Press, Eyal

The author examines the hardships that fall on Americans who do 'dirty work,' the work that society considers essential but morally compromised.

Explores the reasons ordinary people choose to defy convention, looking at the research of moral psychologists and neuroscientists as well as stories from history.

Eyal Press recounts how his father's work as a doctor who performed abortions in Buffalo, New York, impacted his own childhood and adult life, and discusses how his father's work influenced his own views on abortion.