Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Class of 1916Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Fiftieth Anniversary Reunion, Cambridge and Osterville, Massachusetts, June 9 Through 13, 1966
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Class of 1916Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Princeton Alumni Weekly
Author: Publisher: princeton alumni weekly
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine
Author: Kenneth A. RichmanPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262264341
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Explores the philosophical and practical ethical implications of a definition of health as a state that allows us to reach our goals. Definitions of health and disease are of more than theoretical interest. Understanding what it means to be healthy has implications for choices in medical treatment, for ethically sound informed consent, and for accurate assessment of policies or programs. This deeper understanding can help us create more effective public policy for health and medicine. It is notable that such contentious legal initiatives as the Americans with Disability Act and the Patients' Bill of Rights fail to define adequately the medical terms on which their effectiveness depends. In Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine, Kenneth Richman develops an "embedded instrumentalist" theory of health and applies it to practical problems in health care and medicine, addressing topics that range from the philosophy of science to knee surgery. "Embedded instrumentalist" theories hold that health is a match between one's goals and one's ability to reach those goals, and that the relevant goals may vary from individual to individual. This captures the normative implications of the term health while avoiding problematic relativism. Richman's embedded instrumentalism differs from other theories of health in drawing a distinction between the health of individuals as biological organisms and the health of individuals as moral agents. This distinction illuminates many difficulties in patient-provider communication and helps us understand conflicts between promoting health and promoting ethically permissible behavior. After exploring, expanding, and defending this theory in the first part of the book, Richman examines its ethical implications, discussing such concerns as the connection between medical beneficence and respect for autonomy, patient-provider communication, living wills, and clinical education.
The Camp Log
Author: Retrieving Times
Author: Granville AustinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781935052043
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
At a time when Americans exhibit a distinct yearning for more straightforward and honest relationships with one another, Austin's portrait of Norwich, Vermont is a reminder of the lasting impacts people's lives have on one another.
Always the Blue Tide Turning
Author: Mary Shay McGuirePublisher:
ISBN: 9781952326196
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Gotham City Living
Author: Erica McCrystalPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135014892X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Framing Gotham City as a microcosm of a modern-day metropolis, Gotham City Living posits this fictional setting as a hyper-aware archetype, demonstrative of the social, political and cultural tensions felt throughout urban America. Looking at the comics, graphic novels, films and television shows that form the Batman universe, this book demonstrates how the various creators of Gotham City have imagined a geography for the condition of America, the cast of characters acting as catalysts for a revaluation of established urban values. McCrystal breaks down representations of the city and its inhabitants into key sociological themes, focusing on youth, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, class disparity and criminality. Surveying comic strip publications from the mid-20th century to modern depictions, this book explores a wide range of material from the universe as well as the most contemporary depictions of the caped crusader not yet fully addressed in a scholarly context. These include the works of Tom King and Gail Simone; the films by Christopher Nolan and Tim Burton; and the Batman animated series and Gotham television shows. Covering characters from Batman and Robin to Batgirl, Catwoman and Poison Ivy, Gotham City Living examines the Batman franchise as it has evolved, demonstrating how the city presents a timeline of social progression (and regression) in urban American society.
The American Literary Anthology, 3
Author: George PlimptonPublisher: Viking Adult
ISBN: 9780670119745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Fiction: -- Paris by night / John Ashbery and James Schuyler -- The shark / Jack Cady -- Time of the Fermeture / Guy A. Cardwell -- Playground / Leslie Epstein -- Daughter of a bitch / Alan Friedman -- Aristocratic mouse / Ely Green -- Westward and up a mountain / Elaine Kraf -- Notes written in the self of a man with a singular distaste for writing anything down / David Stacton -- Poetry: -- Guitar recitativos / A.R. Ammons -- House of blue by the river's curve / James Applewhite -- The walnut tree / Elizabeth Bartlett -- Fable of the third Christmas camel / Scott Bates -- The wings of the nose / Michael Benedikt -- 10. / Wendell Berry -- It's raining in love / Richard Brautigan -- Taking heart / David Bromige -- An exhibit of paintings by George Inness / Robert Grant Burns -- Adjust, adjust / Christopher Bursk -- Some sort of death / Grace Butcher -- The image waits / Warren Carrier -- Sonnet / Hayden Carruth -- In silence where we breathe / Jane Cooper -- The river / Sam Cornish -- The garbage wars / Donald Finkel -- You could pick it up / Patricia Goedicke -- O they left me / Jonathan Greene -- Cantata for Saint Budc̤'s day / Ramon Guthrie -- Thin ice / Jim Harrison -- Against the evidence / David Ignatow -- Human relations / Emmett Jarrett -- Poem beginning with a line memorized at school / Roderick Jellema -- The bear / Galway Kinnell -- Beginning of lines : response to "Albion moonlight" / Mary Norbert Kr̲te -- "Afternoon" from the journals of Robert Lax / Robert Lax -- The lost angel / Philip Levine -- 1966 / Dick Lourie -- Indiana I : three bad signs / Eugene McCarthy -- Preparation / Sandra McPherson -- Dirge / Ray Mizer -- Hannibal over the mountains ... / Rebecca Newth -- Mozart in Nova Scotia / Richard R. O'Keefe -- Flighty poem / John Pauker -- Rilke's sixth elegy transposed / George Quasha -- The code / Carl Rakosi -- For a Russian poet / Adrienne Rich -- Two poems about money / John Ridland -- A man's life / Del Marie Rogers -- The student's testimony / Jerome Rothenberg -- Two poems / Norman H. Russell -- Our willows / John Skinner -- New England love / Lynn Strongin -- When Kabir died / James Tate -- Invitation au voyage II / John Wieners -- Asking directions in California / John Woods -- For poets / Al Young -- Essays and criticism: -- The dry salvages : topography as symbol / John D. Boyd, S. JU. -- Edgar Poe : style as pose / James M. Cox -- James Agee : a memoir / Robert Fitzgerald -- A year with Blow-up : some notes / Stanley Kauffmann -- Meditations on beginnings / Edward W. Said -- Theatre and revolution / Richard Schechner -- Events, happenings, credibility, fictions / Richard G. Stern -- Henry Miller : the success of failure / John Williams -- The depraved angel of Marat/Sade / Sybil Wuletich.
Without Shame
Author: Connelly AkstensPublisher: Connelly Akstens
ISBN: 9781736437902
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book is the story I have wanted to tell for a very long time. For most of my life I lived in the shadow of shame. I was afraid there would be terrible consequences if anyone discovered my gender confusion. Who would want to be my friend? How would I have a career? Who would love me? The past two decades have been a process of coming out of hiding, letting myself be known and leaving shame behind. That process has led me to write this book. I've been blessed with many odd experiences, some stunning misadventures and the acquaintance of many quirky people. And whatever I have to say about it, or whatever you may think of it, I'm grateful I can finally tell my story without shame.
Author: Robert E. Kehoe