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The theme of this Essay is that in our present culture, we need badly to understand and accept those who see things differently from ourselves, and to afford people some latitude not to directly violate their deepest convictions. For example, those with religious convictions that marriage should be between men and women need to see why those with gay sexual inclinations feel strongly they are entitled to equal treatment and the latter need not reject as deeply prejudicial all those whose religious convictions lead them to subscribe to the more limited, unwise, historical view about marriage. This understanding on both sides bears strongly on what exemptions, if any, should be granted from nondiscrimination requirements. A related major subject of the essay is exploration of the idea of public reasons, and the degree to which they can realistically and appropriately limit how far officials and citizens reach conclusions on political issues. Again, what is very important is that we be realistic about how people do reach their conclusions and not be intolerant of those who arrive at different positions.

"Contemporary medical models focus predominantly on the technical and financial aspects of care. While these are important aspects of care, they fail to include what may be the most critical need of patients and families - that is, the whole-person approach to care where psychosocial and spiritual needs are viewed as essential and just as important as the physical. Cecily Saunders, the founder of hospice, was one of the first to describe the concept of 'total pain', which led to the biopsychosocial and spiritual model of care. In 2014, the World Health Assembly for the WHO passed a resolution which included spiritual care as an essential domain of palliative care, stating that Palliative Care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients "through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and correct assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychosocial or spiritual." WHO also noted that "it is the ethical duty of health care professionals" to alleviate pain and suffering, whether physical, psychosocial or spiritual and further supported an interdisciplinary model by noting the need for collaboration between professional palliative care providers and support care providers, including spiritual support and counseling"--

Sangre y leche fueron símbolos omnipresentes en los territorios de la «Monarquía Católica», en España y su Imperio colonial. Situados a medio camino entre la naturaleza y la cultura, a lo largo de las edades Media y Moderna, la sangre y la leche tejieron una poderosa analogía entre la reproducción fisiológica y la reproducción cultural. Como exploran los artículos de este libro, estos símbolos desempeñaron un papel determinante en los procesos de ordenación, jerarquización, y por supuesto también, de exclusión social dentro de la monarquía. Partiendo de perspectivas tan diversas como la religiosa, la social, la jurídica o la antropológica, los autores de este libro analizan esta privilegiada encrucijada simbólica para interrogarse sobre el origen y desarrollo del discurso de la «raza» en la España altomoderna

"Joseph de Maistre had no doubt that the root causes of the French Revolution were intellectual and ideological. The degeneration of its first immense hopes into the Reign of Terror was not the result of a ruthless competition for power or of prospects of war. He echoed Voltaire's boast that "books did it all." The philosophers of the Enlightenment were the architects of the new regimes; and the shadow between revolutionary idea and social reality could be traced directly to a fatal flaw in their thought. De Maistre asserts that society is the product, not of men's conscious decision, but of their instinctive makeup. Both history and primitive societies illustrate men's gravitation toward some form of communal life. Since government is in this sense natural, it can not legitimately be denied, revoked, or even disobeyed by the people. Sovereignty is not the product of the deliberation or the will of the people; it is a divinely bestowed authority fitted not to man's wishes but to his needs. The French Revolution to de Maistre's mind was little more than the expansion, conversion, pride, and consequent moral corruption of the philosophers. It differs in essence from all previous political revolutions, finding a parallel only in the biblical revolt against heaven. These sentiments are the passionate and awe-inspired language of one who sees the political struggles of his time on a huge and cosmic scale, judges events sub specie aeternitatis (under the aspect of eternity), and looks on revolution and counter-revolution as a battle for the soul of humanity. The force of this classic volume still resonates in present-day ideological struggles."--Provided by publisher

Preliminary Material /Kato Atsufumi -- Weaving Women's Spheres in Vietnam: An Introduction /Kato Atsufumi -- Gender Relations in Vietnam: Ideologies, Kinship Practices, and Political Economy /Hy V. Luong -- Rethinking Vietnamese Women's Property Rights and the Role of Ancestor Worship in Premodern Society: Beyond the Dichotomies /Miyazawa Chihiro -- Divorce Prevalence under the Forces of Individualism and Collectivism in "Shortcut" Modernity in Vietnam /Tran Thi Minh Thi -- Negotiating with Multilayered Public Norms: Female University Students' Struggle to Survive the Đổi Mới Period /Ito Miho -- The Limit of Chia Sẻ (Compassion): Interpretative Conflicts in the Collectivity of the Vietnamese Women's Union /Kato Atsufumi -- Living in Intimacy: A Case Study of Women's Community at a Caodaist Temple in Hanoi /Ito Mariko -- Imperious Mandarins and Cunning Princesses: Mediumship, Gender, and Identity in Urban Vietnam /Kirsten W. Endres -- The Blessed Virgin Mary Wears Áo Dài: Marianism in the Transnational Public Sphere between Vietnamese Catholics in the u.s. and Vietnam /Thien-Huong T. Ninh -- Index /Kato Atsufumi.

"East and West in Late Antiquity combines published and unpublished articles by emeritus professor Wolf Liebeschuetz. The collection concerns aspects of what Gibbon called 'the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.' This interpretation is now much criticized, but the author agrees with Gibbon. Topics discussed are defensive strategies, the settlement inside the Empire of invaders and immigrants, and the modification of identities with the formation of new communities. Liebeschuetz is interested in both the eastern and the western halves of the Empire. In the East he is particularly concerned with Syria, the expansion of settlement up to the edge of the desert, and Christianisation. The book ends with an examination of the role of the Christian Arab Ghassanids in the defense of the Syrian provinces in the century leading up to the conquest of the provinces by the Islamic Arabs"--Provided by publisher

The health workforce is hierarchical in structure in terms of skill mix and social composition. Most of the studies on the health workforce are focused on the number of personnel in the public sector. The private sector that has a large presence employs a significant percentage of the total health work force but there is little reliable data on the numbers involved. This is largely due to the lack of regulation of the private health services. Apart from the numbers involved in both the sectors, a few studies have shown the relationship between the work and social hierarchy in health services. While the public sector has a more diverse mix of social backgrounds due to affirmative policies, the private sector ownership is mostly dominated by an upper and middle caste-class combine. There is an under-representation of minorities and women as owners of private health services. The gendered nature of work is visible with the middle and lower rungs constituted by mostly women and men from lower caste-class combine. The terms of work, working conditions and wages paid for this category of workers amounts to exploitation with no forum for redressal. This essay draws together some primary work and references to secondary research and anecdotal evidences to build the scenario of social inequities among the workforce in the private health services.