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Watching television need not be a passive activity or simply for
entertainment purposes. Television can be the site of important
identity work and moral reflection. Audiences can learn about
themselves, what matters to them, and how to relate to others by
thinking about the implicit and explicit moral messages in the
shows they watch. Better Living through TV: Contemporary TV and
Moral Identity Formation analyzes the possibility of identifying
and adopting moral values from television shows that aired during
the latest Golden Era of television and Peak TV. The diversity of
shows and approaches to moral becoming demonstrate how television
during these eras took advantage of new technologies to become more
film-like in both production quality and content. The increased
depth of characterization and explosion of content across streaming
and broadcast channels gave viewers a diversity of worlds and moral
values to explore. The possibility of finding a moral in the
stories told on popular shows such as The Sopranos, Breaking Bad,
The Wire, and The Good Place, as well as lesser known shows such as
Letterkenny and The Unicorn, are explored in a way that centers
television viewing as a site for moral identity formation.
Doctors routinely deny patients access to hormonal birth control
prescription refills, and this issue has broad interest for
feminism, biomedical ethics, and applied ethics in general. Medical
Sexism argues that such practices violate a variety of legal and
moral standards, including medical malpractice, informed consent,
and human rights. Jill B. Delston makes the case that medical
sexism serves as a major underlying cause of these systemic and
persistent violations. Delston also considers other common abuses
in the medical field, such as policy on abortion access and
treatment in childbirth. Delston argues that sexism is a better
explanation for the widespread abuse of patient autonomy in
reproductive health and health care generally. Identifying,
addressing, and rooting out medical sexism is necessary to
successfully protect medical and moral values.
In this book, B. Jill Carroll uses the nature writing of Annie
Dillard and the philosophical categories of Emmanual Levinas to
critique the models of God that drive contemporary political
theologies, especially feminist and liberation theologies. These
political theologies ignore the amoral and often harsh aspects of
our existence in the natural world, even though they often align
God with the cosmos. Political theologies excise from their models
of God all notions of violence, indifference to social justice or
general amorality in favor of models that support and advance
specific social, political and economic ideologies. Such
"domestication" of God does not do justice to the hard facts of our
existence in the natural world, nor does it fully plumb the depths
of using nature to metaphorize God. Furthermore, Carroll argues
that current political models of God do not survive the most
important critiques of religion in the modern era, namely those
leveled by Feuerbach, Freud and Nietzsche. Instead, the "God of the
oppressed" stands tall among any number of gods that exist
primarily as projections of our best selves, illusions rooted in
wish fulfillment, and attempts to further our own personal goals by
claiming the universe is on our side. The Savage Side offers us a
glimpse of a natural theology uninterested in apologetics, but
thoroughly obsessed with using the natural world as a springboard
for describing God. The God that emerges is wildly beautiful,
terrifyingly indifferent to political or moral ideology, the
consummate Other, and the ultimate ground of our being. This book
demands to be read by anyone interested in the relationship between
religion and politics, especially those who have given themselves
to the cause of social justice in the name of God. Readers will be
challenged to let go of comfortable, but outdated notions of deity
despite their convenience for the advancement of certain social and
political goals, like gay and lesbian rights, women's rights, or
third world liberation. I
In this book, B. Jill Carroll uses the nature writing of Annie
Dillard and the philosophical categories of Emmanual Levinas to
critique the models of God that drive contemporary political
theologies, especially feminist and liberation theologies. These
political theologies ignore the amoral and often harsh aspects of
our existence in the natural world, even though they often align
God with the cosmos. Political theologies excise from their models
of God all notions of violence, indifference to social justice or
general amorality in favor of models that support and advance
specific social, political and economic ideologies. Such
'domestication' of God does not do justice to the hard facts of our
existence in the natural world, nor does it fully plumb the depths
of using nature to metaphorize God. Furthermore, Carroll argues
that current political models of God do not survive the most
important critiques of religion in the modern era, namely those
leveled by Feuerbach, Freud and Nietzsche. Instead, the 'God of the
oppressed' stands tall among any number of gods that exist
primarily as projections of our best selves, illusions rooted in
wish fulfillment, and attempts to further our own personal goals by
claiming the universe is on our side. The Savage Side offers us a
glimpse of a natural theology uninterested in apologetics, but
thoroughly obsessed with using the natural world as a springboard
for describing God. The God that emerges is wildly beautiful,
terrifyingly indifferent to political or moral ideology, the
consummate Other, and the ultimate ground of our being. This book
demands to be read by anyone interested in the relationship between
religion and politics, especially those who have given themselves
to the cause of social justice in the name of God. Readers will be
challenged to let go of comfortable, but outdated notions of deity
despite their convenience for the advancement of certain social and
political goals, like gay and lesbian rights, women's rights, or
third world liberation. Indeed, the claim that 'God is on our side'
emerges as the most problematic claim of contemporary constructive
theology.
But, you might say, I've read lots of diet books, and none of them
have worked. I hear you. However, this book is different. Using an
NLP framework, Jill Cody helps you address numerous emotional
roadblocks that keep you stuck in your old thinking and eating
habits. The main points in this book may seem obvious at first, but
are extremely important in helping you be successful in winning the
weight war.
Doctors routinely deny patients access to hormonal birth control
prescription refills, and this issue has broad interest for
feminism, biomedical ethics, and applied ethics generally. Medical
Sexism argues that such practices violate a variety of legal and
moral standards, including informed consent, medical malpractice,
and human rights. Why are such violations so common, systemic, and
persistent? Jill B. Delston examines a range of possible
explanations and makes the case for medical sexism as a major
underlying cause. Building on this conceptual foundation, the
author then considers other common abuses in the medical field,
such as abortion access policy, labor and delivery treatment,
misdiagnosing strokes, and underestimating pain. Many argue that we
can override patient autonomy in reproductive health cases due to
the fetus. However, the case of contraception includes the same
attitudes, behaviors, and practices even in the absence of a fetus.
Delston argues that sexism is a better explanation for the
widespread abuse of patient autonomy in reproductive health and
health care generally. Identifying, addressing, and rooting out
medical sexism is necessary if we are to successfully protect
medical and moral values.
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