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  • Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver

    Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass

    by Eric Cohen, Rebecca Dresser, Michael Fishbane, Harvey Flaumenhaft, Amy Kass, Ralph Lerner, Yuval Levin, Paul Ludwig0, Nelson Lund1, Harvey C. Mansfield2, Paul McHugh3, Gilbert Meilaender4, Diana Schaub5 ...
    Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades-as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender of human dignity. From bioethics to civic education, from interpreting the Bible to weighing the moral implications of modern science, Kass has offered wisdom, guidance, and instruction. In this volume, fifteen of Kass's ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

    by Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D. ...
    For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest levelIn medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care—to become an ICU physician—and imagined ... Read more

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  • Superstition

    Belief in the Age of Science

    by Robert L. Park ...
    Why the battle between superstition and science is far from overFrom uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown them to ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Contemporary Guide to Adult ADHD™

    by Joel L. Young, MD ...
    Contrary to popular belief, most children who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not outgrow the disorders; they become adults who suffer from ADHD. Written by an acknowledged expert in the adult phase of ADHD, this guide will fill the void of available medical information with the latest clinical guidelines and recommended pharmacotherapies for the treatment of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • On The Improvement Of Understanding

    by Benedict de Spinoza, R. H. M. Elwes ...
    On the Improvement of Understandingby Benedict de Spinoza Translated by R. H. M. Elwes"On the Improvement of Understanding by Benedict de Spinoza [1883]." ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Through My Enemy's Eyes

    Envisioning Reconciliation in Israel-Palestine

    by Salim J Munayer, Lisa Loden ...
    This book addresses the universal theological dimension of reconciliation in the context of the Israeli Messianic Jewish and Palestinian Christian divide. Palestinian Christians and Israeli Messianic Jews share a belief in Jesus as the son of God and Messiah. Often, though, that is all they have in common. This remarkable book, written in collaboration by a local Palestinian Christian and ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Myth of Ethnic War

    Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s

    by V. P. Gagnon ...
    "The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Soul of Medicine

    Spiritual Perspectives and Clinical Practice

    Edited by John R. Peteet, MD, Michael N. D'Ambra, MD ...
    To what extent should spiritual information be part of a patient’s medical assessment? How should physicians respond when patients refuse life-saving care on religious grounds? Should doctors pray with their patients? Questions such as these raise deeper ones about the goals of medicine and the nature of healing. In a set of engaging and candid essays, The Soul of Medicine explores the role and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Vaccine

    The Debate in Modern America

    by Mark A. Largent ...
    A thoughtful evaluation of the vaccine debate, its history, and its consequences.Since 1990, the number of mandated vaccines has increased dramatically. Today, a fully vaccinated child will have received nearly three dozen vaccinations between birth and age six. Along with the increase in number has come a growing wave of concern among parents about the unintended side effects of vaccines. In ... Read more

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  • The Good Doctor

    What Patients Want

    by Ron Paterson ...
    Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by lifting the veils of secrecy and better informing patients, by establishing more effective ways of ... Read more

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  • Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context

    Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church

    by John P. Beal, Francis J. Butler, Patricia M. Y. Chang, Daniel R. Coquillette, Kimberly D. Elsbach, Richard R. Gaillardetz, C R. Hinings, Michael K. Mauws, Judith A.McMorrow, Richard P. Nielson0, James M. O'Toole1, James E. Post2, Denise M. Rousseau3, Michele Dillon4, Richard M. Gula5, James F. Keenan6, Paul Lakeland8 ...
    Series series Boston College Church in the 21st Century Series
    Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches of church formation and leadership come together from the disciplines of organizational behavior, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare

    Policy, Practice and Moral Formation

    Edited by Therese Feiler, Joshua Hordern, Andrew Papanikitas ...
    Series series Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
    How does the market affect and redefine healthcare? The marketisation of Western healthcare systems has now proceeded well into its fourth decade. But the nature and meaning of the phenomenon has become increasingly opaque amidst changing discourses, policies and institutional structures. Moreover, ethics has become focussed on dealing with individual, clinical decisions and neglectful of the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD