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  • Cutting to the Core

    Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries

    de Michael Benatar, Leslie Cannold, Dena Davis, Merle Spriggs, Julian Savulescu, Heather Draper, Neil Evans, Richard Hull, Stephen Wilkinson, David Wasserman, Donna Dickenson, Guy Widdershoven, Françoise Baylis, Stephen Coleman, Rosemarie Tong, Hilde Lindemann, David Neil, Alex John London ...
    Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However, where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested. Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including infant ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

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  • Doing Harm

    The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

    de Maya Dusenbery ...
    Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at the widespread gender bias in healthcare and how sexism in medicine harms women today.In Doing Harm, Dusenbery explores the deep, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Modern Death

    How Medicine Changed the End of Life

    de 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.... ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edición de Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Leer más

    $44.00 USD

  • Damaged Goods?

    Women Living With Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    de Adina Nack ...
    How do women living with genital herpes and/or HPV (human papilloma virus) infections see themselves as sexual beings, and what choices do they make about sexual health issues? Adina Nack, a medical sociologist who specializes in sexual health and social psychology, conducted in-depth interviews with 43 women about their identities and sexuality in regards to chronic illness. The result is a ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • And a Time to Die

    How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life

    de Sharon Kaufman, M.D. ...
    A reassuring and illuminating examination on our conflicting wishes about the end of life, how the politics and routines of the American hospital have formed our understanding and experience of death, and ultimately why what we consider a "good death" is so hard to attain.In a penetrating and revelatory study, medical anthropologist Dr. Sharon Kaufman uses two years of intensive observations and ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Death Talk, Second Edition

    The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

    de Margaret Somerville ...
    Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life and euthanasia? How do journalistic values and media ethics affect the public's perception of ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Bioethics

    A Nursing Perspective

    de Megan-Jane Johnstone, AO, PhD, BA, RN ...
    The 5th edition of Bioethics provides nursing students with the necessary knowledge and understanding of the ethical issues effecting nursing practice. Groundbreaking in its first edition, Bioethics continues its role as a vital component of nursing education and provides a framework for students to understand the obligations, responsibilities and ethical challenges they will be presented with ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Ethics and Health Care

    An Introduction

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology

    A Case-Based Textbook

    Edición de Gail A. Van Norman, MD, Stephen Jackson, MD, Stanley H. Rosenbaum, MA MD, Susan K. Palmer ...
    Ethical issues facing anesthesiologists are more far-reaching than those involving virtually any other medical specialty. In this clinical ethics textbook, authors from across the USA, Canada and Europe draw on ethical principles and practical knowledge to provide a realistic understanding of ethical anesthetic practice. The result is a compilation of expert opinion and international perspectives ... Leer más

    $90.99 USD

  • Culture of Death

    The Age of Do Harm Medicine

    de Wesley J. Smith ...
    When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy’s life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He demanded treatment and threatened legal action. The doctor finally relented. With treatment, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Disabusing Sexuality

    de Canon Nathan Karema ...
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Canon Nathan Karema graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree specializing in Psychology and Sociology at the Middlesex University in London (UK). He obtained a Master of Science in Health Promotion from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2000. He is also the holder of the following qualifications: Post Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion from the London ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD