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  • Preterm Babies, Fetal Patients, and Childbearing Choices

    by John D. Lantos, Diane S. Lauderdale ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    Why preterm birth rates in the United States remain high even as access to prenatal care has improved and infant mortality has steadily dropped.The United States has one of the highest rates of premature birth of any industrialized nation: 11.5%, nearly twice the rate of many European countries. In this book, John Lantos and Diane Lauderdale examine why the rate of preterm birth in the United ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Controversial Bodies

    Thoughts on the Public Display of Plastinated Corpses

    Edited by John D. Lantos, MD ...
    Controversial, fascinating, disturbing, and often beautiful, plastinated human bodies—such as those found at Body Worlds exhibitions throughout the world—have gripped the public's imagination. These displays have been lauded as educational, sparked protests, and drawn millions of visitors. This book looks at the powerful sway these corpses hold over their living audiences everywhere.Plastination ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Kidney to Share

    by Martha Gershun, John D. Lantos ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    In Kidney to Share**, Martha Gershun tells the story of her decision to donate a kidney to a stranger.** She takes readers through the complex process by which such donors are vetted to ensure that they are physically and psychologically fit to take the risk of a major operation. John D. Lantos, a physician and bioethicist, places Gershun's story in the larger context of the history of kidney ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Shared Decision Making

    Edited by John D. Lantos ...
    Patients today are more empowered and knowledgeable than they have ever been. By law, they must be told about the risks and benefits of proposed treatments and give informed consent before treatment is initiated. Through the democratization of medical information, they have access to peer-reviewed medical journals. Social media allows patients to share stories with others and to learn about other ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Last Physician

    Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine

    Edited by Carl Elliott, John Lantos ...
    Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he contracted tuberculosis during his internship as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital and spent the next three years recovering, primarily in TB sanitoriums. This collection of essays explores not only Percy’s connections to medicine but also the underappreciated impact ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Neonatal Bioethics

    The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation

    by John D. Lantos, MD, William L. Meadow, MD PhD ...
    Series series Bioethics
    Neonatal intensive care has been one of the most morally controversial areas of medicine during the past thirty years. This study examines the interconnected development of four key aspects of neonatal intensive care: medical advances, ethical analysis, legal scrutiny, and econometric evaluation.The authors assert that a dramatic shift in societal attitudes toward newborns and their medical care ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Lazarus Case

    Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care

    by John D. Lantos, MD ...
    Series series Medicine and Culture
    A gripping exploration of the legal and ethical dilemmas in neonatal intensive care—a truly original work.Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Titles in 2003 by Choice MagazineIn this new, startlingly original book, John D. Lantos weaves a compelling story that captures the dilemmas of modern medical practice. The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care begins with a fictional ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Do We Still Need Doctors?

    by John D. Lantos, M.D. ...
    Series series Reflective Bioethics
    Written with poignancy and compassion, Do We Still Need******Doctors? is a personal account from the front lines of the moral and political battles that are reshaping America's health care system. ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Health Humanities Reader

    by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Lisa Keränen, Michael Sappol, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani DasGupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Paul Root Wolpe, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Bernice Hausman, Allison B. Kavey, Rebecca J. Hester ...
    Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Bioethics in the Pediatric ICU: Ethical Dilemmas Encountered in the Care of Critically Ill Children

    by Laura Miller-Smith, Ásdís Finnsdóttir Wagner, John D. Lantos ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines the many ethical issues that are encountered in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). It supports pediatricians, nurses, residents, and other providers in their daily management of critically ill children with the dilemmas that arise. It begins by examining the evolution of pediatric critical care, and who is now impacted by this advancing medical technology. Subsequent ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Seeking Sickness

    Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

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