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Guantanamo and Other Cases of Enforced Medical Treatment
A Biopolitical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This volume presents a number of controversial cases of enforced medical treatment from around the globe, providing for the first time a common, biopolitcal framework for all of them. Bringing together all these real cases guarantees that a new, more complete understanding of the topic will be within...
by Nicholas Culpeper, Michael A. Flannery
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The first medical book published in the American colonies.
The English Physician is a humble vest-pocket-sized 94-page medical guide for the common person, by the prolific herbalist and author Nicholas Culpeper. It was a staple in 17th-century England, as it was short, written in accessible...
by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians and medics cope with arrow injuries, spear and sword gashes, dysentery, and infection without the benefits of anesthesia or modern medical technology? In this...
'If You Knew the Conditions'
A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
After their sequestering on reservations across the West, American Indians suffered from appalling rates of disease and morbidity. While the United States Indian Service (Bureau of Indian Affairs) provided some services prior to 1908, it was not until then that the Indian Medical Service was established...
Life Histories of Genetic Disease
Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Medical geneticists began mapping the chromosomal infrastructure piece by piece in the 1970s by focusing on what was known about individual genetic disorders. Five decades later, their infrastructure had become an edifice for prevention, allowing today’s expecting parents to choose to test prenatally...
by Professor Margaret Brazier, Professor Suzanne Ost
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
To date, little analysis exists of the criminal process's roles as a regulator of medical practice and as an arbiter of bioethics, nor whether criminal law is an appropriate forum for judging ethical medical dilemmas. The conscription of criminal law into moral controversy and the (perceived) rise...
by Imogen Goold, Jonathan Herring
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on medical law and ethics, primarily designed to allow students to ‘get under the skin’ of the topic and begin to build their critical thinking and analysis skills. Each chapter is structured around key questions...
Licensed to Practice
The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Licensed to Practice begins with an 1891 shooting in Wheeling, West Virginia, that left one doctor dead and another on trial for his life. Formerly close friends, the doctors had fallen out over the issue of medical licensing. Historian James C. Mohr calls the murder "a sorry personal consequence...
by Borden Institute, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
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A comprehensive source of the information available on chemical agents, this book will increase the level of preparedness and response capability of military and civilian...
Medical History of Mankind
How Medicine Is Changing Life on the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The book reveals a new look at medicine and Health Care System as a factor that significantly influences the history of mankind as a species. Considering the well-known facts from a different angle, systematically filed material clearly and simply traced the history of mankind from a medical point...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The medical soldier caring for patients provides a valuable service to his comrades. He must meet high standards with integrity, dignity, calm thinking, and careful study. The purpose of this subcourse is to provide you with a working knowledge of the procedures discussed herein.
This subcourse...
The Codification of Medical Morality
Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Volume One: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here. Above all, we wish to thank the contributors for so cheerfully complying with our suggestions for preparing their papers for publication and efficiently...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Medicine has, until recently, been slow to adapt to information technologies and systems for many reasons, but the future lies therein. Innovations in Data Methodologies and Computational Algorithms for Medical Applications offers the most cutting-edge research in the field, offering insights into case...
This House of Noble Deeds
The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
On January 15, 1852, nine men representing various Hebrew charitable organizations came together to establish the Jews' Hospital in New York with a vision of offering free medical care to the indigent Hebrews in the City who were unable to provide for themselves during their illness. This was the...