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This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. -- .

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An Asian plant with mysterious cathartic powers, medicinal rhubarb spurred European trade expeditions and obsessive scientific inquiry from the Renaissance until the twentieth century. Rarely, however, had there been a plant that so thoroughly frustrated Europeans' efforts to acquire it and to master its special botanical and chemical properties. H

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This book tries to explain and justify a woman's moral and legal rights in pregnancy and explores the extent of her moral duties toward the fetus.

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A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the issues that arise when patients cross borders for medical procedures they cannot afford or access at home, from liposuction to kidney transplants.

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Pain and suffering, once associated with punishment for sin, became regarded as a purposeless evil that was hostile to human welfare. The humanitarian concepts that we take for granted were relatively recent developments in Western society and were associated with the recognition of the importance of the individual.

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Explores the advantages and disadvantages of treating juvenile ADD with Ritalin.

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These four multi-disciplinary studies focus on sexual and reproductive health advocacy and programs in Latin America.

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Rural Womens Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy examines the intimate lives of women in the developing world, their sexuality, and views on family planning and gender inequality. Providing insights on cultural traditions and understanding of modern medicine, it is essential for public health and anthropology scholars and practitioners.

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Rural Womens Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy examines the intimate lives of women in the developing world, their sexuality, and views on family planning and gender inequality. Providing insights on cultural traditions and understanding of modern medicine, it is essential for public health and anthropology scholars and practitioners.

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As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs.

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This history of the medical profession in pre-Revolutionary Russia examines an influential segment of the educated elite. The author shows how Russian physicians differed in social origin, careers, and professionalization from their counterparts in other lands. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-de

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Britain is sick with diabetes, depression and more besides. As a consequence, society faces systemic risks. This book is a challenge to all citizens, employers, institutions to face up to the changes that society needs. A plan of action is outlined for a Health Society based on prevention of these conditions so as to extend our healthy lives.

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We call it lifeboat ethics: When there is not enough of this or that scarce good, who should die that others might survive Born in the 19th century, when shipwrecks were frequent and lifeboats scarce, it has become a 21st century dilemma. Who should get the last hospital bed, the scarce medical dru

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Koch (a bioethicist and contributor to CBC radio) provides an historical, philosophical, and concrete examination of the American system of distributing transplantable organs, and its relationship to the American health care system overall. He considers the issue in terms of lifeboat ethics, being c

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An important contribution to the ongoing debate over the origins of mental illness, this book is based on the largest study ever of identical twins in which one was ill and the other not. The book provides compelling evidence that both schizophrenia and manic-depressive disorder are biologically based diseases of the brain, unrelated to psychological influences.

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An error in the realms of medicine, ecology, peace, and war brings with it psychological strategies that differ from those a practitioner faces where errors are correctable.<;R>

How does a doctor or therapist bridge the gap between particulars and generalizations regarding patients and various phenomena or diseases

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In the informal language of letters to public officials, Efraim Racker argues in favor of basic research as the most effective path to the treatment of disease. He contends that knowledge of the fundamentals of biological and biochemical processes is essential if we are to gain an understanding of disease processes. He then shows how this understan

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Part history, part narrative and mainly "scientific autopsy," this book is an insider's account of the errors, controversies and corrections that have marked the first 25 years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This book discusses the sources of these errors and controversies and provides many examples.