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In this carefully researched book, medical historian Dr Linda Bryder provides a detailed analysis of the treatment of carcinoma in situ at National Women's since the 1950s, an assessment of international medical practice and a history of the women's health movement.

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One woman's powerful story of how her mother's death saved her life.

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This volume is a collection of fourteen essays investigating the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of directives, the role of professionals in making and honoring them, policy issues that need to be addressed, and future directions which directives may take.

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James Harvey Young, the foremost expert on the history of medical frauds, finds quackery in the 1990s to be more extensive and insidious than in earlier and allegedly more naive eras. The modern quack isn't an outrageous-looking hawker of magic remedies operating from the back of a carnival wagon, but he knows how to use antiregulatory sentiment an

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This comprehensive introduction provides nursing students and practitioners with a firm grounding in the applied ethics of caring for vulnerable older people, and a thorough explanation and application of the policies, frameworks, standards and laws that govern safeguarding and care in the UK.

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.Written for health care professionals who want to learn more about ethics but who have not had extensive training in philosophical theory, this unique volume explores what ethics has to offer the practicing physician, nurse, and allied health care worker.

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Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.

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and general readers in public libraries.

This easily accessible reference describes court cases, legislation, public policies, technologies, issues, key government agencies, and private organizations dealing with the complex economic, cultural, social, and political context for biomedical decisionmaking today.

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As society struggles to cope with the many repercussions of assisted life and death, the evening news is filled with stories of legal battles over frozen embryos and the possible prosecution of doctors for their patients' suicide.

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A well-organized, thoughtful, and logical discussion of a difficult ethical issue frequently encountered by clinicians.

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Walton has made a successful attempt to write about medical concerns without ever leaving the layperson to flounder in confusion.

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A work about the depth and complexity of the ethical issues that arise in illness and medicine. It provides an alternative to the abstract debates about principles and consequences that have long dominated ethical thought. It is suitable for those touched by illness or suffering.

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Philosophical debates over the fundamental principles that should guide life-and-death medical decisions usually occur at a considerable remove from the tough, real-world choices made in hospital rooms, courthouses, and legislatures. This title seeks to change that.

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Responding to the increased public interest in the moral aspects of medical practice, this collection of essays focuses on questions of justice and injustice in the delivery and distribution of medical care and on problems concerning the rights of patients in their relationship to doctors, medical institutions, and government. Originally published

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In Morals and Medicine a leading Protestant theologian comes to grips with the problems of conscience raised by new advances in medical science and technology. They arise as issues at the start or making of a life, in preserving its health, and in facing its death. They are the problems of Everyman: some are new problems of conscience, such as arti

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This bibliography presents studies of nonmedical factors (patient, clinician, and practice variables) that influence medical decision-making. A chapter on methodological considerations in medical decision-making research and a chapter on models of medical decision-making are included.

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Every day, newspapers and television news programs present stories on the latest controversies over healthcare and medical advances, but they do not have the space to provide detailed background on the issues. This book provides an overview of the most controversial areas of healthcare.

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As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive medicine and good, ethical patient care, this book investigates the impact of legalities on medical treatment.