Addiction is a significant health and social problem and one of the largest preventable causes of disease globally. Neuroscience promises to revolutionise our ability to treat addiction, lead to recognition of addiction as a 'real' disorder in need of medical treatment and thereby reduce stigma and discrimination. However, neuroscience raises numerous social and ethical challenges: • If addicted individuals are suffering from a brain disease that drives them to drug use, should we mandate treatment? • Does addiction impair an individual's ability to consent to research or treatment? • How will neuroscience affect social policies towards drug use? Addiction Neuroethics addresses these challenges by examining ethical implications of emerging neurobiological treatments, including: novel psychopharmacology, neurosurgery, drug vaccines to prevent relapse, and genetic screening to identify individuals who are vulnerable to addiction. Essential reading for academics, clinicians, researchers and policy-makers in the fields of addiction, mental health and public policy.
As in all specialties, learning in radiology is a life long process but for radiologists in training there is a vast amount of information to assimilate. In this book the authors have compiled 191 cases to help the reader with the practical aspects of image recognition and differential diagnosis.The selection of cases is broad enough to provide an
Do you believe that God can change things? Do you believe that God can use you to change things? The world as we know it is filled with social, political, and economic disaster. This is because people far too often refuse to operate by God’s divine standards and disobey Him. Yet, despite the calamities we face in the world today we can nevertheless be hopeful knowing that God does indeed have a plan. By answering the call of God, you will experience the joy of building a relationship with Him. As you grow in maturity you will also encounter the bliss of guiding others back into fellowship with Him. Every journey starts with just one step of faith. Anointed for Justice is based on the biblical book of Judges. It brightly illuminates the relevancy of scripture and offers powerful insight to the truth of God’s word.
Volume II of Vernon Press’s series on the Philosophy of Forgiveness offers several challenging and provocative chapters that seek to push the conversation in new directions and dimensions. Volume I, Explorations of Forgiveness: Personal, Relational, and Religious, began the task of creating a consistent multi-dimensional account of forgiveness, and Volume II’s New Dimensions of Forgiveness continues this goal by presenting a set of chapters that delve into several deep conceptual and metaphysical features of forgiveness. New Dimensions of Forgiveness creates a theoretical framework for understanding the many nuanced features of forgiveness, namely, third-party forgiveness, forgiveness as an aesthetic process, the role of resentment in warranting forgiveness, the moral status of self-forgiveness, epistemic trust, forgiveness’s influence on the moral status of persons, forgiveness in time, the status of Substance and Subject within a Hegelian framework, Jacques Derrida’s “impossible” forgiveness, and the use of imaginative “magic” to become a maximal forgiver. Readers will be challenged to question and come to terms with many oft-overlooked, yet important philosophical dimensions of forgiveness.
For a child in the midst of abuse--emotional, physical, or sexual--his or her world has often come to a halt. As the child tries to deal with the abuse, his or her behavior could include shutting down, acting out, or anything in between. The secret of abuse becomes woven into the child's heart and mind. The child may be shamed into believing that the abuse is his or her fault. Sometimes threats of more harm, including the child's death or the death of a loved one, are used to manipulate the child into keeping the secret in the dark. Both Shelby's Secret and A Guide to Using Shelby's Secret are intended to help children stop the lies they have come to believe about the abuse and encourage them to share their secret. In addition, both books are designed to help adults who work with abused children feel confident in addressing the issue of abuse in a safe and non-threatening manner regardless of their experience with abuse. While Shelby's Secret is designed to be read with the child, A Guide to Using Shelby's Secret helps faciliate dialogue between the adult and the child. Shelby can be a great tool to encourage children who live in the shadows of abuse step into the light and share their secret.--Website description.
With its roots set somewhere inside Milton's "Paradise Lost," this novel turns the traditional biblical stories on their heads. Both fantastical and utterly real, this book defies genre and should be read by those who wish to explore the depths of the human mind through the lens of myth.
The present work aims at taking an in-depth look at domestic life in the Latin East through an examination of the various types of domestic buildings that were to be found in the towns and villages of the Crusader states.
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