Ageing has become a high priority issue on the agenda of legislators, public forums, and human service agencies. This book helps understand the processes of ageing and their impact on society as a whole. It probes the images held about them and compares these views with their actual life styles, developmental transitions and crises.
Containing articles by sexologists, sociologists, and psychologists, this work deals with discoveries in human sexuality. It includes the topics: sexual identity and sexual roles, homosexuality, adolescent sexuality, sex and the law, prostitution, transsexual surgery, and eroticism.
Examines the ethics of putting to death those infants who are born with such severe illness or physical debilitation as to be in consequence of incognition, extreme pain, meaningless existence, or little expectancy for life.
Taking a look at some of the controls over human life, health, and death, this book draws a picture of contemporary biological needs and ethical responsibility. It explores some of the issues such as: genetic engineering, foetal research, abortion, suicide, human experimentation, infanticide, and euthanasia.
People who help us understand the world and how it works are important people. They should also help us understand what it means to be a human being. They should help people to want to be good by showing everyone that being good makes the world much nicer for all of us. Then no one would have to scare anybody into being good by inventing gods.
For centuries, from the earliest legends of the man on the moon, mankind has fantasized and speculated about other life in the universe. With the discovery of biochemical evolution - which showed how life could evolve out of simple compounds - those speculations took on a new dimension. Most scientists now believe that it is possible that there is ......
Including 19 Nobel Prize winners, this work presents a statement given by 192 scientists, who call the "science" of astrology a deception based on "magic and superstition".
An earlier defender of Marxism, Sidney Hook became its most persistent critic, especially of its totalitarian and revolutionary manifestations. A student of John Dewey's pragmatism, he has written about most of the live moral, social and political issues. This book talks about Sidney Hook.
Traces the origins of philosophy from its earliest roots in Babylonian and Homeric-Hesiodic mythology to its flowering in the Pre-Socratic imagination. Using selections from the "Epic of Gilgamesh", Hesiod, Homer, Pythagoras, Zeno, Plato, and Socrates, the author argues against what he calls the 'historical approach' to the origin of philosophy.
