All about the Affordable Care Act
As the enrollment phase continues for the Affordable Care Act, a new book is coming out this month to help health care and legal professionals decipher what the law says, how it works, and what it requires. Health Care Reform: Law and Practice, written by Boston College Law School faculty members Mary Ann Chirba and Alice Noble along with Michael Maddigan, provides expert information on the Affordable Care Act’s impact on employees, employers and employee benefit plans; on health plans, insurers, and managed care organizations; on providers, as well as on individuals (addressing access to coverage and state health insurance exchanges; Medicare and Medicaid patients and providers; fraud and abuse enforcement, and more). Chirba and Noble were interviewed about the ACA in the Boston College Chronicle.
Bach, reinvented
Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs Senior Fellow Paul Elie will present “Technician of the Sacred: J.S. Bach” on Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Elie’s book Reinventing Bach tells the story of how musicians have made Bach’s music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures in our lives. His earlier work, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, received the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle award finalist. Read the New York Times review of Reinventing Bach. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series
A guide to moral terms
School of Theology and Ministry Professor of Moral Theology James Bretzke, SJ has published a new book, the Handbook of Roman Catholic Moral Terms (Georgetown University Press), which offers concise definitions, historical context, and illustrations on more than 800 moral terms used in the Catholic tradition, including Church teaching and documents. Designed to serve as a vital reference work for libraries, students and scholars of theology, priests and pastoral ministers, as well as all adults interested in theological enrichment or continuing education, the Handbook of Roman Catholic Moral Terms is the most comprehensive post-Vatican II work of its kind available in English. Fr. Bretzke is the author of several other books, including A Morally Complex World: Engaging Contemporary Moral Theology.
Invasion: Diaries and Memories of the War in Iraq
A powerful multimedia exhibition that combines photographs, diary entries and a journalistic account of the War in Iraq is on display at the Boston College Law Library throughout the month of November. Based on the diary of Boston College Law School graduate Timothy McLaughlin, “Invasion: Diaries and Memories of the War in Iraq” has been called “a stinging rebuke of the news media’s early unquestioning coverage as well as a window into the nature of war” by the New York Times. Marine Lt. McLaughlin, who was at the Pentagon during the 9/11 terrorist attack, commanded a tank during the invasion of Iraq, and his American flag was memorably draped on a statue of Saddam Hussein at Firdos Square. Collaborating with McLaughlin on the exhibit are writer Peter Maass, who was covering the invasion for the New York Times Magazine, and Gary Knight, an award-winning photographer for Newsweek. Heralded for its human view of life on the front line, the exhibit breaks new ground in documentary storytelling, and displays an innovative grid of 36 pages from McLaughlin’s diaries along with Knight’s images and Maass’ stories. McLaughlin, Knight and Maass will come to the Law School for a panel discussion and reception on Nov. 5 at 6:30 p.m. More from Boston College Chronicle
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