The purposes of this book are to provide a comprehensive description of the occupation know as "Medical Assisting" and to upgrade the performance standards in this field of work. It presents a broad picture of what medical assistants should know and be able to do, dividing the materials in four parts. Part 1-Fundamentals-what all medical assistants should know. Part 2-Adminstarative-the business function. Part 3-Clincal-the medical functions. Part 4-Special Patients-handling children, the elderly and the handicapped.

The Medical Assistant: A Basic Text Covering General, Administrative, and Clinical Functions

Medical Books

Cooper, David E.

Cooper, Marian G.

Cooper, D. E.

Allied Health Professions

McGraw-Hill Companies

The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery

Philosophers, both western and eastern, have long been divided between "humanists", for whom "man is the measure of things", and their opponents, who claim that there is a way, in principle knowable and describable, that the world anyway is, independent of human perspectives and interests. The early chapters of The Measure of Things chart the development of humanism from medieval times, through the Renaissance, Enlightenment and Romantic periods, to its most sophisticated, twentieth-century form, "existential humanism". Cooper does not identify this final position with that of any particular philosopher, though it is closely related to those of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and the later Wittgenstein. Among the earlier figures discussed are William of Ockham, Kant, Herder, Nietzsche and William James. Having rejected attempts by contemporary advocates of modest or non-metaphysical realism to dissolve the opposition between humanism and its "absolutist" rival, Cooper moves on to an adjudication of that rivality. Prompted by the pervasive rhetoric of hubris that the rivals direct against one another, he argues, in an original manner, that the rival positions are indeed guilty of lack of humility. Absolutists - whether defenders of "The Given" or scientific realists - exaggerate our capacity to ascend out of our "engaged" perspectives to an objective account of the world. Humanists, conversely, exaggerate our capacity to live without a sense of our subjection to a measure independent of our own perspectives. The only escape, Cooper maintains, from the impasse reached when humanism and absolutism are both rejected, lies in a doctrine of mystery. There is a reality independent of "the human contribution", but it is necessarily ineffable. Drawing in a novel way upon the Buddhist conception of "emptiness" and Heidegger's later writings, the final chapters defend the notion of mystery, distinguish the doctrine advanced from that of transcendental idealism, and propose that it is only through appreciation of mystery that measure and warrant may be provided for our beliefs and conduct.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

A Philosophy of Gardens

Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising that the question has been so long neglected by modern philosophy. Now at last there is a philosophy of gardens. Not only is this a fascinating subject in its own right, it also provides a reminder that the subject-matter of aesthetics is broader than the fine arts; that ethics is not just about moral issues but about 'the good life'; and that environmental philosophy should not focus only on 'wilderness' to the exclusion of the humanly shaped environment. David Cooper identifies garden appreciation as a special human phenomenon distinct from both from the appreciation of art and the appreciation of nature. He explores the importance of various 'garden-practices' and shows how not only gardening itself, but activities to which the garden especially lends itself, including social and meditative activities, contribute to the good life. And he distinguishes the many kinds of meanings that gardens may have, from representation of nature to emotional expression, from historical significance to symbolization of a spiritual relationship to the world. Building on the familiar observation that, among human beings' creations, the garden is peculiarly dependent on the co-operation of nature, Cooper argues that the garden matters as an epiphany of an intimate co-dependence between human creative activity in the world and the 'mystery' that allows there to be a world for them at all. A Philosophy of Gardens will open up this subject to students and scholars of aesthetics, ethics, and cultural and environmental studies, and to anyone with a reflective interest in things horticultural.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising that the question has been so long neglected by modern philosophy. Now at last there is a philosophy of gardens. David Cooper identifies garden appreciation as a special human phenomenon distinct from both from the appreciation of art and the appreciation of nature. He discusses the contribution of gardening and other garden-related pursuits to "the good life." And he distinguishes the many kinds of meanings that gardens may have, from their representation of nature to their spiritual significance. A Philosophy of Gardens will open up this subject to students and scholars of aesthetics, ethics, and cultural and environmental studies, and to anyone with a reflective interest in things horticultural.

Clarendon Press

Spirit of the Environment: Religion, Value and Environmental Concern

Spirit of the Enivironment provides a much needed alternative to exploring human beings' relationship to the natural world through the restrictive lenses of 'science', 'ecology' or even 'morality'.

Palmer, Joy A.

Routledge

Illusions of Equality (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 7)

Educational policy and discussion, in Britain and the USA, are increasingly dominated by the confused ideology of egalitarianism. David E. Cooper begins by identifying the principles hidden among the confusions, and argues that these necessarily conflict with the ideal of educational excellence - in which conflict it is this ideal that must be preserved. He goes on to criticize the use of education as a tool for promoting wider social equality, focussing especially on the muddles surrounding 'equal opportunities', 'social mix' and 'reverse discrimination'. Further chapters criticize the 'new egalitarianism' favoured, on epistemological grounds, by various sociologists of knowledge in recent years and 'cultural egalitarianism' according to which standard criteria of educational value merely reflect parochial and economic interests.

Illusions of Equality (International Library of the Philosophy of Education)

Reference

Metaphor (Aristotelian Society series)

What do metaphors mean? Why do we use them so much? Do they have a special kind of truth? These are among the many questions that David Cooper discusses in his wide-ranging study of a subject of growing importance for philosophers and students of language and literature. The author argues that the notion of metaphorical meaning, semantic or pragmatic, is a misguided one and that metaphorical truth is of only limited use in the appraisal of metaphors. Rather the main function of metaphorical talk is a social one: the "cultivation of intimacy" among speakers. Irony, "dead"metaphor, icons and the idea that language is fundamentally metaphorical are among the topics discussed in an account which ranges from Aristotle to the present day, from the analytic philosophy of Davidson to the work of continental writers such as Derrida, Barthes, and Gadamer.

Metaphor (Aristotelian Society Series)

Blackwell Pub.

First published in 1990, Existentialism is widely regarded as a classic introductory survey of the topic, and has helped to renew interest in existentialist philosophy. 
The author places existentialism within the great traditions of philosophy, and argues that it deserves as much attention from analytic philosophers as it has always received on the continent.

Existentialism: A Reconstruction (Introducing Philosophy)

Wiley/Blackwell

Existentialism: A Reconstruction

World Philosophies: A Historical Introduction

This popular text has now been revised to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the growing number of people interested in all the main philosophical traditions of the world. 
<ul>
<li>Introduces all the main philosophical systems of the world, from ancient times to the present day. 
</li> <li>Now includes new sections on Indian and Persian thought and on feminist and environmental philosophy. 
</li> <li>The preface and bibliography have also been updated. 
</li> <li>Written by a highly successful textbook author.</li> </ul>

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The Medical Assistant: A Basic Text Covering General, Administrative, and Clinical Functions

The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery

A Philosophy of Gardens

A Philosophy of Gardens

Spirit of the Environment: Religion, Value and Environmental Concern

Illusions of Equality (International Library of the Philosophy of Education)

Metaphor (Aristotelian Society Series)

Existentialism: A Reconstruction (Introducing Philosophy)

Existentialism: A Reconstruction

World Philosophies: A Historical Introduction