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  • Medical Challenges for the New Millennium

    An Interdisciplinary Task

    Edited by Stefan N. Willich, S. Elm ...
    In 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the year 2000 as the "due date" for world health. The Alma Ata declaration set the turn of the century as the target for a level of health that would permit all people of the world to lead a socially and economically productive life. ' At that (magic but arbitrary) date most infectious diseases and many chronic conditions, including diabetes ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    by Hippocrates ...
    Translated by E.T. Withington, I.M. Lonie, J. Chadwick, W.N. Mann ...
    This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature of Man describes the physiological theories of the time. The book ends with a discussion of ... Read more

    $14.99 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

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  • Ethics and Health Care

    An Introduction

    by John C. Moskop ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who should have access to assisted reproductive technologies? Which one of many seriously ill patients should be offered the next available transplant organ? When may a surrogate decision maker decide to withdraw life-prolonging measures from an unconscious patient? Questions like these feature prominently in the field of health care ethics and in the education of health care professionals. This ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • What Makes Health Public?

    A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health

    by John Coggon ...
    Series Book 15 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in the fields of public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' He offers a conceptual and analytic scrutiny of the salient issues raised by this question, outlines the concepts entailed in, or denoted by, the term 'public health' and argues why and how normative analyses in public health are inquiries in political theory. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • An Error in Judgement

    by Dara Culhane ...
    On January 22, 1979, an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. The events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, anecdotes and public records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospital, the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Adults: Ethical and Legal Perspectives

    An overview on FASD for professionals

    Edited by Monty Nelson, Marguerite Trussler ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book discusses and provides insight on the legal and ethical dilemmas of managing those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). This book provides a clear perspective for those clinicians and legal professionals who are working with those with this disorder, and correspondingly increases their understanding when arranging effective supports for this population. Historically, the primary ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • A Merciful End

    The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America

    by Ian Dowbiggin ...
    While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond. In America, the debate has raged for well over a century. Now, in A Merciful End, Ian Dowbiggin offers the first full-scale historical account of one of the most controversial reform movements in America. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Gene Transfer and the Ethics of First-in-Human Research

    Lost in Translation

    by Jonathan Kimmelman ...
    Human gene transfer is widely regarded as one of the most promising technologies for the treatment of a variety of disorders, but it presents practitioners with a variety of difficult ethical questions. Gene Transfer and the Ethics of First-in-Human Research examines the ethical and policy dimensions of testing interventions in human beings for the first time. The book discusses the difficult ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • International Neurolaw

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Tade Matthias Spranger ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Whereas the past few years have repeatedly been referred to as the “era of biotechnology”, most recently the impression has emerged that at least the same degree of attention is being paid to the latest developments in the field of neurosciences. It has now become nearly impossible to maintain an overview of the number of research projects dealing with the functionality of the brain – for example ... Read more

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  • Classification, Disease and Evidence

    New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine

    Edited by Philippe Huneman, Gérard Lambert, Marc Silberstein ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e. define classes of diseases and recognize that an instance X of disease belongs to a given class B? ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of National Women's Hospital

    A History

    by Linda Bryder ...
    In this major history, Linda Bryder traces the annals of National Women's Hospital over half a century in order to tell a wider story of reproductive health. She uses the varying perspectives of doctors, nurses, midwives, consumer groups, and patients to show how together their dialog shaped the nature of motherhood and women's health in 20th-century New Zealand. Natural childbirth and rooming in, ... Read more

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