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“andrew pinto”

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  • An Introduction to Global Health Ethics

    Edited by Andrew Pinto, Ross Upshur ...
    The field of global health is expanding rapidly. An increasing number of trainees are studying and working with marginalized populations, often within low and middle-income countries. Such endeavours are beset by ethical dilemmas: mitigating power differentials, addressing cultural differences in how health and illness are viewed, and obtaining individual and community consent in research. This ... Read more

    $98.93 CAD

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    Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

    by Sonia Shah ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.Over the past fifty years, more than ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Health Humanities Reader

    by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Lisa Keränen, Michael Sappol, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani DasGupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Paul Root Wolpe, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Bernice Hausman, Allison B. Kavey, Rebecca J. Hester ...
    Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD

  • Antimicrobial Therapy Guide®, 19th edition

    by Antonio Anzueto, MD, George A. Pankey, MD, Gary P. Wormser, MD, Jack D. Sobel, MD ...
    The leading clinical reference source on therapeutic antimicrobials, this latest edition contains up-to-date treatment guidelines and algorithms for most infections in an expanded, easy-to-read format. Composed by a team of expert contributing editors, this book is conveniently organized and tabbed for quick reference of drug toxicities, prophylaxis strategies, and dosage options. Now available ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Life Course Approach to Mental Disorders

    Edited by Karestan C. Koenen, Sasha Rudenstine, Ezra Susser, Sandro Galea ...
    Series series A Life Course Approach to Adult Health
    A Life Course Approach to Mental Disorders examines the interplay of social and biological factors in the production of a wide range of mental disorders throughout life, from the peri-natal period through to old age. The aging into adulthood of numerous birth cohorts, especially over the past twenty years, has provided increasing evidence that mental disorders previously perceived to emerge in ... Read more

    $91.19 CAD

  • Trusting Doctors

    The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine

    by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    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 the inspiration and ... Read more

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  • Death By The Black Death - Ancient History 5th Grade | Children's History

    by Baby Professor ...
    The Black Death killed thousands of people during a time when hygiene was questionable and diseases unknown. Today, we can only look back at the gruesome events of the past with the goal of learning from them. Scientific advancements were experienced after the Black Death, and we are still feeling these benefits up until the present. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Up from Clinical Epidemiology & EBM

    by O. S. Miettinen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    ‘Clinical epidemiology’ is now widely promoted and taught as a ‘basic science’ of Evidence-Based Medicine, of clinical EBM to be specific. This book, however, is mostly about that which Miettinen takes to be the necessary substitute for this now-so-fashionable subject – namely, Theory of Clinical Medicine together with its subordinate Theory of Clinical Research.The leit motif in all of this is ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Global Perspectives on Stem Cell Technologies

    Edited by Aditya Bharadwaj ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book takes as its point of departure a humble cell lying on the intersection of ideas as diverse and yet interlaced as life, knowledge, commerce, governance, and ethics. It seeks to deepen the understanding of stem cell entities and the concerns, hopes, and aspirations that shape and make them viable therapeutic entities in the context of rapid globalization. Several key intersections between ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Antimicrobial-resistant Bacteria®, 2nd edition

    by Gary A. Noskin, MD ...
    The use and overuse of antimicrobials over the past decades has led to the development of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. This handbook features chapters dedicated to the discussion of specific pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and their clinical presentation and treatment. General precaution to prevent the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Suffering Narratives of Older Adults

    A Phenomenological Approach to Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, Recovery and Maternal Care

    by Mary Beth Morrissey ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    In Suffering Narratives of Older Adults, Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey turns to the traditions of phenomenology, humanistic psychology and social work to provide an in-depth exploration of the deep structure of the suffering experience. She draws upon the notion of maternal holding to develop an original construct of maternal affordances – the ground of possibility for human development, agency and ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Communities of Health Care Justice

    by Charlene Galarneau ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
    The factions debating health care reform in the United States have gravitated toward one of two positions: that just health care is an individual responsibility or that it must be regarded as a national concern. Both arguments overlook a third possibility: that justice in health care is multilayered and requires the participation of multiple and diverse communities.Communities of Health Care ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD