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The Silent Patient

Bad Science

The Seven Ages of Death

The Doctor

Sick Money

Bad Pharma

Illness

Public Health Virtue Ethics

Taking Biology Seriously

Advance Care Planning

Partners in Palliative Care

The Neurological Patient in History

Narrative Matters

Storie di vita dall'Hospice

Reconstructing Medical Practice

The Torture Doctors

Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine

Practical Ethics for the Surgeon

Childhood Onset Severe Neurological Impairment

The Risks and Ethics of Human Gene Editing

Rights and Resources

Dimensions of Pain

Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy

The Healing Connection