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  • Euthanasia: Searching for the Full Story

    Experiences and Insights of Belgian Doctors and Nurses

    Edited by Timothy Devos ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This open access book has been written by ten Belgian health care professionals, nurses, university professors and doctors specializing in palliative care and ethicists who, together, raise questions concerning the practice of euthanasia. They share their experiences and reflections born out of their confrontation with requests for euthanasia and end-of-life support in a country where euthanasia ... Read more

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  • Invisible Labor

    The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

    by Rachel Somerstein ...
    An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America—the cesarean section—and an exposé on the disturbing state of women's health and maternal medical careWhen Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything but “routine.” A series of errors by her clinicians led to a real-life nightmare: surgery ... Read more

    PHP785.99

  • Bioethics and the Holocaust

    A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Continues to Shape the Ethics of Health, Medicine and Human Rights

    Edited by Stacy Gallin, Ira Bedzow ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics, ... Read more

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  • Saving Normal

    An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life

    by Allen Frances ...
    International Bestseller • "An extraordinarily important book." —Marcia Angell, Harvard Medical SchoolA deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality, by "one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists" (The Atlantic)Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. Today, however, ... Read more

    PHP746.69

  • No More Tears

    The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

    by Gardiner Harris ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist“A damning portrait.”—Associated Press**“A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ... Read more

    PHP775.49

  • Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response

    Ethics and Governance Guidance

    Edited by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Johns Hopkins Project on Ethics and Governance of Digital Contact Tracing Technologies ...
    As nations race to hone contact-tracing efforts, the world's experts consider strategies for maximum transparency and impact.As public health professionals around the world work tirelessly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that traditional methods of contact tracing need to be augmented in order to help address a public health crisis of unprecedented scope. Innovators worldwide are ... Read more

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  • Palliative Medicine: A Case-Based Manual

    Edited by Susan MacDonald, Leonie Herx, Anne Boyle ...
    Palliative medicine is the medical care provided for people who have a life limiting illness or condition. It encompasses both the physical symptoms a person may experience but also the psychosocial, emotional, and ethical issues that may arise. Now in its fourth edition, Palliative Medicine: A Case-Based Manual walks clinicians through the management of the most common situations found in ... Read more

    PHP1,995.29

  • The Spirit Ambulance

    Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand

    by Scott Stonington ...
    Series Book 49 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist metaphysics. Scott Stonington’s gripping ethnography documents how Thai ... Read more

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  • Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth, Professor der Geburtshilfe an der k. k.…

    by J. Semmelweis ...
    Entdecken Sie die bahnbrechenden Gedanken eines medizinischen Pioniers, die die Welt der Geburtshilfe revolutionierten!In "Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth" entfaltet Dr. J. Ph. Semmelweis seine visionären Ideen, die die medizinische Praxis für immer veränderten. Tauchen Sie ein in die leidenschaftlichen Argumente eines Mannes, der gegen den Strom schwamm, um das Leben unzähliger Mütter zu ... Read more

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  • An Essay on the Effects of Opium, Considered as a Poison

    by John Awsiter ...
    An Essay on the Effects of Opium, Considered as a Poison is a seminal medical treatise first published in 1786 by George Young, a Scottish physician. This comprehensive work delves into the physiological and pathological consequences of opium use, examining its role as both a medicinal agent and a dangerous poison. Drawing on clinical observations, case studies, and contemporary medical literature ... Read more

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  • A handbook of invalid cooking

    by Boland ...
    A Handbook of Invalid Cooking, authored by Mary A. Boland and first published in 1893, is a comprehensive guide dedicated to the preparation of nourishing and easily digestible meals for the sick and convalescent. Drawing from her experience as a nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boland offers practical advice and detailed recipes tailored to the unique dietary needs of invalids. The ... Read more

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  • L'étanger

    Ou le pari de l'autre

    by Tobie Nathan ...
    « Qui veut connaître l’étranger, celui qu’il ne connaît pas, doit avoir fait l’expérience de la rencontre avec un invisible non humain, faute de quoi il errera dans un monde regorgeant de semblables. »Accueillir l’étranger ne relève pas de l’amour du prochain, de la bonté ou d’une humanité bien pensante, c’est une expérience radicale et existentielle de l’altérité. ... Read more

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  • Ética en el uso de las imágenes clínicas

    Edited by Fritz Eduardo Gempeler Rueda, Lilian Torregrosa Almonacid ...
    "Ante nuevas realidades en la atención médica aparecen también nuevas responsabilidades éticas. En consecuencia, la nueva realidad del uso masivo de tecnologías —que incluyen la difusión de datos e imágenes clínicas en la práctica médica— exige un análisis cuidadoso de sus implicaciones y el planteamiento de principios éticos que sustenten la construcción de políticas y normas al respecto y ... Read more

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  • The Treatment of Hay Fever

