Evil Necessity Research Articles

Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky

In Kentucky, the slavery debate raged for thirty years before the Civil War began. While whites in the lower South argued that slavery was good for master and slave, many white Kentuckians maintained that because of racial prejudice, public safety, and property rights, slavery was necessary but undeniably evil. Harold D. Tallant shows how this view bespoke a real ambivalence about the desirability of continuing slavery in Kentucky and permitted an active abolitionist movement in the state to exist alongside contented slaveholders. Though many Kentuckians were increasingly willing to defend slavery against northern opposition, they did not always see this defense as their first political priority. Tallant explores the way in which the disparity between Kentuckians' ideals and their actions helped make Kentucky a quintessential border state.

Reviews of Books:Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky Harold D. Tallant

Reviews of Books:Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky Harold D. Tallant

Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky

Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky

Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky

Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky

Evil necessity? The meaning of benzodiazepine use for women patients from one general practice

Recently there has been rising concern about the cost to the National Health Service of widespread prescribing of psychotropic drugs like benzodiazepines.' The possibility that the latter drugs are being used beyond what is considered to be their pharmacologically effective life and are addictive^ raises all sorts of questions about their meaning for the patients who consume them so persistently'' and for the GPs who repeatedly prescribe them.* The meaning of use from the patients' point of view has rarely been explored in the literature, two notable exceptions being studies by Helman^-* and Cooperstock and Lennard'' of chronic benzodiazepine users of all ages. Helman interviewed GPs' patients using a standardised questionnaire and focused in one article,^ on how these patients came to see taking beni^odiazepines as acceptable. He suggested that they used such drugs to enable themselves to sustain a rather idealised view of their social roles. Cooperstock and Lennard similarly concluded that their groups of volunteers who discussed benzodiazepine use saw it as enabling them to manage being wives and mothers. In a more recent article^ Helman went further in investigating the relationship long-term users had to benzodiazepines. He classified the drugs' function as being one of either fuel, food or tonic and pointed out that these drugs do not have unitary meaning for patients. The interim findings reported here come from a pilot study which is part of a larger, DHSS-funded project on the meaning of benzodiazepine use, now in the final stages of completion. We decided to publish these findings at this point because we feel they are of interest and because they seem to be borne out by subsequent data we have gathered. We have selected middle-aged, white,* women patients (aged 40-59 years) to study, because they represent one of the largest categories of benzodiazepine user.' Our approach differs from the studies referred to above in three main ways: first, we compare inductively established types of benzodiazepine 'users' with 'non-users';'" second, we are concerned to

Nuclear power: an evil necessity for some countries

Nuclear power: an evil necessity for some countries

The Necessity of Evil in Beowulf

The Necessity of Evil in Beowulf

God and the necessity of physical evil

God and the necessity of physical evil

Hegel’s System and the Necessity and Intelligibility of Evil, Part I

Hegel’s System and the Necessity and Intelligibility of Evil, Part I

Hegel’s System and the Necessity and Intelligibility of Evil, Part II

Hegel’s System and the Necessity and Intelligibility of Evil, Part II