Medical profession Books

This fifth edition of Where Medicine Fails, like previous editions, argues for a broader definition of society's responsibilities to the ill than is commonly perceived to be the case

""Transactions of the Kentucky State Medical Society: Twenty-Second Annual Convention, Held at Louisville, April 3-5, 1877"" is a book that compiles the proceedings of the annual convention of the Kentucky State Medical Society held in 1877. The book...

Transactions of the Colorado State Medical Society: Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth Annual Conventions (1900) is a book that documents the proceedings of the Colorado State Medical Society's annual conventions held in 1900. The book contains a compilation...

The Journal of Sociologic Medicine V19, 1918 is a publication that continues the Bulletin of the American Academy of Medicine from 1918. The book contains articles and research studies related to sociologic medicine, which is the study of the social and...

While some theorists argue that medicine is caught in a relentless process of 'geneticization' and others offer a thesis of biomedicalization, there is still little research that explores how these effects are accomplished in practice. Joanna Latimer,...

Elder abuse has been increasingly recognised over the past ten years in many countries and progress has been made in both understanding and addressing the issue. This volume provides a much-needed international overview of the topic.Opening with an...

Discover a tangible, doable approach to making time for what's most important to you.Dr. Laura Suttin dives into her own journey as a female physician, wife, and mother struggling to balance her personal and professional life. Weaving in stories with her...

This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It proves that these innovations have a suggestive character which is not relevant,...

Palliative Care ist eine Antwort auf grundlegende Fragen der modernen Medizin: Wie weit wollen, sollen oder mMedizin: Wie weit wollen, sollen oder müssen wir Leben erhalten, verlängern und verbessern, wenn es von unheilbarer Krankheit, Alter oder Sterben...

The patient-clinician interface is the most sacrosanct space in healthcare.How well we inhabit that space informs how well we deliver care.A system is perfectly designed to deliver the results it does, so if those results include preventable errors -...

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT HOW DOCTORS BEHAVE - AT BEST , AT WORST AND IN BETWEEN. - WITH EXAMPLES FROM THE AUTHOR'S OBSERVATIONS OF THE EFFECTS, GOOD OR BAD, OF HIS OWN AND HIS COLLEAGUES' HEALTH, ATTITUDES AND METHODS OF WORKING.

Human population genetic research (HPGR) seeks to identify the diversity and variation of the human genome and how human group and individual genetic diversity has developed. This book asks whether developing countries are well prepared for the ethical...

""Medicorum Auxiliorum Dexter Usus"" est liber scriptus a Francisco Emerichio et editus anno MDXXXVII. In hoc libro, auctor describit varias medicinae artis et chirurgiae technicas, quae sunt utiles in curandis vulneribus et morbis. Emerichius, qui fuit...

Anasseril E. Daniel, MD, discusses suicide prevention in jails and prisons and provides tips, techniques, and guidance to save lives. The author examines the role of correctional officers and mental health professionals in identifying at-risk inmates,...

Discussing existing controversies and illustrating landmark cases drawn from several jurisdictions, Medical Law and Ethics in Nigeria is one of the most comprehensive books on the subject to date. Some of the topics covered are: Reproductive medicine;...

Trust Your Doctor . . . but Not That Much is filled with helpful advice for anyone who visits their healthcare provider.Inside you’ll discover:How to find the best healthcare provider for you and prepare for a productive office visitHow to build...

""Defense Des Medecins Francais: Contre Le Docteur Broussais, Auteur De La Nouvelle Doctrine Medicale (1821)"" est un livre �����crit par S. P. Authenac. Ce livre d�����fend les m�����decins fran�����ais contre les th�����ories m�����dicales du Dr...

""Schilderung der �����rzte, oder die �����rzte wie sie sind und wie sie sein sollen"" ist ein anonymes Buch aus dem Jahr 1777, das sich mit der Beschreibung und dem Idealbild von �����rzten besch�����ftigt. Das Werk enth�����lt eine detaillierte...

Die Sammlung Medicinischer Gutachten (1791) von Johann Gottlieb Kuhn ist eine Zusammenstellung von medizinischen Gutachten, die von Kuhn w�����hrend seiner Karriere als Arzt erstellt wurden. Das Buch enth�����lt eine Vielzahl von medizinischen Themen,...

Philosophie De La Medecine (1865) est un livre �����crit par T. C. E. Edouard Auber. Il s'agit d'une exploration de la philosophie de la m�����decine, qui examine les questions fondamentales li�����es ������ la pratique m�����dicale. Auber aborde des...

""Illustrations of Vivisection or Experiments on Living Animals: From the Works of Physiologists"" is a book written by Frances Power Cobbe and published in 1888. The book contains a series of illustrations that depict the cruel and inhumane experiments...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Praktische (Ethik, Ästhetik, Kultur, Natur, Recht, ...), Note: 1,3, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena, ehem. Fachhochschule Jena, Veranstaltung: Ethik in der sozialen Arbeit, Sprache: Deutsch,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Research in the Human Sciences is constantly evolving, and its challenges multiply as we increasingly acknowledge the complexities and diversity of human existence. Research is an integral activity in institutions of higher education. Every discipline...

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?...

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...

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...

This volume is dedicated to the philosophy of medicine advanced by Edmund D. Pellegrino, a renowned physician educator and philosopher. Pellegrino's thinking about the philosophy of medicine centers on the importance of...

1.1 Goals 1.1.1 I have two main goals in this book. The first is to give an account of the moral significance of merely possible persons - persons who, relative to a particular 1 circumstance, or possible future or world, could but in fact never do exist...

[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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...