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In this book, Carl Elliott draws on philosophy and psychiatry to develop a conceptual framework for judging the moral responsibility of mentally ill offenders.
Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and novelists such as
Walker Percy, Paul Auster and Graham Greene, "A Philosophical
Disease" brings to the bioethical discussion larger philosophical
questions about the sense and significance of human life.
This deeply moving story chronicles the tenacity and vision that carried Carl Elliott from the hills of northwest Alabama to eight distinguished terms in the United States House of Representatives. Born in a log cabin on a tenant farm in 1913, Carl Elliott worked his way through The University of Alabama during the Great Depression and was elected to Congress in 1948. With a no-nonsense philosophy of fairness and equal opportunity, he established himself as one of the most effective members of the House of Representatives during the 1950s. He was a progressive Democrat and he fought hard for the dirt farmers and coal miners he grew up with and who sent him to Congress. In an era when racial segregationists dominated southern politics, Elliott worked with many of the important political leaders of the 20th century, including Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy and powerful House Speaker Sam Rayburn. He was instrumental in passing the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which continues to provide college loans to more than 20 million Americans. But his brave stand against racism and George Wallace in the 1966 Alabama gubernatorial race ruined him professionally (he never returned to elected office) and financially (he cashed in his congressional pension to help fund the campaign). Even as a destitute invalid in his old age, however, Elliott kept his dignity and integrity intact. The life story of Carl Elliott is full of humor and wry wisdom and explains how he made his way across a stage as big as America, influencing its politics and future, and then emerged, belatedly, as an unsung hero of the fight for civil rights and equality.
Yellow Mill River is a 40 year saga about the rise and fall of an African-American Crime Family headed by a man named, Maurice "Mo" Lomax. At the age of 15, young Mo is forced to leave Alabama and move to the Yellow Mill Village Projects in the Industrial City of Bridgeport, Connecticut. As a youngster, Mo meets and befriends a young "Bootlegger" by the name of Guy Lee. Together, the two young men get involved with and soon work for the Italian Mafia. Once Mo is given carte blanche treatment for killing a rival mobster, he soon starts his own "Crew." As the years pass, Yellow Mill Village is renamed, "Father Panik Village" and not only do Mo and Guy get their friends involved, they also bring in numerous relatives including their offspring who help launch the family into the drug business. This Novel is a fictional account of how Drugs and violence have lined the pockets of it's hustlers as well as brought tragedy to many of America's families.
"Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers" uses insights from the philosophy
of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein
produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that,
in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The
scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled in this volume pay
particular attention to Wittgenstein's concern with the thick
context of moral problems, his suspicion of theory, and his belief
in description as the real aim of philosophy. Their aim is not to
examine Wittgenstein's personal moral convictions but rather to
explore how a deep engagement with his work can illuminate some of
the problems that medicine and biological science present. "Contributors." Larry Churchill, David DeGrazia, Cora Diamond, James Edwards, Carl Elliott, Grant Gillett, Paul Johnston, Margaret Olivia Little, James Lindemann Nelson, Knut Erik Tranoy
Americans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of "enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an occasional congressional hearing, and calls for self-reliance. In a brilliant diagnosis of our reactions to self-improvement technologies, Carl Elliott asks questions that illuminate deep currents in the American character: Why do we feel uneasy about these drugs, procedures, and therapies even while we embrace them? Where do we draw the line between self and society? Why do we seek self-realization in ways so heavily influenced by cultural conformity?
Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor
and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he
contracted tuberculosis during his internship as a pathologist at
Bellevue Hospital and spent the next three years recovering,
primarily in TB sanitoriums. This collection of essays explores not
only Percy's connections to medicine but also the underappreciated
impact his art has had--and can have--on medicine itself. Contributors." Robert Coles, Brock Eide, Carl Elliott, John D.
Lantos, Ross McElwee, Richard Martinez, Martha Montello, David
Schiedermayer, Jay Tolson, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Laurie
Zoloth-Dorfman
In the tradition of The Culture of Narcissism and Listening to Prozac, a resonant exploration of the paradoxes of self-improvement.
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