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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sheldon rubenfeld”
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  • Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

    Before, During, and After the Holocaust

    by Sheldon Rubenfeld, Florian Bruns, LaVera Crawley, James Downar, Alan Elbaum, Gerrit Hohendorf, Scott Kim, Eric Kodish, Kenneth Prager0, Volker Roelcke1, Stephan Sahm2, Avraham Steinberg3, Eduard Verhagen4, Daniel P. Sulmasy6, Ashley K. Fernandes7, Barron H. Lerner8, Diane E. Meier9, H. Christof Müller-Busch0, Robert A. Pearlman1, Timothy E. Quill2 ...
    Series series Revolutionary Bioethics
    Unlike Nazi medical experiments, euthanasia during the Third Reich is barely studied or taught. Often, even asking whether euthanasia during the Third Reich is relevant to contemporary debates about physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia is dismissed as inflammatory. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Before, During, and After the Holocaust explores the history of euthanasia ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust

    Edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld, Susan Benedict ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    “An engaging, compelling and disturbing confrontation with evil …a book that will be transformative in its call for individual and collective moral responsibility." – Michael A. Grodin, M.D., Professor and Director, Project on Medicine and the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston UniversityHuman Subjects Research after the Holocaust challenges you to confront the misguided ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity- by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five ... Read more

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  • The Vaccine Race

    Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease

    by Meredith Wadman ...
    **"A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."—The New York Times“Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with Rebecca Skloot's 2007 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”—NatureThe epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Placebo Effects

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  • The Good Doctor

    What Patients Want

    by Ron Paterson ...
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  • Vaccine

    The Debate in Modern America

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    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

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  • AIDS Between Science and Politics

    by Peter Piot ...
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    The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound

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