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  • Essays in Medical Ethics

    Plea for a Medicine of Prudence

    by Giovanni Maio ...
    "We cannot be happy without insight into the limits of what is feasible."Modern medicine suggests omnipotence and an image of life as something that can be perfected at any time. Yet our view of things changes when disease throws us into an existential crisis. Then we seek human answers and feel misunderstood and abandoned in the system of modern medicine.Professor Giovanni Maio, the eloquent ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • The Burnout Society

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Better than Human

    The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves

    by Allen Buchanan ...
    Series series Philosophy in Action
    Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human? Should we view our biology as fixed or should we try to improve on it? College students are already taking cognitive enhancement drugs. The U.S. army is already working to develop drugs and technologies to produce "super soldiers." Scientists already know how to use genetic engineering ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Debating Procreation

    Is It Wrong to Reproduce?

    by David Benatar, David Wasserman ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Benatar and David Wasserman take opposing views on this important question. David Benatar argues for the anti-natalist view that it is always wrong to bring new people into existence. He argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm and that ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Let Your Tears Flow: Transforming the Transgenerational Trauma of Your Family Tree

    Exploring Systemic Healing, Inherited Emotional Genealogy, Entanglements, Epigenetics & Body Focused Systemic Constellations

    by Patricia Kathleen Robertson ...
    Let Your Tears Flow provides hope for anyone frustrated with a lack of answers for their symptoms, conditions and repetitive life challenges. Do you experience unexplainable fears; feelings of grief, anger or shame; addictions; relationship challenges; anxiety or depression; burnout or chronic health conditions? These are some of the ways that descendants carry transgenerational trauma for their ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

    A Resource by and for Transgender Communities

    Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth ...
    There is no one way to be transgender. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource--a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender and gender expansive authors. Inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, the classic and powerful compendium written by and for cisgender women, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is widely accessible to the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Normal Chaos of Love

    by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim ...
    This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Toward a More Natural Science

    by Leon R. Kass ...
    Kass shows how the promise and the peril of our time are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science.The relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been greatly complicated by developments in the science of life. This book examines the ethical questions involved in prenatal ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People

    by John Harris ...
    Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life--to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup--have been widely rejected as unethical and undesirable and have often met with extreme hostility. But in Enhancing Evolution leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering stem-cell research designer babies ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Forgotten Art of Love

    What Love Means and Why It Matters

    by MD, PhD Armin A. Zadeh ...
    Explore the many facets of our most valued emotionCardiologist and professor Armin Zadeh revisits psychologist Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving, a book that has fascinated him for decades*. The Forgotten Art of Love* examines love in its complex entirety — through the lenses of biology, philosophy, history, religion, sociology, and economics — to fill in critical voids in Fromm’s classic work and ... Read more

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  • The Way of Medicine

    Ethics and the Healing Profession

    by Farr Curlin, Christopher Tollefsen ...
    Series series Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics
    Today’s medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift; this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal.What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Debates in Bioethics

    Edited by Arthur L. Caplan, Robert Arp ...
    Series Book 27 - Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
    Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today's top bioethics scholars, focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first century.Written in an engaging, debate-style format for accessibility to non-specialistsFeatures general introductions to each topic that precede scholarly debatesPresents the latest ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD