Bodies and Souls

Ageless bodies, happy souls: biotechnology and the pursuit of perfection.

Selling Bodies and Souls: Human Sex Trafficking in China

Mending bodies, saving souls: a history of hospitals

Guenter Risse's Mending bodies, saving souls, more than a decade in the making, is a tour de force which matches considerable intellectual and historiographical ambition with humane and punctilious scholarship. Risse tells the relatively well-rehearsed story in a distinctive and highly appealing way which will provide pleasure as well as instruction to social, economic, cultural historians as w...

Curing bodies-curing souls: Hrabanus Maurus, medical education, and the clergy in ninth-century Francia.

Souls and Sentientism

I am a psychologist and not a theologian, so I do not know what the word "soul" means. What matters to me is a creature's capacity to feel, to suffer and to be conscious; its sentiency, not its soul, is the bedrock of my concern. Let us proclaim this creed of sentientism: that anything, human or nonhuman, terrestrial or extraterrestrial, natural or man-made, that can suffer should be included w...