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The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn
A Pellegrino Reader
Edmund D. Pellegrino
Edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Fabrice Jotterand
Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum, the nature of the patient’s good, and the importance of a virtue-based normative ethics for health care.
In this anthology, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Fabrice Jotterand have created a rich presentation of Pellegrino’s thought and its development. Pellegrino’s work has been dedicated to showing that bioethics must be understood in the context of medical humanities, and that medical humanities, in turn, must… Read More
Physics and Cosmology
Scientific Perspectives on the Problem of Natural Evil
Edited by Nancey Murphy, Robert John Russell and William R. Stoeger, S.J.
The essays in Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on the Problem of Natural Evil resulted from the seventh international research conference co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory Foundation and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. It is the first in a new series on the problem of natural evil—on reconciling suffering caused by natural processes with God’s goodness.
The editors have divided this volume into four sections. The first includes history of the issue and a critical analysis of how the history has often been understood, followed by two chapters that provide typologies: one of types of suffering, the… Read More
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CHOICE Magazine reviews Winthrop Wetherbee's The Ancient Flame
- CHOICE Magazine praised Winthrop Wetherbee’s book The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets, calling it “. . . [l]earned, readable, genuinely and profoundly humane . . . .”
“A well-known scholar of classical and medieval Latin poetry, Wetherbee brings his enormous expertise in that field to bear on Dante’s Commedia, with consistently original and thought-provoking results. . . . Learned, readable, genuinely and profoundly humane, these readings succeed admirably in attaining their author’s stated goal of showing ‘the extent to which [Dante’s] gradual discovery of his own mission as a vernacular poet depended on a close…Read More
