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In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult and relevant even today. The importance of these issues to contemporary bioethical disputes-particularly in the thorny areas of medical genetics, human experimentation, and euthanasia-are explored in detail and with sensitiv...

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The Glasgow functional programming group has held a workshop each summer since 1988. The entire group, accompanied by a selection of colleagues from other institutions, retreats to a pleasant Scottish location for a few days. Everyone speaks briefly, enhancing coherence, cross­ fertilisation, and camaraderie in our work. The proceedings of the first workshop were published as a technical report. Demand for this was large enough to encourage wi...

Deng Ming-Dao's recent Scholar Warrior was one of the first books to reveal the many enlightening ways Taoist principles may be applied in contemporary everyday life and thought. Now the author makes Taoism even more accessible and practical with this treasury of life-enhancing daily readings.

Dieser Band geht auf den Kongre~ "Zwangsst|rungen" zur}ck, der im Oktober 1992 an der Psychiatrischen und Nervenklinik der Universit{t Hamburg stattfand. Von biologisch, pharmakologisch und verhaltenstherapeutisch orientierten internationalen Experten werden der aktuelle Kenntnisstand zur Epidemiologie und zu pharmakologischen und verhaltentherapeutischen Behandlungsm|glichkeiten der Zwangsst|rungen im Kindes- und Erwachsenenalter so...

One of the phylogenetically oldest hormones, somatostatin is a regulatory peptide with remarkable characteristics. It is a nonclassical neurotransmitter discovered less than 20 years ago both in the central nervous system and in the gastroenteropancreatic system. It regulates the secretion of both pituitary and digestive hormones, it ensures nutrient homeostasis and it has therapeutic uses. This volume deals withall these aspects.

It's an idea everyone has had at least once: give up the job, give up the home in the burbs, buy some land and live the good life in the country. Can it really be done? David and Micki Colfax did it. And in this fascinating book they tell how they did it--from their decision to try a life of self-sufficiency in the redwood forested mountains of northern California to the process of building their own house, from the demands of teaching their f...

Instances of euthanasia or mercy killing date back to antiquity. However, it is only recently that the unprecedented grassroots efforts to legalize euthana­ sia have begun building. "Terminal Illness, Assistance with Dying, " a California ballot initiative for the No­ vember 1992 election, might for the first time in modem history legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide by physicians. Similar initiatives are planned in other states. To vote i...