When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor ...more on ebook "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall..."

In "The Hours," Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are ...more on ebook "The Hours..."

Medicine and health care generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic, professional and public interest. This comprehensive ...more on ebook "The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics..."

Clinical Ethics introduces the four-topics method of approaching ethical problems (i.e., medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and ...more on ebook "Clinical Ethics : A Practical Appro..."

"Commercial pharmaceutical companies have been much criticised for their activities yet, at the same time, there is relatively little ethical information ...more on ebook "Pharmaceutical Ethics..."

This comprehensive and much-needed resource helps health care ethicists to meet the demand of challenges such as managed care, medical technology, and patient ...more on ebook "Organizational Ethics in Health Car..."

Contributors to this book have written to analyze the major ethical issues in public and community health. They also examine all aspects of public healthcare. ...more on ebook "Ethics in Public and Community Heal..."

Which would be acceptable: the athlete who may one day get "neuroenhancement" to boost performance, or the SAT-taking student who does the same thing before the ...more on ebook "The Ethical Brain..."

Until recently professionalism was transmitted by respected role models, a method that depended heavily on the presence of a homogeneous society sharing values ...more on ebook "Teaching Medical Professionalism..."

This book provides the only such concise, clearly written, practical treatment of the genetic, clinical, legal, and ethical issues confronting health care ...more on ebook "Genetic Testing: Care, Consent and ..."

One of the most difficult problems that confronts clinicians and medical professionals is how to apply ethical principles to real decisions affecting patients. ...more on ebook "The Ethics of Medical Research on H..."

Listening to the Whispers gives voice to scholars in philosophy, medical anthropology, physical therapy, and nursing, helping readers re-think ethics across the ...more on ebook "Listening to the Whispers: Re-think..."

The â''sorting societyâ'' expresses what many people believe will be the outcome of advances in genetic technology: a society in which many characteristics of ...more on ebook "The Sorting Society..."