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  • THE GREAT HUMAN DIGNITY HEIST THE GREAT HUMAN DIGNITY HEIST
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    THE GREAT HUMAN DIGNITY HEIST

    The Great Human Dignity Heist is a collection of prickly, sceptical comments on euthanasia, abortion, IVF, stem-cell research, torture, and other 21st Century bioethical quandaries. After reading this sparkling anthology you’ll never again...
    $39.00

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  • 27 Days in November 27 Days in November
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    27 Days in November

    27 Days in November - Daisy's Story could not be written by Daisy herself. During her life, Daisy has recovered from a malignant brain tumour, a fat embolism in her lung that developed after a simple broken leg, which caused acute respiratory failure...
    $31.00

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  • Threnodia Medica Seu Planctus Medicinae Lugentis (1619) Threnodia Medica Seu Planctus Medicinae Lugentis (1619)
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    Threnodia Medica Seu Planctus Medicinae Lugentis (1619)

    Threnodia Medica Seu Planctus Medicinae Lugentis (1619) est liber scriptus a Raymundo Minderer, qui est tractatus de tristitia et dolore medicinae, quae saepe in medicis obseruantur. Liber constat ex tribus partibus. Prima pars est de causis et...
    $118.00

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    Med School 101 for Patients

    This step-by-step guide will share strategies on preparing for doctor visits and communicating with doctors to get the most out of limited time. Taking the approach of working with your physicians as patient partners, the book suggests you first see your...
    $60.00

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  • The Making of Tomorrow's Physician The Making of Tomorrow's Physician
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    The Making of Tomorrow's Physician

    Today's Guide for Mentoring Tomorrow's Physicians The Making of Tomorrow's Physician is a complete guide for attending physicians supervising medical students in the field. This logically organized, approachable book will help physicians improve every...
    $31.00

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  • Science, Technology and Innovation Ecosystem Science, Technology and Innovation Ecosystem
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    Science, Technology and Innovation Ecosystem

    Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) are the key drivers of the economy and development of a country. The economic and social impacts of STI require a deep understanding of the STI ecosystem, which includes the interactions between actors, their...
    $241.00

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  • Self-restoration of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China Self-restoration of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China
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    Self-restoration of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China

    This book adopts an approach based on relational psychoanalysis, developed in the USA in and since the 1990s and guided by the self-psychology championed by Kohut and the Post-Kohutians. How people infected with HIV/AIDS live their lives is a growing...
    $184.00

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  • Chinese and Indian Medicine Today Chinese and Indian Medicine Today
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    Chinese and Indian Medicine Today

    This book discusses Asian medicine, which puts enormous emphasis on prevention and preservation of health, and examines how, in recent decades, medical schools in Asia have been increasingly shifting toward a curative approach. It offers an ethnographic...
    $200.00

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  • Ethics and Critical Care Medicine Ethics and Critical Care Medicine
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    Ethics and Critical Care Medicine

    The expense of critical care and emergency medicine, along with widespread expectations for good care when the need arises, pose hard moral and political problems. How should we spend our tax d'ollars, and who should get help?...
    $184.00

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  • Catholic Perspectives on Medical Morals Catholic Perspectives on Medical Morals
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    Catholic Perspectives on Medical Morals

    CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVES AND CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL MORALS A Catholic perspective on medical morals antedates the current world­ wide interest in medical and biomedical ethics by many centuries[5]. Discussions about the moral status...
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  • Consensus Formation in Healthcare Ethics Consensus Formation in Healthcare Ethics
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    Consensus Formation in Healthcare Ethics

    debating (and possibly ratifying) the Convention at the national level [13]. The Convention identified basic principles necessary for the applica­ tion of medicine and the life sciences. It set out to protect the dignity and...
    $220.00

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  • Oposiciones a Auxiliar de Enfermería Oposiciones a Auxiliar de Enfermería
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    Oposiciones a Auxiliar de Enfermería

    [TERCERA EDICIÓN] Material de autoevaluación. Son 3.000 preguntas tipo test resueltas publicadas en exámenes de oposiciones al sistema nacional de Salud y a los respectivos sistemas autonómicos. Cuaderno de apoyo al estudio en...
    $72.00

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  • Anthropologie und Ethik der Biomedizin Anthropologie und Ethik der Biomedizin
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    Anthropologie und Ethik der Biomedizin

    In bioethische Kontroversen geht es zumeist um den Umgang des Menschen mit sich selbst, genauer: den Umgang mit den biologischen Grundlagen seiner - der menschlichen - Existenz. Bioethik verweist darum immer auch auf den Begriff des Menschen und...
    $173.00

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  • Organ Replacement Therapy Organ Replacement Therapy
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    Organ Replacement Therapy

    Leading medical ethicists, theologists, lawyers, transplant surgeons and physicians discuss 5 major ethical topics concerning the transplantation of human organs.
    $184.00

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  • Bioethical Decision Making and Argumentation Bioethical Decision Making and Argumentation
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    Bioethical Decision Making and Argumentation

    This book clarifies the meaning of the most important and pervasive concepts and tools in bioethical argumentation (principles, values, dignity, rights, duties, deliberation, prudence) and assesses the methodological suitability of the main methods for...
    $151.00

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    A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear

    There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy. Structured as a historical-philosophical...
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  • Chasing Tourette's Chasing Tourette's
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    Chasing Tourette's

    This book offers a philosophical perspective on contemporary Tourette Syndrome scholarship, a field which has exploded over the last thirty years. Despite intense research efforts on this common neurodevelopmental condition in the age of the brain...
    $241.00

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  • Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy
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    Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy

    This book explores, in rich and rigorous ways, the possibilities and limitations of "thick" (concepts of) autonomy in light of contemporary debates in philosophy, ethics, and bioethics.Many standard ethical theories and practices, particularly in domains...
    $194.00

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  • Dictionary of Global Bioethics Dictionary of Global Bioethics
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    Dictionary of Global Bioethics

    This Dictionary presents a broad range of topics relevant in present-day global bioethics. With more than 500 entries, this dictionary covers organizations working in the field of global bioethics, international documents concerning bioethics,...
    $442.00

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  • IN THE NAME OF PROGRESS IN THE NAME OF PROGRESS
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    IN THE NAME OF PROGRESS

    In the Name of Progress: The Dark Side of Medical Research is a comprehensive exploration of the dark side of medical progress, examining a series of unethical medical experiments conducted over the past century.This book delves into notorious cases...
    $95.00

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  • The Heart Of A Physician The Heart Of A Physician
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    The Heart Of A Physician

    The Heart Of A Physician: Daily Devotionals for Christian Physician Assistants is a 21-day devotional crafted to encourage and uplift those serving on the frontlines of healthcare. This book provides daily moments of inspiration, helping physician...
    $31.00

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  • The DSM-5 in Perspective The DSM-5 in Perspective
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    The DSM-5 in Perspective

    Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The...
    $216.00

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  • Classification, Disease and Evidence Classification, Disease and Evidence
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    Classification, Disease and Evidence

    This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain...
    $122.00

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  • Exchanging Human Bodily Material Exchanging Human Bodily Material
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    Exchanging Human Bodily Material

    This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about 'markets in human body parts' which is antagonistically divided into pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approach this and shows a way...
    $270.00

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  • The Physician as Captain of the Ship The Physician as Captain of the Ship
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    The Physician as Captain of the Ship

    "The fixed person for fixed duties, who in older societies was such a godsend, in the future ill be a public danger." Twenty years ago, a single legal metaphor accurately captured the role that American society accorded to...
    $324.00

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  • The Use of Human Beings in Research The Use of Human Beings in Research
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    The Use of Human Beings in Research

    This volume, which has developed from the Fourteenth Trans­ Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, September 5-8, 1982, at Tel Aviv University, Israel, contains the contributions of a group of distinguished scholars...
    $335.00

