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"The Nation State Project, Schizophrenic Globalization, And The Eucharist: An Interview With William T. Cavanaugh", William Cavanaugh

William T. Cavanaugh

No abstract provided.

Risk Assessment, Allison Schuette

Allison Schuette

No abstract provided.

Review Of Ethical Theory By Russ Shafer-Landau, Matthew Pianalto

Matthew Pianalto

Any anthology on a topic as broad as moral philosophy risks committing sins of omission. In lieu of what Shafer-Landau calls the "point-counterpoint" approach usually taken in ethics readers, in which the audience is presented with positive accounts of particular views and critical responses, Shafer-Landau has chosen, particularly the sections on distinctive moral theories (such as consequentialism and deontological ethics), to focus on various defenses and articulations of the moral theories under consideration. Thus, "Readers will not have criticisms of the theories presented and ready to hand. As a compensation, however, they will have a more nuanced target to aim …

Transforming English With Graphic Novels: Moving Toward Our "Optimus Prime", James Carter

James B Carter

I argue for the transformative potential of graphic novels in the English classroom.

Ethics Of Surgical Training In Developing Countries, Kevin Ramsey, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

The practice of surgical trainees operating in developing countries is gaining interest in the medical community. Although there has been little analysis about the ethical impact of these electives, there has been some concerns raised over the possible exploitation of trainees and their patients. An ethical review of this practice shows that care needs to be taken to prevent harm. Inexperienced surgeons learning surgical skills in developing countries engender greater risk of violating basic ethical principles. Advanced surgical trainees who have already achieved surgical competence are best qualified to satisfy these ethical issues. All training programs need to develop a …

‘Keep The “L” Out Of Los Angeles’: Race, Discourse, And Urban Modernity In 1920s Southern California, Jeremiah Axelrod

Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod

In the spring of 1926 the voters of Los Angeles were asked to decide whether to accept a modern rapid transit system for their metropolis. The referendum campaign, a watershed moment in American urban history, forced citizens to choose whether their rapidly growing city should develop into a centralized conurbation of skyscrapers linked by an extensive transit infrastructure, like New York and Chicago, or become a metropolis dominated by low-density development. Crucially, the campaign—charged with vivid rhetoric and metaphor, mobilized primarily by local newspapers—ultimately turned on Angelenos' conceptions of race and class and on their notions of what cosmopolitan urbanism …

Indelible Ink: A Photography Exhibit Shows Marine Tattoos As Eulogies To The Lost, Lynell George

Mary Beth Heffernan

No abstract provided.

The Church Inverted: Catholics Must Focus More On Their Base, Less On Their Leaders, Edward Hahnenberg

Edward P Hahnenberg

A review of the book "The New American Story," by Bill Bradley.

Looking Up From The Gutter: Pop-Culture And Philosophy, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

No abstract provided.

Stefan Schyga: A Winter Romance, Erik Unsworth

Erik Unsworth

Full-length CD: featured as bassist

Neil Simon's 'Barefoot In The Park', Boise State University, Gordon Reinhart

Gordon Reinhart

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Benefits And Harms In Intensive Care Research, Charles Weijer, Paul Miller

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Blasted’S Hysteria: Rape, Realism, And The Thresholds Of The Visible, Kim Solga

Kim Solga

A curious blind spot remains in the critical response to Sarah Kane’s Blasted: the rape of Cate by Ian. In a play famous for its onstage violence, why is this rape, one of its pivotal moments of brutality, left unstaged? This article investigates this gap by exploring the theoretical and historical dimensions of the ‘‘missing’’ in Kane’s play. I argue that Kane’s representation of Cate’s rape as missing signals both her engagement with the history of rape’s representation – an elusive, evasive history rather than an outrageous, in-yer-face one – as well as a deft understanding of how the ‘‘missing’’ …

Book Review Of Smallwood, Stephanie E. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage From Africa To American Diaspora., Sharla Fett

Sharla Fett

No abstract provided.

Solstice, Mitch Wieland

Mitch Wieland

No abstract provided.

