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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures more books like this

by Anne Fadiman (Preface by)

The author tells the story of the Lees, a family of Hmong refugees in California whose epileptic baby daughter, Lia, is taken in hand by the Western medical establishment. The Lees believe that Lia's condition is caused by spirits called dabs, who had caught her and made her fall down. Her doctors want to treat her condition with sophisticated ...

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The Footprints of God

The Footprints of God more books like this

by Greg Iles

From acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling author Greg Iles comes a cutting-edge thriller in which the next phase of human evolution may not be human at all.... In a secret government lab, America's top scientists work on Trinity -- a supercomputer that could surpass the power of the human mind. As the project's ethicist, Dr. David Tennant works ...

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Cradle Will Fall

Cradle Will Fall more books like this

by Mary Higgins Clark

A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car...or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare? At work the next day, Katie began investigating a suicide that looked more like murder. Initial evidence pointed ...

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Issues & Ethics in the Helping Professions

Issues & Ethics in the Helping Professions more books like this

by Gerald Corey

The text concentrates upon the professional and ethical issues that most affect the actual practice of counselling. The authors raise significant questions such as: how does the therapist's values and life experiences affect the therapeutic process? What are the rights and responsibilities of both the client and the helper? They then offer a ...

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Law and Ethics for Medical Careers

Law and Ethics for Medical Careers more books like this

by Karen Judson

"Law and Ethics for Medical Careers, 4th Edition", provides an overview of the laws and ethics you should know to help you give competent, compassionate care to patients that is within acceptable legal and ethical boundaries. The text can also serve as a guide to help you resolve the many legal and ethical questions you may reasonably expect to ...

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Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine

Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine more books like this

by Mr. Albert R Jonsen

A practical handbook giving information relevant to the ethical issues and decisions a health care provider must deal with on a daily basis. Brief case illustrations cover the issues at hand, instead of complicated legal and philosophical discussions. The book is organized to provide easy access to both special ethical problems and more general ...

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Principles of Biomedical Ethics

Principles of Biomedical Ethics more books like this

by Professor Tom L Beauchamp, James F Childress

This edition represents a thorough-going revision of what has become a classic text in biomedical ethics. Major structural changes mark the revision. The authors have added a new concluding chapter on methods that, along with its companion chapter on moral theory, emphasizes convergence across theories, coherence in moral justification, and the ...

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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality more books like this

by Pauline W Chen

Chen, a brilliant transplant surgeon, charts her personal and professional rites of passage in dealing with mortality. Focusing on the enormous moral and psychological pressures on doctors, Chen also reports on signs of change within the profession.

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Ethics: Theory & Contemporary Issues

Ethics: Theory & Contemporary Issues more books like this

by Barbara MacKinnon

Closely examine the major areas of ethical theory as well as a broad range of contemporary moral debates using MacKinnonas acclaimed ETHICS: THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, Sixth Edition. Recognized for its breadth of coverage, this book provides a superbly balanced introduction that effectively integrates ethical theory with todayas most relevant ...

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Biomedical Ethics

Biomedical Ethics more books like this

by Thomas A Mappes

This anthology with case studies provides insightful and comprehensive treatment of ethical issues in medicine. Appropriate for courses taught in philosophy departments as well as in schools on medicine and nursing, "Biomedical Ethics" 4th edition, covers provocative topics including AIDS, animal experimentation, age-based rationing, and hospital ...

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Ethics & Issues in Contemporary Nursing more books like this

by Margaret A Burkhardt, PH.D., R.N., Alvita K Nathaniel, M.S.N., R.N.

Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing explores the theories, models and principles that serve as guides for ethically sound behavior within a nursing context. This text addresses the complexities created by science and technological advances, the variety of settings in which nurses practice, and the diversity of the patients in their care, all ...

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present more books like this

by Harriet A Washington

"Medical Apartheid" is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans, from the era of slavery to today. Washington details the ways both slaves and freedmen have been used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge.

