Author: Drew A. Hyland
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: continental, thought, studies, beauty, question, plato
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2008-07
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0253351383
ISBN-13: 9780253351388

Drew A. Hyland, one of continental philosophy’s keenest interpreters of Plato, takes up the question of beauty in three Platonic dialogues, the "Hippias Major", "Symposium", and "Phaedrus". What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, and Hyland’s close readings show that Plato ultimately gives up on the possibility of a definition. Plato’s failure, however, tells us something important about beauty - that it cannot be reduced to logos. Exploring questions surrounding love, memory, and ideal form, Hyland draws out the connections between beauty, the possibility of

Author: Jennifer A. Parks
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: home, ethics, medical, care, health, place, feminist
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 2003-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0253341922
ISBN-13: 9780253341921

In this provocative new book, Jennifer A. Parks analyzes practices in the home health care industry and concludes that they are highly exploitative of both workers and patients. Under the existing system, underpaid workers are expected to perform tasks for which they are inadequately trained, in unreasonably short periods of time. This situation, Parks argues, harms workers and puts home health care patients at risk. To the extent that the majority of patients and workers in home health care are women, she turns to feminist ethics for an alternative approach. Through an understanding of indivi

Authors:Randall Tobias, Todd Tobias,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: journey, business, life, ceo’s, leadership, table, lessons, moose
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-03-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0253342392
ISBN-13: 9780253342393

Like a moose in the living room some problems are just plain hard to ignore. Try as we might to keep them out of sight, they have a way of hanging around, demanding to be addressed. The best thing to do is confront them and look for a solution. Those who fail to do so usually come to regret that they didn’t put the moose on the table. PUT THE MOOSE ON THE TABLE is an effort to capture the lessons learned by one man over the course of a life and a career in the corporate world. It’s about his experiences and the lessons in leadership he learned during a time of unprecedented chan

Author: Cynthia B. Cohen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: donation, medical, ethics, egg, case, ways, making, babies, new
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1996-09-01
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0253330580
ISBN-13: 9780253330581

"... extremely valuable. [This book] addresses exactly the right questions in a balanced, nuanced way." -- Journal of the American Medical Association"Cohen’s book is a major contribution to the literature of the inevitable." -- Medical Humanities Review"This book provides readers with an insightful overview of the practice of oocyte donation, the broader issues raised by this innovative yet problematic technology and, given the recommendations of NABER, how these issues mights be resolved.... Well written, structured, researched, and thought-provoking, this book makes a timely, importan

Author: Ruth Colker
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: pro, american, law, life, choice, dialogue, abortion
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1992-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 025320738X
ISBN-13: 9780253207388

’The issues she takes on are crucial, not solely the subject areas of reproductive rights and law, or public policy lenses and judicial impact in women’s and children’s lives, but also the more difficult and fundamental questions of how these ’hot topics’ can be approached so as to make the most of the good will of all and the force of free discussion for social learning...she brings a strong, evolving and distinctive perspective to the discussion’ - Emily Fowler Hartigan.In "Abortion and Dialogue", Ruth Colker argues that when the state intervenes in decisi

Author: Bill Nichols
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: contemporary, culture, meaning, questions, boundaries, blurred
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1995-01-22
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0253209005
ISBN-13: 9780253209009

Authors:Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, Thomas G. Weiss,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: history, project, series, intellectual, nations, changed, world, united, ideas
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0253221188
ISBN-13: 9780253221186

Ideas and concepts have been a driving force in human progress, and they may be the most important legacy of the United Nations. UN ideas have set past, present, and future international agendas in many global economic and social arenas and have also led to initiatives and actions that have improved the quality of human life. This capstone volume draws upon findings of the other 14 books in the acclaimed United Nations Intellectual History Project Series. The authors not only assess the develo