    By rosin-weed, ichthyol and faradic electricity. With a discussion of the old theory of gout and the new theory of anaphylaxis

    by Laidlaw ...
    The Treatment of Hay Fever By Rosin-Weed, Ichthyol and Faradic Electricity is a comprehensive medical treatise authored by George Frederick Laidlaw, M.D., exploring innovative approaches to the management and alleviation of hay fever, a condition that has long perplexed both patients and practitioners. Drawing upon his clinical experience and the latest scientific research of his era, Dr. Laidlaw ... Read more

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  • Chaque visage a une histoire

    by Laurent Lantieri, Laurent Lantieri, Alexandre Duyck ...
    Depuis l’enfance, Pascal a le visage déformé par la maladie. Il ne rêve que d’une chose : ne plus attirer les regards dans la rue et mener une vie « normale » ; travailler, s’amuser, aimer « comme tout le monde ». Changer de visage pour changer de vie, c’est ce à quoi aspirent, comme lui, des dizaines de patients qui n’ont plus qu’un espoir : la greffe. Chaque visage a une histoire, que le ... Read more

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  • Psychiatry and Philosophy

    by Erwin W. Straus, Maurice Natanson, Henri Ey ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The three essays reprinted in this book were first published in 1963 as individual chapters of a psychiatric treatise entitled Psychiatrie der Gegen wart (Psychiatry of the Present Day). The editors, W. H. GRUHLE (Bonn), R. JUNG (Freiburg/Br. ), W. MAYER-GROSS (Birmingham, England), M. MUL LER (Bern, Switzerland), had not planned an encyclopedic presentation; they did not intend to present a ... Read more

    PHP3,228.89

  • Muslim Medical Ethics

    From Theory to Practice

    Edited by Jonathan E. Brockopp, Thomas Eich ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Religion
    A timely exploration of balancing Islamic heritage with contemporary medical and health concernsMuslim Medical Ethics draws on the work of historians, health-care professionals, theologians, and social scientists to produce an interdisciplinary view of medical ethics in Muslim societies and of the impact of caring for Muslim patients in non-Muslim societies. Edited by Jonathan E. Brockopp and ... Read more

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  • The London Medical Gazette

    December 27, 1828. Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences

    by Various ...
    The London Medical Gazette, December 27, 1828, stands as a significant historical publication, offering a comprehensive weekly journal dedicated to medicine and the collateral sciences during the early 19th century. This particular issue provides a fascinating window into the medical knowledge, practices, and debates of its time, capturing the dynamic evolution of healthcare and scientific inquiry ... Read more

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  • Ética y salud mental

    by Josep Ramos Montes ...
    Series series Éticas aplicadas
    La salud mental es un fenómeno que no solo afecta a las ciencias de la salud, sino también a la sociología, a la economía y a la política. Esta cualidad pluridisciplinar requiere que los profesionales revisen su modelo de acción para hacerlo más amplio e integrador, superando así el paternalismo clásico de la psiquiatría y reforzando su función tanto en las personas afectadas como en las de su ... Read more

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  • Fighting for the Soul of General Practice

    The Algorithm Will See You Now

    by Rupal Shah, Jens Foell ...
    Series series Global Health Humanities
    This collection of stories from two practising GPs describes the reality of working within a failing and highly bureaucratic system, where there is a balancing act: regulation versus relationships; autonomy versus standard practice; algorithm versus individual attention.We aren’t suggesting a return to a ‘better’ time. We don’t object to being bureaucrats, embedded within and accountable to the ... Read more

    PHP1,167.49

  • The Plague of Lust

    Vol. 1 (of 2). Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity

    by Rosenbaum ...
    The Plague of Lust Vol. 1 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity is a comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the origins, spread, and cultural impact of venereal diseases in the ancient world. Authored by Dr. Julius Rosenbaum and translated from the German by an anonymous translator, this volume delves deeply into the medical, social, and historical aspects of ... Read more

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  • Our Nervous Friends

    Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness

    by Robert Sproul Carroll ...
    Our Nervous Friends: Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness is a compelling exploration into the complexities of the human nervous system and the myriad ways in which nervousness manifests in daily life. Written by Robert S. Carroll, M.D., this insightful book delves into the psychological and physiological aspects of nervousness, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of its causes, ... Read more

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  • Love and Injustice in Medicine

    Annotated Narrative Ethics Explorations

    by Jeff Nisker, MD PhD ...
    Love and Injustice in Medicine explores the injustices Jeff Nisker has witnessed in his many years in medicine, including the injustice of illness itself. As in Nisker's previous books, he uses narrative to investigate health-ethics problems, while at the same time promoting compassion in healthcare. Love and Injustice in Medicine will be of interest to health professionals of all disciplines, ... Read more

    PHP535.39

  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - Tome 2

    Disconnect the Noise. Reconnect with Science

    by Hugues Berry, Fondation Inserm ...
    Series Book 2 - Unplugged
    Will AI help cure diseases, or put our health at risk? Is it a revolution, or just another overpromise?In this illustrated book, artist Chaz Hutton and expert Hugues Berry cut through the myths to explain what AI in healthcare really is, what it can (and cannot) do, and why it matters for all of us.Clear, concise, and accessible, this book shows how AI could transform medicine, while also ... Read more

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