A comprehensive examination of setting mental health services priorities that explores the history, ethics, and politics of setting priorities for public mental health services. It also explores the social factors that most influence attempts to set priorities. It illustrates priorities at the federal level and in the private sector.
We are finally beginning to see that casuistry, once so despised, points a way out of the great dilemmas in moral reasoning we face today. To read this superb book is to emerge from a cloud of unknowing."-John W. O'Malley, S.J., Distinguished Professor of Church History, Weston Jesuit School of Theology "The current debate about casuistic method ......
An Introduction to the Themes and Foundations of Karl Rahner's Theology
Provides an introduction to Karl Rahner's theology as a whole. This book features chapters that present commentaries on the corresponding chapters of Foundations, beginning with Rahner's method and anthropology and concluding with his theology of the church and eschatology.
Prominent in both philosophical and theological ethics, proportionalism judges the morality of acts by their proportion of good and evil. This title provides an exposition and defense of proportionalism in Christian ethics. It proposes judging acts using a norm the author calls Value Maximization.
Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions
By combining stories of care, the reflections of caregiving practitioners, and interpretations of caregiving within a larger social and theoretical framework, this title identifies the values and skills involved in quality caregiving at the individual level and affirms their importance for reshaping our public caregiving institutions.
Each of us is controlled in some way by shame, one of the ugliest emotions in human experience. It saps our self-respect, builds walls between people, and forces us to create elaborate defences to protect ourselves. This book analyses the role of shame in our lives and helps us to understand the root of our insecurity.
Theodore Dreiser is indisputably one of America's most important twentieth-century novelists. An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie, and Jennie Gerhardt have all made an indelible mark on the American literary landscape. This title offers an original interpretations of Dreiser's works.
The subject of bisexuality continues to divide the lesbian and gay community. At pride marches, in films such as Go Fish, at academic conferences, the role and status of bisexuals is hotly contested. Within lesbian communities, formed to support lesbians in a patriarchal and heterosexist society, bisexual women are often perceived as a threat ......
