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  • The Right Medicine

    How to Make Health Care Reform Work Today

    by David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    When Dr. David Cundiff called me with a proposal to help research and write The Right Medicine I was intrigued but skep tical. His ideas for reform of the US health care system were visionary, radical, and highly original-but would they work? As a Wall Street analyst and long-time student of the health care system, I had my doubts. had read David's book on hospice care, Euthanasia Is Not the I ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Euthanasia is Not the Answer

    A Hospice Physician’s View

    by David Cundiff ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Instances of euthanasia or mercy killing date back to antiquity. However, it is only recently that the unprecedented grassroots efforts to legalize euthana sia have begun building. "Terminal Illness, Assistance with Dying," a California ballot initiative for the No vember 1992 election, might for the first time in modem history legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide by physicians. Similar ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic

    by Frederick Grinnell ...
    Scientific facts can be so complicated that only specialists in a field fully appreciate the details, but the nature of everyday practice that gives rise to these facts should be understandable by everyone interested in science. This book describes how scientists bring their own interests and passions to their work, illustrates the dynamics between researchers and the research community, and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Bad Pharma

    How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar with the research literature about a drug, when in reality much of the research is ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Medical Ethics For Dummies

    by Jane Runzheimer, Linda Johnson Larsen ...
    A practical, insightful guide to the moral and ethical standards of healthcareSucceeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, while knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices, and so much ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • The Good Doctor

    A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics

    by Barron H. Lerner ...
    The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health careAs a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital’s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the mid-1990s, his father, an infectious diseases physician, told him a stunning story: he had physically placed ... Read more

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  • Extreme Measures

    Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

    by Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D. ...
    For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest levelIn medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care—to become an ICU physician—and imagined ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Guide to Adult ADHD™

    by Joel L. Young, MD ...
    Contrary to popular belief, most children who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not outgrow the disorders; they become adults who suffer from ADHD. Written by an acknowledged expert in the adult phase of ADHD, this guide will fill the void of available medical information with the latest clinical guidelines and recommended pharmacotherapies for the treatment of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Breast Cancer®, 2nd edition

    by Lynn H. Ratner, MD ...
    In this timely handbook, an expert in oncology explains the risk factors for contracting breast cancer and the pathogenesis of the disease, discusses the complexities of diagnosis, and offers a detailed examination of surgical treatments and the latest drug therapies, including raloxifene (Evista®). ... Read more

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  • Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics

    A Case-Based Textbook

    Edited by Douglas S. Diekema, Mark R. Mercurio, Mary B. Adam ...
    This volume provides a practical overview of the ethical issues arising in pediatric practice. The case-based approach grounds the bioethical concepts in real-life situations, covering a broad range of important and controversial topics, including informed consent, confidentiality, truthfulness and fidelity, ethical issues relating to perinatology and neonatology, end-of-life issues, new ... Read more

    $77.89 USD

  • Observing Bioethics

    by Renee C. Fox, Judith P. Swazey ...
    Observing Bioethics examines the history of bioethics as a discipline related not only to modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the core values and beliefs of American society and its courts, legislatures, and media. The book is written from the perspective of two social scientists--a sociologist of medicine(Renee C. Fox) and a historian of medicine (Judith P. Swazey)--who have ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Bioethics: The Basics

    by Alastair Campbell ...
    Series series The Basics
    Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today. Topics addressed include:the range of moral theories underpinning bioethicsarguments for the rights ... Read more

    $31.99 USD