What We Value: Public Health, Social Justice, and Educating for Democracy

by Lynn C. Pasquerella, David J. Skorton (Afterword)

Overview

In We Value, acclaimed bioethicist and educator Lynn Pasquerella examines urgent issues—the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, the student debt crisis, and racially motivated violence—with which Americans wrestle daily, arguing that liberal education is the best preparation for work, citizenship, and life in a future none of us can predict.

Pasquerella addresses medical ethics and public health in the context of the pandemic, unpacks the current challenges surrounding free speech and inclusion on American campuses, and examines the growing racial and economic segregation in higher education. The author makes a forceful case for the value of a liberal education in providing the skills and competencies, alongside the habits of heart and mind, required to address the issues facing us all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813948478
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	01/25/2022
Series:	The Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on the Liberal Arts and Public Life
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lynn Pasquerella, a celebrated philosopher and medical ethicist, is president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, former president of Mount Holyoke College, and coauthor of Ethical Issues in Home Health Care.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
1. Moral Distress, Moral Injury, and the Concept of Death as Un-American
2. On Snowflakes, Chilly Climates, and Shouting to be Heard: The Role of Liberal Education in Weathering Campus Storms
3. Preparing Students for Work, Citizenship, and Life in the Twenty-first Century: Reestablishing Liberal Education as a Public Good
Afterword by David J. Skorton, MD
Notes
Bibliography

What People are Saying About This

Larry Churchill

Brilliant and inspiring. Lynn Pasquerella makes a profound contribution to our understanding of liberal education’s value in the context of the vast political and social struggles we currently face.

Mary Dana Hinton

Illuminating the interconnectedness of urgent public concerns around health, justice, and education, this thoughtful book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we arrived in this fraught moment, and how we may move beyond it.

Editorial Reviews

Illuminating the interconnectedness of urgent public concerns around health, justice, and education, this thoughtful book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we arrived in this fraught moment, and how we may move beyond it.

—Mary Dana Hinton, President, Hollins University, author of The Commercial Church: Black Churches and the New Religious Marketplace in America

Brilliant and inspiring. Lynn Pasquerella makes a profound contribution to our understanding of liberal education’s value in the context of the vast political and social struggles we currently face.

—Larry Churchill, Vanderbilt University, author of Ethics for Everyone: A Skills-Based Approach

From the Publisher

Brilliant and inspiring. Lynn Pasquerella makes a profound contribution to our understanding of liberal education’s value in the context of the vast political and social struggles we currently face.

Larry Churchill

Illuminating the interconnectedness of urgent public concerns around health, justice, and education, this thoughtful book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we arrived in this fraught moment, and how we may move beyond it.

Mary Dana Hinton