Audrey Thomas reveals the dilemmas confronting women in innovative short stories (Real Mothers [1981]) and novels (Intertidal Life, 1984; Graven Images, 1993; Isobel Gunn, 1999).
He concludes with a discussion of the lessons he learned for his own spiritual development and for understanding the moral dilemmas confronting modern societies.
Audrey Thomas reveals the dilemmas confronting women in innovative short stories (Real Mothers ) and novels (Intertidal Life, 1984; Graven Images, 1993; Isobel Gunn, 1999).
It's a hypothetical situation, recounted in a new paper in The Journal of Medical Ethics, but the scenario neatly summarizes some of the dilemmas confronting health care workers in hospitals serving observant Muslim patients.
But throughout, Burleigh demonstrates a subtle feel for the particulars, those gray zones of life where wrenching human dilemmas confronted those who cheered and served Hitler as well as those who resisted him.
The course will highlight, inter alia, the dilemmas confronting policy and decision-makers operating outside the academy on the front-lines where theory the runs up against reality, historical antecedents and perspective are ignored, competing interests are predominant, and politics and principle sit in an uneasy balance.
But reality shows this is a paradox only in appearance, given how the problems France is currently facing illustrate the dilemmas confronting the rest of the West.
Yet most of the real-world dilemmas confronted by science -- and particularly medical and biological researchers -- involve good men and women in full command of their senses and choices weighing the consequences of novel actions undertaken for the advance of knowledge and the alleviation of suffering.
The fact that the rebel advance in north Mali had to be repulsed by French military forces highlight the policy dilemmas confronting the international community posed by the irresistible thrust for greater freedom by ethnic and minority groups across the Sahel region.
