Mary L. Bauer
Child poverty Informal settlements Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications Health disparities and outcomes Stress Responses and Cortisol Diabetes Management and Research African studies and sociopolitical issues Business Law and Ethics Gambling Behavior and Treatments Literature and Literary Theory Epidemiology Clinical Psychology Health Behavioral Neuroscience Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Sociology and Political Science Accounting

Bio

Mary L. Bauer is an Adjunct Professor of English and Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. She has held affiliations with University of Iowa, Sacred Heart University, United States Public Health Service, and Marymount University.

Experience

Adjunct Professor of English and Catholic Studies

2017 - 0

Marymount University

2017 - 0

University of Iowa

1967 - 0
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Editors Role

Reviewer

GJHSS

2018 - Present

Research

The Moral High Road in the Undercity: An Examination of Ethics in a Mumbai Slum

Global Journal of Human Social Sciences October 17, 2017

As of 2016, 1.6 billion people around the globe lacked proper shelter and of these, one billion lived in informal settlements, also called slums, according to data collected by the United Nations (UN-Habitat 2016). Investigative journalist Katherine Boo spent four years, between 2007 and 2011, interviewing and shadowing the residents of one such slum on the outskirts of Mumbai. Her goal was to draw attention to socio-economic inequality (Boo, 2014 pp. 247-248), but in the course of collecting data about the consequences of poverty and residents’ attempts to rise out of it, she also recorded information about their moral choices, actions and motivations. This paper examines the evidence that Boo provided in her 2014 nonfiction book about this slum, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, and codifies the complex moral system of its inhabitants – a morality that puts to shame those from the higher echelons of society who interact with them.