Author: Laurence B. McCullough
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Medical ethics is the disciplined study of medical morality, with two goals critically appraising current medical morality and identifying how it should be improved. Medical morality has three components. Physicians, patients, communities, and policy makers have beliefs about what is good and bad character, and right and wrong behavior, in patient care, biomedical research, medical education, and health policy. On the basis of these beliefs, physicians, patients, communities, and policy makers make judgments about how physicians ought to conduct themselves in patient care, research, education, and the formation and implementation of health policy. They then act on their judgments. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Medical Ethics contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on ethical reasoning and its key components medical ethics, professional medical ethics, and bioethics and topics in clinical ethics, research ethics, and healthcare policy ethics. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about medical ethics.**About the Author Laurence B. McCullough is Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He is also Adjunct Professor of Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology and of Medical Ethics in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. In 2013 he received Baylors highest teaching award, the Barbara and Corbin J. Robertson, Jr., Presidential Award for Excellence in Education.
Author: Noah Levine
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Bestselling author and renowned Buddhist teacher Noah Levine adapts the Buddhas Four Noble Truths and Eight Fold Path into a proven and systematic approach to recovery from alcohol and drug addictionan indispensable alternative to the 12-step program.While many desperately need the help of the 12-step recovery program, the traditional AA models focus on an external higher power can alienate people who dont connect with its religious tenets. Refuge Recovery is a systematic method based on Buddhist principles, which integrates scientific, non-theistic, and psychological insight. Viewing addiction as cravings in the mind and body, Levine shows how a path of meditative awareness can alleviate those desires and ease suffering. Refuge Recovery includes daily meditation practices, written investigations that explore the causes and conditions of our addictions, and advice and inspiration for finding or creating a community to help you heal and awaken.Practical yet compassionate, Levines successful Refuge Recovery system is designed for anyone interested in a non-theistic approach to recovery and requires no previous experience or knowledge of Buddhism or meditation. **
Author: Gilbert Gottlieb
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This work is intended to portray the interrelationship of heredity, individual development, and the evolution of species in a way that can be understood by nonspecialists. In striving to offer a straightforward historical exposition of the complex topic of nature and nurture, the author tells the story through a central cast of characters beginning with Lamarck in 1809 and ending with a synthesis of his own that depicts how extragenetic behavioral changes in individual development could be the first stages in the pathway leading to evolutionary change. On the way to that goal, he describes relevant conceptual aspects of genetics, embryological development, and evolutionary biology in a nontechnical and accurate way for students and colleagues in the behavioral and social sciences. The book presents a highly selected review as a prelude to the description of a developmental theory of the phenotype in which behavioral change leads eventually to evolutionary change. This book grew out of an invited interdisciplinary course of lectures for advanced undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Presenting the various ways about thinking about heredity, individual development, and evolution, the author had three goals in mind to establish the relevance of individual development to the evolution of species to describe the most appropriate way to think about or conceptualize heredity in relation to individual development *to show that this somewhat unorthodox manner of conceptualizing heredity and individual development gives rise to a new way to think about the behavioral pathway leading to evolution. In conclusion, the present work will provide a contribution toward the possible dissolution of the nature-nurture dichotomy, as well as a contribution to evolutionary theory. **
Author: Chrétien de Troyes
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Fantastic adventures abound in these courtly romances Erec and Enide, Cliges, The Knight of the Cart, The Knight with the Lion, and The Story of the Grail. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.**
Author: Pooja Rangan
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Endangered life is often used to justify humanitarian media intervention, but what if suffering humanity is both the fuel and outcome of such media representations? Pooja Rangan argues that this vicious circle is the result of immediation, a prevailing documentary ethos that seeks to render human suffering urgent and immediate at all costs. Rangan interrogates this ethos in films seeking to give a voice to the voiceless, an established method of validating the humanity of marginalized subjects, including children, refugees, autistics, and animals. She focuses on multiple examples of documentary subjects being invited to demonstrate their humanity photography workshops for the children of sex workers in Calcutta live eyewitness reporting by Hurricane Katrina survivors attempts to facilitate speech in nonverbal autistics and painting lessons for elephants. These subjects are obliged to represent themselves using immediationstropes that reinforce their status as the other and reproduce definitions of the human that exclude non-normative modes of thinking, being, and doing. To counter these effects, Rangan calls for an approach to media that aims not to humanize but to realize the full, radical potential of giving the camera to the other. **
Author: Josh Ellenbogen
