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  • Physician-Assisted Death

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by L.W. Sumner ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The issue of physician-assisted death is now firmly on the American public agenda. Already legal in five states, it is the subject of intense public opinion battles across the country. Driven by an increasingly aging population, and a baby boom generation just starting to enter its senior years, the issue is not going to go away anytime soon. In Physician-Assisted Death, L.W. Sumner equips readers ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • From Disability Theory to Practice

    Essays in Honor of Jerome E. Bickenbach

    by Christopher Lowry, Patricia Welch Saleeby, Somnath Chatterji, Tom Shakespeare, Sara Rubinelli, Alarcos Cieza, Gerold Stucki, L.W. Sumner, Christopher A. Riddle, David Wasserman0 ...
    From Disability Theory to Practice pays tribute to Professor Jerome Bickenbach’s highly influential and immensely important work. Professor Bickenbach is a scholar, policy-maker, and activist, of international stature. This volume brings together ten friends, mentors, and mentees, who have penned eight chapters engaging in topics that range, as the title suggests and as Professor Bickenbach’s work ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • 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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  • 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

  • Global Health and Global Health Ethics

    Edited by Solomon Benatar, Gillian Brock ...
    What can be done about the poor state of global health? How are global health challenges intimately linked to the global political economy and to issues of social justice? What are our responsibilities and how can we improve global health? Global Health and Global Health Ethics addresses these questions from the perspective of a range of disciplines, including medicine, philosophy and the social ... Read more

    $63.19 USD

  • 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

  • The Ethics of Surgery

    Conflicts and Controversies

    Edited by Robert M. Sade, M.D. ...
    According to popular belief, technical skill is far more important for surgeons than thoughtful deliberation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Although surgeons must sometimes make decisions rapidly on the basis of incomplete evidence and must respond to unexpected catastrophes in the operating room rapidly, those events are intermittent - most of the time surgeons deliberate on diagnostic ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine

    Edited by L.Y Nordenfelt, B.I.B Lindahl ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    On May 13-15, 1982, some 50 scientists and scholars - physicians, philos ophers and social scientists - convened at Hasselby Castle in Stockholm for the first Nordic Symposium on the Philosophy of Medicine. The topics for the symposium included (1) the concepts of health and disease, (2) classification in medicine, and (3) causality and causal explanations in medicine. The majority of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Continuous Sedation at the End of Life

    Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives

    Edited by Kasper Raus, Freddy Mortier, Sigrid Sterckx ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Continuous sedation until death (sometimes referred to as terminal sedation or palliative sedation) is an increasingly common practice in end-of-life care. However, it raises numerous medical, ethical, emotional and legal concerns, such as the reducing or removing of consciousness (and thus potentially causing 'subjective death'), the withholding of artificial nutrition and hydration, the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine

    by Nathaniel Comfort ...
    Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a century ago eugenicists were making the same promises. The Science of Human Perfection traces the history of the promises of medical genetics and of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Clinical Ethics and the Necessity of Stories

    Essays in Honor of Richard M. Zaner

    Edited by Osborne P. Wiggins, Annette C. Allen ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This collection of articles honors the work of Richard Zaner, a distinguished philosopher who has worked for over twenty years as an ethics consultant at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His work in the clinical setting, especially the use of narrative in understanding what is going on in this setting is the focus of some of the papers, others relate his methodology and phenomenological ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine

    Edited by Catherine Marco, Raquel Schears ...
    The emergency department is a place of challenging ethical dilemmas and little time and resources to solve them. Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine provides invaluable information, perspectives, and solutions to common ethical dilemmas in emergency medicine. It addresses important topics seen in the emergency department, including medicolegal issues, triage, privacy and confidentiality, social ... Read more

    $85.29 USD