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  • Methods in Medical Ethics

    Second Edition

    by Jeremy Sugarman, Daniel P. Sulmasy, Ruth Faden, Alison Boyce, David DeGrazia, Tom L. Beauchamp, Diego Gracia, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Edmund D. Pellegrino0, Albert R. Jonsen1, Mark A. Hall2, Nancy M.P. King3, Susan E. Lederer4, Tod Chambers5, Raymond DeVries6, Holly A. Taylor7, Sara Chandros Hull8, Nancy E. Kass9, Patricia A. Marshall0, Barbara A. Koenig1, Robert A. Pearlman2, Helene E. Starks3, Marion Danis4, Laura Hanson5, Joanne M. Garrett6, David A. Asch7 ...
    Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.In this influential book, outstanding scholars in medical ethics bring these many methods together in one place to be systematically described, critiqued, and challenged. Newly ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

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  • Bioethics for Beginners

    60 Cases and Cautions from the Moral Frontier of Healthcare

    by Glenn McGee ...
    How far is too far? 60 cases illustrating modern bioethical dilemmasBioethics for Beginners maps the giant dilemmas posed by new technologies and medical choices, using 60 cases taken from our headlines, and from the worlds of medicine and science. This eminently readable book takes it one case at a time, shedding light on the social, economic and legal side of 21st century medicine while giving ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Danger Within Us

    America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It

    by Jeanne Lenzer ...
    Did you know...Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America.An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices -- like pacemakers, artificial hips, cardiac stents, etc.The overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices have never undergone a single clinical trial.In The Danger Within Us, award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer brings these ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • An Error in Judgement

    by Dara Culhane ...
    On January 22, 1979, an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. The events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, anecdotes and public records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospital, the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of The Enlarged Prostate®, 2nd edition

    by Kevin T. McVary, MD, Brian T. Helfand, MD, PhD ...
    This handbook extensively discusses how an enlarged prostate can affect the quality of life and psychological well-being of men who suffer from the disorder. Featuring informative illustrations, the handbook also includes a section with the answers to the 20 most frequently asked questions about the enlarged prostate. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Adults: Ethical and Legal Perspectives

    An overview on FASD for professionals

    Edited by Monty Nelson, Marguerite Trussler ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book discusses and provides insight on the legal and ethical dilemmas of managing those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). This book provides a clear perspective for those clinicians and legal professionals who are working with those with this disorder, and correspondingly increases their understanding when arranging effective supports for this population. Historically, the primary ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers

    Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics

    by James C. Edwards, Larry R. Churchill, James Lindemann Nelson, Grant Gillett ...
    Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that, in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled in this volume pay particular attention to Wittgenstein’s concern with the thick context of moral ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of COPD®, 2nd edition

    by Antonio Anzueto, MD, Fernando J. Martinez, MD, MS ...
    More than 16 million Americans are estimated to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a condition that interferes with normal breathing and has become the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. This practice-based reference by two leading pulmonary experts provides clinicians with the latest, clinically relevant information about pathology and pathophysiology, management, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Biomedical Research and Beyond

    Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry

    by Christopher O. Tollefsen ...
    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    What is the relationship between scientific research and ethics? Some think that science should be free from ethical and political considerations. Biomedical Research and Beyond argues that ethical guidance is essential for all forms of inquiry, including biomedical and scientific research. By addressing some of the most controversial questions of biomedical research, such as embryonic research, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • What Makes a Good Nurse

    Why the Virtues are Important for Nurses

    by Derek Sellman ...
    In recent years, the human values at the heart of the nursing profession seem to have become side-lined by an increased focus on managerialist approaches to health care provision. Nursing's values are in danger of becoming marginalised further precisely because that which nursing does best - providing care and helping individuals through the human trauma of illness - is difficult to measure, and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Ending Life

    Ethics and the Way We Die

    by Margaret Pabst Battin ...
    Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands to furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Americans with Disabilities

    Edited by Leslie Francis, Anita Silvers ...
    In this groundbreaking work, leading philosophers, legal theorists, bioethicists, and policy makers offer incisive looks into the philosophical and moral foundations of disability law and policy. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD