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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “leonard m fleck”
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  • Precision Medicine and Distributive Justice

    Wicked Problems for Democratic Deliberation

    by Leonard M. Fleck ...
    Metastatic cancer and costly precision medicines generate extremely complex problems of health care justice. Targeted cancer therapies yield only very marginal gains in life expectancy for most patients at very great cost, thereby threatening the just allocation of limited health care resources. Philosophers have high hopes for the utility of their theories of justice in addressing the challenges ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Bioethics, Public Reason, and Religion

    The Liberalism Problem

    by Leonard M. Fleck ...
    Series series Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics
    Can religious arguments provide a reasonable, justified basis for restrictive (coercive) public policies regarding numerous ethically and politically controversial medical interventions, such as research with human embryos, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or using artificial wombs? With Rawls, we answer negatively. Liberally reasonable policies must address these controversial technologies on ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Just Caring

    Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation

    by Leonard M. Fleck ...
    What does it mean to be a "just" and "caring" society when we have only limited resources to meet unlimited health care needs? Do we believe that all lives are of equal value? Is human life priceless? Should a "just" and "caring" society refuse to put limits on health care spending? In Just Caring, Leonard Fleck reflects on the central moral and political challenges of health reform today. He ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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    The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion

    by Katie Watson ...
    Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right in1973, it still bears stigma--a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pregnancies in the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Overdosed America

    The Broken Promise of American Medicine

    by John Abramson ...
    " Overdosed Americ a reveals the greed and corruption that drive health care costs skyward and now threaten the public health. Before you see a doctor, you should read this book." —Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food NationUsing the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life's Dominion

    An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
    Internationally renowned lawyer and philosopher Ronald Dworkin addresses the crucially related acts of abortion and euthanasia in a brilliantly original book that examines their meaning in a nation that prizes both life and individual liberty. From Roe v. Wade to the legal battle over the death of Nancy Cruzan, no issues have opened greater rifts in American society than those of abortion and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Side Effects

    How Our Healthcare Lost Its Way – And How We Fix It

    by David Haslam ...
    In the shadow of the pandemic , how do we make a healthcare system that is affordable, effective and fair? With a single drug in the UK currently costing £ 340,000 per patient per year, or a gene therapy in the USA being costed at $1.2million, who should get such treatments, and how can we begin to afford them? Should we all be entitled to timely mental health therapy? How should we care for our ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Pro

    Reclaiming Abortion Rights

    by Katha Pollitt ...
    A New York Times Book Review Notable BookFrom noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, award-winning author Katha Pollitt's Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights presents a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good. As the Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide, this urgent, controversial book reframes abortion as a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Sickening

    How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

    by John Abramson ...
    The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health.The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries—yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks a lowly 68th in the world. At the heart of ... Read more

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  • Testing Treatments: better research for better healthcare

    by Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton, Iain Chalmers, Paul Glasziou ...
    How do we know whether a particular drug, therapy or operation really works, and how well? How reliable is the evidence? Are clinical trials truly unbiased? And is current research focused on the real needs of patients? Such timely and pressing questions are raised and addressed in this probing enquiry into modern clinical research, with far-reaching implications for daily medical practice and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Why Have Children?

    The Ethical Debate

    by Christine Overall ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified—and if so, how.In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Powerful Medicines

    The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs

    by Jerry Avorn M.D. ...
    If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of patient care, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School, he shares ... Read more

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