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“miriam edelson”

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  • Confronting the Resurgent Right

    Edited by Miriam Edelson ...
    Exposing the deep roots and new threats of Canada's regressive rightOver the past decade, we have witnessed the global mainstreaming of hate as false narratives and conspiracy theories about equity and inclusion, immigration, COVID-19 and vaccinations, and the “gay agenda” have become permissible talking points among right-wing politicians, pundits, and influencers.In Confronting the Resurgent ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • My Journey with Jake

    A Memoir of Parenting and Disability

    by Miriam Edelson ...
    Jake is celebrating his tenth birthday. That’s a remarkable feat, because at birth he was given only three years to live. Miriam Edelson is his mother, a dedicated fighter for Jake and families in similar situations.Edelson poses some tough questions: How do parents cope with a child who has special needs? Are we failing, as a society, to care for children with disabilities? Whatever happened to ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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    by Steven B. Deitelzweig, MD, MMM, Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, FACP ...
    This handbook includes current data from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) guidelines on antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy, the latest information on heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia with thrombosis (HITT), and an in-depth discussion of the drugs and dosages to use in combating deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). ... Read more

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  • Enhancing Human Capacities

    Edited by Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen, Guy Kahane ...
    Enhancing Human Capacities is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement. It is unique in its examination of the ethical and policy implications of these technologies from a broad range of perspectives.Presents a rich range of perspectives on enhancement from world leading ethicists and scientists from Europe and North AmericaThe most comprehensive volume yet ... Read more

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  • Medical Ethics

    Edited by Michael Boylan ...
    The second edition of Medical Ethics deals accessibly with a broad range of significant issues in bioethics, and presents the reader with the latest developments. This new edition has been greatly revised and updated, with half of the sections written specifically for this new volume.An accessible introduction for beginners, offering a combination of important established essays and new essays ... Read more

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  • ICU Resource Allocation in the New Millennium

    Will We Say "No"?

    Edited by David Crippen ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Intensive care medicine is one of the fastest growing services provided by hospitals and perhaps one of the most expensive. Yet in response to the global financial crisis of the last few years, healthcare funding is slowing or decreasing throughout the world.How we manage health care resources in the intensive care unit (ICU) now and in a future that promises only greater cost constraints is the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Technicians of Human Dignity

    Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth

    by Gaymon Bennett ...
    Series series Just Ideas
    Technicians of Human Dignity traces the extraordinary rise of human dignity as a defining concern of religious, political, and bioethical institutions over the last half century and offers original insight into how human dignity has become threatened by its own success. The global expansion of dignitarian politics has left dignity without a stable set of meanings or referents, unsettling ... Read more

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  • Autonomy and Clinical Medicine

    Renewing the Health Professional Relation with the Patient

    by David C. Thomasma, J. Bergsma ...
    Series Book 2 - International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
    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

    $89.99 USD

  • Ethics and Governance of Biomedical Research

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Daniel Strech, Marcel Mertz ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, scholars with different disciplinary and national backgrounds argue for possible answers and analyse case studies on current issues of governance in biomedical research. These issues comprise among others the research-care distinction, risk evaluation in early human trials, handling of incidental findings, nocebo effects, cluster randomized trials, publication bias, or consent in ... Read more

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  • Law and Bioethics

    An Introduction

    by Jerry Menikoff ...
    While the American legal system has played an important role in shaping the field of bioethics, Law and Bioethics is the first book on the subject designed to be accessible to readers with little or no legal background. Detailing how the legal analysis of an issue in bioethics often differs from the "ethical" analysis, the book covers such topics as abortion, surrogacy, cloning, informed consent, ... Read more

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  • Ethical Issues in Dementia Care

    Making Difficult Decisions

    by Clive Baldwin, Julian C. Hughes ...
    Series series University of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides
    Bradford Dementia Group Good Practice GuidesThere are always difficult day to day decisions to be faced when caring for a person with dementia - from knowing how to deal with wandering to end of life decisions. Many of these decisions are underpinned by value judgments about right and wrong and reflect a particular view of dementia. This book considers these ethical decisions in the context of ... Read more

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  • Concepts and Measurement of Quality of Life in Health Care

    Edited by L.Y Nordenfelt ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years. To a great extent this discussion mirrors the international develop ment in the area. Several methods for the assessment and measurement of quality of life have been ... Read more

    $188.09 USD