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  • Private Acts, Social Consequences

    by Ronald Bayer ...
    In this timely, penetrating analysis, Ronald Bayer examines the legal and political implications of creating and implementing an effective and rational nationwide health policy that balances public safety with private freedom. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Shattered Dreams

    An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic

    by Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Ronald Bayer ...
    Shattered Dreams? is an oral history of how physicians and nurses in South Africa struggled to ride the tiger of the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. Based on interviews-not only from the great urban centers of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban-but from provincial centers and rural villages, this book captures the experience of health care workers as they confronted indifference from ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Essential Communitarian Reader

    by Ronald Bayer, Benjamin R. Barber, Daniel A. Bell, Robert N. Bellah, Senator Bill Bradley, Senator Dan Coats, Roger L. Conner, Ralf Dahrendorf, John J. DiIulio Jr., William J. Doherty, Jean Bethke Elshtain0, Amitai Etzioni1, James S. Fishkin3, William Galston4, Mary Ann Glendon5, Robert E. Goodin6, Peter Katz7, Mark Kleiman8, Judith Martin9, Dallin H. Oaks0, Diane Ravitch1, Philip Selznik2, Fred Siegel3, Thomas A. Spragens Jr.4, Charles Taylor5, Daniel J. Tichenor6, Linda J. Waite7, Alan Wolfe8 ...
    Series series Rights & Responsibilities
    This outstanding new book shows why communitarian thought has had such a profound influence on contemporary American public policy, from strengthening our neighborhoods to fighting AIDS and educating our children. Edited by Amitai Etzioni, founder of the Communitarian Network and author of the best-selling books The Spirit of Community and The New Golden Rule, this comprehensive collection ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • AIDS Doctors

    Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History

    by Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer ...
    Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the limit of their diagnostic abilities, a select group of courageous physicians nevertheless persevered. ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Mortal Secrets

    Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS

    by Robert Klitzman, MD, Ronald Bayer, PhD ...
    In the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily available or freely confided, secrecy and privacy have in many ways given way to an onslaught of confession. Yet for those who are HIV positive, decisions about disclosure of their diagnosis force them to confront intimate, fundamental, and rarely discussed questions about truth, lies, sex, and trust.Drawing from ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Public Health Ethics

    Theory, Policy, and Practice

    Edited by Ronald Bayer, Lawrence O. Gostin, Bruce Jennings, Bonnie Steinbock ...
    Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism. This volume brings together twenty-five articles by leading thinkers in the field, writing on topics that concern both classic and novel problems. They open ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • In Search of Equity

    Health Needs and the Health Care System

    Edited by Ronald Bayer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    I Several years ago, when the Carter administration announced that it would support congressional action to end the public fund ing of abortions, the President was asked at a press conference whether he thought that such a policy was unfair; he responded, "Life is unfair." His remarks provoked a storm of controversy. For other than those who, for principled reasons, opposed abor tion on any ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • E-Cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction

    History, Evidence, and Policy

    Edited by Virginia Berridge, Ronald Bayer, Amy L. Fairchild, Wayne Hall ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book offers the first in-depth study of the history and current debates surrounding electronic cigarettes comparing the UK, US and Australia. Since their introduction, e-cigarettes have been the subject of much public, media and regulatory attention, with discussion centring on whether these devices encourage or discourage smoking. This study delves into the history of ... Read more

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  • Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die

    Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

    by Amy Gutmann, Jonathan D. Moreno ...
    NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS"From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price.Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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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

  • Physician Assisted Suicide

    Expanding the Debate

    by Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, Anita Silvers ...
    Series series Reflective Bioethics
    Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Partner to the Poor

    A Paul Farmer Reader

    by Paul Farmer ...
    Series Book 23 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated patients—and worked to address the root causes of their disease—in Haiti, Boston, Peru, Rwanda, and elsewhere ... Read more

    $30.59 USD