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Medical Law and Ethics more books like this

by Bonnie F Fremgen

This bestseller presents a wealth of timely information on the legal and ethical principles in healthcare. Noted for its straightforward style in which it acquaints readers with essential information, the book examines topics such as the patient/physician relationship, professional liability, medical malpractice prevention, the medical record, ...

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Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics more books like this

by Ronald Munson

The most widely used medical ethics textbook today, Munson's "Intervention and Reflection" is a collection of the most up to date and influential articles addressing the most pressing contemporary debates in medical ethics. Also delivering a wide variety of timely and provocative cases for consideration, "Intervention and Reflection" provides ...

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Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice more books like this

by Janie Butts

This text provides foundational knowledge about ethics and decision-making strategies to prepare nurses for the moral issues they experience daily.

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Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment more books like this

by James Howard Jones

From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. It purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. The men ...

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First, do no harm more books like this

by Lisa Belkin

As medicine grows more capable, our choices grow more complicated. How far should we go to save a life? Who decides? And who pays? "First, Do No Harm" looks at the inner workings of a modern hospital. Lisa Belkin takes through a dramatic summer at Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, and introduces us to the people who make life-and-death decisions ...

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Medical Law, Ethics, and Bioethics for Ambulatory Care more books like this

by Marcia A Lewis, Carol D Tamparo, PhD, CMA-A

-- Vignettes dramatize the real-life significance of abstract legal and ethical principles -- All legal concepts and laws pertinent to the medical practice setting are presented clearly and logically -- Managed care and health care reform have been woven throughout the text -- All legal issues updated to reflect the latest decisions -- All ethics ...

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Denial of the Soul: Spiritual and Medical Perspectives on Euthanasia and Mortality more books like this

by M Scott Peck, M.D.

An exploration of euthanasia which considers the spiritual and moral perspectives. Stories from the author's own experiences are used to consider the core issues that arise when people face the decision of euthanasia. The deeper meanings of life and death are faced and the question asked whether there is an ethical right to euthanasia.

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Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics more books like this

by Gregory E Pence

This text provides coverage of the most discussed topics and up-to-date cases in medical ethics. Each topic is enriched with important background, history and context, and supplemented with a discussion of the most pertinent philosophical theories and ethical issues behind it. Anecdotal updates are included at the end of chapters to give readers ...

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Ethical dimensions in the health professions more books like this

by Ruth B Purtilo

This informative text is designed to provide a comprehensive and readable ethics textbook to meet the ethics education needs of all major allied health professions instructional programs. The focus is on the allied health professional's decision-making challenges when ethics issues arise within clinical practice and other major roles that ...

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Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much more books like this

by Maggie Mahar

From financial journalist Mahar, this sweeping portrait of the business of the healthcare industry over the last 20 years is filled with characters, gripping stories, and trenchant economic, political, and business insights.

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The Sociology of Health, Healing and Illness more books like this

by Gregory L Weiss (Preface by), Lynne E Lonnquist (Preface by)

For Medical Sociology, Sociology of Health, and Sociology of Health and Illness courses taught at the junior/senior level in sociology and allied health departments. This student-friendly text reflects important changes in health care and significant advancements in medical sociology. It provides an in-depth overview of the field. It offers solid ...

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Contemporary Issues in Bioethics more books like this

by Tom L Beauchamp

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics presents a breadth of issues and balanced coverage of the most important topics in bioethics, including human reproduction, euthanasia and assisted suicide, genetics, the right to health care, organ transplantation, human and animal research, and planning for threats to public health. With a diverse range of ...

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The Stem Cell Controversy: Debating the Issues more books like this

by Professor Michael Ruse (Editor), Christopher A Pynes (Editor)

Stem cell research is headline news. Researchers are eager to move forward, state governments and private foundations are rushing to support it, and the sick and afflicted are desperate for its benefits. Yet powerful forces in our society - led by President George W. Bush - find it morally troubling and they are doing all in their powers to ...

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