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Privacy, autonomy, and birth control in America, 1860-1900. Access to birth control became, controversially, protected by the “right to privacy” in 1965; a hundred years before, “procreation was a matter of public concern.” Yet, contradictorily and confusingly, Victorian women — and their bodies — were protected (and limited) by a powerful social division between private and public spheres. Justice Scalia on the Constitution, privacy, and criminality. Prohibition and the domestic home. Indiana may have p...

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New-Fashioned Quarantine (from 1916) - in propria persona

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Oct 22, 2014. New-Fashioned Quarantine (from 1916) by Kristopher Nelson, JD, MA (ABD). N 1916, Herbert Winslow Hill published. The New Public Health. He emphasizes throughout that only specific kinds of “dirt” and specific carriers of diseases are the problem, and that effectively countering the spread of disease requires rational targeting of these problems. Of the infected, and also took the well with the sick” (190-91). Hill argues that it is not quarantine itself that people find unjust, but rather t...

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intellectual property Archives - in propria persona

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Justice Scalia on the Constitution, privacy, and criminality. Justice Scalia once noted that “the Constitution sometimes. Insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.”. Four useful analytic categories from science and technology studies. Problems with treating privacy as a property right. Freedom of speech in the “Second Gilded Age”. The tech transfer process: buffering science from commercialism. Technology transfer offices at universities are key players in the process ...

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Sex and Eugenics Sterilization - in propria persona

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Oct 10, 2014. Sex and Eugenics Sterilization by Kristopher Nelson, JD, MA (ABD). In looking through Johanna Schoen’s 2005 book, Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Gender and American Culture). It appears that, although eugenics. Based sterilization procedures in the early-to-mid twentieth century appear to have targeted women more than men, men were also sterilized through these programs. Still, when identified, men also became targets for steril...

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The "third-party problem": one reason telegrams were not constitutionally protected - in propria persona

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Jan 31, 2014. The “third-party problem”: one reason telegrams were not constitutionally protected by Kristopher Nelson, JD, MA (ABD). Unlike postal mail or, later, the telephone, telegrams never received constitutional protection. Yet they were the quintessential nineteenth-century technology of communication, used extensively for business, government, and personal communication, much of which both senders and receivers would have wished to keep to themselves. Were not the privacy interests similar?

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Modern Islam and science: an article by Seyyed Hossein Nasr - in propria persona

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May 26, 2010. Modern Islam and science: an article by Seyyed Hossein Nasr by Kristopher Nelson, JD, MA (ABD). Is an Iranian scholar of comparative religion and philosophy at George Washington University. He has a masters degree in geology and geophysics, with a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard. (He received his PhD at age 25.). N “Islam and Science,” an article written for the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science. That sharply distinguishes modern Western science from Islamic science.

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Kristopher Nelson, JD, MA (ABD), Author at in propria persona

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Author: Kristopher Nelson, JD, MA (ABD). I'm currently a PhD Candidate in History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. I also provide law and technology consulting services. Additionally, I'm a non-practicing lawyer and former developer/sysadmin at a biotech non-profit. For more about me and my work, see krisnelson.org. Or my Google Profile. Articles by Kristopher Nelson, JD, MA (ABD). Privacy, autonomy, and birth control in America, 1860-1900. Prohibition and the domestic home.

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history Archives - in propria persona

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Privacy, autonomy, and birth control in America, 1860-1900. Access to birth control became, controversially, protected by the “right to privacy” in 1965; a hundred years before, “procreation was a matter of public concern.” Yet, contradictorily and confusingly, Victorian women — and their bodies — were protected (and limited) by a powerful social division between private and public spheres. Victorian domestic specialization and gender roles. Prohibition and the domestic home. Indiana may have passed the ...

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Thinking about evidence and causation in same-sex marriage arguments - in propria persona

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Jul 5, 2015. Thinking about evidence and causation in same-sex marriage arguments by Kristopher Nelson, JD, MA (ABD). Recurring theme in criticisms of allowing same-sex marriage — or, as. Did, in finding that bans violated the fundamental right to marriage — is some variation of the “slippery slope.”. The existence of such a consequence, however grave, does not. Consider the argument that allowing same-sex unions will reduce the number of opposite-sex marriages. Positing this possibility is part of e...

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Preserving Jeffersonian ideals through government regulation - in propria persona

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Nov 5, 2014. Preserving Jeffersonian ideals through government regulation by Kristopher Nelson, JD, MA (ABD). N the contentious years of Gilded Age America — 1870-1900 — the general consensus has been than the United States, as a whole, favored industrialists and free-market capitalism (. With the law of contracts coming to dominate the legal landscape, culminating in the triumph of “liberty of contract.”. Indeed, the late nineteenth century was less a libertarian paradise. Economic philosophy. Some,...