The Humanist back issues from November 1994:
Blues for single-payer. (health care reform)(includes related article on the lack of media coverage of single-payer proposals)
Nov 01, 1994; ... In June, Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded to the Economic Club in Washington, D.C., that the so-called single-payer health-care reform option isn't "politically infeasible" after all, as it has been characterized by politicians and the media ever since the Clintons elevated health care to ...
A modern Inquisition. (address in acceptance of 1994 Humanist Hero Award from the American Humanist Association)(Death With Dignity) (Cover Story) (Transcript)
Nov 01, 1994; ... This article is adapted from the speech delivered by Dr. Kevorkian upon receiving the 1994 Humanist Hero Award from the American Humanist Association at its annual conference in Detroit, Michigan. This is probably the first time that this august body has been addressed by someone ...
Final act: sorting out the ethics of physician-assisted suicide. (Death With Dignity)
Nov 01, 1994; ... The question of whether a physician should assist a patient with an intolerable terminal condition to end his or her life has been debated since the practice of medicine began. Philosophically, it's been a toss-up: Plato, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, David Hume, and Jeremy Bentham approved; ...
Suicide and the law. (Death With Dignity)
Nov 01, 1994; ... Dr. Jack Kevorkian's attempts to assist terminally ill people to commit suicide may be controversial or even illegal, but there's still one sure way to get legal help for a quick and painless death: you need only commit murder in one of the 22 states which practices execution by lethal ...
Oregon Ballot Measure 16. (allows a lethal prescription to be written; appeared on the 1994 ballot)(Death With Dignity) (Transcript)
Nov 01, 1994 ... Ballot Measure 16 allows terminally ill adults to obtain prescriptions for lethal drugs. This measure would allow an informed and capable adult resident of Oregon, who is terminally ill and within six months of death, to voluntarily request a prescription for medication to take his or her ...
Death, nothingness, and subjectivity.
Nov 01, 1994; ... For only death annihilates all sense, all becoming, to replace them with non-sense and absolute cessation. -- F. Gonzalez-Cruzzi, "Days of the Dead," in the New Yorker, November 1993 The words quoted above distill the common secular conception ...
Biology of the soul.
Nov 01, 1994; ... In 1972, the eminent theologian John Hick published a treatise entitled "Biology and the Soul," which he had earlier delivered as the Eddington Memorial Lecture at Cambridge University. As a biologist interested in issues at the interface between science and religion, I thought that now, ...
The doctor-killer reads his Bible. (poem)
Nov 01, 1994; ... And it is written there: "The Lord God is a consuming fire, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, burning for burning; so cast out devils, kill every woman who has known a man, stone her with stones that she might die, for it is written: thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, beware of men defiled ...
Under the volcano: human rights, official torture, and the future of Mexican democracy.
Nov 01, 1994; ... This article is adapted from the address delivered by Acosta at the State University College of Buffalo, New York, this past summer. When describing the human-rights situation in Mexico, one must compete with an enormous disinformation campaign from a Mexican government bent on ...
Running out of loaves and fishes. (global resources)
Nov 01, 1994; ... This article is adapted from the Worldwatch Institute's Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity, which was prepared for distribution at the Third United Nations Population Conference held recently in Cairo. (For complete details substantiating the positions taken in ...
Cairo, Rome, and beyond. (1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Disarmament)
Nov 01, 1994; ... Between September 5 and 13, 1994, representatives of the world's governments gathered in Cairo for the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development. Their goal: to consider and adopt policies for stabilizing world population at about 7.3 billion by the year 2015 ....
Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity.
Nov 01, 1994; ... Between September 5 and 13, 1994, representatives of the world's governments gathered in Cairo for the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development. Their goal: to consider and adopt policies for stabilizing world population at about 7.3 billion by the year 2015 ....
The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy.
Nov 01, 1994; ... Between September 5 and 13, 1994, representatives of the world's governments gathered in Cairo for the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development. Their goal: to consider and adopt policies for stabilizing world population at about 7.3 billion by the year 2015 ....
Taking the public access out of public access. (Seattle, WA controversial nude TV talk show)
Nov 01, 1994; ... For several years, I have been a frequent guest on my favorite public-access television series to discuss censorship issues or secular humanism. My initial delight upon meeting the producer, cast, and crew of "Political Playhouse" has matured into a bond of great affection and solidarity. ...
Humanism with a human face? (gay rights, politics and humanism)
Nov 01, 1994; ... Rather than write a grandiloquent essay on the topic "What Is Humanism?," I'll proceed in a less systematic way. Had I but world enough and time, each of the following subjects would deserve its own essay. At least their selection and order are not random. Here I will also make my general ...
Chance encounters with the Moral Majority?
Nov 01, 1994; ... During the 1980s, I realized how powerful and pervasive an influence the idea of spirituality had become in a growing number of people's lives. Being a dyed-in-the-wool humanist and thoroughly secular Jew, I didn't pay close attention to the phenomenon, except to register a general sense ...
Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color.
Nov 01, 1994; ... Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color edited by Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1994); 400 pp.; $25.00 cloth. In 1986, several oil companies planned to build a pipeline between two coastal towns in California. In order to ...