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  • Health Care as a Social Good

    Religious Values and American Democracy

    David M. Craig traveled across the United States to assess health care access, delivery and finance in this country. He interviewed religious hospital administrators and interfaith activists, learning how they balance the values of economic efficiency and community accountability. He met with conservatives, liberals, and moderates, reviewing their ideas for market reform or support for the ... Leer más

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  • Narrative Medicine : Honoring the Stories of Illness

    Honoring the Stories of Illness

    de Rita Charon ...
    Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine primary care medicine narratology and the study of doctor-patient relationships narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize absorb ... Leer más

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  • Normal at Any Cost

    Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest toManipulate Height

    A fascinating story of medical experimentation, parental love, and the extreme measures taken to make children fit within ?the norm.?Most people rarely think about their height beyond a little wishing and hoping. But for the parents of children who are ridiculed by their peers for being extraordinarily tall or extraordinarily short, height can cause great anguish. For decades, the medical ... Leer más

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  • Contemporary Guide to Surgical Infections™

    Written by one of the nation’s foremost experts on the diagnosis and treatment of surgical infections, Contemporary Guide to Surgical Infections™ is divided into two segments. Segment 1—Sections 1 through 10—defines and characterizes surgical infections and discusses the general principles of diagnosis and management, including routine operations and potential postoperative complications. Specific ... Leer más

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  • An Error in Judgement

    de Dara Culhane ...
    On January 22, 1979, an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. The events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, anecdotes and public records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospital, the ... Leer más

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  • Tuskegee's Truths

    Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

    Edición de Susan M. Reverby ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research — the Tuskegee syphilis study. Told they were being treated for “bad blood,” the nearly four hundred men with late-stage syphilis and two hundred disease-free men who ... 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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  • Terminal Sedation: Euthanasia in Disguise?

    Edición de Torbjörn Tännsjö ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    TERMINAL SEDATION DURING THE 1990s During the 1990s a discussion took place in scholarly journals concerning a measure within palliative care that had earlier attracted little attention, to wit, the sedation of dying patients. There seem to have been two main reasons why the practice came under debate. On the one hand, some people felt that, when palliative medicine had advanced and methods to ... Leer más

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  • Genetic Research on Addiction

    Ethics, the Law, and Public Health

    Edición de Audrey Chapman, Ph.D. ...
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  • Francis Bacon on Motion and Power

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive and unitary study of the philosophy of Francis Bacon, with special emphasis on the medical, ethical and political aspects of his thought. It presents an original interpretation focused on the material conditions of nature and human life. In particular, coverage in the book is organized around the unifying theme of Bacon’s notion of appetite, which is considered in ... Leer más

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  • Values in Health and Social Care

    An Introductory Workbook

    This innovative workbook enables students and those working in health and social care to deepen their understanding of the values that underpin their practice. Rich in practical exercises and downloadable resources that invite the reader to engage with their own values, it explores how values, though not often reflected on, define the quality of care delivered.Supported by case studies and ... Leer más

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  • The Growth of Medical Knowledge

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The growth of knowledge and its effects on the practice of medicine have been issues of philosophical and ethical interest for several decades and will remain so for many years to come. The outline of the present volume was conceived nearly three years ago. In 1987, a conference on this theme was held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on the occasion of the founding of the European Society for ... Leer más

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