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Medicalizing Blackness
Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses...
Body of Knowledge
One Semester of Gross Anatomy, the Gateway to Becoming a Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2001
A fascinating exploration of the medical student's most decisive course -- gross anatomy -- and of the intellectual, emotional and spiritual transformation that turns young men and women into doctors
Medical Gross and Developmental Anatomy is a course every medical student dreads. As one future...
Your Medical Mind
How to Decide What Is Right for You
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
An entirely new way to make the best medical decisions.
Making the right medical decisions is harder than ever. We are overwhelmed by information from all sides—whether our doctors’ recommendations, dissenting experts, confusing statistics, or testimonials on the Internet. Now Doctors Groopman...
by Dr. Alan L. Berman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Failure to properly adhere to a medical regimen may place patients at risk for suicidal behaviors, according to the authors of this ebook. A considerable number of research studies in this review point to suicidal ideation and self-injurious actions as a result of non-compliance with medication usage....
The Medical Marijuana Mess
A Prescription for Fixing a Broken Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The uncertainty and inconsistency surrounding federal and state laws for medical marijuana use, distribution, and research is placing unnecessary obstacles in the way of suffering patients, their families, and the people trying to help them.
In The Medical Marijuana Mess, senior fellow John...
Medical Mentoring
Supporting students, doctors in training and general practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
There is a huge need for supportive mentoring among students, doctors in training and general practitioners. Mentoring is an effective way of supporting doctors and preventing problems. The author argues that all doctors should seek a mentor. Medical training involves transitions; school to university,...
by Nathan Emmerich
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
There is a diversity of ‘ethical practices’ within medicine as an institutionalised profession as well as a need for ethical specialists both in practice as well as in institutionalised roles. This Brief offers a social perspective on medical ethics education. It discusses a range of concepts...
Selling Science
Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven medical intervention, seems nothing short of astonishing. In Selling Science, medical historian Stephen...
Intention and Causation in Medical Non-Killing
The Impact of Criminal Law Concepts on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Analyzing the concepts of intention and causation in euthanasia, this timely new book explores a broad selection of disciplines, including criminal and medical law, medical ethics, philosophy and social policy and suggests an alternative solution to the one currently used by the courts, based on grading...
Strangers at the Bedside
A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the practice of medicine in the United States underwent a most remarkable--and thoroughly controversial--transformation. The discretion that the profession once enjoyed has been increasingly...
Commemorations and Memorials
Exploring the Human Face of Anatomy
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A major component of many modern human anatomy programs is commemorating people who have donated their body for education and research. In addition, some institutions have also organized memorial places to honor the body donors. This book is an edited volume which explores the phenomena of commemorations...
Doctors in Fiction
Lessons from Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Medical practitioners are key actors in many well-known works of fiction and literature, presenting a vital insight into the social, medical, scientific and ethical concerns of their authors and readers. However, medical professionals are often left little time to explore such cultural perceptions...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
This document provides information and guidance to Commanders of U.S Army military treatment facilities (MTF), dental and veterinary activities, and research facilities on the management of regulated medical waste (RMW).
This guide is intended for use by MTF Commanders. It does not reflect...
Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine
A Life of John Snow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. It modifies the conventional rags to riches portrait of John Snow by synthesizing fresh information about...