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07.09.2021

“Death and Dying” by Nicole Piemonte and Shawn Abreu

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"Death and Dying" by Nicole Piemonte and Shawn Abreu
🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities. Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death, physicians and hospitals often set patients and their families on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory toward medical interventions that may actually increase suffering at the end of life. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the medicalization of death and dying and proposes a different approach—one that acknowledges death's existential and emotional realities. The authors—one an academic who teaches and studies end-of-life care, and the...>>
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06.09.2021

“Clandestine Philosophy: New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823” edited by Gianni Paganini et al

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"Clandestine Philosophy: New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823" edited by Gianni Paganini et al
"Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic texts, political pamphlets, satires of court life, forbidden religious texts, and books about the occult, had an avid readership in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, becoming objects of historical research by the twentieth century. The purveyors of the clandestine could be found in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, and not least in Paris or London. Despite the heavy risks, including prison, the circulation of these manuscripts was a prosperous venture. After Ira Wade’s pioneering contribution (1938), Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment. Topics from philosophy, political...>>
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06.09.2021

“My Search for Radionic Truths: With Possibilities of Acceptance by Science & Medicine” by R. Murray Denning

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"My Search for Radionic Truths: With Possibilities of Acceptance by Science & Medicine" by R. Murray Denning
"While only a young man, the author was told by doctors in England he had an ‘incurable’ disease. But he confounded the doctors after meeting healers who practiced the art of radionics and he not only lived to a ripe old age but became a healer himself. The enthralling story of Murray’s 25 year search is a wonderful introduction into the subtle energy world of radionics. Here you will meet some of the most famous pioneers in this field, doctors such as Albert Abrams, Ruth Drown, Dinshah Ghadiali, who dared to innovate — and cure — much to the displeasure of the medical establishment. Other eminent scholars ‘overlooked’ by the medical and scientific community,...>>
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