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Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the column quickly attracted millions of readers through its accessible examination of universal topics like the nature of science, consciousness and morality, while also probing more contemporary issues such as the morality of drones, gun control and the gender divide.

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In May 1967, Egypt expelled the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the Sinai desert and deployed its army along its border with Israel, its moves coordinated with those of Jordan and Syria. By June, Israel realized that the international community would not act, and launched a pre-emptive strike against the combined Arab forces. The ensuing Six Day War (June 5-10, 1967) was a crushing defeat for the Arab world, one that tripled the area controlled by Israel and which sowed the seeds for the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the continuing strife in the region.

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Wohlbefinden und Genuss trotz Reizdarmsyndrom

Durchfall, Bauchkrämpfe, Verstopfung - etwa 3 Millionen Menschen in Deutschland leiden unter der schmerzhaften, häufig chronischen Magen-Darm-Erkrankung "Reizdarm". Trotz dieser hohen Zahl ist die Krankheit, die die Lebensqualität Betroffener in vielen Bereichen massiv einschränkt, immer noch ein Tabuthema. Damit ist jetzt Schluss: Dieser Ratgeber nimmt Ihre Schmerzen und Nöte ernst und begleitet Sie mutmachend auf dem Weg zu mehr Wohlbefinden und Genuss.

Die renommierte Darmexpertin Dr. med. Viola Andresen...

The essays in this book, written by researchers from both humanities and science, describe various theoretical and experimental approaches to adding medical ethics to a machine, what design features are necessary in order to achieve this, philosophical and practical questions concerning justice, rights, decision-making and responsibility in medical contexts, and accurately modeling essential physician-machine-patient relationships.

In medical settings, machines are in close proximity with human beings: with patients who are in vulnerable states of health, who have disabilities of...