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“oonagh corrigan”

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  • Genetic Databases

    Socio-Ethical Issues in the Collection and Use of DNA

    Edited by Oonagh Corrigan, Richard Tutton ...
    Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks for, and policy debates about, genetic databases. Drawing on original empirical research and theoretical debates in the fields of sociology, anthropology and legal studies, the contributors to this book challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of informed consent and ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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  • Ninety Days

    A Memoir of Recovery

    by Bill Clegg ...
    The goal is ninety. Just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With six weeks of his most recent rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse, and the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Medical Ethics For Dummies

    by Jane Runzheimer, Linda Johnson Larsen ...
    A practical, insightful guide to the moral and ethical standards of healthcareSucceeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, while knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices, and so much ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Invention

    Technology and the Human Future

    by Sheila Jasanoff ...
    We live in a world increasingly governed by technology—but to what end?Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Reading Writing Interfaces

    From the Digital to the Bookbound

    by Lori Emerson ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    Lori Emerson examines how interfaces—from today’s multitouch devices to yesterday’s desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson’s self-bound fascicle volumes—mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries.Reading the ... Read more

    $27.99 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

  • Trusting Doctors

    The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine

    by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors, Jonathan Imber attributes the development of patients' faith in doctors to the inspiration and ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics

    Edited by Joseph Boyle, Leonard Sumner ...
    Series series Toronto Studies in Philosophy
    How should we attempt to resolve concrete bioethical problems? How are we to understand the role of bioethics in the health care system, government, and academe? This collection of original essays raises these and other questions about the nature of bioethics as a discipline. The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Good Doctor

    What Patients Want

    by Ron Paterson ...
    Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by lifting the veils of secrecy and better informing patients, by establishing more effective ways of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Perspectives on Stem Cell Technologies

    Edited by Aditya Bharadwaj ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book takes as its point of departure a humble cell lying on the intersection of ideas as diverse and yet interlaced as life, knowledge, commerce, governance, and ethics. It seeks to deepen the understanding of stem cell entities and the concerns, hopes, and aspirations that shape and make them viable therapeutic entities in the context of rapid globalization. Several key intersections between ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Suffering Narratives of Older Adults

    A Phenomenological Approach to Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, Recovery and Maternal Care

    by Mary Beth Morrissey ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    In Suffering Narratives of Older Adults, Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey turns to the traditions of phenomenology, humanistic psychology and social work to provide an in-depth exploration of the deep structure of the suffering experience. She draws upon the notion of maternal holding to develop an original construct of maternal affordances – the ground of possibility for human development, agency and ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Communities of Health Care Justice

    by Charlene Galarneau ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
    The factions debating health care reform in the United States have gravitated toward one of two positions: that just health care is an individual responsibility or that it must be regarded as a national concern. Both arguments overlook a third possibility: that justice in health care is multilayered and requires the participation of multiple and diverse communities.Communities of Health Care ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD