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  • Toward a Small Family Ethic

    How Overpopulation and Climate Change Are Affecting the Morality of Procreation

    de Travis N. Rieder ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This thought-provoking treatise argues that current human fertility rates are fueling a public health crisis that is at once local and global. Its analysis and data summarize the ecological costs of having children, presenting ethical dilemmas for prospective parents in an era of competition for scarce resources, huge disparities of wealth and poverty, and unsustainable practices putting ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

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  • Good Medicine

    The Art of Ethical Care in Canada

    de Philip Hebert ...
    Award-winning physician Philip C. Hébert creates a brave and intimate portrait of the complex ethical imperatives at the heart of good medicine: doctors do not have all the answers; patients must be heard; and their needs, desires, fears, and experiences must be reflected in how practitioners look after them.Medical science continues to advance to previously unimagined heights in its diagnostic ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Letting Go

    how to plan for a good death

    de Charlie Corke ...
    ‘Too frequently, we leave it too late to start to think — but a crisis is never the best time for careful thought.’As Australia's population ages, many individuals are faced with making complex medical decisions, for themselves and for others, in times of great stress. How far should doctors go when trying to prolong life? How can we decide what is ‘too far’ and ‘not far enough’ for our loved ones ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Smart City

    Human Capital in the Smart City. A Tale of Two Cities in Italy

    de Davide Diamantini, Nunzia Borrelli ...
    Series Libro 8 - Quaderni
    La Carta di Milano, l'eredità immateriale di Expo Milano 2015, ci impegna a pensare e a dare forma a una diversa idea di convivenza urbana. Una città del futuro che comincia dal nostro presente. Negli ultimi anni si è assistito a un vero e proprio proliferare dell’uso del termine smart city e human smart city. L’uso – e talvolta l’abuso – di questo termine ha riguardato esperti, specialisti di ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • When Experiments Travel

    Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects

    de Adriana Petryna ...
    The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participate in clinical drug trials. While these experiments often provide those in need with vital and previously ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • ReBerth

    Stories from Cities on the Edge

    de Alexei Sayle, Valeria Parrella, Pawel Huelle ...
    Featuring: Alexei Sayle, Dinesh Allirajah, Valeria Parrella, Pawel Huelle, Adam Kaminski, Peppe Lanzetta, Claudia Parman, Artur Becker, Murathan Mungan, Hatice Meryem, Jean-Claude Izzo and Christian Garcin.The six European port cities known as the ‘Cities on the Edge’ – Liverpool, Bremen, Gdansk, Istanbul, Marseilles and Naples - share a history of dissent, diversity and economic reinvention. Once ... Leer más

    $6.70 USD

  • From Communists to Foreign Capitalists

    The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe

    de Nina Bandelj ...
    From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). She demonstrates how ... Leer más

    $50.39 USD

  • Medicating Race

    Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference

    de Anne Pollock ...
    Series series Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
    In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race. She examines wide-ranging aspects of the dynamic interplay of race and heart disease: articulations, among the founders ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • A Critical Examination of Ethics in Health Care and Biomedical Research

    Voices and Visions

    de Richard M. Zaner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as trust and uncertainty, dialogue involving talk and listening, the vulnerability of the patient against the asymmetric power of the ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners

    de James Braxton Peterson ...
    Series series For Beginners
    Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners is a graphic narrative project that attempts to distill the fundamental components of what scholars, activists, and artists have identified as the Mass Incarceration movement in the United States.Since the early 1990s, activist critics of the US prison system have marked its emergence as a “complex” in a manner comparable to how President Eisenhower ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Male Fertility Patterns and Determinants

    de Li Zhang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses the biological, methodological and sociological issues that have caused men to be overlooked in demographic and sociological literature of fertility. It explores the patterns and determinants of male fertility and studies male fertility rates as compared to those of females in 43 countries and places, over time. Data used in the aggregate level analysis come from multiple ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Population and Development

    A Message from The Cairo Conference

    de Robert L. Cliquet, Kristiaan Thienpont ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Since the onset of modernisation the world population has doubled several times and will soon reach 6 billion of people. The annual rate of increase in the world population is approximately 90 million people. This is the largest absolute level of population growth ever recorded. According to the most recent population projections of the United Nations, the world population will probably double ... Leer más

    $143.09 USD