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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Overdiagnosed Overdiagnosed H. Gilbert Welch After the criteria used to define osteoporosis were altered, seven million American women were turned into patients-literally overnight. The proliferation of fetal monitoring in the 1970s was associa… OL15414401W
Anatomy of an Epidemic Anatomy of an Epidemic Robert Whitaker In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripl… OL16105659W
The solution-focused helper The solution-focused helper Trish Walsh Providing guidance on how to apply a version of solution-focused therapy tailored to the public service environment, this text also describes a range of real-life situations across a range of setting… OL16970595W
Issues in sexual and medical ethics Issues in sexual and medical ethics Charles E. Curran the book gives some emphasis on sexual and medical ethics OL1979284W
Physician-assisted dying Physician-assisted dying M. Pabst Battin,Timothy E. Quill In this volume, a distinguished group of physicians, ethicists, lawyers, and activists come together to present the case for the legalization of physician-assisted dying, for terminally ill patients … OL20627394W
Bioethics Bioethics Doris Mueller Goldstein Approximately 1400 references to books, journal articles, chapters, reports, and journals from the fields of bioethics, philosophy, law, medicine, thanatology, science, and technology. Most titles we… OL3167343W
Principles of biomedical ethics Principles of biomedical ethics 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 … OL3930967W
Bioethics in America Bioethics in America 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… OL8396601W