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How Should We Then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death by Ewan C Goligher 9781683597476
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683597476Author Ewan C GoligherFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Bad Blood by James H. Jones 9780029166765
Booksplease Price: $25.15From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to... -
The Whistle-Blower: The Life of Maurice Pappworth: the story of one man's battle against the medical establishment by Joanna Seldon 9781908684974
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908684974Author Joanna SeldonFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint -
Ethics, Law and Professional Issues: A Practice-Based Approach for Health Professionals by Ann Gallagher 9780230279940
Booksplease Price: $48.83This practice-based textbook explores the ethical, legal and professional issues that characterise the field of healthcare. From seeking consent to upholding patient confidentiality, it examines a... -
Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays by Thomas Szasz 9780815608677
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Defining ""medicalization"" as the perception of nonmedical conditions as medical problems and nondiseases as diseases, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to exposing the dangers of... -
Medical Ethics For Dummies by Jane Runzheimer
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.10A practical, insightful guide to the moral and ethical standards of healthcare Succeeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare... -
The Human Kind by Peter Dorward
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Everyone gets to be a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult doctors; of relationships burdened with mutual... -
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens 9780820354750
RRP: $41.47Booksplease Price: $38.08The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists... -
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that seems utterly of the present moment.' Financial Times' Best Books of the Year'Startlingly timely, authoritatively researched, and... -
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science by Siddhartha Mukherjee
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476784847Author MukherjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
My Lobotomy: A Memoir by Howard Dully 9780307381279
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $13.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780307381279Author Howard Dully< -
Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy: Beyond the Neglectful State by James Wilson 9780198900580
Booksplease Price: $32.80Public health has never been more important, or more controversial. What states do, and fail to do, makes a significant difference to the lives we are able to lead. Putting public health first would... -
100 Cases in Clinical Ethics and Law Carolyn Johnston (King's College London, and KIngston University, UK) 9781498739337
RRP: $53.59Booksplease Price: $51.31A 30-year-old Polish lady is admitted in labour. This is her first pregnancy and she is full term. She is in a lot of pain, her liquor is stained with meconium and the trace of her baby's heart is... -
The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders by Peter Conrad
RRP: $30.82Booksplease Price: $23.53Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems-birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism,... -
The Danger Within Us: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It by Jeanne Lenzer
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America, killing more Americans each year than diabetes, murders, car accidents and AIDS combined. In THE DANGER WITHIN US,... -
The Enigma of Health: The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age Hans-Georg Gadamer (University of Heidelberg) 9780745615943
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56In this book Gadamer discusses the transformations in human self-understanding, focusing on the achievements of modern medicine.Reviews"The Enigma of Health is a thoroughly wise book and should be... -
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71This is the story of one man's fight against a multibillion dollar colossus. A man who stood up for what was right, whatever the cost. The brilliant young forensic pathologist had no idea that the... -
Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions by Richard Harris
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.59"A rewarding read for anyone who wants to know the unvarnished truth about how science really gets done." - Financial TimesAmerican taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research,... -
Abortion Pill Reversal: A Second Chance at Choice by George Delgado 9781621648109
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $17.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621648109Author George DelgadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint -
A Catechism for Health Care: Insights from Catholic Teaching on Human Life, Medical Ethics, and Love of Neighbor Stehen Napier 9780813238340
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07The Catholic church's teachings on ethical issues arising in healthcare delivery and biomedical science are distributed across a plethora of different places ranging from papal allocutions,... -
Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in Medicine: Strategies That Work in Breaking Bad News by Robert Buckman 9780801895586
Booksplease Price: $43.12Although they receive extensive clinical training, medical practitioners are given little or no instruction about the best way to break bad news. In this book and DVD set, Robert Buckman, author of ... -
The Origins of Bioethics: Remembering When Medicine Went Wrong by John a Lynch
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $18.83The Origins of Bioethics argues that what we remember from the history of medicine and how we remember it are consequential for the identities of doctors, researchers, and patients in the present day... -
The Patient's Ordeal by William May
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89"an excellent contribution to medical ethics" -Ethics "wide-ranging, compassionate, and insightful" -Publishers Weekly "a sensitive and provocative approach to the study of ethical decision making"... -
If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas?: And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care by Arthur L. Caplan
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86"An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." -Health and Canadian Society"Insightful and thought-provoking. . . . As Caplan has demonstrated so clearly . . . we would all... -
Research Ethics: Cases and Materials by Robin Levin Penslar
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92"The book provides opportunities for unusually good discussions of ethical problems that can confront researchers in any field." -Religious Studies Review". . . this book provides a ready-made... -
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $15.87On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if... -
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear Danielle Ofri, M.D. 9780807087497
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807087497Author Danielle Ofri, M.D.Format PaperbackPage Count 248Impr -
Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America by Thomas Szasz 9780815607632
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17The modern penchant for transforming human problems into ""diseases"" and judicial sanctions into ""treatments,"" replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to a type of... -
Genetic Ethics: An Introduction Colin Farrelly 9780745695044
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69Colin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution. Recent biomedical advances such as genetic screening, gene therapy and genome editing might be... -
The Ethics of Autism: Among Them, but Not of Them by Deborah R. Barnbaum
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Autism is one of the most compelling, controversial, and heartbreaking cognitive disorders. It presents unique philosophical challenges as well, raising intriguing questions in philosophy of mind,... -
Ethical Issues in Women's Healthcare: Practice and Policy by Lori d'Agincourt-Canning 9780190851361
Booksplease Price: $75.36Numerous issues confront women's healthcare today, among them the medicalization of women's bodies, cosmetic genital surgery, violence against women, HIV, perinatal mental health disorders. This... -
Old Law, New Medicine: Modern Medical Ethics and Human Rights by Professor Sheila A. M. McLean 9780863584022
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $11.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780863584022Author Professor Sheila A. M. McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count -
Bioethics Reenvisioned: A Path toward Health Justice by Nancy M. P. King 9781469671581
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $22.07Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision. Born in the ferment of the 1970s, the field responded to rapid developments in biomedical technology and injustices in clinical care and research. Since... -
Theology Of Medicine by 9780815602255
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.92A collection of essays by Szasz, showing the philosophical foundations he believes are necessary for a society which truly supports freedom and autonomy of the individual.Book InformationISBN... -
Healers or Predators?: Healthcare Corruption in India by Dr Samiran Nundy 9780199489541
Booksplease Price: $21.51For every story of optimism about the growth of medical tourism to India, there are multiple others about medical neglect. Scratch the surface and you find a thick layer of corruption in this... -
Use of the Dead to the Living (Edition2024) by Southwood Smith 9789368098522
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Autonomy and Clinical Medicine: Renewing the Health Professional Relation with the Patient by Jurrit Bergsma 9789048154135
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Care and Covenant: A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility by Jason Weiner 9781647123178
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Who Says You're Dead?: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned by Jacob M. Appel 9781616209223
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Alternative Medicine and Ethics by James M. Humber 9781617370373
Booksplease Price: $129.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.