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  • The Private Life of the Genome
    Iain Brassington
    This innovative and engaging book argues that because our genetic information is directly linked to the genetic information of others, it is impossible to assert a ’right to privacy’ in the same way that we can in other areas of life. ...
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    214,07 €

  • Palliative Treatment for Advanced Cancer Patients
    Cynthia Pereira de Araújo
    This book presents an important reflection on the concept and limits of the Fundamental Right to Health as opposed to a supposed 'Right to Hope' in the context of the treatment of patients with advanced cancer. The central idea of the work is the question of whether and to what extent patients with advanced cancer have the right to legally demand a palliative treatment whose ef...
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    48,59 €

  • Incentives and Disincentives in Organ Donation
    Ruiping Fan
    This book provides the first systematic study on three types of incentives for organ donation. It covers extensive research conducted in four culturally different societies: Hong Kong, mainland China, Iran and the United States, and shows on the basis of the research that a new model of incentives can be constructed to enhance organ donation in contemporary societies. The book ...
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    47,77 €

  • Policy, Identity, and Neurotechnology
    In this volume the authors explore the landscape of thought on the ethical and policy implications of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology. BCI technology is a promising and rapidly advancing research area. Recent developments in the technology, based on animal and human studies, allow for the restoration and potential augmentation of faculties of perception and physical m...
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    47,83 €

  • Kierkegaard and Bioethics
    Johann-Christian Põder
    This book explores Kierkegaard’s significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard’s existential thinking can enrich and advance current bioethical debates. ...
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    214,09 €

  • Thomas Percival’s Medical Ethics and the Invention of Medical Professionalism
    Laurence B. McCullough
    This book provides the first comprehensive, historically based, philosophical interpretations of two texts of Thomas Percival’s professional ethics in medicine set in the context of his intellectual biography. Preceded by his privately published and circulated Medical Jurisprudence of 1794, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) published Medical Ethics in 1803, the first book thus titled...
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    157,53 €

  • Confined to the Sidelines
    Jeff Nisker
    Confined to the Sidelines is a juxtaposition of the poems Jeff Nisker wrote in the time of COVID with four of his related social-justice poems. With this volume, Nisker hopes to imbue new compassion in health professionals, other health-policy makers and the general public, who all are or will be immersed in COVID’s resulting diminishment of our health and social systems. COVID...
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    8,40 €

  • The Circle of Change
    Jeffrey S. Trilling MD
    The clinician-patient relationship is an unapologetic reminder that clinical practice is an applied science, and that clinical knowledge only becomes useful through human interaction and application. Through dialog, the relationship serves as a powerful conduit for information flow. This text, utilizing stories of successes and failures I have journaled over 44-years practicin...
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    12,98 €

  • Reconstructing Research Integrity
    Barbara Redman
    This book exposes significant threats to research integrity and identifies policies and practices that can reverse these trends. It is focused on human research and US policy. Recent assessments have shown inadequacies in institutions, policies, and practices that seriously compromise ethics. The presumed self-regulatory nature of the scientific endeavor has been exposed to hav...
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    48,16 €

  • Confessions of a Surgeon
    MD Paul A. Ruggieri / Paul A. Ruggieri MD / Paul Ruggieri
    As an active surgeon over the last thirty years, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has experienced and lived through the best and the worst of his profession. In his first book, Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated he pushed open the operating room doors to give the public a startling view of what really went on inside the operating room. In Confessions of a Surg...
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    18,52 €

  • New Medicine for a New Millennium
    Sylvia Mustonen
    This is the story of my life as a young woman growing up in Detroit, experiencing the tribulations of black like in that city, my interracial marriage intersecting at the time of the 1967 Detroit riot, my round about path from television work to motherhood to medical school , how I encountered racism and sexism in medical training and private practice of medicine and how I rose...
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    15,37 €

  • Ethics in Research
    This book draws a connection between ethics and research across social sciences, philosophy, medical sciences and legal sciences, and demonstrates that any research activity needs to be conducted by means of rules deriving from the field of ethics. Although having a common core, such rules assume different characteristics depending on the branch of science, as the contributions...
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    48,63 €

  • Presidential Health Matters
    Edward Lewis Goldberg
     Presidential Health Matters explores the medical history of the U.S through the lives of forty-six presidents. Dr. Goldberg brings the perspective of a practicing primary care internist to this account. He asks how and why medical events took place as they did. From the Siege of Boston in 1775 to Covid 19 in 2020, the history of the advance of medicine and the history of the U...
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    13,78 €

  • Do You Speak Patient?
    Doc Philip Brown
    Why join the medical profession in the first place? For many medical professionals, the drive is a powerful desire to conquer disease combined with a solemn covenant to care for people - fellow human beings - to the best of one’s abilities and judgments. This sense of purpose combined with the fulfillment obtained through complex problem solving becomes a powerful motivator tha...
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    23,45 €

  • Do You Speak Patient?
    Doc Philip Brown
    Why join the medical profession in the first place? For many medical professionals, the drive is a powerful desire to conquer disease combined with a solemn covenant to care for people - fellow human beings - to the best of one’s abilities and judgments. This sense of purpose combined with the fulfillment obtained through complex problem solving becomes a powerful motivator tha...
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    27,86 €

