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  • The Right Medicine

    How to Make Health Care Reform Work Today

    de David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    When Dr. David Cundiff called me with a proposal to help research and write The Right Medicine I was intrigued but skep tical. His ideas for reform of the US health care system were visionary, radical, and highly original-but would they work? As a Wall Street analyst and long-time student of the health care system, I had my doubts. had read David's book on hospice care, Euthanasia Is Not the I ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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  • Bad Pharma

    How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Good Doctor

    A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics

    de Barron H. Lerner ...
    The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health careAs a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital’s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the mid-1990s, his father, an infectious diseases physician, told him a stunning story: he had physically placed ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Everyday Practice of Science

    Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic

    de Frederick Grinnell ...
    Scientific facts can be so complicated that only specialists in a field fully appreciate the details, but the nature of everyday practice that gives rise to these facts should be understandable by everyone interested in science. This book describes how scientists bring their own interests and passions to their work, illustrates the dynamics between researchers and the research community, and ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Breast Cancer®, 2nd edition

    de Lynn H. Ratner, MD ...
    In this timely handbook, an expert in oncology explains the risk factors for contracting breast cancer and the pathogenesis of the disease, discusses the complexities of diagnosis, and offers a detailed examination of surgical treatments and the latest drug therapies, including raloxifene (Evista®). ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics

    A Case-Based Textbook

    Edición de Douglas S. Diekema, Mark R. Mercurio, Mary B. Adam ...
    This volume provides a practical overview of the ethical issues arising in pediatric practice. The case-based approach grounds the bioethical concepts in real-life situations, covering a broad range of important and controversial topics, including informed consent, confidentiality, truthfulness and fidelity, ethical issues relating to perinatology and neonatology, end-of-life issues, new ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Surgery

    Conflicts and Controversies

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $38.69 USD

  • Our Bodies, Our Data

    How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records

    de Adam Tanner ...
    How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomesHidden to consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade industry between our health-care providers, drug companies, and a complex web of middlemen. This great medical-data bazaar sells copies of the prescription ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Liminal Lives

    Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

    de Susan Merrill Squier ...
    Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation—these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to consider the cultural impact of the medical transformation of the entire human life span, Susan Merrill Squier argues that ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Mass Hysteria

    Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies

    de Rebecca Kukla ...
    Series series Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
    In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. In the late-eighteenth century, the configuration of the maternal body underwent a radical transformation and the two maternal bodies that emerged out of this transformation still govern our imagination and rituals surrounding pregnancy and lactation. ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD