems and Pollution (2008)

- Drea - The World’s Worst Environmental Disasters Caused by Companies (2010)

- Elliott - Energy, Society and Environment (1997)

- Gleeson & Low - Governing for the Environment; Global Problems, Ethics and Democracy (2001)

- Hernan - This Borrowed Earth; Lessons from the 15 Worst Environmental Disasters Around the World (2010)

- Hill - Understanding Environmental Pollution (2004)

- Kidd - Air Pollution; Problems and Solutions (2006)

- Markowitz & Rosner - Deceit and Denial; The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (2002)

- O'Connor - The Ten Worst Man-Made Environmental Disasters (PDA, 2010)

- Perez - Ecological Sensitivity and Global Legal Pluralism; Rethinking the Trade and Environment Conflict (2004)

- Pirages & Cousins - From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security; Exploring New Limits to Growth (2005)

- Price-Smith - Contagion and Chaos; Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization (2009)

- Schoenbrod - Saving Our Environment from Washington (2005)

- Silver - Global Warming and Climate Change Demystified (2008)

- Simms - Ecological Debt; The Health of the Planet and the Wealth of Nations (2005)

- Taylor - Globalization. Effects on Fisheries Resources (2007)

- Wikipedia - Bhopal Disaster (2010)

- Wikipedia - List of Environmental Disasters (2010)


And there are 12 titles in the SD [Teenage Sex and Pregnancy]:

- Arai - Teenage Pregnancy; The Making and Unmaking of a Problem (2009)

- Brown - Sexual Teens, Sexual Media; Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality (2008)

- Cherry - Teenage Pregnancy; A Global View (2001)

- Coleman - Sex and Your Teenager; A Parent's Guide (2001)

- Crouter & Booth - Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood (2006)

- Holgate - Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood; Global Perspectives, Issues and Interventions (2006)

- Howard-Barr - The Truth About Sexual Behavior and Unplanned Pregnancy (2009)

- Kamen - Her Way; Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution (2000)

- Linderman - The Teen Whisperer (2007)

- Phillips - Flirting with Danger; Young Women’s Reflections on Sexuality and Domination (2000)

- Regnerus - Forbidden Fruit; Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers (2007)

- Tolman - Dilemmas of Desire; Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality (2002)