The Pharos/Autumn 2012 The author (AΩA, University of Pittsburgh, 1969) is Emeritus Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, and Senior Fellow, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, at the Health Sciences Center School of Medicine of Stony Brook University. He is a member of the editorial board of The Pharos and one of its book review editors. Among his honors a...