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Nadia's Story
May 1993 was the beginning of a nightmare for Nadia Maffei. She had breast cancer, like her mother 23 years earlier. Her second IVF pregnancy had to be terminated at 16 weeks. With therapy, her life returned briefly to normal until the cancer came back. With it grew her determination to fight for a better deal for all women. Her nationally publicised court case against her doctors ended in defeat. but Nadia had become an icon of a much broader battle against breast cancer. Between exhausting bouts of chemotherapy she battled the bureaucrats, politicians and medicos. And she bared herself in this book. the light hearted moments of growing up in a migrant family, to learn English and succeed at school. The desperate struggle to be a mother. Her diary of fighting breast cancer. and a warning on breast lumps to all women.
Nadia Maffei
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Patient No More
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In the Midst of Life--
By exploring Australian responses to death, this book contributes to the growing interest in what such responses reveal about our society and how we might better deal with death as a part of life. The authors - a theologian and a funeral director - look at the social history of this topic, and look squarely at the questions we persist
Representative Democracy
It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to be regarded as a fully legitimate mode of democratic decision making—and not just a pragmatic second choice when direct democracy is not possible. As Urbinati shows, the idea that representation is incompatible with democracy stems from our modern concept of sovereignty, which identifies politics with a de...
