hardcover, by David Gratzer —
We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater.
Why is[...]
paperback, by Wesley J. Smith — The drama over whether or not to starve Terri Schiavo to death by removing her feeding tube transfixed America and rekindled the debate over the “right to die.” One of its most eloquent participants in this debate was bioethicist Wesley J. Smith. In Forced Exit, Smith contests the claim of euthanasia advocates that assisted suicide would be restricted to a “last resort” for[...]
paperback, by Steven Rhoads — Most discussions of sexuality today assume that differences between men and women are insubstantial, and that the boundary between the masculine and the feminine is highly porous. To reflect the idea that male and female roles have been “socially constructed,” they speak of gender instead of sex, and ridicule the double standard of “studs” and “sluts.” Because men and women are[...]
