Essays In War-Time - Ellis, Havelock

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Résumé :
A moving, timely reawakening of a classic mind. Havelock Ellis' Essays In War-Time gathers crisp public health essays into a social reform treatise that speaks with both urgency and reverence. This volume threads wartime sociology with enduring questions of ethics, sexuality, and policy. Restored for today's readers, it offers a clear map of how public health, social hygiene ethics, and sexuality and society intersect under pressure-illuminating the Edwardian era as well as the world war one era. For academic readers and policy makers alike, the book reads as both a rigorous scholarly companion and a humane, accessible meditation on how societies organise care, consent, and collective responsibility in times of crisis. Within its essays lie a concise, panoramic portrait of social reform as a living, evolving endeavour, one that still informs modern sociology anthologies and public health discourse. A remarkable artefact for casual readers and classic?literature collectors, this edition is more than a reprint. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today's and future generations. More than a book, it is a cultural treasure and a collector's item-an essential bridge between Edwardian inquiry and contemporary debates about wartime public health, sexuality studies, and the social responsibilities we share....

Biographie:
Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 - 8 July 1939) was a British physician, eugenicist, author, liberal intellectual and social reformer who researched the sexuality of humans. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also produced books on a range of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transsexual psychology. He developed the theories of narcissism and autoeroticism, later accepted by psychoanalysis. Ellis was among the pioneering investigators of psychedelic drugs and the author of one of the earliest documented reports to the public of an experience with mescaline, which he conducted on himself in 1896. He encouraged genetics and served as one of the 16 vice-presidents of the Eugenics Association from 1909 to 1912. Ellis, who is son of Edward Peppen Ellis and Susannah Mary Wheatley, was raised in Croydon, England Surrey (now part of Greater London). His father was a sea captain and an Anglican, whereas his mom was the daughter of a sea captain who had numerous additional family who lived on or near the sea. When he was seven his father brought him on one of his journeys, during which they called at Sydney, Australia...

Sommaire:
Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 - 8 July 1939) was a British physician, eugenicist, author, liberal intellectual and social reformer who researched the sexuality of humans. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also produced books on a range of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transsexual psychology. He developed the theories of narcissism and autoeroticism, later accepted by psychoanalysis. Ellis was among the pioneering investigators of psychedelic drugs and the author of one of the earliest documented reports to the public of an experience with mescaline, which he conducted on himself in 1896. He encouraged genetics and served as one of the 16 vice-presidents of the Eugenics Association from 1909 to 1912. Ellis, who is son of Edward Peppen Ellis and Susannah Mary Wheatley, was raised in Croydon, England Surrey (now part of Greater London). His father was a sea captain and an Anglican, whereas his mom was the daughter of a sea captain who had numerous additional family who lived on or near the sea. When he was seven his father brought him on one of his journeys, during which they called at Sydney, Australia...