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Measuring The Global Burden Of Disease - Philosophical Dimensions

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 The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is one of the largest-scale research collaborations in global health, distilling a wide range of health information to provide estimates and projections for more than 350 diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 195 countries. Its results are a critical tool informing researchers, policy-makers, and others working to promote health around the globe.A study like the GBD is, of course, extremely complex from an empirical perspective. But it also raises a large number of complex ethical and philosophical questions that have been explored in a series of collaborations over the past twenty years among epidemiologists, philosophers, economists, and policy scholars. The essays in this volume address issues of current and urgent concern to the GBD and other epidemiological studies, including rival understandings of causation, the aggregation of complex health data, temporal discounting, age-weighting, and the valuation of health states. The volume concludes with a set of chapters discussing how epidemiological data should and should not be used.Better appreciating the philosophical dimensions of a study like the GBD can make possible a more sophisticated interpretation of its results, and it can improve epidemiological studies in the future, so that they are better suited to produce results that can help us to improve global health.
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Saving People From The Harm Of Death

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 Death is something we mourn or fear as the worst thing that could happen--whether the deaths of close ones, the deaths of strangers in reported accidents or tragedies, or our own. And yet, being dead is something that no one can experience and live to describe. This simple truth raises a host of difficult philosophical questions about the negativity surrounding our sense of death, and how and for whom exactly it is harmful. The question of whether death is bad has occupied philosophers for centuries, and the debate emerging in philosophical literature is referred to as the "badness of death." Are deaths primarily negative for the survivors, or does death also affect the deceased? What are the differences between death in fetal life, just after birth, or in adolescence? In order to properly evaluate deaths in global health, we must find answers to these questions.In this volume, leading philosophers, medical doctors, and economists discuss different views on how to evaluate death and its relevance for health policy. This includes theories about the harm of death and its connections to population-level bioethics. For example, one of the standard views in global health is that newborn deaths are among the worst types of death, yet stillbirths are neglected. This raises difficult questions about why birth is so significant, and several of the book''s authors challenge this standard view. This is the first volume to connect philosophical discussions on the harm of death with discussions on population health, adjusting the ways in which death is evaluated. Changing these evaluations has consequences for how we prioritize different health programs that affect individuals at different ages, as well as how we understand inequality in health.
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Saving People From The Harm Of Death

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 Death is something we mourn or fear as the worst thing that could happen--whether the deaths of close ones, the deaths of strangers in reported accidents or tragedies, or our own. And yet, being dead is something that no one can experience and live to describe. This simple truth raises a host of difficult philosophical questions about the negativity surrounding our sense of death, and how and for whom exactly it is harmful. The question of whether death is bad has occupied philosophers for centuries, and the debate emerging in philosophical literature is referred to as the "badness of death." Are deaths primarily negative for the survivors, or does death also affect the deceased? What are the differences between death in fetal life, just after birth, or in adolescence? In order to properly evaluate deaths in global health, we must find answers to these questions.In this volume, leading philosophers, medical doctors, and economists discuss different views on how to evaluate death and its relevance for health policy. This includes theories about the harm of death and its connections to population-level bioethics. For example, one of the standard views in global health is that newborn deaths are among the worst types of death, yet stillbirths are neglected. This raises difficult questions about why birth is so significant, and several of the book''s authors challenge this standard view. This is the first volume to connect philosophical discussions on the harm of death with discussions on population health, adjusting the ways in which death is evaluated. Changing these evaluations has consequences for how we prioritize different health programs that affect individuals at different ages, as well as how we understand inequality in health.
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Mexican Exodus - Emigrants, Exiles, And Refugees Of The Cristero War

by Julia G. (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, The Catholic University Of America) Young

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 The book investigates the formation of the Cristero diaspora, a network of Mexican emigrants, exiles, and refugees across the United States who supported a Mexican Catholic uprising during the late 1920s. These emigrants had a profound and enduring impact on Mexican American community formation, political affiliations, and religious devotion.
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Radiant Emptiness - Three Seminal Works By The Golden Pandita Shakya Chokden

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 In Luminous Emptiness, Yaroslav Komarovski offers an annotated translation of three seminal works on the nature and relationship of Yogacara and Madhyamaka, by Serdok Penchen Shakya Chokden (1428-1507).
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Valuing Health - Well-Being, Freedom, And Suffering

by Daniel M. Hausman

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 Valuing Health provides a philosophically sophisticated overview of generic health measurement systems, which clarifies their value commitments and criticizes their dependence on preference surveys to assign values to health states.
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Valuing Health - Well-Being, Freedom, And Suffering

by Daniel M. Hausman

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 Valuing Health provides a philosophically sophisticated overview of generic health measurement systems, which clarifies their value commitments and criticizes their dependence on preference surveys to assign values to health states.
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Identified Versus Statistical Lives - An Interdisciplinary Perspective

