Melissa Jones, Ph.D., is a healthcare advocacy writer and adjunct professor of liberal studies at Brandman University in Irvine, California.
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Book Review
Women of Italian Renaissance health care come out of shadows in new book
Review: It seems strange to assert that a book about Late Renaissance Italian women in health care is relevant to the present global crisis, but striking parallels are found throughout Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy by Sharon T. Strocchia of Emory University.
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Book explains how Teilhard fit his faith with his experience
Review: St. Joseph Sr. Kathleen Duffy portrays the Jesuit priest as the patron saint of the struggle to reconcile outdated tenets of a loved faith with burgeoning scientific evidence about the world around us.
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Eastern icons challenge Western notion of Resurrection
Book Review: The authors remind the Latin faithful about what Orthodox believers have embraced for centuries: Christ's resurrection was a universal, communal event.
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Virtual connectivity helps us attend to life's pain
Book Review: This book is essentially a conversion story. The author describes her journey from digital cynicism to a firm belief that virtual relationships can alleviate individual suffering.