How England Got Its Name, (1014-1035), George Beech

George T. Beech

Gender And Fan Culture Series: Round 15 Part 1 On Confessions Of An Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog Of Henry Jenkins, Suzanne Scott

Suzanne Scott

Guest Blogger with Bob Rehak

Revisiting Equipoise: A Response To Gifford, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

The authors respond to objections Fred Gifford has raised against their paper "Rehabilitating Equipoise." They situate this exchange in the wider context of recent debate over equipoise, highlighting substantial points of agreement between themselves and Gifford. The authors offer a brief restatement of "Rehabilitating Equipoise" in which they amplify some of its core arguments. They then assess Gifford's objections. Finding each to be unfounded, they argue that there is no justification for "pulling the plug" on clinical equipoise.

Presentism And The Objection From Being-Supervenience, Brian Kierland, Bradley Monton

Brian Kierland

In this paper, we show that presentism—the view that the way things are is the way things presently are—is not undermined by the objection from being-supervenience. This objection claims, roughly, that presentism has trouble accounting for the truth-value of past-tense claims. Our demonstration amounts to the articulation and defence of a novel version of presentism. This is brute past presentism, according to which the truth-value of past-tense claims is determined by the past understood as a fundamental aspect of reality different from things and how things are.

Gender And Fan Culture Series: Round 15 Part Ii On Confessions Of An Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog Of Henry Jenkins,, Suzanne Scott

Suzanne Scott

Guest Blogger with Bob Rehak

The Vocation To Lay Ecclesial Ministry, Edward Hahnenberg

Edward P Hahnenberg

No abstract provided.

Oscar Wilde's West, Jan Wellington

Jan Wellington

No abstract provided.

The Shock Of The Old, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

Joe Mackall's new book, "Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish," explores the role of religion in modern society by looking closely at the life of a small devout religious community in Ohio: the Swartzentruber Amish. The struggle of the Amish people to live with "the English" (the non-Amish), and of the English "outsider" (Mackall) to understand the Amish, is a unique story of culture crossing in rural white America.

Refuting The Net Risks Test: A Response To Wendler And Miller's "Assessing Research Risks Systematically", Charles Weijer, Paul Miller

Charles Weijer

Earlier in the pages of this journal (p 481), Wendler and Miller offered the "net risks test" as an alternative approach to the ethical analysis of benefits and harms in research. They have been vocal critics of the dominant view of benefit-harm analysis in research ethics, which encompasses core concepts of duty of care, clinical equipoise and component analysis. They had been challenged to come up with a viable alternative to component analysis which meets five criteria. The alternative must (1) protect research subjects; (2) allow clinical research to proceed; (3) explain how physicians may offer trial enrolment to their …

Doing Ethics In A Diverse World, Robert Traer, Harlan Stelmach

Harlan Stelmach

Unfettered Or Tempered Capitalism? How Best To Promote Virtuous Characters, Earl Spurgin

Earl W. Spurgin

The article reviews the book "The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce," by Deirdre N. McCloskey

Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, The Untold Story Of An American Legend (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend", by Scott Reynolds Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

“Just Trust The President?: Whose Job Is Moral Reasoning?", William Cavanaugh

William T. Cavanaugh

No abstract provided.

Gathered For The Journey: Moral Theology In Catholic Perspective, M. Lysaught, David Mccarthy

M. Therese Lysaught

Gathered for the Journey sets moral reasoning in a theological context of worship and discipleship (part 1), provides a framework for the moral life based on questions of human fulfillment (part 2), and demonstrates how these theological resources shape a distinctive approach to questions of globalization, Catholic social teaching, the family, war and peace, bioethics, and the environment (part 3). McCarthy and Lysaught have crafted a distinctively unified collection. Gathered for the Journey represents a common project among Catholic scholars who are struggling with similar questions about living faithfully.

Bishop: Source Or Center Of Ministerial Life?, Edward Hahnenberg

Edward P Hahnenberg

No abstract provided.