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  • Making Modern Medical Ethics

    How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics

    von Robert Baker
    Serien series Basic Bioethics
    The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics.In Making Modern Medical Ethics, Robert Baker tells the counter history of the birth of bioethics, bringing to the fore the stories of the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged the establishment. Drawing on his earlier work on moral revolutions and the history of medical ethics, Robert Baker Lesen Sie mehr

    € 33,32

  • The Structure of Moral Revolutions

    Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution

    von Robert Baker
    Serien series Basic Bioethics
    A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the patient rebellion against medical paternalism.We live in an age of moral revolutions in which the once morally outrageous has become morally acceptable, and the formerly acceptable is now regarded as reprehensible. Attitudes toward same-sex love, Lesen Sie mehr

    € 26,72

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  • Intellectuals and Race

    von Thomas Sowell
    Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America*Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.The views of individual intellectuals Lesen Sie mehr

    € 15,99

  • Limits to Medicine

    Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

    von Ivan Illich
    The medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. So begins Ivan Illich's spirited and reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals conducted by the medical profession. Relentlessly and with full documentation taken from recognized medical sources Illich proves the impotence of medical services to change life expectancy, the Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,87

  • Eugenics

    A Very Short Introduction

    von Philippa Levine
    Serien series Very Short Introductions
    In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful, international movement, committed to using the principles of heredity and statistics to encourage healthy and discourage unhealthy Lesen Sie mehr

    € 7,40

  • Thieves of Virtue

    When Bioethics Stole Medicine

    von Tom Koch
    Serien series Basic Bioethics
    An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring.Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchers needed the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised by technological advances in medicine. It blossomed as a response to the perceived doctor-knows-best Lesen Sie mehr

    € 20,67

  • Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss

    Figuring the Social

    A leading public intellectual, Michael Bliss has written prolifically for academic and popular audiences and taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 2006. Among his publications are a comprehensive history of the discovery of insulin, and major biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osler, and Harvey Cushing. The essays in this volume, each written by former doctoral students of Bliss, Lesen Sie mehr

    € 70,72

  • The Quest for Mental Health

    A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society

    von Ian Dowbiggin
    Serien series Cambridge Essential Histories
    This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first, this search for emotional health and welfare has cost billions. In the name of mental health, millions around the world have been tranquilized, institutionalized, psycho-analyzed, sterilized, Lesen Sie mehr

    € 26,39

  • Strangers at the Bedside

    A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making

    Bearbeitet von David J. Rothman
    Serien series Social Institutions and Social Change Series
    David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the practice of medicine in the United States underwent a most remarkable--and thoroughly controversial--transformation. The discretion that the profession once enjoyed has been increasingly circumscribed, and now an almost bewildering number of parties and procedures participate in Lesen Sie mehr

    € 64,43

  • The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World

    Bearbeitet von Paula S. Fass
    Serien series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadly incorporating the research in the field of Childhood Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in this crucial field. Lesen Sie mehr

    € 66,96

  • The Sociological Eye

    This major expression of one of the leaders of the Chicago School, one of the most important schools of thought in contemporary American sociology, includes his recognized masterpieces of sociological research and writing. Hughes pioneered studies in a variety of sociological subjects: social institutions, racial interaction, work and occupations, and research methodology. Cumulatively, these Lesen Sie mehr

    € 69,49

  • The Anthem Companion to Robert Park

    Bearbeitet von Peter Kivisto
    Serien series Anthem Companions to Sociology
    The collection attempts to come to term with Robert Park’s legacy. As will become evident, the focus is largely though not entirely on the work rather than the man. Mary Jo Deegan makes use of aspects of Park’s biography to illustrate what she sees as his disavowal of developing sociology as a moral science in the interest of objectivity. The article by Martin Bulmer addresses how Park came to Lesen Sie mehr

    € 17,48