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Review Of Therapeutic Action An Earnest Plea For Irony By Jonathan Lear, Matthew Pianalto

Matthew Pianalto

Jonathan Lear begins Therapeutic Action with a question: "How might a conversation fundamentally change the structure of the human psyche?" That is, how could an exchange of words between analyst and analysand effect a cure to neurosis? To answer such questions would be to uncover the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. While arguing that a deeper understanding of irony and its possibilities is central to the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis, Lear's book is much more than its "earnest plea for irony." It is an invitation to psychoanalysts (and all those involved in psychological counseling) to return to this fundamental question of …

Jacques Derrida And Alain Badiou: Is There A Relation Between Politics And Time?, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

This paper argues that though Derrida is correct to bring to the fore the undecidability that is contained in his political notion of the democracy to come, his account does not extend the aporia of undecidable politics far enough. Derrida himself makes evident this gap. Though politics may be structured with undecidability, there are times when direct, decisive and definitive political interventions are required. In his campaign against capital punishment, the blitzing campaigns in Bosnia and Iraq, and in his call for les villes-refuges, Derrida makes decisive appeals which somehow seem to contradict the undecidability he sees as arch-structuring. Alain …

Heads Or Tails: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

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Waiver Of Consent For Emergency Research, Andrew Mcrae, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

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Review Of Autopsy Of A Suicidal Mind By Edwin S. Shneidman, Matthew Pianalto

Matthew Pianalto

In any other discipline, a gathering of minds with only half the intellectual prowess and experience of the consultants brought together in Edwin Shneidman's Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind would give reason for a celebration. The very nature of suicidology must make even such a momentous reunion as occurs in this book a somber event. In Autopsy, Shneidman rejoins forces with seven suicide specialists, longtime colleague Norman L. Farberow, with whom Shneidman founded the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center (the first center of its kind), and Robert E. Litman, chief psychiatrist at the LASPC, Avery Weisman, John T. Maltsberger, David …

The Incarnation, Michel Henry, And The Possibility Of An Husserlian-Inspired Transcendental Life, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

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Review Of Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, And Democracy, Harry Van Der Linden

Harry van der Linden

When Are Research Risks Reasonable In Relation To Anticipated Benefits?, Charles Weijer, Paul Miller

Charles Weijer

The question "When are research risks reasonable in relation to anticipated benefits?" is at the heart of disputes in the ethics of clinical research. Institutional review boards are often criticized for inconsistent decision-making, a problem that is compounded by a number of contemporary controversies, including the ethics of research involving placebo controls, developing countries, incapable adults and emergency rooms. If this pressing ethical question is to be addressed in a principled way, then a systematic approach to the ethics of risk in research is required. Component analysis provides such a systematic approach.

The Quest For Legitimacy: Comment On Cox Macpherson's 'To Strengthen Consensus, Consult The Stakeholders', Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

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The Ethical Analysis Of Risk In Intensive Care Unit Research, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

Research in the intensive care unit (ICU) is commonly thought to pose 'serious risk' to study participants. This perception may be at the root of a variety of impediments to the conduct of clinical trials in the ICU setting. Component analysis offers a promising approach to the ethical analysis of ICU research. Because clinical trials commonly involve a mixture of study interventions, therapeutic and nontherapeutic procedures must be analyzed separately. Therapeutic procedures must meet the requirement of clinical equipoise. Risks associated with nontherapeutic procedures must be minimized consistent with sound scientific design, and be deemed reasonable in relation to the …

Looking For Answers In All The Wrong Places, Earl Spurgin

Earl W. Spurgin

In recent years, many business ethicists have raised problems with the "ethics pays" credo. Despite these problems, many continue to hold it. I argue that support for the credo leads business ethicists away from a potentially fruitful approach found in Hume's moral philosophy. I begin by demonstrating that attempts to support the credo fail because proponents are trying to provide an answer to the "Why be moral?" question that is based on rational self-interest. Then, I show that Hume's sentiments-based moral theory provides an alternative to the credo that points toward a more fruitful approach to business ethics. Along the …

Isocrates And Civic Education, Takis Poulakos, David Depew

David J Depew

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Conflicting Visions Of The Real: Christianity, Buddhism & Baudrillard In The Matrix Films And Popular Culture, James Mcgrath

James F. McGrath

James McGrath's contribution to the proceedings of the first global conference of the Cyberworlds, Virtual Reality project, which took place from Monday 11 August - Wednesday 13 August 2003, in Prague, as part of the At the Interface conference series.

Ethics: Contemporary Readings, Edited By Harry J. Gensler, Earl W. Spurgin, And James C. Swindal, Harry Gensler, S.J., Earl Spurgin, James Swindal

Harry J. Gensler, S.J.

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Law, Justice, And Power: Between Reason And Will (Stanford University Press), Sinkwan Cheng

Sinkwan Cheng

This is an unprecedented volume that brings together J. Hillis Miller, Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau, Alain Badiou, Nancy Fraser, and other prominent intellectuals from five countries in seven disciplines to provide fresh perspectives on the new configurations of law, justice, and power in the global age. The work engages and challenges past and present scholarship on current topics in legal studies: globalization, post-colonialism, multiculturalism, ethics, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis. The book is divided into five parts. The first debates issues of (trans-)national justice and human rights in the global age, focusing on military interventions and refugee policies. Part II …

The Metaphor Of The City In The Apocalypse Of John, Eva Raepple

Eva Maria Raepple

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"Varieties Of Spiritual Experience: Shen In Neo-Confucian Discourse", Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Darwinism, Design And Complex Systems Dynamics, David Depew, Bruce Weber

David J Depew

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The Philosophy Of Biology: An Episodic History, David Depew, Grene Marjorie

David J Depew

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