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  • Faces of Medicine Faces of Medicine
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    Faces of Medicine

    1. MEDICINE Illness, disease and disability plague man in every culture. But the form they take is not the same everywhere. Neither is man's reaction. Coping strategies, and the experience and knowledge backing them, depend...
    $92.00

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  • The Genetics of Mental Retardation The Genetics of Mental Retardation
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    The Genetics of Mental Retardation

    The Bishop Bekkers Foundation, devoted to the welfare of those with mental handicap and to the amelioration and prevention of this and related disabilities, is to be warmly congratulated for sponsoring and organizing the 1986...
    $92.00

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  • Methods in Medicine Methods in Medicine
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    Methods in Medicine

    Clinicians spend their working lives making decisions. such decisions are usually made in interlocking streams rather than in the discrete circumscribed contexts so beloved of scientists. When the clinician encounters a patient...
    $122.00

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  • The Practices of Human Genetics The Practices of Human Genetics
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    The Practices of Human Genetics

    That concern about human genetics is at the top of many lists of issues requiring intense discussion from scientific, political, social, and ethical points of view is today no surprise. It was in the spirit of attempting to...
    $335.00

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  • Charles Bonnet and the Order of the Known Charles Bonnet and the Order of the Known
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    Charles Bonnet and the Order of the Known

    Charles Bonnet began his career as a naturalist, from an early age establishing a reputation as a careful observer. It is for those youthful observations, as well as for some suggestive speculations proposed relative to this...
    $184.00

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  • Beneficence and Health Care Beneficence and Health Care
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    Beneficence and Health Care

    The meaning and application of the principle of beneficence to issues in health care is rarely clear or certain. Although the principle is frequently employed to justify a variety of actions and inactions, very little has been...
    $227.00

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  • The Clinical Encounter The Clinical Encounter
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    The Clinical Encounter

    The encounter between patient and physician may be characterized as the focus of medicine. As such, the patient-physician relationship, or more accurately the conduct of patients and physicians, has been the subject of...
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  • Ethics, Health Policy and (Anti-) Aging Ethics, Health Policy and (Anti-) Aging
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    Ethics, Health Policy and (Anti-) Aging

    This volume focuses on the ethical and philosophical issues that arise in an aging society, and the implications of these issues for healthcare and social policy. After a brief overview of biomedicine's changing approach of ageing and longevity and of...
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  • Acceptable Risk in Biomedical Research Acceptable Risk in Biomedical Research
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    Acceptable Risk in Biomedical Research

    This book is the first major work that addresses a core question in biomedical research: the question of acceptable risk. The acceptable level of risks is regulated by the requirement of proportionality in biomedical research law, which state that the...
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  • Designed to Kill Designed to Kill
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    Designed to Kill

    The pilot-less drones, smart bombs and other high-tech weapons on display in recent conflicts are all the outcome of weapons research. However, the kind of scientific and technological endeavour has been around for a long time, producing not only the...
    $220.00

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  • Bioethics Critically Reconsidered Bioethics Critically Reconsidered
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    Bioethics Critically Reconsidered

    Bioethics developed as an academic and clinical discipline during the later part of the 20th century due to a variety of factors. Crucial to this development was the increased secularization of American culture as well as the dissolution of medicine as a...
    $184.00

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  • Athletic Enhancement, Human Nature and Ethics Athletic Enhancement, Human Nature and Ethics
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    Athletic Enhancement, Human Nature and Ethics

    The book provides an in-depth discussion on the human nature concept from different perspectives and from different disciplines, analyzing its use in the doping debate and researching its normative overtones. The relation between natural talent and...
    $220.00

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  • Perspectives on Human Suffering Perspectives on Human Suffering
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    Perspectives on Human Suffering

    This volume brings together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on a topic of central importance, but which has otherwise tended to be approached from within just one or another disciplinary framework. Most of the essays contained here incorporate...
    $184.00

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