Medical profession books

Child Versus Childmaker investigates a ""person-affecting"" approach to ethical issues that arise in the context...  Read More >>

Each year, roughly a million new cases of cancer appear in the US, and more than 500,000 Americans die annually...  Read More >>

This is the first book in healthcare ethics addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body....  Read More >>

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Brock Chisholm (1896-1971), born in Oakville, Ontario and trained in medicine and psychiatry, rose to international...  Read More >>

Why is death bad for us, even on the assumption that it involves the absence of experience? Whom should we save...  Read More >>

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A clear account of the arguments for and against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, and historical, empirical,...  Read More >>

Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment...  Read More >>

Medicine has developed many effective treatments, but new interventions have also produced unexpected harmful effects....  Read More >>

In Human Cloning a panel of distinguished philosophers, medical ethicists, religious thinkers, and social critics...  Read More >>

More than 20,000 spinal operations are carried out in the UK every year and only careful attention to detail in...  Read More >>

""Judith's Pavilion"" is an imaginary hospital where practicing neurosurgeon Mark Flitter allows his failures to...  Read More >>

Examines two events in the second half of the 20th century: the emergence of foetal surgery as a medical specialty...  Read More >>

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Medical ethical dilemmas in managed care look, sound, and feel different from those in fee-for-service medicine....  Read More >>

What is good practice when handling a complaint? What is the ethical basis of such practice? Fiona Palmer Barnes...  Read More >>

This anthology, containing both contemporary essays and passages from biblical and classical theologians, brings...  Read More >>

As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive medicine and good, ethical patient...  Read More >>

The first personal documentary about AIDS to be published, ""Borrowed Time"" remains as vividly detailed as the...  Read More >>

This collection of the artistic and written work of Dr Norman Bethune reveals the many sides of his identity, exploring...  Read More >>

A world-renowned cancer specialist puts his love for his wife before all that he has learned in medical school and...  Read More >>

Millions of Americans, diagnosed mentally ill, are drugged and confined by doctors for non-criminal conduct, go...  Read More >>

A study of the medical ethics of John Gregory (1724-1773). It shows how Gregory invented professional medical ethics...  Read More >>