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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “paulina taboada”
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  • Person, Society and Value

    Towards a Personalist Concept of Health

    Edited by Paulina Taboada, K.F. Cuddeback, P. Donohue-White ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational.The overall purpose of this book is to capture the ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Sedation at the End-of-life: An Interdisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Paulina Taboada ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book’s main contribution is its interdisciplinary approach to the issue of sedation at the end-of-life. Because it occurs at the end of life, palliative sedation raises a number of important ethical and legal questions, including whether it is a covert form of euthanasia and for what purposes it may legally be used. Many of the book chapters address the first question and almost all deal with ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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    Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

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    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

    by Henry Louis Mencken ...
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    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medical Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Prof Charles Foster ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Medical law is concerned with our bodies, and what happens to them during and after our lives. When things go wrong with our bodies, we want to know what our rights are, and what governs the conduct of the clinicians into whose hands we put our lives and limbs. Dealing with matters of life and death, it can therefore have a fundamental impact on medical practice. Headlines in the media often ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology

    Edited by Jennifer M. Brown, Elizabeth A. Campbell ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    Forensic psychology has developed and extended from an original, narrow focus on presenting evidence to the courts to a wider application across the whole span of civil and criminal justice, which includes dealing with suspects, offenders, victims, witnesses, defendants, litigants and justice professionals. This Handbook provides an encyclopedic-style source regarding the major concerns in ... Read more

    $81.59 CAD

  • Legal & Ethical Standards for Nurses, Fourth Edition

    by Sheryl Feutz-Harter ...
    To practice nursing effectively today requires a sound understanding of the legal system and the laws specifically affecting nurses. Legal and Ethical Standards for Nurses is filled with practical information, covering topics such as delegation, documentation, professional liability insurance, regulatory issues, advance directives and many others! While these are exciting and challenging times for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • My Journey with Jake

    A Memoir of Parenting and Disability

    by Miriam Edelson ...
    Jake is celebrating his tenth birthday. That’s a remarkable feat, because at birth he was given only three years to live. Miriam Edelson is his mother, a dedicated fighter for Jake and families in similar situations.Edelson poses some tough questions: How do parents cope with a child who has special needs? Are we failing, as a society, to care for children with disabilities? Whatever happened to ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Genetic Discrimination

    Transatlantic Perspectives on the Case for a European Level Legal Response

    Edited by Gerard Quinn, Aisling de Paor, Peter Blanck ...
    As genetic technologies advance, genetic testing may well offer the prospect of detecting the onset of future disabilities. Some research also forwards that certain behavioural profiles may have a strong genetic basis, such as the determination to succeed, or the propensity for risk-taking. As this technology becomes more prevalent, there is a danger that genetic information may be misused by ... Read more

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  • Genetic Data and the Law

    A Critical Perspective on Privacy Protection

    by Mark Taylor ...
    Series Book 16 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Research using genetic data raises various concerns relating to privacy protection. Many of these concerns can also apply to research that uses other personal data, but not with the same implications for failure. The norms of exclusivity associated with a private life go beyond the current legal concept of personal data to include genetic data that relates to multiple identifiable individuals ... Read more

    $133.59 CAD

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    The Defense of Reason in Descartes's Meditations

    by Harry G. Frankfurt ...
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a landmark account of Descartes, reason, and truthIn this classic work, philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes's Meditations, but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern philosophy: on what basis can reason claim to ... Read more

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  • Conversing with Cancer

    How to Ask Questions, Find and Share Information, and Make the Best Decisions

    by Lisa Sparks, Anna Leahy ...
    Series Book 22 - Language as Social Action
    With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers. Each person whose life is affected by a cancer diagnosis—patient, healthcare provider, caregiver—has information and needs information in order to make the best ... Read more

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