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One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900
ISBN: 9781421407746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Don't drink and drive. It's a deceptively simple rule, but one that is all too often ignored. And while efforts to eliminate drunk driving have been around as long as automobiles, every movement to keep drunks from driving has hit some alarming bumps in the road. Barron H. Lerner narrates the two strong--and vocal--sides to this debate in the United States: those who argue vehemently against drunk driving, and those who believe the problem is exaggerated and overregulated. A public health professor and historian of medicine, Lerner asks why these opposing views exist, examining... Don't drink and drive. It's a deceptively simple rule, but one that is all too often ignored. And while efforts to eliminate drunk driving have bee... |
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When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine
ISBN: 9780801892271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Steve McQueen had cancer and was keeping it secret. Then the media found out, and soon all of America knew. McQueen's high profile changed forever the way the public perceived a dreaded disease. In When Illness Goes Public, Barron H. Lerner describes the evolution of celebrities' illnesses from private matters to stories of great public interest. Famous people who have become symbols of illness include Lou Gehrig, the first -celebrity patient-; Rita Hayworth, whose Alzheimer disease went undiagnosed for years; and Arthur Ashe, who courageously went public with his AIDS... Steve McQueen had cancer and was keeping it secret. Then the media found out, and soon all of America knew. McQueen's high profile changed forever ... |
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The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9780195161069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this riveting narrative, Barron H. Lerner offers a superb medical and cultural history of our century-long battle with breast cancer. Revisiting the past, Lerner argues, can illuminate and clarify the dilemmas confronted by women with--and at risk for--the disease. Writing with insight and compassion, Lerner tells a compelling story of influential surgeons, anxious patients and committed activists. There are colorful portraits of the leading figures, ranging from the acerbic Dr. William Halsted, who pioneered the disfiguring radical mastectomy at the turn of the century to Rose Kushner, a...
In this riveting narrative, Barron H. Lerner offers a superb medical and cultural history of our century-long battle with breast cancer. Revisiting th...
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The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics
ISBN: 9780807035047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care
As a practicing physicianand longtime member of his hospital s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all.But in the mid-1990s, his father, an infectious diseases physician, told him a stunning story: he had physically placed his body over an end-stage patient who had stopped breathing, preventing his colleagues from performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, even thoughCPR was the ethically and legally accepted thing... The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health car...
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