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses idolatry, a contested issue that has given rise to both religious accusations and heated scholarly disputes. Idol Anxiety brings together insightful new statements from scholars in religious studies, art history, philosophy, and musicology to show that idolatry is a concept that can be helpful in articulating the ways in which human beings interact with and conceive of the things around them. It includes both case studies that provide examples of how the concept of idolatry can be used to study material objects and more theoretical interventions. Among the books highlights are a foundational treatment of the second commandment by Jan Assmann an essay by W.J.T. Mitchell on Nicolas Poussin that will be a model for future discussions of art objects a groundbreaking consideration of the Islamic ban on images by Mika Natif and a lucid description by Jean-Luc Marion of his cutting-edge phenomenology of the visible. **Review Idol Anxiety opens a broad vista onto a critical but understudied topic of interdisciplinary interest beyond the fields of art history and religious studies. Religious, social, political, philosophical, and cultural methodologies create a unique matrix within the multiple scholarly approaches toward idolatry reflected herein. Editors Ellenbogen and Tugendhaft deserve praise for their development of this topic and for the academic breadth of their invited contributors. D. Apostolos-Cappadona, Choice Idol Anxiety is a fresh, eclectic combination of established and new voices on an old problem that is important to at least three different fields religious studies, art history, and philosophy.Seth Sanders, Trinity College This collection is essential reading for anyone concerned with idols, made things, and our longstanding attraction to them.Glenn Peers, University of Texas at Austin About the Author Josh Ellenbogen is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at University of Pittsburgh. Aaron Tugendhaft teaches philosophy and history of religions at the Gallatin School, New York University. He was guest curator of the 2008 exhibition Idol Anxiety at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago.
Author: Giancarlo Casale
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In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim the Grim conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the affairs of this vast and previously unfamiliar region, eventually to the point of launching a systematic ideological, military and commercial challenge to the Portuguese Empire, their main rival for control of the lucrative trade routes of maritime Asia. The Ottoman Age of Exploration is the first comprehensive historical account of this century-long struggle for global dominance, a struggle that raged from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Straits of Malacca, and from the interior of Africa to the steppes of Central Asia. Based on extensive research in the archives of Turkey and Portugal, as well as materials written on three continents and in a half dozen languages, it presents an unprecedented picture of the global reach of the Ottoman state during the sixteenth century. It does so through a dramatic recounting of the lives of sultans and viziers, spies, corsairs, soldiers-of-fortune, and women from the imperial harem. Challenging traditional narratives of Western dominance, it argues that the Ottomans were not only active participants in the Age of Exploration, but ultimately bested the Portuguese in the game of global politics by using sea power, dynastic prestige, and commercial savoir faire to create their own imperial dominion throughout the Indian Ocean. **Review [A]n important work. --The Historian Far from being bystanders, the Ottomans emerge from Giancarlo Casales study as key actors in the sixteenth-century age of exploration. Their 1517 conquest of Egypt made the Empire into a major Red Sea power. It also made the Ottoman sultans the Protectors of the Two Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina and gave them claims to being the most prestigious Muslim sovereigns. Exploding conventional opinions about the Ottomans as a land-based power, about their lack of prowess in seafaring, about their inward-looking commercial policy, and about their cultural introversion, Casale has produced a study of enduring significance for the history of the Ottoman Empire and of the whole sixteenth-century world.--Carter V. Findley, author of The Turks in World History Casale has made a major contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire. He shows that the Ottoman conquest of the Arab world was no mere acquisition of territory. Through the Arab lands, the Ottomans discovered the Indian Ocean and embarked on an intellectual journey through the previously unknown world of medieval Arab scholarship.--Molly Greene, Princeton University This path-breaking account of Ottoman exploration of the Indian Ocean upends a number of assumptions about imperial aspirations, mercantile aptitudes, and modes of expansion and alliance-building. Giancarlo Casale gives us a wonderfully lively narrative of a century of Ottoman rivalry with the Portuguese, against whom the empire deployed technological know-how, persuasive rhetoric, effective political and geographic intelligence, and above all a series of gifted and daring statesmen and seamen.--Leslie Peirce, New York University Giancarlo Casale challenges the master narrative that portrays Christian Europeans as the sole maritime explorers of the sixteenth century. Making room for the Ottoman Turks will discomfit world historians, but the power and elegance of Casales argument and the weight of the evidence he presents cannot be denied.--Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University Once in a while, one has the opportunity to read a monograph that changes the way you envision a people, empire or event and, thus, changes the way you teach the particular subject in the classroom. Giancarlo Casales book on the Ottomans in the sixteenth century accomplishes just thatEL.His arguments are sure to spawn interesting debate and will also find their way into classrooms,ELproviding scholars and students confirmation that the Ottomans were agents of change in the Indian Ocean and its spice trade. --Kathy Callahan, World History Bulletin About the Author Giancarlo Casale is Assistant Professor of the History of the Islamic World and the 2009-2011 McKnight Land Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota.
