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Ethics in an Epidemic
AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into our attempts—popular and academic, American and non-American, scientific and political—to make moral sense of pain. Murphy addresses the complex moral questions raised by AIDS for health-care workers, politicians, policy makers, and even people with AIDS themselves. He ranges widely, analyzing contrasting visions of the origin and the future of the epidemic, the moral and political functions o...
Beyond Feminism
The discussion in this study of the relations between men and women is launched from a crucial premise: that the struggle for equal rights for women has reached a point where collaboration rather than confrontation between the sexes is necessary for continued progress. In order to attain true equality, women and men must recognize their legitimate differences and act together under circumstances in which their distinctive contributions are freely and reciprocally acknowledged. Reflecting on these differences in a series of interwoven essays, Cornelius F. Murphy seeks to open a constructive dialogue between the sexes. Reconciliation is his overarching concern. Recent books such as Robert Bly'...
Luck of the Irish
In this book, John F. Murphy has written both an autobiography and a memoir. The autobiographical chapters of the book set forth some of the highlights of a full and achievement filled life. In his early years in school, however, Murphy struggled, both academically and in sports, but then, with the help of gifted teachers and an extraordinary football coach at the elite Riverdale Country School in New York City, Murphy turned his life around. His senior year at Riverdale was so successful that Murphy's wife Laura suggested, only half in jest, "Riverdale was the peak for you, it's been downhill ever since." As an undergraduate at Cornell University, Murphy focused his studies on courses in th...
The Green Box
77-year-old Bill Sullivan, on a whim, drove through Newton, Mass. and stopped at Boyd Park to visit the Green Box. It was there, while WWII raged in Europe and the Pacific, that Sully and his friends waited eagerly for the park instructor to open the Green Box to the treasures of baseballs, gloves, bats, board games and a vast assortment of gems. The Green Box was the meeting place where lessons were learned about prejudice, justice, life, death and the pain of first love lost.
The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs
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Nobody from No Place, Going Nowhere
Nobody from No Place Going Nowhere-Then I Hit the Detours by William F. Murphy is a deeply personal memoir about how he overcame alcoholism, self esteem issues and more to lead a full, rich life. In clear conversational prose, he tells how family, mentors,friends helped him grapple with a drinking problem,spitituality and all the other thorns in the rose bushes of life. It is for those seeking interconnectedness and wanting to forge communities of caring. What is the measure of a good man? For author William F. Murphy, it was facing adversity and obstacles and learning from them.
Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels
Peter F. Murphy's purpose in this book is not to shock but rather to educate, provoke discussion, and engender change. Looking at the sexual metaphors that are so pervasive in American culture—jock, tool, shooting blanks, gang bang, and others even more explicit—he argues that men are trapped and damaged by language that constantly intertwines sexuality and friendship with images of war, machinery, sports, and work. These metaphors men live by, Murphy contends, reinforce the view that relationships are tactical encounters that must be won, because the alternative is the loss of manhood. The macho language with which men cover their fear of weakness is a way of bonding with other men. The implicit or explicit attacks on women and gay men that underlie this language translate, in their most extreme forms, into actual violence. Murphy also believes, however, that awareness of these metaphorical power plays is the basis for behavioral change: "How we talk about ourselves as men can alter the way we live as men."
Seeds of Pine
'Seeds of Pine' is an adventure novel written during the Settlers era by Janey Canuck, a penname of Emily Murphy. Written in first-person, it tells the story of a female homesteader in Canada. She is not particularly content with her life and the place she finds herself in as can be seen from her thoughts on the matter: "The new steel trail the railway men are laying from Edmonton leads away and away, I cannot say whither. For these many days I have had an anxious desire to follow it and the glories thereof. I am tired of this town and of the electrical devices that appear and re-appear in the darkness like eyes that open and shut—wicked eyes that burn their commercial message into my very soul. I am sick of these saucy, swaggering streets and of sundry of the townspeople. Come you with me and let us travel down the ways through the heart of the summer! We shall have breeze and sun in our eyes, and breeze and sun in our hearts. If you like not the prospect, pray, come no further, for we be contrary the one to the other and no way-fellows."
