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Biomedical Issues
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Abul Fadl Mohsin Ebrahim |
The book addresses the Muslim dilemma when confronted with some of the biotechnological innovations such as those relating to abortion, infertility, contraception, etc. Analyzing these issues under b… |
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Transplantation Ethics
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Robert M. Veatch |
Although the history of organ transplant has its roots in ancient Christian mythology, it is only in the past fifty years that body parts from the deceased have successfully been procured and transpl… |
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
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Elliot Aronson,Carol Tavris |
At some point we all make a bad decision, do something that harms another person, or cling to an outdated belief. When we do, we strive to reduce the cognitive dissonance that results from feeling t… |
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Moral responsibility in prolonging life decisions
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Albert S. Moraczewski,Donald G. McCarthy |
This book has been prepared as a resource contribution to the Church's ministry to suffering and dying persons and to the healing and caring ministry of countless health care professionals. As chapte… |
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Who lives, who dies, who decides?
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Sheldon Ekland-Olson |
"Issues of life and death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment, and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and prot… |
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Abortion, medicine, and the law
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David F. Walbert |
An anthology of original and reprinted articles expressing views on all aspects of the subject of abortion. |
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The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code
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George J. Annas,Michael A. Grodin |
Completely unable to access the book a second time I wanted to continue. Third mult times with no success. Attention needs to be given because on line access has become impossible for me. Was very in… |
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Legal and ethical aspects of treating critically and terminally ill patients
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J. Douglas Peters,A. Edward Doudera |
Papers derived from 4 conferences sponsored by the American Society of Law and Medicine, and held in Detroit (Nov. 1979), Los Angeles (Apr. 1980), Minneapolis (May 1980), and Chicago (Oct. 1980). |
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Challenging inequities in health
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Timothy Evans |
This text provides a unique view of global inequities in health status and health sytems. Emphasizing socioeconomic conditions, it combines chapters on conceptual and measurement issues with case stu… |
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Taking Sides
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Gregory E. Kaebnick |
This series presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with Learning… |
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Éthique clinique
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Antoine Payot,Annie Janvier |
"Peut-il être acceptable de mentir à un patient? Face à plusieurs interventions possibles, doit-on rester neutres, faire une recommandation, n'en offrir qu'une? Comment gérer les dilemmes éthiques qu… |
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Medical Nemesis
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Ivan Illich |
"The medical establishment has become a major threat to health. The disabling impact of professional control over medicine has reached the proportions of an epidemic. Iatrogenesis, the name for this … |
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Begotten or made?
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Oliver O'Donovan |
As I looked through evidence submitted by Christian bodies to the Warnock Committee, and compared them with writings from other Christian sources in the last quarter-century, it seemed to me that a c… |
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Playing God in the nursery
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Jeff Lyon |
An outgrowth of a series of articles written for the Chicago tribune in 1983. |
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The Nazi Doctors
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Robert Jay Lifton |
**The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide** was written by Robert Jay Lifton and published in 1986, analyzing the role of German doctors in carrying out a genocide. In the wo… |
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Principles of biomedical ethics
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Tom L. Beauchamp |
This book offers a systematic analysis of the moral principles that should apply to biomedicine. We understand "biomedical ethics" as one type of applied ethics. In our discussions of ethical theory … |
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The semi-artificial man
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Harold M. Schmeck |
It is the purpose of this book to give the reader a glimpse of certain fields of medical research that seem both exciting at present and portentous for the future. The chapters that follow pursue two… |
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The Prayer of Faith
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Leonard Boase |
This is one of the most accessible books on prayer I have ever read. Even now I have finished it I still don't know exactly why that is except perhaps the humility and holiness of the author.
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Bioethics in America
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M. L. Tina Stevens |
"In Bioethics in America, Tina Stevens challenges the view that the origins of the bioethics movement can be found in the 1960s, a decade mounting challenges to all variety of authority. Instead, Ste… |
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Doctors From Hell
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Vivien Spitz |
A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of 22 men and… |
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