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  • Death in the Clinic
    Lynn AJansen
    Death in the Clinic fills a gap in contemporary medical education by explicitly addressing the concrete clinical realities about death with which practitioners, patients, and their families continue to wrestle. Visit our website for sample chapters! ...
    Disponible

    39,35 €

  • Taking Biology Seriously
    De Inmaculada Melo-Martín / Inmaculada De Melo-Martín
    Discussions of human biology and its consequences for ethics and public policy are often misguided. Both proponents and critics of behavioral genetics, reproductive cloning, and genetic testing have mistaken beliefs about the role of genes in human life. Taking Biology Seriously calls attention to the social context in which both the science and our ethical precepts and public ...
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    51,80 €

  • Mass Hysteria
    Rebecca Kukla
    Mass Hysteria examines the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. Late eighteenth century transformations in these practices reshaped mothers’ bodies, and contemporary norms and routines of prenatal care and early motherhood have inherited the legacy of that era. As a result, mothers are socially positioned in ways that can mak...
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    63,99 €

  • Belmont Revisited
    Research with human subjects has long been controversial because of the conflicts that often arise between promoting scientific knowledge and protecting the rights and welfare of subjects. Twenty-five years ago the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research addressed these conflicts. The result was the Belmont Report: Ethical...
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    41,88 €

  • Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China
    Laurence Schneider
    Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao’s China, to the present post-socialist era. Through detailed portraits of key scientists and institutions, basic dilemmas are explored: how to control nature with science, how to gain independence from foreign-controlled science,...
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    72,06 €

  • Mass Hysteria
    Rebecca Kukla
    Mass Hysteria examines the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. Late eighteenth century transformations in these practices reshaped mothers’ bodies, and contemporary norms and routines of prenatal care and early motherhood have inherited the legacy of that era. As a result, mothers are socially positioned in ways that can mak...
    Disponible

    167,77 €

  • Patients from Hell
    Dr Tracy M. Baker M. D.
    'Patients from Hell' is a collection of true stories of difficult encounters with patients and their diseases. It presents situations from these encounters that provoke a broad range of human emotions, from humorous to sad situations to situations that can and likely will provoke anger from the reader. It starts out telling the exploits of 'Wonder Woman' and leads to Emergen...
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    26,47 €

  • Human Identity and Bioethics
    David DeGrazia
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    125,28 €

  • Human Identity and Bioethics
    David DeGrazia
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    41,78 €

  • Bioethics Beyond the Headlines
    Albert R Jonsen / Albert R. Jonsen / Albert RJonsen
    Bioethics Beyond the Headlines is a primer in bioethics. You will not find convoluted philosophical arguments in this volume. Rather, you will find an engaging sampling of the key questions in bioethics, including euthanasia, assisted reproduction, cloning and stem cells, neuroscience, access to healthcare, and even research on animals and questions of environmental ethics-area...
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    148,60 €

  • Bioethics Beyond the Headlines
    Albert R. Jonsen / Albert RJonsen
    Bioethics Beyond the Headlines is a primer in bioethics. You will not find convoluted philosophical arguments in this volume. Rather, you will find an engaging sampling of the key questions in bioethics, including euthanasia, assisted reproduction, cloning and stem cells, neuroscience, access to healthcare, and even research on animals and questions of environmental ethics-area...
    Disponible

    53,11 €

  • Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics
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    108,41 €

  • The Placebo Effect And Health
    W. Grant Thompson / WGrant Thompson
    Since the days when doctors routinely made house calls and sat by the bedside offering comforting words along with medical care, the doctor-patient relationship has become increasingly impersonal and superficial. As medical technology and treatment have improved, and time constraints have become more demanding, the beneficial effects of meaningful doctor-patient interactions ha...
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    17,96 €

  • Autonomy and Patients’ Decisions
    Merle Spriggs
    Patient autonomy is an important concept in the clinical context, but the idea in contemporary bioethics discussions is often muddled. By looking closely at the ideas of Rosseau, Kant, and Mill, Autonomy and Patients’ Decisions traces the modern concept of autonomy from its historical roots, then identifing the four distinct notions of autonomy being referred to in contemporary...
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    149,69 €

  • Kidney for Sale by Owner
    Mark J Cherry / Mark J. Cherry
    If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded?Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Kidney for Sale by Owner, now ...
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    36,62 €

  • Mortal Secrets
    Robert Klitzman / Ronald Bayer
    In the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily available or freely confided, secrecy and privacy have in many ways given way to an onslaught of confession. Yet for those who are HIV positive, decisions about disclosure of their diagnosis force them to confront intimate, fundamental, and rarely discussed questions about truth, lies, sex, and...
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    39,60 €

  • Quality of Life and Human Difference
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    119,26 €

  • Restoring Responsibility
    Dennis F. Thompson / Dennis FThompson
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    50,21 €

  • Medical Interpreting and Cross-Cultural Communication
    Claudia Angelelli
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    130,82 €

  • Difficult Conversations in Medicine
    Elisabeth MacDonald
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    102,59 €

  • Legal Ethic Anas Crit Care Peri Med
    Stuart M. White / Stuart MWhite / Timothy J. Baldwin / Timothy JBaldwin
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    141,63 €

  • Accountability
    According to a recent Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical error-a figure higher than deaths from automobile accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. That astounding number of fatalities does not include the number of those serious mistakes that are grievous and damaging but not fatal. Who can forget the tragic case of 17-year...
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    64,22 €

  • Bioethics as Practice
    Judith Andre
    Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds, such as health care, philosophy, law, the social sciences, and religious studies. The work they do also varies widely: consulting on ethical issues in patient care, working with legislatures, dealing with the media, teaching, speaking, writing and more.Writing as a participant in this d...
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    54,50 €

  • Healing Through Empathy
    Francis V Adams
    Physicians have been known as healers long before they could provide cures for common ailments, but the art of healing is rarely found in the current era of managed care and five-minute office visits. Patients cry out for a physician who 'cares,' someone who will take the time to listen to their complaints.In Healing Through Empathy, Dr. Francis Adams illustrates the vital impo...
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    15,26 €

  • Healing Through Empathy
    Francis V Adams
    Physicians have been known as healers long before they could provide cures for common ailments, but the art of healing is rarely found in the current era of managed care and five-minute office visits. Patients cry out for a physician who 'cares,' someone who will take the time to listen to their complaints.In Healing Through Empathy, Dr. Francis Adams illustrates the vital impo...
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    26,50 €

  • The Ethics of Hospital Trustees
    All manner of medical practitioners have had their scruples dissected ad infinitum. In spite of the attention paid to medical ethics and bioethics, little has been paid to the ethical roles and responsibilities of those who are ultimately in charge of hospital governance: hospital trustees. Deriving from a Hastings Center research project involving meetings with a national task...
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    50,38 €

  • Health, Disease, and Illness
    In the 1850s, 'Drapetomania' was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor-and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a ...
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    55,83 €

  • Double Standards in Medical Research in Developing Countries
    Ruth Macklin
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    156,14 €

  • Double Standards in Medical Research in Developing Countries
    Ruth Macklin
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    Disponible

    87,40 €

  • The Case Against Assisted Suicide
    In The Case against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care, Dr. Kathleen Foley and Dr. Herbert Hendin uncover why pleas for patient autonomy and compassion, often used in favor of legalizing euthanasia, do not advance or protect the rights of terminally ill patients. Incisive essays by authorities in the fields of medicine, law, and bioethics draw on studies done i...
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    42,91 €


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