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  • The Law-Medicine Relation: A Philosophical Exploration

    Proceedings of the Eighth Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Farmington, Connecticut, November 9–11, 1978

    Edited by S.F. Spicker, Y.M. Healey Jr., H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume is a contribution to the continuing interaction between law and medicine. Problems arising from this interaction have been addressed, in part, by previous volumes in this series. In fact, one such problem constitutes the central focus of Volume 5, Mental Illness: Law and Public Policy [1]. The present volume joins other volumes in this series in offering an exploration and critical ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Bad Pharma

    How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    We all feel uncomfortable about the role of profit in healthcare, we all have a vague notion that the global $600bn pharmaceutical industry is somehow evil and untrustworthy, but that sense rarely goes beyond a flaky, undifferentiated new age worldview. Bad Pharma puts real flesh on those bones, revealing the rigged evidence used by drug companies. Bad information means bad treatment decisions, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

    by Danielle Ofri MD ...
    Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly different things.Patients, anxious to convey their ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

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  • Professionalism in Medicine

    A Case-Based Guide for Medical Students

    Edited by John Spandorfer, MD, Charles A. Pohl, MD, Susan L. Rattner, Thomas J. Nasca, MD ...
    Learning medical professionalism is a challenging, evolving, and life-long endeavor. Professionalism in Medicine: A Case-Based Guide for Medical Students helps begin this process by engaging students and their teachers in reflection on cases that resonate with the experiences of life in medicine. Through the book's seventy-two cases, commentaries, videos, and literature-based reviews, students ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Breast Cancer®, 2nd edition

    by Lynn H. Ratner, MD ...
    In this timely handbook, an expert in oncology explains the risk factors for contracting breast cancer and the pathogenesis of the disease, discusses the complexities of diagnosis, and offers a detailed examination of surgical treatments and the latest drug therapies, including raloxifene (Evista®). ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

    by Katrien Devolder ...
    Series series Issues in Biomedical Ethics
    Embryonic stem cell research holds unique promise for developing therapies for currently incurable diseases and conditions, and for important biomedical research. However, the process through which embryonic stem cells are obtained involves the destruction of early human embryos. Katrien Devolder focuses on the tension between the popular view that an embryo should never be deliberately harmed or ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Foundations of Healthcare Ethics

    Theory to Practice

    by Joanne Grainger, Jãnis T. Ozoliņš ...
    In order to provide the highest level of care to patients and clients, health professionals need a sound knowledge and understanding of healthcare ethics. Foundations of Healthcare Ethics: Theory to Practice focuses on the philosophical concepts underpinning contemporary ethical discourse for health professionals, and arms both students and professionals with the knowledge to tackle situations of ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Psychiatry and Philosophy

    by Erwin W. Straus, Maurice Natanson, Henri Ey ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The three essays reprinted in this book were first published in 1963 as individual chapters of a psychiatric treatise entitled Psychiatrie der Gegen wart (Psychiatry of the Present Day). The editors, W. H. GRUHLE (Bonn), R. JUNG (Freiburg/Br. ), W. MAYER-GROSS (Birmingham, England), M. MUL LER (Bern, Switzerland), had not planned an encyclopedic presentation; they did not intend to present a ... Read more

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  • The Neurological Patient in History

    by L. Stephen Jacyna, Professor Stephen Casper ...
    Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, multiple sclerosis, stroke: all are neurological illnesses that create dysfunction, distress, and disability. With their symptoms ranging from impaired movement and paralysis to hallucinationsand dementia, neurological patients present myriad puzzling disorders and medical challenges.Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries countless stories about ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Liminal Lives

    Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

    by Susan Merrill Squier ...
    Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation—these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to consider the cultural impact of the medical transformation of the entire human life span, Susan Merrill Squier argues that ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Ethical Decision Making in Nursing and Health Care

    The Symphonological Approach

    by James H. Husted, Gladys Husted, PhD, MSN, RN ...
    Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!"This book provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making, a process that can help clarify situations where right and wrong are not clearly definedÖ.This should be a valuable book for ethics and theory courses." Score: 100, 5 stars--Doody'sHusted and Husted's classic nursing ethics text provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making that ... Read more

    $95.99 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

    $115.99 CAD