A medical oncologist, world-class expert on inter-personal communication, and commited humanist, Dr. Buckman offers a well thought out and sophisticated argument for a moral life that is not predicated on a belief in a higher power. Communicating difficult messages has always been one of Dr. Buckman's critical skills, and laughter some of his best medicine. In recent years he has parlayed his remarkable abilities into a series of successful television and video projects, including a medical training series with friend John Cleese of Monty Python fame, and the award-winning Discovery program Human Wildlife. His books, on everything from skin care, to how to provide help and support to terminally ill patients, as well as his own hilarious memoirs, Not Dead Yet, are a hit with readers around the world.

To this challenging question Dr. Robert Buckman offers an emphatic Yes! With insight, humor, and passion he argues that a moral life and ethical decision-making are not only possible in a secular world, they are absolutely imperative for an orderly and cohesive society. His lectures stand as a counter-point to religious conservatives who argue that there is only one way to develop a moral compass (a religious one) and offer young people searching for meaning and a sense of self a way to find these. Dr. Buckman does not say that you shouldn't have religious faith, or that religious people are not ethical. Rather, he offers a well-reasoned approach to those who are not religious but would still like to find a moral center to their world.