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A daughter gets tested to see if she's a match to donate a kidney
to her father. The test reveals that she is not the man's
biological daughter. Should the doctor tell the father? Or the
daughter? A deaf couple prefers a deaf baby. Should they be allowed
to use medical technology to ensure they have a child who can't
hear? Who should get custody of an embryo created through IVF when
a couple divorces? Or, when you or a loved one is on life support,
Who says you're dead? In short, engaging scenarios, Dr. Appel takes
on hot-button issues that many of us will confront: genetic
screening, sexuality, privacy, doctor-patient confidentiality. He
unpacks each hypothetical with a brief reflection drawing from
science, philosophy, and history, explaining how others have
approached these controversies in real-world cases. Who Says You're
Dead? is designed to defy easy answers and to stimulate thought and
even debate among professionals and armchair ethicists alike.
Two elderly spinster sisters--Florence and Lorraine--have lived
together ever since the death of their wealthy father, living on
generous stipends provided in his will that continue until one of
them marries--at which time that sister is cut off financially. The
sisters' family is shaken up when Florence invites them to her
wedding. The morning after the wedding, Florence is found dead in
her bed. Was it an asthma attack as her new husband and the police
believe or did someone enter her room in the middle of the night
and suffocate the old woman with a pillow? Local amateur sleuth
Rabbi Jacob Kappelmacher is brought in to investigate the
suspicious death. He soon discovers that all of the sisters'
relatives stayed overnight following the wedding and could have
strangled the old woman in her sleep. So could have the bridegroom.
But who did it? And why? With no money and no motive, why would
anyone kill the old woman? Rabbi Kappelmacher begins his
investigation by interviewing all of the interested parties, intent
on figuring out the convoluted and devious crime--and the sinister
culprit behind it.
The nine short stories collected here, selected by our judge and
panel of readers from a pool of over five hundred stories,
admirably showcase the range, vitality, and distinction of the
contemporary literary short story. Kimberly Willardson's winning
story, "Winter Memories of the Summer Bear," was chosen from the
2008 contest's nine ?nalists by our judge, Pulitzer Prize winner
Robert Olen Butler.
Phoning Home is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking
essays featuring the author's quirky family, his Jewish heritage,
and his New York City upbringing. Jacob M. Appel's recollections
and insights, informed and filtered by his advanced degrees in
medicine, law, and ethics, not only inspire nostalgic feelings but
also offer insight into contemporary medical and ethical issues.
At times sardonic and at others self-deprecating, Appel lays bare
the most private aspects of his emotional life. "We'd just visited
my grandaunt in Miami Beach, the last time we would ever see her. I
had my two travel companions, Fat and Thin, securely buckled into
the backseat of my mother's foul-tempered Dodge Dart," writes Appel
of his family vacation with his two favorite rubber cat toys.
Shortly thereafter Fat and Thin were lost forever--beginning, when
Appel was just six years old, what he calls his "private
apocalypse."
Both erudite and full-hearted, Appel recounts storylines ranging
from a bout of unrequited love gone awry to the poignant romance of
his grandparents. We learn of the crank phone calls he made to his
own family, the conspicuous absence of Jell-O at his grandaunt's
house, and family secrets long believed buried. The stories capture
the author's distinctive voice--a blend of a physician's compassion
and an ethicist's constant questioning.
The Amazing Mr. Morality features tenacious men and women whose
determination to buck middle-class social convention draws them
toward unforeseen challenges. A failed television producer insists
upon having a woodchuck relocated from his lawn, only to receive
desperate letters in which the woodchuck begs to return. An
overconfident ne'er-do-well obtains a lucrative lecture invitation
intended for a renowned ornithologist and decides to deliver the
speech himself. An innocuous dispute over whether to rename a local
street opens up racial fault lines that prove deadly. The
collection concludes with the title novella in which two
unscrupulous ethicists, writing rival newspaper columns, seek to
unseat each other by addressing questions such as: If you're going
to commit a murder, is it worse to kill when the victim is sleeping
or awake?
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