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Reclaiming the Body

Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine

By: Joel James Shuman,Brian Volck

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Reclaiming the Body

Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine

By: Joel James Shuman,Brian Volck

A doctor and a theologian explore the relationship between Christian faith and medicine, encouraging a more biblical view of health and health care by individuals and churches

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Brazos Press

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1587431270

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Attending Others

A Doctor’s Education in Bodies and Words

By: Brian Volck

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Attending Others

A Doctor’s Education in Bodies and Words

By: Brian Volck

Becoming a doctor requires years of formal education, but one learns the practice of medicine only through direct encounters with the fragile others called "patients." Pediatrician Brian Volck recounts his own education in the mysteries of suffering bodies, powerful words, and natural beauty. It's a curriculum where the best teachers are children and their mothers, the classrooms are Central American villages and desert landscapes, and the essential texts are stories, poems, and paintings. Through practices of focused attention, he grows from detached observer of his patients' lives into an uneasy witness and grateful companion. From the inner city to the Navajo Nation and from the Grand Canyon to the mountains of Honduras, Volck learns to listen to children unable to talk, to assist in healing when cure is impossible, and to love those whose life and experiences are radically different from his own. This is not a how-to book or a brief for reforming medical education. Attending Others is a highly personal account of what the author learned about medicine after he completed his formal education. The short answer, it turns out, is pretty much everything.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532604882

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Attending Others

A Doctor’s Education in Bodies and Words

By: Brian Volck

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A Doctor’s Education in Bodies and Words

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Charles W. Woodworth

The Remarkable Life of U.C.'s First Entomologist

By: Brian Holden

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Charles W. Woodworth

The Remarkable Life of U.C.'s First Entomologist

By: Brian Holden

Charles W. Woodworth was a central figure in entomology in the first three decades of the 20th century. He was the first to cultivate in a laboratory the famous model species Drosophila melanogaster and suggested to W. E. Castle that it could be useful for genetic research. He directed the world’s first successful city-scale salt-marsh mosquito control effort. C.W. was a key early figure in what is now known as Integrated Pest Management and helped California agriculture respond to many insect threats. He wrote California’s First Insecticide Law in 1906, got it passed in 1911, and administered until 1923. His supple and comprehensive mind produced significant accomplishments in seven diverse fields: entomology (insects), plant pathology, public policy, optical physics, optical engineering, machine calculation, and distillate chemistry. Within entomology, he published in anatomy, classification, systematics, theoretical economic entomology and applied economic entomology. His optics achievements include early contributions to the science of multi-element telescopes, the technique that is used today in the world’s largest telescopes. He attempted to build the world’s largest telescope in his back yard. He contributed to the ability to analyze distortion, curvature, axial aberration, coma and astigmatism. He also created forms of optical calculations for lens design specifically tailored for machine calculation. In 1936, he taught classes in optical triangulation at Bausch & Lomb, the leading maker of optical weapon sights for the U.S. Navy in WWII. He founded the Entomology departments at what are now the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Davis. He served as the Chief Entomologist at the California Spray Chemical Company, the enterprise that created the Ortho brand of pesticides. He was happily married and had four children who all lived full and successful lives. He designed his family home, which became a Berkeley architectural landmark. A colleague referred to him in a speech as “a very modest and tolerant man.” The University of California named him Emeritus Professor upon his retirement. His obituary was printed in Science and in the New York Times. Four species of insects were named after him. Of these four, a planthopper, Cixidia woodworthi, now named Epiptera woodworthi, retains “woodworthi” in its modern name. The Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America has given out their C.W. Woodworth Award for achievement in entomology in the Pacific slope region over the last ten years since 1969. This book is intended to be the definitive biography of Charles W. Woodworth.

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938

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Brian Holden Publishing

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0986410519

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Short-Term Mission

An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

By: Brian M. Howell

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Short-Term Mission

An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

By: Brian M. Howell

Brian Howell provides an anthropology of short-term mission (STM) among American Christians. Providing a history of STM along with an ethnographic case study of a trip to the Dominican Republic, Howell argues that the movement is sustained by a uniquely Christian travel narrative that borrows from the anthropology of tourism and pilgrimage.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830863400

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Singing the Ethos of God

On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture

By: Brian Brock

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Singing the Ethos of God

On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture

By: Brian Brock

Noting that academic biblical scholars and Christian ethicists have been methodologically estranged for some decades now, Brian Brock seeks to reframe the whole Bible-and-ethics discussion in terms of this question: What role does the Bible play in God's generation of a holy people -- and how do we participate in that regeneration? Brock first examines various major contemporary thinkers on the Bible and Christian ethics, including John Howard Yoder, Brevard Childs, John Webster, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He then undertakes major discussions of Augustine and Martin Luther, unpacking their interpretation of the Psalms. Finally, Brock articulates the processes of renewal in God's people. His close study of a few individual psalms shows how we enter the world of praise in which all human life is comprehended within God's work -- and is thus renewed. Immersion in the exegetical tradition of the Christian faith, Brock argues, must be the heart and soul of theology and ethics.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802803792

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9780802803795

The Korean Americans

By: Brian Lehrer

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The Korean Americans

By: Brian Lehrer

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Koreans; factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

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Facts On File

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0791033740

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Reclaiming the Body

Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine

By: Joel James Shuman,Brian Volck

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Reclaiming the Body

Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine

By: Joel James Shuman,Brian Volck

A doctor and a theologian explore the relationship between Christian faith and medicine, encouraging a more biblical view of health and health care by individuals and churches

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Reclaiming the Body

Reclaiming the Body

Attending Others

Attending Others

Attending Others

Attending Others

Charles W. Woodworth

Charles W. Woodworth

Short-Term Mission

Short-Term Mission

Singing the Ethos of God

Singing the Ethos of God

The Korean Americans

The Korean Americans

Reclaiming the Body

Reclaiming the Body

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