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 Human beings show a greater inclination to assist persons identified as being at high risk of great harm than to assist persons who will suffer similar harm but are not identified as yet. Does this effect constitute a virtue, or a vice? What explains the effect? What are the implications for policy?
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Identified Versus Statistical Lives - An Interdisciplinary Perspective

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 Human beings show a greater inclination to assist persons identified as being at high risk of great harm than to assist persons who will suffer similar harm but are not identified as yet. Does this effect constitute a virtue, or a vice? What explains the effect? What are the implications for policy?
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Inequalities In Health - Concepts, Measures, And Ethics

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 Which inequalities in longevity and health among individuals, groups, and nations are unfair? And what priority should health policy attach to narrowing them? These essays by philosophers, economists, epidemiologists, and physicians attempt to determine how health inequalities should be conceptualized, measured, ranked, and evaluated.
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Risk, Death, And Well-Being - The Ethical Foundations Of Fatality Risk Regulation

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America Through Foreign Eyes

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The Piano Proficiency Exam Review Book

by Lucy (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, West Virginia University) Mauro e Scott (Provost, Provost, Shepherd University) Beard

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 In this review book, authors and Peabody Institute alumni Lucy Mauro and Scott Beard provide an invaluable cache of tips, exercises, and practice exams to help college music students prepare for the Piano Proficiency Exam and find pleasure in the process.
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Edwards The Mentor

by Rhys S. (Lecturer In Church History, Lecturer In Church History, Ridley College) Bezzant

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 Among his many accomplishments, Jonathan Edwards was an effective mentor who trained many leaders for the church in colonial America, but his pastoral work is often overlooked. Rhys S. Bezzant investigates the background, method, theological rationale, and legacy of his mentoring ministry.
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The Moving Eye - Film, Television, Architecture, Visual Art And The Modern

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 Scholar Anne Friedberg compellingly theorized vision in motion. The Moving Eye: Film, Television, Architecture, and the Modern gathers together essays by renowned thinkers in media studies, art history, and architecture to consider the implications of her work for understanding film and video, new media, visual art, architecture, and urbanism.
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Migration For Mission - International Catholic Sisters In The United States

by Thu T., L.H.C Do

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 Catholic sisters from many countries around the world come to the United States to minister and to study. The sociologist authors of this book combined forces to document and understand this phenomenon. Together they located more than 4,000 "international sisters" who are in the United States for formation, studies, or ministry, from 83 countries spread over six continents. This book examines the experience of these sisters in depth and offers valuable suggestionsfor religious institutes, Catholic dioceses and parishes, and others who benefit from their contributions. More broadly, institutions.
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Manipulated Agents - A Window To Moral Responsibility

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 In Manipulated Agents, Alfred R. Mele examines the role one's history plays in whether or not one is morally responsible for one's actions. Mele develops a "history-sensitive" theory of moral responsibility through reflection on a wide range of thought experiments which feature agents who have been manipulated or designed in ways that directly affect their actions.
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Living Religion - Embodiment, Theology, And The Possibility Of A Spiritual Sense

by James W. Jones

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 In Living Religion James W. Jones offers a new approach to understanding religion, bringing the long-standing tradition of a spiritual sense up to date by linking it to contemporary neuroscientific theories that support the argument of this book that reason is on the side of those who choose a religiously lived life.
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China And The True Jesus - Charisma And Organization In A Chinese Christian Church

by Melissa Wei-Tsing (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University Of Auckland) Inouye

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 The True Jesus Church was China's first major native Christian denomination and one of the earliest expressions of the charismatic and Pentecostal tradition that now dominates Chinese Christianity. Founded in 1917, after a silk merchant had a vision of Jesus, the Church was characterized by dramatic healings, exorcisms, tongues-speaking, and a call for a return to authentic Christianity that challenged the Western missionary establishment in China. In this history ofthe True Jesus Church, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye links together key themes from modern Chinese social history to tell the story of how members of the True Jesus Church in China over the past century have sought to muster divine and human resources to transform their world.
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Saving People From The Harm Of Death

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Popular Contention, Regime, And Transition - Arab Revolts In Comparative Global Perspective

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 Through a diverse array of case studies from countries around the world, Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition places the Arab Spring uprisings in comparative perspective, demonstrating the similarities and parallels between contentious events in democratic and authoritarian-like regimes.
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The Practical Playbook - Public Health And Primary Care Together

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 For the first time, The Practical Playbook offers professionals in primary care and public health a roadmap to integrating their work with the larger goals of population health. Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of public health and primary care professionals from across the US, The Practical Playbook is the new benchmark for primary care and public health practitioners working to improve population health.
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Globalizing Transitional Justice

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Literary Territories - Cartographical Thinking In Late Antiquity

by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

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 Literary Territories argues that the literature of Late Antiquity shared a defining aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical "inhabited world," the oikoumene, as a literary metaphor for the collection and organization of knowledge.
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