The lives of black women in North America, historically, converge with socioeconomic conditions, creating health disparities between black women and other demographic groups. These health disparities co-exist alongside narratives about black women that contribute to rendering the bodies, and subsequently the health, of black women invisible or nonessential. Many traditional approaches to preach...

The neurosciences and neurology seem fearsome adversaries to many medical students. They are rapidly changing disciplines, and seem unnaturally beholden to vocabulary, concepts, and techniques far removed from those associated with the study of other organ systems. It is in an area such as this that a book aimed at students making the transition between the classroom and the wards can be most u...

The neurosciences and neurology seem fearsome adversaries to many medical students. They are rapidly changing disciplines, and seem unnaturally beholden to vocabulary, concepts, and techniques far removed from those associated with the study of other organ systems. It is in an area such as this that a book aimed at students making the transition between the classroom and the wards can be most u...

In the Formula of Humanity, Kant embraces the principle that it is wrong for us to treat others merely as means. For contemporary Kantian ethicists, this Mere Means Principle plays the role of a moral constraint: it limits what we may do, even in the service of promoting the overall good. But substantive interpretations of the principle generate implausible results in relatively ordinary cases....

Any teenager or anyone involved with teenagers must find something of value in this excellent little book. Without patronising or preaching from any particular viewpoint, it describes the change from child into teenager, the problems this age brings with it and how to cope with the years that follow. The reader is constantly urged to think for himself, to discuss his problems and act accordingl...