Based on a two-year national process to develop consensus on best practices, this book is a clear statement of values integral to palliative and patient-centered health care as well as a guide for incorporating them into teaching and clinical settings.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers
For more information on this title and its authors, click here.
Create a written or video response to one of the below three videos that discuss topics in the book, New Threats to Freedom edited by Adam Bellow (Templeton Press, 2010):
The deadline for the New Threats to Freedom blog contest is quickly approaching! Get those entries in and let us know what YOU think is the next big threat to freedom. You could win $500 for a paltry 500 words!
For more information about the contest, click here.
Time: 5:30PM—9:00PM
Location: National Liberty Museum
Address: 321 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 (map)
Cost: Free and open to the public
Hugh Hewitt, whose nationally syndicated radio show airs locally on NewsTalk 990AM WNTP, will interview editor Adam Bellow and many of the book’s contributors throughout the course of the show.
Doors will open at 5:30PM and the show will air from 6PM-9PM. Light refreshments will be served and guests will be able to enter and exit the broadcast at appropriate intervals.
Please join in the conversation and RSVP by May 14th:
Call: Carol Barrett at 215-925-2800, ext 0 or email: carol@libertymuseum.org.
As promised, the website for New Threats to Freedomis now up! We’ll be posting author news, event details, reviews, contests, and unique commentary regularly, so if you like the book be sure to check back often.
On May 18th, Templeton Press will release its new publication, New Threats to Freedomedited and introduced by Adam Bellow. From banning ice cream trucks in Brooklyn to abandoning the idea of democracy around the world, thirty great writers reflect on the cultural trends that are now undermining our liberties in New Threats to Freedom.
In order to reach a broader audience about these issues, Templeton Press created a News Threats to FreedomFacebook and Twitter page. Become a fan and/or follow New Threats online today!
I MENTIONED NEW THREATS TO FREEDOM a while back, and I should note that it’s now shipping. I have a chapter — on the dangers of complacency — and it includes such other contributors as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Epstein, David Mamet, Anne Applebaum, Bruce Bawer and Christina Hoff Sommers.
In its November 2010 issue, Choice reviewed Making Health Care Whole by Christina M. Puchalski and Betty Ferrell.
Posted by Templeton Editor 
