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  • The Case against Assisted Suicide

    For the Right to End-of-Life Care

    Edited by Kathleen M. Foley, MD, Herbert Hendin, MD ...
    In The Case against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care, Dr. Kathleen Foley and Dr. Herbert Hendin uncover why pleas for patient autonomy and compassion, often used in favor of legalizing euthanasia, do not advance or protect the rights of terminally ill patients. Incisive essays by authorities in the fields of medicine, law, and bioethics draw on studies done in the Netherlands, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders

    What We Know and What We Don't Know

    Edited by Dwight L. Evans, Edna B. Foa, Raquel E. Gur, Herbert Hendin, Charles P. O'Brien, Daniel Romer, Martin E.P. Seligman, B. Timothy Walsh ...
    Series series Adolescent Mental Health Initiative
    Sponsored by the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania and the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands Trust, Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders, Second Edition, provides a major update since the first edition in 2005. It addresses the current state of knowledge about the major mental health ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Death and Dying

    A Reader

    by Paul B. Bascom, David DeGrazia, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Kathleen Foley, Herbert Hendin, Michael Panicola, Stephen G. Post, Susan W. Tolle, Upper House of the States General: The Netherlands, Charles von Gunten ...
    Series series Readings in Bioethics
    Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies, is covered regularly in the media, and affects people everyday around the globe. In response ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

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  • Toxic Psychiatry

    by Peter R. Breggin ...
    Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Haldol, Lithium. These psychiatric drugs--and dozens of other short-term "solutions"--are being prescribed by doctors across the country as a quick antidote to depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other psychiatric problems. But at what cost?In this searing, myth-shattering exposé, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., breaks through the hype and ... Read more

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  • Just Medicine

    A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care

    by Dayna Bowen Matthew ...
    An innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care—and save the lives they endanger: "Highly engaging and worthwhile reading." ― Health AffairsOver 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unjust and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Book of Ethics

    Expert Guidance For Professionals Who Treat Addiction

    by Laura Weiss Roberts ...
    The definitive book on ethics for chemical dependency treatment professionals.The treatment of addiction as a biological, psychological, social, and spiritual disease requires a high standard of ethical knowledge and professional skill. This groundbreaking, reader-friendly guide to contemporary ethical issues informs and challenges health care professionals, students, and faculty with a thorough ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Dying and Death in Canada, Fourth Edition

    by Herbert Northcott, Donna Wilson ...
    Dying and Death in Canada provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective. The fourth edition covers current issues and recent developments in the field, such as the implementation of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) and the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. New topics include death doulas, death tourism, psychogenic death, bonds ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Life or Death

    A Matter of Choice?

    by Daniel J. Baum ...
    Series Book 4 - Understanding Canadian Law
    A understandable overview of the laws regarding euthanasia, end-of-life treatment, and medication of those who may be unable to decide for themselves if the treatment is necessary.Our bodies are ours to control, free from state interference — or so it appears. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides: “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be ... Read more

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  • Mad Among Us

    by Gerald N. Grob ...
    In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, the foremost historian in the field compellingly recounts our various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma from colonial times to the present.Gerald Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response to the escalating numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill and the deterioration of these ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Why I Burned My Book

    by Paul Longmore ...
    Series series American Subjects
    This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. The essays here search for the often hidden pattern of systemic ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Psychiatric Ethics

    Edited by Sidney Bloch, Stephen A. Green ...
    Ethical issues inherent in psychiatric research and clinical practice are invariably complex and multi-faceted. Well-reasoned ethical decision-making is essential to deal effectively with patients and promote optimal patient care. Drawing on the positive reception of Psychiatric Ethics since its first publication in 1981, this highly anticipated 5th edition offers psychiatrists and other mental ... Read more

    $63.89 USD