The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No

The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
Author: Carl Elliott
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2024-05-14
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1324065516

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Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers. The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine. Carl Elliott is a bioethicist at the University of Minnesota who was trained in medicine as well as philosophy. For many years he fought for an external inquiry into a psychiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulnerable patient lost his life. Elliott’s efforts alienated friends and colleagues. The university stonewalled him and denied wrongdoing until a state investigation finally vindicated his claims. His experience frames the six stories in this book of medical research in which patients were deceived into participating in experimental programs they did not understand, many of which had astonishing and well-concealed mortality rates. Beginning with the public health worker who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and ending with the four physicians who in 2016 blew the whistle on lethal synthetic trachea transplants at the Karolinska Institute, Elliott tells the extraordinary stories of insiders who spoke out against such abuses, and often paid a terrible price for doing the right thing.

The Shield of faith

The Shield of faith
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1880
Genre:
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Singing the Chaos

Singing the Chaos
Author: William Pratt
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780826210487

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Combining both a historical and a critical approach toward the works of major British, American, French, German and Russian poets, this work surveys a century of high poetic achievement

Control

Control
Author: Jack P. Gibbs
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1989
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780252060465

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Carnage and Culture

Carnage and Culture
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307425185

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Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values–the tradition of dissent, the value placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship–which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers. Offering riveting battle narratives and a balanced perspective that avoids simple triumphalism, Carnage and Culture demonstrates how armies cannot be separated from the cultures that produce them and explains why an army produced by a free culture will always have the advantage.

Tragedy and Athenian Religion

Tragedy and Athenian Religion
Author: Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2003
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780739104002

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Stemming from Harvard University's Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood's Tragedy and Athenian Religion sets out a radical reexamination of the relationship between Greek tragedy and religion. Based on a reconstruction of the context in which tragedy was generated as a ritual performance during the festival of the City Dionysia, Sourvinou-Inwood shows that religious exploration had been crucial in the emergence of what developed into fifth-century Greek tragedy. A contextual analysis of the perceptions of fifth-century Athenians suggests that the ritual elements clustered in the tragedies of Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles provided a framework for the exploration of religious issues, in a context perceived to be part of a polis ritual. This reassessment of Athenian tragedy is based both on a reconstruction of the Dionysia and the various stages of its development and on a deep textual analysis of fifth-century tragedians. By examining the relationship between fifth-century tragedies and performative context, Tragedy and Athenian Religion presents a groundbreaking view of tragedy as a discourse that explored (among other topics) the problematic religious issues of the time and so ultimately strengthened Athenian religion even at a time of crisis in very complex ways-- rather than, as some simpler modern readings argue, challenging and attacking religion and the gods.

Litigating Rights

Litigating Rights
Author: Grant Huscroft
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2002-01-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847310729

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How are rights and freedoms best protected? The American model of constitutional protection and judicial review has been adopted in a number of countries,most recently in the United Kingdom. Increasingly, rights are the province of the judiciary. But how much judicial review do we need? How do we resolve conflicts between liberty, equality, and democracy? What are group rights, and how strong is their claim to protection? What guidance can the decisions of the UN Human Rights Committee provide? These are some of the questions discussed in this collection of essays, which explores a range of contemporary issues in jurisdictions including the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Contributors include Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court, Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada, Justice Eddie Durie of the High Court of New Zealand; James Allan, Andrew Butler, Hilary Charlesworth, Scott Davidson, Elizabeth Evatt, Murray Hunt, Andrew Sharpe, and Jeremy Waldron.

Existence

Existence
Author: Jon Earnshaw
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 816
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre:
ISBN: 0992900514

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The everyman/everywoman's guide to the meaning of life. Musician and teacher Jon Earnshaw examines the major questions of life and whether the Christian faith is able to provide answers which are relevant today. As a result of being expensively educated but badly taught in his chosen career he began to reflect on how seriously he had been let down by society. His many heated arguments with church leaders also convinced him that something was seriously wrong with Christianity. Money, selfishness and power appeared to corrupt both secular and sacred in equal measure. Embarking on a writing project which was to span over 10 years he began to examine the inconsistencies and contradictions in the Bible and the false teachings and pointless practices in Christianity. If you believe anything at all about God or religion then be prepared for a few surprises - most of what you already believe is not the full Bible truth. If you don't believe anything about God then this book will be interesting to say the least - for example, God exists because He Is Absolutely Obliged To. So is it a theology book, a spirituality book or a lifestyle book? It could be any of those things. I don't preach to my readers; I present the case for and against God in clear understandable language and leave it up to you. I look at - The Sinking Titanic of Planet Earth, The Descent of Man, The Misunderstood God, The End of The World, Does God Exist? Is God Cruel? The Impossibility of Faith, The Popular View Of Hell Is A Delusion, What Your Alpha-Class-Focus-Group-Outreach-Leader-Church-Pastor Will Never Tell You, The Earth is Not Ours, How Science is Nearer Religion Than You Think. And a few more. I hope that this will be a life-changing book for all readers. I also hope that it will at least make you think; the way that you think could change the future of the earth and the humans on it long after I have gone.