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  • Person, Society and Value

    Towards a Personalist Concept of Health

    Edited by Paulina Taboada, K.F. Cuddeback, P. Donohue-White ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational.The overall purpose of this book is to capture the ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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  • The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

    by Henry Louis Mencken ...
    Nietzsche left no systematic exposition of his philosophy, and so it remains the subject of intense scholarly dispute and interpretation. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and often outrageous claims, his philosophy generates strong reactions of passionate love and disgust. The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry Louis Mencken was the first, and many believe the best book on the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Journey with Jake

    A Memoir of Parenting and Disability

    by Miriam Edelson ...
    Jake is celebrating his tenth birthday. That’s a remarkable feat, because at birth he was given only three years to live. Miriam Edelson is his mother, a dedicated fighter for Jake and families in similar situations.Edelson poses some tough questions: How do parents cope with a child who has special needs? Are we failing, as a society, to care for children with disabilities? Whatever happened to ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen

    The Defense of Reason in Descartes's Meditations

    by Harry G. Frankfurt ...
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a landmark account of Descartes, reason, and truthIn this classic work, philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes's Meditations, but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern philosophy: on what basis can reason claim to ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Ethics and Health Care

    An Introduction

    by John C. Moskop ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who should have access to assisted reproductive technologies? Which one of many seriously ill patients should be offered the next available transplant organ? When may a surrogate decision maker decide to withdraw life-prolonging measures from an unconscious patient? Questions like these feature prominently in the field of health care ethics and in the education of health care professionals. This ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Ethics in Community-Based Elder Care

    Edited by Phyllis B. Mitzen, ACSW, LCSW, Martha B. Holstein, PhD ...
    Series series Springer Series on Ethics, Law, and Aging
    Caring for elders outside of institutions is the fastest growing sector of US health care. Building on their research study at the Park Ridge Center, editors Holstein and Mitzen, together with a team of experts, examine the complexities involved in developing an ethics for community-based long-term care. They also challenge policymakers to make home care a more viable option for older people in ... Read more

    $143.99 CAD

  • Toward Scientific Medicine

    by O.S. Miettinen ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Scientific medicine in Miettinen’s conception of it is very different from the two ideas about it that come to eminence in the 20th century. To him, medicine is scientific to the extent that it has a rational theoretical framework and a knowledge-base from medical science. He delineates the nature of that theoretical framework and of the research to develop the requisite knowledge for application ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology

    Edited by Herman Cappelen, John Hawthorne, Tamar Szabó Gendler ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. The first part is devoted to broad traditions and approaches to philosophical methodology (including logical empiricism, phenomenology, and ordinary language philosophy). The ... Read more

    $155.19 CAD

  • Knowledge and virtue in early Stoicism

    by Håvard Løkke ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is about the epistemological views and arguments of the early Stoics. It discusses such questions as: How is knowledge possible, and what is it? How do we perceive things and acquire notions of them? Should we rely on arguments? How do we come to make so many mistakes?The author tries to give a comprehensive and conservative account of Stoic epistemology as a whole as it was developed by ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Designed to Kill: The Case Against Weapons Research

    by John Forge ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The pilot-less drones, smart bombs and other high-tech weapons on display in recent conflicts are all the outcome of weapons research. However, the kind of scientific and technological endeavour has been around for a long time, producing not only the armaments of Nazi Germany and the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, but the catapults used in ancient Greece and Rome and the assault rifles used by ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Beyond Mimesis and Convention

    Representation in Art and Science

    Edited by Matthew Hunter, Roman Frigg ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Representation is a concern crucial to the sciences and the arts alike. Scientists devote substantial time to devising and exploring representations of all kinds. From photographs and computer-generated images to diagrams, charts, and graphs; from scale models to abstract theories, representations are ubiquitous in, and central to, science. Likewise, after spending much of the twentieth century in ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present

    Edited by Dr Diego Machuca, Professor Baron Reed ...
    Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive volume is the first of its kind.By exploring each of the distinct traditions and ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD