1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology. Gabor Maté (physician) Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1944, he is a survivor of the Nazi genocide. His maternal grandparents were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old, his aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazis.[2] He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1956. He was a student radical during the Vietnam era in the late 1960s[3] and graduated with a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He worked for a few years as a high school English and literature teacher, and later returned to school to pursue his childhood dream of being a physician. Maté ran a private family practice in East Vancouver for over twenty years. He was also the medical co-ordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital for seven years. What Makes Us Moral - A to Z Health Guide 2007.
If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago have been declared mad.
The insanity would not lie in the anger and darkness of the human mind—though it can be a black and raging place indeed. And it certainly wouldn't lie in the transcendent goodness of that mind—one so sublime, we fold it into a larger "soul. " The madness would lie instead in the fact that both of those qualities, the savage and the splendid, can exist in one creature, one person, often in one instant.
We're a species that is capable of almost dumbfounding kindness. Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies. Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work.
Revenu Universel — pourquoi il n’est pas naïf. Social and Behavioral Science Research.