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Practical and insightful, The Sacred Tradition of Yoga begins with a clear and deep inquiry into the human condition, reminding us of true purpose of Yoga. The second half of the book focuses on the yamas and niyamas, the personal disciplines and social ethics of yoga. Throughout, Dr. Jois’ teachings honor ancient traditions and underscore the benefits we can gain from adopting a yogic way of life in the modern world.

Dr Ethics (Dr Bryan) offers insightful podcasts on key social topics. Look for content in healthcare, politics, and religion. Expect useful action steps that will transform our communities, states, nation, and world. Focus on Wholistic Symmetrical Ethics. Dr Bryan holds a Ph.D. in Religion and Social Ethics with an emphasis in Bioethics from the University of Southern California. He is President of McCall College, McCall ID. Past President of the Wesleyan Philosophical Society. Associate Professor of Ethics, Religion, and Healthcare. #Medical, #Ethics, #Bioethics, #Medicalethics, #McCall, #...

When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.

New York Times best-selling author William J. Bennett uses stories, essays, historical vignettes, and contemporary profiles to explore and explain what it means to be a man. Fashioning men has never been easy, but today it seems particularly tough. Boys need heroes to embody the everlasting qualities of manhood: honor, duty, valor, and integrity. Without such role models, boys will naturally choose perpetual childhood over the rigors of becoming a man-as many women, teachers, coaches, employers, and adults in authority can quickly attest.

While quackery—loosely defined as the spread of false "knowledge," often accompanied by various versions of "snake oil"—is not a novel phenomenon, it has never posed as great a threat to public health as today. In Quack Quack, Dr. Joe Schwarcz focuses on the deluge of anecdotes, cherry-picked data, pseudoscientific nonsense, and seductive baseless health claims that undermine efforts to educate the public about evidence-based science. The wide scope of the topics drawn from past and present aims to cast a life preserver to people drowning in a sea of misinformation.

The most interesting ideas from ethics and political theory. Where every episode contains a surprise.Surprising Ethics is an accessible philosophy podcast exploring the striking ways in which philosophers are trying to upend received wisdom about politics and how to live ethically. In the battle between the status quo and surprising alternatives, which will win out?By Dr William Gildea, McGill University and Centre for Research in Ethics. Artwork by Ana Otelea.

Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical practice that labels far too many of us as sick, Welch examines the social, ethical, and economic ramifications of a health-care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients.

Sweet Tea Ethics, with Dr. Ed Garnes, pours life lessons and conversations with creatives, artists, and cultural producers about the ways harmonious living and balanced well being have shaped them. Using Black psychological principles, Sweet Tea Ethics transforms grandma’s folk tales, personal experiences, and sobering life lessons into practical strategies for personal development and real-world application. The show is fueled by an uncanny mix of observational humor and candid social commentary from a Black therapist.

The World Peace Diet has been called one of the most important books of the 21st century: the foundation of a new society based on the truth of the interconnectedness of all life. It is the first book to make explicit the invisible connections between our meals and our broad range of problems -psychological, social, and spiritual, as well as health and environmental. It offers powerful ways we can all experience healing and peace and contribute to a positive transformation of human consciousness.

Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health? Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what...

In this groundbreaking book, Anita Hannig brings us into the lives of ordinary Americans who go to extraordinary lengths to set the terms of their own death. Faced with a terminal diagnosis and unbearable suffering, they decide to seek medical assistance in dying—a legal option now available to one in five Americans. The Day I Die tackles one of the most urgent social issues of our time: how to restore dignity and meaning to the dying process in the age of high-tech medicine.

Wollen wir den perfekten Menschen? Wann ist es Zeit zu sterben? Das Ethik Hörbuch beantwortet diese und weitere brennende Fragen: Gibt es eine Schwangerschaft auf Probe? Leben wir, um zu arbeiten, oder arbeiten wir, um zu leben? Der angesehene Theologe Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Huber wendet sich den Grundfragen unseres Lebens zu. Es geht um Probleme, die sich in Entscheidungssituationen auf dem Lebensweg eines Menschen stellen. Huber betrachtet im Hörbuch »Ethik - Die Grundfragen unseres Lebens« auch ethische Prinzipien, also berufsethische und institutionsethische Fragen.

Was rechtfertigt eine Handlung? Was macht eine Entscheidung rational? Im Hörbuch Philosophie der ZEIT Akademie führt der international renommierte Professor Dr. Julian Nida-Rümelin Sie in die Welt der praktischen Philosophie ein - in ihre Traditionen, ihre Schulen und Sichtweisen. Was ist Glück, und was ist Glückseligkeit? Können Menschen frei entscheiden - oder kommt es ihnen bloß so vor? Der Professor für Philosophie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München leitet Sie an, diese Fragen der Praktischen Philosophie zu beantworten: Dafür müssen Gründe abgewogen werden.

Wieso enden unsere Meinungsverschiedenheiten in bitteren Fehden, die uns entzweien? Warum können wir nicht mehr gesittet streiten? Woher rührt das peinliche Schweigen in Familien, unter Freunden und Kollegen, sobald es um Politik geht? Ob Coronakrise, Zuwanderung oder Ukrainekrieg: Dass die Gesellschaft wahlweise "polarisiert" oder "gespalten" sei und das Diskussionsklima "vergiftet", hören wir seit Jahren. Doch bisher fehlte eine überzeugende Erklärung dieser verbreiteten Überzeugungen, die nicht einfach solche Floskeln wiederholt.

A heroic doctor’s unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. ‘A brilliant insight into the forgotten heroes at the sharp end of humanitarian emergencies.’ Jon Snow, Channel 4 News This is a story of tireless hard work and astonishing bravery. Tony...

Rigged financial markets and hopeless under-regulation on Wall Street are not new problems. In this book, Susanne Trimbath gives a sobering account of naked short-selling, the failure to settle, and her efforts over decades trying to get this fixed. This is a cautionary tale. What started as a regulatory failure turned into a regulatory crisis. Shareholder democracy is in shambles. The institutions that were established to correct a problem of trade settlement failures have instead exacerbated the problem. Global financial markets may not survive what comes next.

Seeking a memorial to his reign that would last longer than any coin or statue, a benevolent king seeks out the Wisdom of the Ages. Farmers and physicians, laborers and soldiers, teachers and priests - the citizens of his kingdom share their wisdom; and when all have been heard, the king discovers a great truth that can change the way we live.