Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-Assisted Suicide Debates Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2007-02-28
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 026803267X
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Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality pdf
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In Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality, Robert P. Jones presents a penetrating examination of physician-assisted suicide that exposes unresolved tensions deep within liberal political theory. Jones asks why egalitarian liberal philosophers--most notably, Ronald Dworkin and John Rawls--support legalized physician-assisted suicide in direct opposition to groups of disadvantaged citizens they theoretically champion. Jones argues that egalitarian liberals ought to oppose physician-assisted suicide--at least until we find the political will to ensure access to health care for all. More broadly, Jones challenges progressives to find the heart of the liberal tradition not in allegedly neutral appeals to "choice" but in a renewed commitment to equality and social justice that welcomes public religious voices as allies. "In this engrossing study of debates over physician-assisted suicide, Jones has issued a challenge to liberals. The old idea that liberalism is Download Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data (Statistics for Biology and Health) Pdf

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Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
Release: 2010-12-06
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1441927743
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Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data (Statistics for Biology and Health) pdf
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This text provides the first-ever compilation of bias analysis methods for use with epidemiologic data. It guides the reader through the planning stages of bias analysis, including the design of validation studies and the collection of validity data from other sources. Three chapters present methods for corrections to address selection bias, uncontrolled confounding, and classification errors. Subsequent chapters extend these methods to multidimensional bias analysis, probabilistic bias analysis, and multiple bias analysis. The text concludes with a chapter on presentation and interpretation of bias analysis results. Although techniques for bias analysis have been available for decades, these methods are considered difficult to implement. This text not only gathers the methods into one cohesive and organized presentation, it also explains the methods in a consistent fashion and provides customizable spreadsheets to implement the solutions. By downloading the spreadsheets (available at Download Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data (Statistics for Biology and Health) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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