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  • Cutting to the Core

    Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries

    par Michael Benatar, Leslie Cannold, Dena Davis, Merle Spriggs, Julian Savulescu, Heather Draper, Neil Evans, Richard Hull, Stephen Wilkinson, David Wasserman, Donna Dickenson, Guy Widdershoven, Françoise Baylis, Stephen Coleman, Rosemarie Tong, Hilde Lindemann, David Neil, Alex John London ...
    Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However, where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested. Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including infant ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good

    Modifié par Britta van Beers, Sigrid Sterckx, Donna Dickenson ...
    Collections series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Hippocrates famously advised doctors 'it is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has'. Yet 2,500 years later, 'personalised medicine', based on individual genetic profiling and the achievements of genomic research, claims to be revolutionary. In this book, experts from a wide range of disciplines critically examine this claim. They expand the ... En savoir plus

    $122.99 CAD

  • Me Medicine vs. We Medicine

    Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good

    par Donna Dickenson ...
    Personalized healthcare—or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"—is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetically developed therapies in cancer care, private umbilical cord blood banking, and neurocognitive enhancement claim to cater to an individual's specific biological ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Property in the Body

    Feminist Perspectives

    par Donna Dickenson ...
    Collections Livre 39 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    We live in an era when all bodies are potentially 'feminised' by being rendered 'open-access' for biomedical research and clinical practice. Adopting a theoretically sophisticated and practical approach, Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives rejects the notion that the sale of bodily tissue enhances the freedom of the individual through an increase in moral agency. Combining feminist theory ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

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  • The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease

    Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying

    par Stephen G. Post ...
    Collections series Gerontology
    Society today, writes Stephen Post, is "hypercognitive": it places inordinate emphasis on people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, which over an extended period incrementally rob patients of exactly those functions, raise many dilemmas. How are we to view—and value—persons deprived of what some consider the most important human capacities?In the ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Doing Harm

    The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

    par Maya Dusenbery ...
    Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at the widespread gender bias in healthcare and how sexism in medicine harms women today.In Doing Harm, Dusenbery explores the deep, ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Modern Death

    How Medicine Changed the End of Life

    par Haider Warraich ...
    "Elegant and poignant . . . [Warraich] succeeds in humanizing a complex topic and gives us remarkable insights about the changing nature of 'modern death'." ―Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times –bestselling author of The Emperor of All MaladiesThere is no more universal truth in life than death but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age.... ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Modifié par Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Collections series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... En savoir plus

    $53.99 CAD

  • Damaged Goods?

    Women Living With Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    par Adina Nack ...
    How do women living with genital herpes and/or HPV (human papilloma virus) infections see themselves as sexual beings, and what choices do they make about sexual health issues? Adina Nack, a medical sociologist who specializes in sexual health and social psychology, conducted in-depth interviews with 43 women about their identities and sexuality in regards to chronic illness. The result is a ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • And a Time to Die

    How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life

    par Sharon Kaufman, M.D. ...
    A reassuring and illuminating examination on our conflicting wishes about the end of life, how the politics and routines of the American hospital have formed our understanding and experience of death, and ultimately why what we consider a "good death" is so hard to attain.In a penetrating and revelatory study, medical anthropologist Dr. Sharon Kaufman uses two years of intensive observations and ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Death Talk, Second Edition

    The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

    par Margaret Somerville ...
    Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life and euthanasia? How do journalistic values and media ethics affect the public's perception of ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Bioethics

    A Nursing Perspective

    par Megan-Jane Johnstone, AO, PhD, BA, RN ...
    The 5th edition of Bioethics provides nursing students with the necessary knowledge and understanding of the ethical issues effecting nursing practice. Groundbreaking in its first edition, Bioethics continues its role as a vital component of nursing education and provides a framework for students to understand the obligations, responsibilities and ethical challenges they will be presented with ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD