Through a potent mix of authoritarianism, heterosexism, xenophobia, and ethnoracial nationalism, powerful illiberal Christian movements have upended liberal democracies in countries that were once seen as paradigms of secular governance. Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey offers new insight into the foundations of these movements, demonstrating how they emerge from the contradictions at the intersection of secularism and democracy. No Separation examines recent conflicts that link national identity, religion, and sexuality: debates over Muslim veiling practices in Germany, same-sex marriage in France, and migration and abortion in the United States. In each case, illiberal Christianities portray popular sovereignty as threatened at the same time as they display an obsessive concern with the politics of sex and reproduction. Underlying these conflicts, No Separation shows, is the fundamental tension of democracy—who belongs to “the People.” Viefhues-Bailey argues that when secularism and democracy meet, cultural religions appear, seeking control over women’s bodies, national borders, and the racialized reproduction of the People in defense of the ideal of popular sovereignty. Connecting political theology, political philosophy, and the sociology of religion with gender and sexuality studies, No Separation is a deeply original analysis of the crisis of democracy and the limitations of secularism. It also suggests alternative ways of imagining the People, proposing a more humane vision of borders, sexualities, and social bonds.

Through a potent mix of authoritarianism, heterosexism, xenophobia, and ethnoracial nationalism, powerful illiberal Christian movements have upended liberal democracies in countries that were once seen as paradigms of secular governance. Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey offers new insight into the foundations of these movements, demonstrating how they emerge from the contradictions at the intersection of secularism and democracy. No Separation examines recent conflicts that link national identity, religion, and sexuality: debates over Muslim veiling practices in Germany, same-sex marriage in France, and migration and abortion in the United States. In each case, illiberal Christianities portray popular sovereignty as threatened at the same time as they display an obsessive concern with the politics of sex and reproduction. Underlying these conflicts, No Separation shows, is the fundamental tension of democracy—who belongs to “the People.” Viefhues-Bailey argues that when secularism and democracy meet, cultural religions appear, seeking control over women’s bodies, national borders, and the racialized reproduction of the People in defense of the ideal of popular sovereignty. Connecting political theology, political philosophy, and the sociology of religion with gender and sexuality studies, No Separation is a deeply original analysis of the crisis of democracy and the limitations of secularism. It also suggests alternative ways of imagining the People, proposing a more humane vision of borders, sexualities, and social bonds.

Based on a detailed analysis of gender in Stanley Cavell's treatment of the skeptical problem, this book addresses the relationship between gender and religion in modern skepticism. Engaging in dialogue with Julia Kristeva's philosophy, Viefhues claims that a religious problem underlies Cavell's understanding of the feminine. The feminine which the skeptic fears is construed as a placeholder for the beyond, marking the transcendence of our origins which are elusive yet at the same time part of ourselves. It is argued that a religious question of origins thus lies at the heart of the modern skeptical problem.

Since the historieal conference held in Alma Ata in 1978, it has been possible to observe a reorientation of the medical profession. More and more, issues of health enter the stage and curative medicine is not just loosing ground but some interest. 'How effective is health education?' and 'Whose task is primary pre vention?' are questions which stimulate great concern and public debate. It seems also to be the first time since the last decades of the 19th century that the social dimension of health receives adequate consideration. Thus the reeent publication of the so-called Black Report on Inequalities in Health (Penguin 1982) led to a heated discussion in Great Britain, certainly of relevance to many other countries. The 6 years since 1978 are much too short a time to proceed far towards 'Health for All', as the slogan of the World Health Organization puts it, but the concepts are spelled out, vaguely but convincing to many of us. It is the right time to discuss first experiences and to move from philosophy to empiri eal work. This work - as it relates to the process evolving since Alma Ata - is characterized by participation, cooperation and prevention: Participation, because 'disease' concerns only the individual patient, his or her family and immediate social environment, while 'health' concerns everyone and should involve everyone. It is a task of the whole of society rather than the domaine of a single profession or party."

Die im Sommer 1982 im gleichen Verlag und von dem fast gleichen Autoren-und Herausge- berkreis erschienene "Arztliche Begutachtung" wurde von den Lesern und Benutzern uber- aus freundlich aufgenommen. Es wurde dem Herausgeber aber auch vielfach der Wunsch vorgetragen, diese "Arztliche Begutachtung" durch eine beispielhafte Gutachtensammlung zu erganzen. Dieses Anliegen solI das vorliegende Buch "Das arztliche Gutachten" erflillen. Dieses Buch ist eine Sammlung typischer Gutachten aus der Begutachtungsarbeit nahezu al- ler arztlicher Fachgebiete. Die Gutachtenbeispiele betreffen also uberwiegend haufige gut- achtliche Fragestellungen und dabei ausschlieBlich solche, die - gestfitzt auf medizinisches Wissen und Rechtskenntnisse des Gutachters - durch argumentative Begrundungen Zusam- menhange zu beantworten bzw. mit der gebotenen rechtlichen Wahrscheinlichkeit zu klaren haben. In geringerer Zahl enthalt das Buch auch Gutachten zu ungewohnlichen oder selte- nen, medizinisch und/oder versicherungsrechtlich aber besonders interessanten Problemen. Unberucksichtigt blieben die relativ unproblematischen, sich auf Befundbeschreibung und Befundbeurteilung beschrankenden Formulargutachten zum Beispiel in der Rentenversiche- rung, in der Versorgung nach dem Schwerbehindertengesetz und im D-Arzt-Verfahren. For- mular-Rentengutachten im berufsgenossenschaftlichen Unfallversicherungsrecht wurden als Beispiele HNO-arztlicher und augenarztlicher Gutachten mit einbezogen. Da im unfallchir- urgischen Bereich bzw. in der gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung die funktionellen Auswir- kungen und Folgen und damit Zusammenhangsfragen zur Diskussion stehen, erfordern sol- che Gutachten nahezu immer das Zusammenwirken mit dem Internisten oder Neurologen oder mit Gutachtern aus anderen Fachbereichen.

Moderne und leistungsfahige Technik erfordert moderne und leistungsfahige Formen der ethischen Analyse und Bewertung von Technikentwicklung und -anwendung. Dieses Buch stellt Methoden der Guterabwagung in klinischer Forschung, Differentialdiagnostik, Ethik, Theologie, Philosophie und Rechtswissenschaften vor. Die differential-ethische Guterabwagung und die Methoden ethischer Kosten-Nutzen-Risikobewertung haben uber Aie biomedizinische Forschung und humanmedizinische Versorgung hinaus grosse Bedeutung fur ein moralisches Verantwortungsbewusstsein auf allen Gebieten der modernen Technologie. Das Buch wendet sich an Kliniker und Forscher, Philosophen und Theologen, Manager, Politiker und alle, die ethische Risiken in komplexen Entscheidungssituationen abzuwagen haben.

Through a probing investigation of conservative Christianity and its response to an issue that, according to the statistics of conservative Christian groups, affects only a small number of Americans, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey alights on a profound theological conundrum: in today's conservative Christian movement, both sexes are called upon to be at once assertive and submissive, masculine and feminine, not only within the home but also within the church, society, and the state. Therefore the arguments of conservative Christians against same-sex marriage involve more than literal readings of the Bible or nostalgia for simple gender roles.

Focusing primarily on texts produced by Focus on the Family, a leading media and ministry organization informing conservative Christian culture, Viefhues-Bailey identifies two distinct ideas of male homosexuality: gender-disturbed and passive; and oversexed, strongly masculine, and aggressive. These homosexualities enable a complex ideal of Christian masculinity in which men are encouraged to be assertive toward the world while also being submissive toward God and family. This web of sexual contradiction influences the flow of power between the sexes and within the state. It joins notions of sexual equality to claims of "natural" difference, establishing a fraught basis for respectable romantic marriage. Heterosexual union is then treated as emblematic of, if not essential to, the success of American political life--yet far from creating gender stability, these tensions produce an endless striving for balance. Viefhues-Bailey's final, brilliant move is to connect the desire for stability to the conservative Christian movement's strategies of political power.