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  • Psychiatry and Philosophy

    by Erwin W. Straus, Maurice Natanson, Henri Ey ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The three essays reprinted in this book were first published in 1963 as individual chapters of a psychiatric treatise entitled Psychiatrie der Gegen wart (Psychiatry of the Present Day). The editors, W. H. GRUHLE (Bonn), R. JUNG (Freiburg/Br. ), W. MAYER-GROSS (Birmingham, England), M. MUL LER (Bern, Switzerland), had not planned an encyclopedic presentation; they did not intend to present a ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    A Memoir

    by Howard Dully, Charles Fleming ...
    In this heartfelt memoir from one of the youngest recipients of the transorbital lobotamy, Howard Dully shares the story of a painfully dysfunctional childhood, a misspent youth, his struggle to claim the life that was taken from him, and his redemption.At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Right To Be Loved

    by S. Matthew Liao ...
    S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, ... Read more

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  • The Good Doctor

    What Patients Want

    by Ron Paterson ...
    Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by lifting the veils of secrecy and better informing patients, by establishing more effective ways of ... Read more

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  • The Match

    Savior Siblings and One Family's Battle to Heal Their Daughter

    by Beth Whitehouse ...
    My Sister’s Keeper in nonfiction: a family’s real-life struggle to cure their daughter by creating her genetic matchKatie Trebing was diagnosed at three months oldwith Diamond Blackfan anemia, a rare form of anemia that prevents bone marrow from producing red blood cells. Even with a lifetime of monthly blood transfusions, she faced a poor prognosis. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Beth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ethical Decision Making in Nursing and Health Care

    The Symphonological Approach

    by James H. Husted, Gladys Husted, PhD, MSN, RN ...
    Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!"This book provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making, a process that can help clarify situations where right and wrong are not clearly definedÖ.This should be a valuable book for ethics and theory courses." Score: 100, 5 stars--Doody'sHusted and Husted's classic nursing ethics text provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making that ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance

    The Contemporaries and Successors of Jean Fernel (1497-1558)

    by Linda Deer Richardson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related medical traditions, the Hippocratic and the Galenic. The book contains a classification and critique of works that touch on the history ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health

    Steps Towards a Philosophy of Medical Practice

    by F. Svenaeus ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Fredrik Svenaeus' book is a delight to read. Not only does he exhibit keen understanding of a wide range of topics and figures in both medicine and philosophy, but he manages to bring them together in an innovative manner that convincingly demonstrates how deeply these two significant fields can be and, in the end, must be mutually enlightening. Medicine, Svenaeus suggests, reveals deep but rarely ... Read more

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  • Artificial Hearts

    The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology

    by Shelley McKellar ...
    A comprehensive history of the development of artificial hearts in the United States.Artificial hearts are seductive devices. Their promissory nature as a cure for heart failure aligned neatly with the twentieth-century American medical community’s view of the body as an entity of replacement parts. In Artificial Hearts, Shelley McKellar traces the controversial history of this imperfect ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Patenting Nanomedicines

    Legal Aspects, Intellectual Property and Grant Opportunities

    Edited by Eliana B. Souto ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    “Patenting Nanomedicines: Legal Aspects, Intellectual Property and Grant Opportunities” focusses on the fundamental aspects of Patenting Nanomedicines applied in different “Drug Delivery and Targeting Systems”. The promoters of new findings in this field of research are numerous and spread worldwide; therefore, managing intellectual property portfolios, and the acquisition and exploitation of new ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Mental Illness: Law and Public Policy

    Edited by B.A. Brody, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume developed from and around a series of six lectures sponsored by Rice University and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the Fall of 1976. Though these lectures on the concepts of mental health, mental illness and personal responsibility, and the social treatment of the mentally ill were given to general audiences in Houston and Galveston, they were revised and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Global Bioethics: The Impact of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee

    Edited by Alireza Bagheri, Jonathan D. Moreno, Stefano Semplici ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The UNESCO International Bioethics Committee is an international body that sets standards in the field of bioethics. This collection represents the contributions of the IBC to global bioethics. The IBC is a body of 36 independent experts that follows progress in the life sciences and its applications in order to ensure respect for human dignity and freedom. Currently, some of the topics of the IBC ... Read more

    $49.49 USD