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  • SARS in Context

    Memory, History, and Policy

    Series Libro 27 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    Former Ontario Chief Coroner James Young and infectious disease expert Dick Zoutman recount their efforts to contain the mysterious new disease. In answer to questions about "lessons from the past," several distinguished historians of epidemics examine how their knowledge of responses to older plagues influenced their perception of SARS. They also reflect on how the advent of SARS alters their ... Leer más

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  • What Doctors Feel

    How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

    de Danielle Ofri ...
    A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient carePhysicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice have a profound impact on ... Leer más

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  • Gone Viral: The Germs That Share Our Lives

    de Frank Bowden ...
    Frank Bowden, a specialist in the field of infectious disease and sexual health, looks at one bug at a time, weaving around them the stories of his patients and their families, the doctors and the difficulties they face and the horrors and successes of hospitals and health care programs. Through Bowden's own work in the field, we encounter Swine Flu, Golden Staph, SARS, Hepatitis, and HIV, and ... Leer más

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  • A Sick Prejudice

    Why can it be so difficult to be around someone with a serious illness?Something lurks deep within us, urging us to avoid someone seriously ill. A Sick Prejudice explores our innermost fears, primal emotions, and biases when we get into illness situations. It reveals the flawed reasoning and escape tactics that naturally arise in us.Joseph McNolty weaves together research with heartfelt stories ... Leer más

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  • Routine Miracles

    Personal Journeys of Patients and Doctors Discovering the Powers of Modern Medicine

    “This book covers medical advances that would once have been called miracles but have now become routine. The patients’ stories within this book yield hope, optimism, and triumph. This is the best time ever to come out of medical school and training. This fact will inspire and uplift everyone in the medical profession as well as all of us who must, at some point, rely on the art of medicine to see ... Leer más

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  • Smart Mice, Not So Smart People

    An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics

    What do you think about cloning, stem cell research, brain enhancement, or doing experiments on newly dead patients? Read Smart Mice, Not so Smart People and you'll know what Art Caplan thinks. But this assortment of pithy, provocative opinions on all things bioethical does more than simply give you a piece of the author's mind-it also invites and even dares you to make up your own mind. In his ... Leer más

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  • Planning Your Research And How To Write It

    This book is a practical guide for residents and young researchers who are planning to embark on research. It details the significant planning one must first do including choosing a suitable experienced clinician as a supervisor, sourcing for a 'winning idea' with significant clinical impact, performing a proper review of literature, defining clearly the objectives to be set and adopting the ... Leer más

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  • Mendel's Garden: Selected Medical Topics

    MENDELS GARDEN: SELECTED MEDICAL TOPICS contains a collection of short non-fiction texts covering a wide variety of medical issues. Dr. Holcombe intends each short text for the lay audience, and there are consequently no rigorous references as would be found in scientific publications. Instead, the topics are intended to introduce the average reader to a number of current issues that affect the ... Leer más

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  • Restructuring Canada's Health Systems: How Do We Get There From Here?

    Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Health Economics

    Edición de Raisa Deber, Gail Thompson ...
    Series series Heritage
    Is the Canadian health care system becoming a victim of its own success? It has done what it set out to do – provide universal access to all medically necessary health services without financial barriers to patients – but expanding technology, an aging population, and escalating costs strain its ability to continue. It is time to explore ways to reorient and restructure the health care system and ... Leer más

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  • Selected Papers of Charles H. Best

    Series series Heritage
    The name of Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin, Head of the Department of Physiology and Director of the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research in the University of Toronto, is familiar to medical and lay readers all over the world. The story of his early insulin research with Dr. Frederick Banting, as a result of which men and women and children who forty years ago would have had ... Leer más

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  • Doctors are a drain on society

    Cambridge Orthopaedic Writing Prize

    Series Libro 1 - The Cambridge Orthopaedic Writing Prize
    It is a natural assumption that authors who have published numerous scientific papers have also acquired mastery of the written word. Yet sadly this is not always the case. Talk to many journal editors and they will say that a number of the submissions they receive fail because an interesting finding has simply been presented in a poor way.The Cambridge Orthopaedic Writing Prize was created to ... Leer más

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