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A young boy. An old man. And a journey of the heart.

My fraternal twin, Michael, died two hours after birth, drowning from fluid in his lungs. When I was two, my Mom and Dad were killed in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer. I was reared by Granddaddy and Granny, who had lived with my folks in the same rented home. I remembered neither my parents' lives nor their deaths. I suppose that's a blessing and a curse. My grandparents had provided details my young mind could understand, but I pushed them away. I did not want them.

Back in that field after thirty years,...

"Philosophy begins in wonder." -Aristotle

Remember when you were a child and incessantly asked your parents "Why?" You still had that childhood gift of wondering about everything from the simple "Why can't I touch the stove eye when it's red?" to the most profound questions people can ask "Why can't I see God if He's real?"

A common perception of philosophers is of the wizened old guru, sitting on a mountain top contemplating his navel; or worse, a stodgy, boring intellectual that everyone avoids at parties. But philosophy, at its best, is a joyous profession....

Dieses Buch gibt mit den Beitragen der 14. Jahrestagung der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft fur Paraplegie einen umfassenden Uberblick uber die komplexe Behandlung der nichttraumatischen Querschnittlahmungen. Vorgestellt werden die krankheitsspezifischen Behandlungsstrategien bei Fehlbildungen, zervikaler Myelopathie, spinaler Ischamie, entzundlichen Erkrankungen, Spondylitiden mit spinaler Komplikation und Tumorerkrankungen von allen an der Versorgung Querschnittgelahmter beteiligten Berufsgruppen wie Arzten, Ergotherapeuten, Krankengymnasten, Krankenpflegern und Psychologen.

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