Author: Jung Eun Jang
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This book explores the 1907 Korean Revival Movement from a self psychological perspective. The examination of the psychological processes in the movement based on Heinz Kohuts self psychology can shed light on religious experiences as selfobject experiences by identifying the sense of defeatedness and helplessness that Korean people experienced under Japanese occupation as what Kohut calls self-fragmentation of the Korean group self and explaining its therapeutic functions which facilitate potential for the narcissistic nourishment of the fragmented group self leading to renewed self-esteem, transformation, and empowerment of the Korean people. Korean people in the early 1900s experienced abuses and oppression by corrupt officials and exploitation by Japanese government. Through religious experiences which emphasized the individual repentance, the experience of God through the spirit, emphasis on prayer, and eschatological faith, the Korean Revival Movement in 1907 enabled its followers to experience mirroring and idealizing selfobjects which function as a role of transforming the lower shape of narcissism into the higher one. **Review Since a German historian, psychologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, Wilhelm Ditlhey defined Geistwissenshaften as a science of interpretation, embracing philosophy, history and such humansocial science as psychology and sociology, most of its subject matters had taken their own course for so long. Dr. Jangs provocative work will show us how a dialogical project of psychohistory would still work well for many humansocial scientists of interpretation in the twenty-first century. (Soo-Young Kwon, Professor of Pastoral Theology, Yonsei University, Korea, and President of Korean Association of Christian Counseling & Psychology) Dr. Jangs self-psychological analysis of the 1907 Revival Movement makes significant contributions globally to the field of religious experience and locally to the understanding and implications of the Revival Movement in Korea. His meticulous examination of historical contexts--social, economic, and politicalthat are behind the movement and his efficacious application of self-psychology in his analysis underscore the positive function of religious experiences for psychological well-being. His work also offers a more holistic understanding of the Movement and provides valuable implications for the current church context in South Korea. (Angella Son, Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion, Drew University, USA, and author of Spirituality of Joy Moving Away from Dread and Duties) Jung Eun Jangs book gives a holistic perspective on the 1907 Korean Revival Movement. Its psychohistorical insight on the existing theological and spiritual understandings of the Movement fills a gap in scholarship both on the Movement and on the development of Korean Protestant Christianity. This book is essential reading for church leaders and theologians wrestling with the Korean churchs current stagnation. (Insook Lee, Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care, and Counseling, New York Theological Seminary, USA) From the Back Cover This book explores the 1907 Korean Revival Movement from a self psychological perspective. The examination of the psychological processes in the movement based on Heinz Kohuts self psychology can shed light on religious experiences as selfobject experiences by identifying the sense of defeatedness and helplessness that Korean people experienced under Japanese occupation as what Kohut calls self-fragmentation of the Korean group self and explaining its therapeutic functions which facilitate potential for the narcissistic nourishment of the fragmented group self leading to renewed self-esteem, transformation, and empowerment of the Korean people. Korean people in the early 1900s experienced abuses and oppression by corrupt officials and exploitation by Japanese government. Through religious experiences which emphasized the individual repentance, the experience of God through the spirit, emphasis on prayer, and eschatological faith, the Korean Revival Movement in 1907 enabled its followers to experience mirroring and idealizing selfobjects which function as a role of transforming the lower shape of narcissism into the higher one.