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Special educational needs
Special Educational Needs: A New Look by Mary Warnock was initially published by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain in 2005.In this new edition, Warnock has updated her argument, Brahm Norwich has contributed a counter-argument and Lorella Terzi has provided an introduction and afterword, drawing the two debates together.
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Distant Sibling Caregiving Changes in the Face of COVID-19 Challenges
Having had financial management courses gave me the tools to work with his lawyer to prepare a \"Durable Power of Attorney\" (POA) document; speak with his accountant to determine what to do and how to submit his taxes with me signing; to distribute copies of the POA to those requiring such a document so I could discuss medical issues and accounts (telephone, television) on his behalf; and to discuss short- and longterm care policies, making sure they were up-to-date and that I understood how claims could be filed on his behalf. Because of the need of the car hauler at my brother's (western side of state) and the fact our daughter and her husband live on the eastern side of Washington (state), we loaded up the car hauler with the furniture, etc. knowing we would make an extra stop to deliver items to her. Before leaving Arkansas, the Executive Director of the facility was called and an apartment was assigned. Because my brother was coming from Washington, a 2-week quarantine period in our home was requested before he could move into the facility and, again, after the move-in. * Tote bag items to carry in truck at all times: [...]I gathered all phone numbers for doctor, accountant, lawyer, insurance agent, neighbors; hours of operation for the nearest grocery store to my brother; local post office hours (had to submit permanent address change); checkbooks from which bills are paid; UPS office (had to terminate television account and return cable box); real
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Dishonest to God
Here is a pugnacious book by a philosopher who often hits the headlines. The book reflects on the nature of religion and how it relates or ought to relate to the rest of life. Many people today are totally indifferent to religion but religion is far from dead. Indeed religions are intensely defended and aggressively pursued. Religion is a cause for dissension and death. This is beyond dispute. Mary Warnock is concerned with Christianity. She argues that to value religion as the essential foundation of morality is a profound and probably dangerous mistake. Warnock's overriding purpose is to prise apart religion and morality. Judges for example are constantly being asked to pass judgement on moral issues in court. Because of The Human Rights Act, the law perforce is involved. Morality is therefore increasingly a public and not just a private matter. This book attempts to clarify the foundation of morality in a society largely indifferent to and ignorant of religion. Religion nevertheless emerges as a source of deep and unique imaginative experience.
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Making Babies
Mary Warnock steers a clear path through the web of complex issues underlying the use of new reproductive technologies. She begins by analysing what it means to claim something as a 'right', and goes on to discuss the cases of different groups of people. She also examines the ethical problems faced by particular types of assisted reproduction, incl.
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Easeful Death
Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. The legal choices confronting those caring for the terminally ill, and indeed those patients themselves who may be facing intolerable suffering towards the end of their lives, have been the cause of fierce public debate in recent years. The book takes as its starting point attempts in Britain and other countries to bring compassion into the rules governing the end of a patient ‘s life. Drawing on experience in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the US state of Oregon, where either assisted dying or euthanasia have been legalized, the authors explore the philosophical and ethical views on both sides of the debate, and examine how different legislative proposals would affect different members of society, from the very young to the very old. They describe the practical, medical processes of palliative care, self-denial of food and water, and assisted dying and euthanasia, and ultimately conclude that the public is ready to embrace a more compassionate approach to assisted dying. This sensitive and authoritative short volume is informed throughout by a strong sense that, whatever the results of the legislative argument, compassion for one another must be both the guide and the restraint upon the way we treat people who are dying or who want to die.
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A spirocyclic backbone accesses new conformational space in an extended, dipole-stabilized foldamer
Most aromatic foldamers adopt uniform secondary structures, offering limited potential for the exploration of conformational space and the formation of tertiary structures. Here we report the incorporation of spiro bis-lactams to allow controlled rotation of the backbone of an iteratively synthesised foldamer. This enables precise control of foldamer shape along two orthogonal directions, likened to the aeronautical yaw and roll axes. XRD, NMR and computational data suggest that homo-oligomers adopt an extended right-handed helix with a pitch of over 30 Å, approximately that of B-DNA. Compatibility with extant foldamers to form hetero-oligomers is demonstrated, allowing greater structural complexity and function in future hybrid foldamer designs.
Foldamers containing an aromatic linker can adopt a variety of backbone shapes, but exploration of conformational space has been limited to one plane. Here, spiro bis-lactams linkers in dipole-controlled foldamers enable controlled rotation of the backbone and projection of side-chains along two orthogonal directions.
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