Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature By Martin Lockerd. Cascade Books, 2025. Paperback, 196 pages, $27. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Around the world, assisted suicide—now going under the perverse euphemism “MAID,” or “Medical Assistance In Dying”—has become a...
The Scalpel and the Soul: Our Radical Transformation as Husband and Wife Abortion Doctors By Noreen Johnson, M.D., and Haywood Robinson, M.D. Kolbe & Anthony, 2023. Hardcover, 216 pages, $24.95. Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine...
How Should We Then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death By Ewan C. Goligher, MD. Lexham Press, 2024. Paperback, 160 pages, $ 18.99. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. Why not let patients determine whether to die at the hand of a physician? Ewan...
The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History by Thomas Helling, M.D. Pegasus Books, 2022. Hardcover, 496 pages, $32. Reviewed by Karl C. Shaffenburg The inscription on Dr. Thomas Helling’s book, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History...
Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia by Henry Jay Przybylo, MD. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2017. Hardcover, 256 pages, $26. Reviewed by Jacob A. Bruggeman On occasion, one can come upon good books by coincidence. An offhand recommendation from a...
France and the Problem of Abstraction
Godefroy Desjonquères on "Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age" by Chantal Delsol. @UNDPress