Catálogo de libros: Profesión médica

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  • Cytomegalovirus
    Herve Guibert
    By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitali...
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    28,56 €

  • Revealing Psychiatry... From an Insider
    Pavlos Sakkas / Doolie Sloman
    SECOND EDITION 2023THIS VOLUME contains the principal elements preoccupying modern Psychiatry. The author introduces the reader into all mental illnesses, on the one hand through real examples deriving from his rich clinical experience and on the other explaining in simple terms the ’fault’ that is the underlying cause. It is in essence an interesting investigation into the mag...
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    13,67 €

  • Guantanamo and Other Cases of Enforced Medical Treatment
    Mirko Daniel Garasic
    This volume presents a number of controversial cases of enforced medical treatment from around the globe, providing for the first time a common, biopolitcal framework for all of them. Bringing together all these real cases guarantees that a new, more complete understanding of the topic will be within grasp for readers unacquainted with the aspects involved in these cases. On th...
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    67,11 €

  • Trusting Doctors
    Jonathan B. Imber / Jonathan BImber
    For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors, Jonathan Imber attributes the development of patients’ faith in doctors to th...
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    37,51 €

  • Saviour Siblings
    Michelle Taylor-Sands
    Genetic screening technologies involving pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) raise particular issues about selective reproduction and the welfare of the child to be born. This book re-evaluates the welfare of the child through the controversial topic of saviour sibling selection. From analysing existing Australian and UK legal frameworks for regulating saviour siblings, th...
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    82,87 €

  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Adults
    This book discusses and provides insight on the legal and ethical dilemmas of managing those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). This book provides a clear perspective for those clinicians and legal professionals who are working with those with this disorder, and correspondingly increases their understanding when arranging effective supports for this population. Histor...
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    169,31 €

  • The Stem Cell Revolution
    MD Elliot Lander / MD Mark Berman
    The book describes the journey into the growing arena of clinical stem cell therapy by highlighting not only the road that brought a team of physicians together but also real stories from a number of their patients that were given their health back through the magic of stem cell therapy. Your fat is loaded with stem cells that can be used now to treat and reverse a large number...
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    17,66 €

  • The Stem Cell Revolution
    MD Elliot Lander / MD Mark Berman
    The book describes the journey into the growing arena of clinical stem cell therapy by highlighting not only the road that brought a team of physicians together but also real stories from a number of their patients that were given their health back through the magic of stem cell therapy. Your fat is loaded with stem cells that can be used now to treat and reverse a large number...
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    27,74 €

  • LEGAL BASIS OF GLOBAL TISSUE BANKING
    GLYN O PHILLIPS
     The banking of human tissues for clinical transplantation has grown exponentially in the past 10-15 years. Tissue banks have been set up throughout the world, initially on an ad hoc basis. More recently these have grown and in many countries have linked up with larger international companies. While standards for the procurement, processing and storage of the tissues have kept ...
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    146,05 €

  • Equitable Access to Human Biological Resources in Developing Countries
    Roger Scarlin Chennells
    The main question explored by the book is: How can cross-border access to human genetic resources, such as blood or DNA samples, be governed in such a way as to achieve equity for vulnerable populations in developing countries? The book situates the field of genomic and genetic research within global health and research frameworks, describing the concerns that have been raised ...
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    132,90 €

  • Human Population Genetic Research in Developing Countries
    Yue Wang
    Human population genetic research (HPGR) seeks to identify the diversity and variation of the human genome and how human group and individual genetic diversity has developed. This book asks whether developing countries are well prepared for the ethical and legal conduct of human population genetic research, with specific regard to vulnerable target group protection. The book hi...
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    52,84 €

  • Understanding Parkinson’s Disease
    Naheed Ali
    Parkinson’s disease is on the rise throughout the U.S., and this book offers readers an introduction to its causes, symptoms, and treatments. It is for anyone who suffers from Parkinson’s, or knows and loves someone who does. ...
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    37,13 €

  • How to Be a Rock Star Doctor
    Rebekah Bernard
    'This is well-written, accessible and useful, not only for students, residents and new docs but also for seasoned docs struggling with the complexities of today's health care system.' -- Jay W. Lee, MD, MPH, FAAFP, President of the California Academy of Family Physicians 'I want to give this book to all of my physician patients, especially those who struggle with time manageme...
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    28,40 €

  • Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life
    Alfred Hoche / Karl Binding / Cristina Modak
    Many people do not realize that the Germans were methodically killing fellow Germans before they were killing Jews, gypsies, and dissidents. ’Action T4’ was a medical program that quietly whisked disabled and mentally ill people for extermination. Germans of all ages were targeted. Hundreds of thousands received ’treatment.’ Fewer people know that the philosophical foundations ...
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    20,02 €

  • A Critical Examination of Ethics in Health Care and Biomedical Research
    Richard M. Zaner / Richard MZaner
    This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as trust and uncertainty, dialogue involving talk and listening, the vulnerability of the patient against the asymm...
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    65,33 €

  • New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care
    Thomas Schramme
    This work sets the stage regarding debates about paternalism and health care for years to come. The anthology is organized around four parts: i) The concept of paternalism and theoretical issues regarding the idea of anti-paternalism, ii) strategies for justifying different forms of paternalism, iii) paternalism in psychiatry and psychotherapy, iv) paternalism and public health...
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    64,83 €

  • L’Emprise du Mondialisme - Hérésie Médicale & Éradication de Masse
    Christian Rouas
    Depuis plus d’un siècle toutes les générations, du nouveau-né au vieillard, sont soumises à l’acte vaccinal, à une multitude de médications et thérapies foncièrement néfastes pour la santé, l’intellect, le psychisme. À force de propagande, le grand public est devenu malléable au point de suivre sans rechigner toutes les directives médicales en vigueur. Une minorité en mesure le...
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    27,42 €

  • Exchanging Human Bodily Material
    Klaus Hoeyer
    This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about ’markets in human body parts’ which is antagonistically divided into pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approach this and shows a way out of the concrete impasse of it. Assumptions about markets and bodies that characterize this debate are analyzed and describe...
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    207,02 €

  • Contemporary Bioethics
    Hassan Chamsi-Pasha / Mohammed Ali Al-Bar
    This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr’ a (nature) and human intellect (al-’aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed.Whereas these natural sources are God...
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    71,12 €

  • Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Darian Meacham
    This volume addresses some of the most prominent questions in contemporary bioethics and philosophy of medicine: ’liberal’ eugenics, enhancement, the normal and the pathological, the classification of mental illness, the relation between genetics, disease and the political sphere, the experience of illness and disability, and the sense of the subject of bioethical inquiry itsel...
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    132,36 €

  • Rights Come to Mind
    Joseph J. Fins / Joseph JFins
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    49,84 €

  • The Good Doctor
    Barron H. Lerner
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    19,04 €

  • Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics
    James Stacey Taylor
    This book offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a harm to the person who dies and the neo-Epicurean thesis that persons cannot be affected by events that occur af...
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    93,57 €

  • Human Dignity in Bioethics
    This volume brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies. It explores the source and meaning of human dignity, examines the legitimacy of the concept of dignity in documents by international political bodies, and looks at the rhetoric of human...
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    84,72 €

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    47,68 €

  • Trust and Incidents
    Katja Beitat
    Taking an interdisciplinary approach to conceptualise interpersonal trust between patients and medical practitioners, Katja Beitat introduces a unique model to describe the dynamics of trust building and deterioration with particular relevance to incidents in health care. Empirical findings from studies in Australia and Germany, the two systems focused on in this book, broadly ...
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    65,85 €

  • Risky Genes
    Jessica Mozersky
    What does it mean to be told you have an increased risk of genetic breast cancer because you are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin? In a time of ever increasing knowledge about variations in genetic disease risk among different populations, there is a pressing need for research regarding the implications of such information for members of high-risk populations. With first hand, intima...
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    93,88 €

  • Psychiatry and the Business of Madness
    Bonnie Burstow
    Psychiatry and the Business of Madness deconstructs psychiatric discourse and practice, exposes the self-interest at the core of the psychiatric/psychopharmacological enterprise, and demonstrates that psychiatry is epistemologically and ethically irredeemable. Burstow’s medical and historical research and in-depth interviews demonstrate that the paradigm is untenable, that psyc...
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    132,45 €

  • Psychiatry and the Business of Madness
    Bonnie Burstow
    Psychiatry and the Business of Madness deconstructs psychiatric discourse and practice, exposes the self-interest at the core of the psychiatric/psychopharmacological enterprise, and demonstrates that psychiatry is epistemologically and ethically irredeem ...
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    133,81 €

  • Being A Woman Surgeon
    Preeti R John
    'This is a poignant and moving narrative collection from women who each in theirown way were pioneers in their field of surgery. The story of the courage, physicalstrength, stamina and, most of all, the mental fortitude required to complete surgicaltraining is beautifully conveyed here. This collection will hopefully both inspire andmake the path easier for the next generation ...
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    23,11 €