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The Virtuous Physician

A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19

By: Elliott Martin

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The Virtuous Physician

A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19

By: Elliott Martin

The Virtuous Physician: A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19 traces the origin and development of practical moral inquiry as viewed through a lens of medical history. The cornerstone of the book is a translation of, and commentary on, the second century BC pseudo-Hippocratic Greek text, Precepts, a work not translated into English since 1921, which introduces the idea of the ‘virtuous physician’, and the ‘art’ of medicine. Preceptsdescribes the ideal way of being of the physician, and a pragmatic, very modern code of ethics. Through the examination of other early texts the book locates the physician as a seminal figure in ancient society, first with religious significance, and later with increasingly philosophico-intellectual meaning, the physical embodiment of the search for moral-pragmatic professional standardization. This inquiry is put to the test as applied to the existential threat and crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new, updated translation of Precepts makes the book interesting to classicists; and the detailed discussion of the cross-cultural influences between East and West in the Ancient World, especially of the influence of the Ancient Near East on Greek and Roman thought, to historians. It provides an outline of the history of the field for bioethicists and biomedical ethicists, and a seminal reference piece for physicians, from which to ground their own daily decision-making. It can be seen as a more valuable guide than the Hippocratic Oath, in this regard.

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Ethics International Press

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Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Digital Age

Ghosts in the Machine

By: Elliott B. Martin, Jr.

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Ghosts in the Machine

By: Elliott B. Martin, Jr.

The Digital Age has changed everything. Mental illness is nothing like what it was even twenty years ago. Since the advent of the Internet, suicide rates have soared. Depression has become the single most debilitating disease in the world. The majority of people who go to their doctor, to an emergency department, and to urgent care have no discernible physical disease. Roughly half of all adults in Western countries struggle with at least one addiction. We now live in a 24/7 miasma of media bombardment, of neuro-saturation, and of mental exhaustion. Technology has obliterated the human mind’s ability to keep up, and in this brave new world it is time for an honest and forthright reassessment of both mental illness and mental wellness. This book elegantly describes how we got to this point, the culmination of different historical perspectives on mental illness, and the evolution of the digital disorders of our time. It offers a reconsideration of normal versus pathological, and the possibility and desirability of achieving mental wellness in a digital environment.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age

Souls in the Machine

By: Elliott B. Martin, Jr.

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Souls in the Machine

By: Elliott B. Martin, Jr.

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age: Souls in the Machine reframes the pop-culture milieu of the current state of mental illness and mental wellness in the post-COVID era. The profound psychological trauma left in the wake of the neuro-exhaustion engendered by this explosive epoch has created the perfect atmosphere, cybersphere, for another historical ‘Great Awakening’. Previously, infectious ideas infrequently led to moral and psychological upheaval. However, with mass, social, and popular media now comprising the psychosocial milieu from which emerge today’s social contagions the speed, ease, and facility with which ideas infect and commandeer the cybersphere is so profound as to be mentally devastating. Techno-psychopathologies have hyper-evolved. In an age of overwhelming distraction and irresistible technology, the one certainty amid the chaos is that the current standard of conceptualizing mental illness, through checklist diagnostics, has been outdated since the digital era began. The human mind is now fundamentally different.

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The Virtuous Physician

A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19

By: Elliott Martin

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A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19

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The Illustrated History of Golf

By: Alan Elliott,John Allan May

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The Illustrated History of Golf

By: Alan Elliott,John Allan May

This handsome book tells the complete story of golf--from its medieval originsand its development on coastal Scotland to the present billion-dollar pro tours of America, Europe, and the Far East. Descriptions of the major championships and facts about all the great stars (women and men) round out this spectacular volume. 58 full-color illustrations, 325 in black-and-white. (W.H. Smith)

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083174877X

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Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Digital Age

Ghosts in the Machine

By: Elliott B. Martin, Jr.

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Souls in the Machine

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The Virtuous Physician

The Virtuous Physician

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Digital Age

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Digital Age

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age

The Virtuous Physician

The Virtuous Physician

The Illustrated History of Golf

The Illustrated History of Golf

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Digital Age

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Digital Age

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age

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