Georgetown University Press: 313 books
The Troubled Dream of Life
In Search of a Peaceful Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2000
Drawing on his own experience, and on literature, philosophy, and medicine, Daniel Callahan offers great insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death. He examines how we view death and the care of the critically ill or dying, and he suggests ways...
Morality and the Human Goods
An Introduction to Natural Law Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
A concise and accessible introduction to natural law ethics, this book introduces readers to the mainstream tradition of Western moral philosophy. Building on philosophers from Plato through Aquinas to John Finnis, Alfonso Gómez-Lobo links morality to the protection of basic human goods — life, family,...
Ethics of Health Care
An Introductory Textbook, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2002
In the wake of the successful cloning of animals and the promises—or fears—of stem cell research, new discoveries in science and medicine need more than ever to be accompanied by careful moral reflection. Contending that concern over the ethical dimensions of these and other like issues are no longer...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The specific—and varied—ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for improvement, accountability, or curricular development...
Disabled Rights
American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
"Freedom and Justice for all" is a phrase that can have a hollow ring for many members of the disability community in the United States. Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer gives us a comprehensive introduction to and overview of U.S. disability policy in all facets of society, including education, the workplace,...
Modern Catholic Social Teaching
Commentaries and Interpretations, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Including contributions from twenty-two leading moral theologians, this volume is the most thorough assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teaching available. In addition to interrogations of the major documents, it provides insight into the biblical and philosophical foundations of Catholic social...
Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons
A Comprehensive Approach for International Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
More than ever, international security and economic prosperity depend upon safe access to the shared domains that make up the global commons: maritime, air, space, and cyberspace. Together these domains serve as essential conduits through which international commerce, communication, and governance prosper....
Kinship Across Borders
A Christian Ethic of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The failure of current immigration policies in the United States has resulted in dire consequences: a significant increase in border deaths, a proliferation of smuggling networks, prolonged family separation, inhumane raids, a patchwork of local ordinances criminalizing activities of immigrants and those...
by Bernard V. Brady
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2003
Bernard Brady has given us a rare, delightful, and thought-provoking book—a volume that belongs on the desk or the bed-stand of anyone in search of the rich and varied dimensions of Christian love. Christians are taught that God is love and are commanded to love, their neighbors and their enemies....
A Culture of Engagement
Law, Religion, and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by ongoing tension between assimilation to the broader culture, as typified by mainline Protestant churches, and defiant rejection of cultural incursions, as witnessed by more sectarian movements such as Mormonism and Hassidism. However, legal...
Testing the National Covenant
Fears and Appetites in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the country’s market economy into the ditch. How can...
Hope for Common Ground
Mediating the Personal and the Political in a Divided Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Much like the rest of the country, American Catholics are politically divided, perhaps more so now than at any point in their history. In this learned but accessible work for scholars, students, and religious and lay readers, ethicist Julie Hanlon Rubio suggests that there is a way beyond red versus...
Communicating the Word
Revelation, Translation, and Interpretation in Christianity and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Communicating the Word is a record of the 2008 Building Bridges seminar, an annual dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Featuring the insights of internationally known Christian and Muslim scholars, the essays collected here focus attention...
Salafism in Lebanon
From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Salafism, comprised of fundamentalist Islamic movements whose adherents consider themselves the only “saved” sect of Islam, has been little studied, remains shrouded in misconceptions, and has provoked new interest as Salafists have recently staked a claim to power in some Arab states while spearheading...