Interdiciplinary Study

There is an array of opinions expressed greatly throughout text in the two books "Lying" by Sissela Bok and "The Concise Book of Lying" by Evelin Sullivan. These books conger around interdisciplinary study because they both use wide range disciplines to express their personal convictions on the basis and complex issue of lying. For example, in Evelin Sullivan's book "The Concise Book of Lying" she writes about the disciplines of Religion, History, Medicine, Philosophy, and Political Science all relating to the concept of lying. For instance, in Sissela Bok's book "Lying" she writes about the disciplines are Religion, History, Medicine, Philosophy, and Political Science. Although the two writers use almost the same disciplines to write their books, they describe those disciplines by using many different but some similar examples.

In "The Concise Book of Lying" Sullivan writes about lying and uses the story of Adam and Eve (pgs. 3-6), Christianity (pgs. 4-7), Hinduism (pgs. 34, 41-42, 252), Judaism (pgs. 10, 22, 24m, 181), and Jehovah's Witnesses (pg. 27) to name some effects that support the discipline of Religion or Theology. Sullivan writes a whole chapter named The Bible: A Casebook. In the chapter she does not defer away from the discipline of religion and theology. In "Lying" Sissela Bok writes about lying by using the Bible (pgs. 3, 27-8, 33-4, 42), Buddhist (pg. 45), Catholicism (pgs. 14, 33-35, 39-40), Jewish texts (pgs. 45, 55, 73-4), Religious Persecution and Religious truth (pgs. 6-7, 111, 124) and theology and theologians (pgs. 5, 33-5, 39-40, 48, 161) are some examples that Bok uses to describe the discipline of Religion or Theology. By using the discipline of religion both authors could show what the religions stance on lying, consequences of the lies and preventions of lying.

In Sullivan's book she writes about American Indian, African, and Oceanian folk tales (pgs. 34, 35), General Dwight D. Eisenhower (pg. 231), ancient Egyptians (pg. 245), ancient Greeks (pgs. 73, 88, 89, 172-73, 251), French Revolution (pg. 255), Iran-Contra scandal (pg. 142), Adolf Hitler (pgs. 120, 208), and Mao Zedong (pg. 244) to name some of the examples of History as a discipline In Bok's book she writes about Mahatma Gandhi (pg. 134), the origin of Totalitarianism (pg. 113), and the Watergate Scandal (pgs. xxx, 61, 107, 120-1, 173) as some of the examples the uses to show History is a discipline. In using the discipline of History you could examine and pick apart lies that had happened and been very detrimental to society. Using the discipline of History you also could study types of lies in certain situations and improve upon them.

Evelin Sullivan writes about lying in using the discipline of Medicine with these following examples: AIDS (139-40), Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (pgs. 151-2, 155), and lying to receive medical treatment (pg. 271). Sissela Bok writes about lying also using Medicine by writing about these examples: Medical lies and deception (pgs. 37, 48, 78-9), the medical profession (pg. xxvii, 4), and medication (pgs. 61-8, 233, 237-8). When writing about the discipline of Medicine the authors use the example of doctors lying to their patients about their sickness or a loved ones sickness.

Both authors Sullivan and Bok use philosophy as a discipline and use ancient Greek philosophers