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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “j bergsma”
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  • Doctors and Patients

    Strategies in Long-term Illness

    by J. Bergsma ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Patients have personal strategies in solving the problems concerning their illness. Doctors have personal and professional strategies in solving the problems with their patients. This book explores the problematic triangle between doctors, patients and the illness, using illustrations from internal medicine, nephrology, cardiology, oncology and neurology.Enhancement of the doctor-patient ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Autonomy and Clinical Medicine

    Renewing the Health Professional Relation with the Patient

    by David C. Thomasma, J. Bergsma ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book arises from a two-fold conviction. The first is that autonomy, despite recent critiques about its importance in bioethics and philosophy of medicine, and the traditional resistance of medicine to its "intrusion" into the doctor-patient relation, is a fundamental building block of an individual's identity and mechanisms for dealing with illness, disease, and incapacity. As such it is an ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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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

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $143.09 USD

  • Blood On My Hands - A Surgeon At War

    by Craig Jurisevic ...
    An Australian surgeon's extraordinary story of courage and conflict. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Complaints & Disorders

    The Sexual Politics of Sickness

    by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ...
    Series series Contemporary Classics
    The classic work on women's health and how the medical establishment helped to justify sexism, by the authors of Witches, Midwives, and Nurses.From Barbara Ehrenrich, New York Times-bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Bright-Sided, and other titles, and Deirdre English, former editor of Mother Jones, this book delves into the history of how women have been diagnosed, defined, and often ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $13.99 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

    $15.99 USD

  • Modern Death

    How Medicine Changed the End of Life

    by Haider Warraich ...
    "Elegant and poignant . . . [Warraich] succeeds in humanizing a complex topic and gives us remarkable insights about the changing nature of 'modern death'." ―Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times –bestselling author of The Emperor of All MaladiesThere is no more universal truth in life than death but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age.... ... Read more

    $14.39 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

    $17.29 USD

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  • Everyday Practice of Science

    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

  • Vaccine

    The Debate in Modern America

    by Mark A. Largent ...
    A thoughtful evaluation of the vaccine debate, its history, and its consequences.Since 1990, the number of mandated vaccines has increased dramatically. Today, a fully vaccinated child will have received nearly three dozen vaccinations between birth and age six. Along with the increase in number has come a growing wave of concern among parents about the unintended side effects of vaccines. In ... Read more

    $33.59 USD