This book probes the ethical structure of contemporary medicine in an argument accessible to lay readers, healthcare professionals, and ethicists alike.

Throughout the ages philosophers have examined their own lives in an attempt both to find some meaning and to explain the roots of their philosophical perspectives. This volume is an introduction to philosophical autobiography, a rich but hitherto ignored literary genre that questions the self, its social context, and existence in general. The author analyzes representative narratives from antiquity to postmodernity, focusing in particular on three case studies: the autobiographies of St. Augustine, Rousseau, and Sartre. Through the study of these exemplary texts, philosophical reflection on the self emerges as a valid alternative to Freudian psychoanalysis and as a way of promoting self-renewal and change.

Pedro Nosa Halili was the one they called the medicine man. But he was more than that; he was a man with principles, pride, morals, and dignity. He was a giver; he gave to the needy who would knock on his door asking for a helping hand. In The Cry of the Dying Medicine Man, author Antonio Marquez Halili offers a biography of his father, a man who stood tall for his principles and for what he knew was right. Halili recaps his fathers life from birth in 1904 in the Philippines, a life that was full of mysteries, including how he even survived after his birth. From his formative years through university, his work as a physician, his involvement with a guerilla group in World War II, his family, and his eventual death, The Cry of the Dying Medicine Man narrates a story of successes and contributions to humankind. With photos included, this biography shares the details of the life of a medicine man who confronted every hindrance and faced it as a man of dignity.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII For the nonce I will take leave of those tangled and difficult problems, which I am at a loss to solve, and in the face of which I must confess utter helplessness. I will now occupy myself with a question to which but one answer is possible, and that a perfectly straight one. It deals with gross and entirely conscious disregard for that consideration which is due to the human being. I approach the subject with regret, but it is impossible to pass it by. "A certain Dr Koch," we read in the Russian medical paper, Physician, "has published a pamphlet, entitled, ' Aerztliche Versuche an labenden Menschen' (' Medical Experiments on Living Man '), than which nothing were better calculated to further undermine the respect for, and confidence of the laity in, our profession. The author essays to prove that 'vivisection has long crossed the thresholds of our hospitals'--in other words, that experiments similar to those conducted upon the lower animals in the laboratory, are practised on living man in our infirmaries. As might have been expected, Koch's book was immediately seized upon by different feuilleton writers and newspapers chroniclers. It were highly desirable that our German colleagues should not leave a single one of Dr Koch's 'facts' without searching inquiry and explanation, as it is only possible by this means to nullify the effect of his book." (See The Physician, 1893, P-906.) 103 I have not read the above-mentioned pamphlet, and do not know how far the " facts" mentioned by Dr Koch merit the ironical inverted commas which the editor of the Physician had seen fit to place them in. But unfortunately there is much substantial truth even in the title of Dr Koch's booklet alone. In proof of the above it would be easy enough...

As they explore the power of healing rhetoricin these activities, the authors strengthen the ties among the various healing profession.