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Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
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The Sacred Journey: The Ancient Practices
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Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction
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The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin
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The Jesus Inquest: The Case For and Against the Resurrection of the Christ
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Wired For God?: The Biology Of Spiritual Experience
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In the Hot Unconscious: An Indian Journey
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From Old Hollywood to New Brunswick
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"One of the most disturbing books that I have read in a long time. Fascinating, disquieting, nauseating at points, it lingers long in the memory. It raises some really interesting questions about moral relativism, anthropology, science and research et"
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“All four gospel writers were no doubt enthusiastic members of their local churches. They went there every Sunday; sometimes they preached themselves; sometimes they listened to the sermon and nodded when the tradition was repeated accurately. And eventually they were prevailed on to write down their own or their sources’ recollections of the facts that had generated the tradition. This is why it is silly for X to say: “Mark wasn’t written until the 50s at the earliest. That’s a good twenty years after Jesus died. Mark couldn’t be expected to remember things clearly after all that time.” Mark didn’t hibernate between the death of Jesus and the time he wrote his gospel, then take out his pen, scratch his head, and say: “It was a long time ago, and I’m trying to remember this for the first time, but so far as I remember it went something like this.”31”
― The Jesus Inquest: The Case For and Against the Resurrection of the Christ
― The Jesus Inquest: The Case For and Against the Resurrection of the Christ
“But that doesn’t necessarily mean that countries with liberal abortion laws are blithe about the status of the embryo. On the contrary, their jurisprudential rhetoric often indicates a thoughtfulness sometimes lacking in the more stridently anti-abortion states. It’s just (they’d say) that, having considered the matter carefully and painfully, they’ve decided that the plainly identifiable rights of a solid, adult mother should prevail over the misty, conditional rights (if any) of the mysterious embryo.”
― Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction
― Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction
“An incapacitous patient who becomes pregnant may be forced, against her will, to have an abortion. The judgment will typically be expressed in the language of the best interests both of the mother and of the welfare (were it to be born) of the child. What’s happening here? The maternal best interests part of the analysis is fairly straightforward. This isn’t really an abortion against the mother’s will. She’s got no (rightly directed) will. But what about the interests of the putative child? A couple of points. First: it is given a voice in the debate (although for other purposes it has no legal existence) because it is convenient for it to have it. It will obligingly deliver a speech saying that it doesn’t want to exist, and will then shut up. It’s allowed no other speech. Second: in the law of the UK and in many other jurisdictions a child cannot bring a claim based on the assertion ‘It were better that my mother had not borne me.’ It’s regarded as offensive to public policy: see, for instance, McKay v Essex AHA (1982).”
― Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction
― Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction
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