  • Hardness of Heart, Hardness of Life
    Larry S. Milner
    Infanticide is the crime of killing an infant. It is one of the commonest, yet least understood of all human crimes. Estimates of its frequency, based upon historical studies and modern data, indicate that up to 10-15% of all children ever born have been killed by their parents: an astounding seven billion victims! Most people find it difficult to accept that anyone, except the...
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    29,62 €

  • Voluntary Consent
    Maximilian Kiener
    Voluntariness is a necessary condition of valid consent. But determining whether a person consented voluntarily can be difficult, especially when people are subjected to coercion or manipulation, placed in a situation with no acceptable alternative other than to consent to something, or find themselves in an abusive relationship. ...
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    214,13 €

  • New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
    This book provides novel perspectives on ethical justifiability of assisted dying in the revised edition of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Going significantly beyond traditional debates about the value of human life, the ethical significance of individual autonomy, the compatibility of assisted dying with the ethical obligations of medical prof...
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    47,52 €

  • New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
    This book provides novel perspectives on ethical justifiability of assisted dying in the revised edition of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Going significantly beyond traditional debates about the value of human life, the ethical significance of individual autonomy, the compatibility of assisted dying with the ethical obligations of medical prof...
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    156,83 €

  • Human Guinea Pigs
    M H Pappworth
    First published in 1967, Human Guinea Pigs is a report by a consultant physician on the implications of medical research on both the medical profession and on the men, women and children who are the subjects of medical experiments. ...
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    159,86 €

  • Law and healing
    Margaret Brazier
    A critical and colourful commentary on the history of the fractious relationship between law and medicine over several centuries reveals compelling stories how law regulated healers and healing . Any view that the law consistently deferred to medical practitioners is shown to be wrong. From the womb to the grave, enduring themes are identified. ...
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    157,26 €

  • The Shadow of Evil The Ethical Dilemma of Nazi Medical Experiments, Darwinism, And Racial Purification
    Davis Truman
    The Nazi regime of Germany during World War II is known for its atrocities, including the systematic persecution and extermination of millions of Jews and other minorities. However, the unethical medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors on prisoners are less widely known, which were rooted in the ideology of Darwinism and racial purification. These experiments involved sub...
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    12,86 €

  • Pragmatic Judgments in Direct Patient Care
    Bernhard Bleyer
    Why does a hospital need an ethics consultation? And what about this counselling is ethical? The book explains the background of the development of clinical ethics counselling. It provides new insights into serious decision-making conflicts in everyday clinical life and uncovers the disputes that followed in public. In the search for the ethical understanding of clinical ethics...
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    170,15 €

  • Medicine and Shariah
    Medicine and Shariah brings together experts from various fields, including clinicians, Islamic studies experts, and Muslim theologians, to analyze the interaction of the doctors and jurists who are forging the field of Islamic bioethics.Although much ink has been spilled in generating Islamic responses to bioethical questions and in analyzing fatwas, Islamic bioethics still re...
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    64,50 €

  • Chasing Tourette’s
    Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt
    This book offers a philosophical perspective on contemporary Tourette Syndrome scholarship, a field which has exploded over the last thirty years. Despite intense research efforts on this common neurodevelopmental condition in the age of the brain sciences, the syndrome’s causes and potential cures remain intriguingly elusive. How does this lack of progress relate to the tacitl...
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    144,92 €

  • Mock Papers for MRCPI Part I
    Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
    In this book, you will find 4 mock papers. Each one contains 100 questions in a Best of Five (BOF) format. Self-assess, try to complete each paper within 3 hours, check out your answers, read the explanation, and re-read accredited medicine textbooks to fill in the gap in your knowledge. Each question has an 'objective'; try to review what the objective is about. This is the on...
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    54,19 €

  • Self-Assessment
    Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
    This is the third edition of my book, 'Self-Assessment for MRCP(UK) part 1', which was published in 2009. The second edition, entitled 'Self-Assessment: 650 BOFs for MRCP(UK) and MRCP(I) Part I' was published in late 2016. It has been six years! The third edition has undergone several changes and updates. COVID-19 strikes every chapter. In authoring this book, I tried my best t...
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    57,69 €

  • Prescription for Admission
    MPH Monique Nugent MD
    From ER to Hospital Discharge: Decode the hospital experience with Dr. Nugent’s game-changing guide.When you’re already sick, injured, or in pain, a hospital visit adds more stress to an already overwhelming situation. Every step is often too confusing, too opaque, and too cumbersome for patients to feel fully in control.With the right knowledge, your hospitalization can be a p...
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    16,47 €

  • Destigmatisation of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China
    Xiaoping Wang
    After reviewing related theories on stigmatisation of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), this book applies social exclusion theory, actor theory and stigma theory to the study of social mechanisms of stigmatisation of PLWHA in China to show the influence and mechanism of stigmatisation on them, and tries to construct the policy framework to tackle stigmatisation from the pers...
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    171,51 €

  • REGULATION AND UK OPTOMETRY
    Steve Taylor
    he last ten years has seen significant regulatory changes and the issuing of professional advice to match developments in clinical practice. It has not been easy for clinicians to keep pace with the changes or to find information on how and when changes have occurred and this text provides an essential source to guide optometrists through the current regulatory and professional...
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    57,46 €


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