Medical profession

In The HighPurpose Company, corporate strategist and researcher Christine Arena shows that some extraordinary companies are driven by purpose, whereas others simply pretend to be.

Natural Health Sciences: A Comprehensive Guide serves as a valuable resource for both healthcare practitioners and business professionals, supporting ongoing professional development by bridging the gap between proponents of traditional or natural health systems and those who follow scientific or medical perspectives.

When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey.

In 2003, Dr.

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation.

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics.

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THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWNFor every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn't expect, changing their entire outlook on life.

'Enthralling' Guardian 'A superb achievement' Ian McEwan 'Incredibly absorbing .

When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later - one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.

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Best-selling author and professional nurse Michael Alexander offers practical and achievable advice on how you can get the best out of hospital visits and admission.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to definition of torture by bringing together behavioral science and international law perspectives on torture.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to definition of torture by bringing together behavioral science and international law perspectives on torture.

The renewal of medical curricula generally arises from emerging pedagogies (e.

The renewal of medical curricula generally arises from emerging pedagogies (e.

Alzheimer's is swiftly on the rise: it is estimated that every 67 seconds, someone develops the disease.

Alzheimer's is swiftly on the rise: it is estimated that every 67 seconds, someone develops the disease.

Advances in medical treatment now enable physicians to prolong life to a previously unknown extent, however in many instances these new techniques mean not the saving of life but prolonging the act of dying.

When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish.

When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish.

More people than ever are using alternative medicine.

The Sunday Times bestseller'Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever.

Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die.

The chilling, ghostly account of a doctor who is determined to find light in a lifeless body.

In a world where incredible medical technologies are possible does ';can do' mean ';should do'?

Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries.

The abortifacient RU-486 was born in the laboratory, but its history has been shaped by legislators, corporate marketing executives, and protesters on both sides of the abortion debate.

Research involving human fetuses and fetal tissue has been a subject of national debate and rancor for more than two decades.

The need for quality improvement and for cost saving are driving both individual choices and health system dynamics.

The need for quality improvement and for cost saving are driving both individual choices and health system dynamics.

Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries.

The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr.

Papers presented at a symposium on philosophy and medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1974 were published in the inaugural volume of this series.

of UB's medical school, that UB developed its School of Arts and Sciences, and thus, assumed its place among the other institutions of higher education.

The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Center.

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Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter.

The pervasive influence of law on medical practice and clinical bioethics is often noted with a combination of exasperation and lamentation.

This text examines the dominant ways of looking at patient/clinician relationships in healthcare.

Millions of children have been born in the United States with the help of cutting-edge reproductive technologies, much to the delight of their parents.

The cadaver industry in Britain and the United States, its processes and profits Except for organ transplantation little is known about the variety of stuff extracted from corpses and repurposed for medicine.

Hospitalization is often as dismaying and frightening for family members as it is for the patient.

We stand on the brink of unprecedented growth in our ability to understand and change the human genome.

This collection of stories from two practising GPs describes the reality of working within a failing and highly bureaucratic system, where there is a balancing act: regulation versus relationships; autonomy versus standard practice; algorithm versus individual attention.

A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the patient rebellion against medical paternalism.

An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation.