Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot....
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses the history and meaning of dignity, showing how modern conceptions of dignity inherit several distinct strands of meaning, and connects the modern definition with Immanuel Kant's philosophy on dignity.
Series
Nottola di Minerva volume 9
Publisher
G. Giappichelli Editore
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Italiano
14) The remaking of the Chinese character and identity in the 21st century: the Chinese face practices
Author
Publisher
Ablex Pub
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Told from the perspective of a U.S. diplomat in Kyiv, this book is the true story of Ukraine's anti-corruption revolution in 2013-14, Russia's intervention and invasion, and the limited role played by the United States. The author's narrative includes a wealth of information on Ukrainian high-level and street-level politics, a broad analysis of the international context, and vivid descriptions of people and places in Ukraine during the EuroMaidan...
Author
Series
Kantstudien. Ergänzungshefte volume 166
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English