Socrates facing death in the apology

Facing Death

Public discussion and debate concerning legal, ethical, philosophical, and emotional aspects of death and dying have slowly gained prominence over the past decade. However, parallel discussions among physicians regarding their perspectives toward their dying patients have remained more subdued and less visible, repressed within a culture of hi-tech medical care that often perceives patient deat...

the reading of socrates works according to the tragedy of aeschylus (review on apology)

the current study aims to examine the relationship of socrates with classic tragedy and assess these two cases. the rise of poetic tragedy in the form of dramas of “aeschylus” was accompanied with periods of enhancement of socrates. socrates got familiar with the dramas of aeschylus in his youth in athen. being inspired by the religious content of tragedy based on fate, justice and righteousnes...

The Value of Life When Facing Death

This paper reports estimates of the value of statistical lives using the labor market behavior of wave 2 of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). By exploiting the panel structure of the HRS, it is possible to provide the first test of the Pratt-Zeckhauser "dead anyway" hypothesis and to measure the importance of health status and quality of life for value of statistical life (VSL) estimates....

The Apology

This is the second issue featuring a selected piece from the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program's Writers' Workshop. The annual workshop began in 2003. Abraham Verghese and Richard Selzer, among the best known physician-writers in the United States, have served as workshop leaders, teaching the craft of writing to more than 35 residents. In designing the workshop, Anna B. Reisman, assista...

Apology