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Introductory lectures on care for terminally ill patients, the relationship between parents and children, conditional love, painless civilization, feminism, eugenic thought and disability, and so on. A handbook for beginners on life studies. This book consists of selected public lectures from the mid-1990s to 2003. The essence of "life studies" has been expressed in my former books such as Painless Civilization (2003) and Life Studies Approaches to Bioethics (2001), but these books are expensive to the general public or college students. I have been asked many times if there are any introdctory books on life studies even lay people can easily read through. Now I can recommend this book as a textbook for those who are interested in life studies. (The Japanese version of the above two books are expensive, but you will be able to read the English translations on this website in the future, free!)
Preface Chapter 1 The Way of Grasping Life Chapter 2 How to Think about "Conditional Love"? Chapter 3 Escape from Compassionate Control Chapter 4 The Fate of Painless Civilization Chapter 5 "Social Withdrawal" and Painless Civilization Chapter 6 Why is Life Studies Needed? Chapter 7 Dialogue with the Life of "the Dead" Chapter 8 How to Fight against Disempowerment? Postscript Philosophy of Life for Facing Oneself Translation to other languages Japanese website for this book Transview Publications, Tokyo, July 10 ,2005, 194pages, 1600yen, written in Japanese.
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