Medical Futility: And the Evaluation of Life-Sustaining Interventions
ISBN: 9780521568777 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume surveys the clinical, ethical, religious, legal, economic, and personal dimensions of decision making in situations when the choice is either to extend costly medical treatment of uncertain effectiveness, or to terminate treatment, thereby ending the patient's life. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines offer perspectives on issues ranging from the definition of medical futility to the implications for care in various clinical settings, including intensive care, neonatal and pediatric practice and nursing homes. An important contribution toward the more humane and...
This volume surveys the clinical, ethical, religious, legal, economic, and personal dimensions of decision making in situations when the choice is eit...
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221,59 zł |
Sex and Medicine: Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession
ISBN: 9780521578127 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book asks whether women doctors make a difference. Based on an extensive survey of general practioners and specialists in Australia and the UK, the book evokes the culture of contemporary medicine by describing the experiences of doctors themselves. Pringle employs a distinctive theoretical approach, but writes accessibly and with insight about a profession that is slowly being transformed--partly due to pressure from the increasing number of women doctors. This original and important work contains new visions for medical practice.
This book asks whether women doctors make a difference. Based on an extensive survey of general practioners and specialists in Australia and the UK, t...
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156,10 zł |
Battles of Life and Death
ISBN: 9780595131952 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge
ISBN: 9780691015057 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What becomes of the patient's story when the patient becomes a case? Addressing readers on both sides of the patient-physician encounter, Kathryn Hunter looks at medicine as an art that relies heavily on telling and interpreting a story--the patient's story of illness and its symptoms. A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What beco... |
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238,61 zł |
Living Professionalism: Reflections on the Practice of Medicine
ISBN: 9780742548510 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of personal narratives and essays, Living Professionalism is designed to help medical students and residents understand and internalize various aspects of professionalism. These essays are meant for personal reflection and above all, for thoughtful discussion with mentors, with peers, with others throughout the health care provider community who care about acting professionally.
A collection of personal narratives and essays, Living Professionalism is designed to help medical students and residents understand and internalize v...
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159,08 zł |
Mould's Medical Anecdotes: Omnibus Edition
ISBN: 9780750303903 / Angielski / Miękka / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mould's Medical Anecdotes: Omnibus Edition is a fabulous collection of anecdotes on the humorous, intriguing, unusual, mysterious, and historical aspects of medicine. It combines the hugely successful Mould's Medical Anecdotes and More Mould's Medical Anecdotes and includes a selection of more recently collected material. Dr. Mould searched newspapers, advertisements, case histories, monologues, and medical journals on both sides of the Atlantic for this treasure trove.
Mould's Medical Anecdotes: Omnibus Edition is a fabulous collection of anecdotes on the humorous, intriguing, unusual, mysterious, and historical aspe...
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266,93 zł |
This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine
ISBN: 9780761923541 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Side of Doctoring: Reflections for Women in Medicine offers up an intimate collection of stories, poems, essays, and quotations that captures the joy and heartbreak of being women and being a physician. Editor Eliza Lo Chin (MD, Harvard Medical School) has gathered more than 100 voices that speak to the trials, rewards, and surprises of practicing medicine. Beginning with the writings of early medical pioneers, the anthology weaves a rich patchwork of experiences. Raw and honest, This Side of Doctoring acquaints us with worlds we could otherwise only imagine.... This Side of Doctoring: Reflections for Women in Medicine offers up an intimate collection of stories, poems, essays, and quotations that ca... |
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The Successful Physician: A Productivity Handbook for Practitioners: A Productivity Handbook for Practitioners
ISBN: 9780763713553 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Successful Physician: A Productivity Handbook for Practitioners will enable you to streamline, modernize, and improve your practice -- using practical, proven, common-sense methods any physician can apply. Filled with easy-to-follow, easy-to-implement suggestions, this book is written for the practicing physician by a practicing physician. Three major sections show you how to improve your use of the three major tools -- your time, knowledge, and relationship management. By investing a small amount of time and effort into upgrading the use of any one of the tools, you'll free up additional...
The Successful Physician: A Productivity Handbook for Practitioners will enable you to streamline, modernize, and improve your practice -- using pract...
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502,06 zł |
The Health Professions: Trends and Opportunities in U.S. Health Care: Trends and Opportunities in U.S. Health Care
ISBN: 9780763735203 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Text Covers Various Aspects Of The Health Professions Ranging From Delivering Healthcare Services To The Disparities And Inconsistencies In Health Care, Health Literacy, And Much More. Also Presented In This Text Is An Overview Of Careers In Health Professions Including Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, And Allied Health.
This Text Covers Various Aspects Of The Health Professions Ranging From Delivering Healthcare Services To The Disparities And Inconsistencies In Healt...
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572,09 zł |
Guide for the New Health Care Professional
ISBN: 9780763743512 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Excellent Introductory Guide For Healthcare Students, This Book Begins By Exploring The Current Environment Of Health Care And Its Component Parts (Professionals, Disciplines, Organizations, And Systems) And Proceeds To The Concept Of
An Excellent Introductory Guide For Healthcare Students, This Book Begins By Exploring The Current Environment Of Health Care And Its Component Parts ...
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216,10 zł |
Allied Health: Practice Issues and Trends Into the New Millennium
ISBN: 9780789018465 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive look at present and future concerns in the allied health care field. Leading experts in allied health practice care field address practice and policy issues that have developed as technology and a changing health care environment have created new and expanded roles for allied health professionals.
A comprehensive look at present and future concerns in the allied health care field. Leading experts in allied health practice care field address prac...
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881,54 zł |
Allied Health : Practice Issues and Trends into the New Millennium
ISBN: 9780789018472 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive look at present and future concerns in the allied health care field. Leading experts in allied health practice care field address practice and policy issues that have developed as technology and a changing health care environment have created new and expanded roles for allied health professionals.
A comprehensive look at present and future concerns in the allied health care field. Leading experts in allied health practice care field address prac...
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287,08 zł |
From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey
ISBN: 9780813525204 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why would a successful physician who has undergone seven years of rigorous medical training take the trouble to seek out and learn to practice alternative methods of healing such as homeopathy and Chinese medicine? From Doctor to Healer answers this question as it traces the transformational journeys of physicians who move across the philosophical spectrum of American medicine from doctor to healer. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Gloria St. John conducted extensive interviews to discover how and why physicians make the move to alternative medicine, what sparks this shift, and what beliefs they... Why would a successful physician who has undergone seven years of rigorous medical training take the trouble to seek out and learn to practice alte... |
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186,39 zł |
Come Walk with Me, PB
ISBN: 9780840742490 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compelling account of the impact an African tribesman had on the life of a world-renowned neurosurgeon challenges everyone--health-care professionals, those interested in mission work, and all Christians--to rethink personal priorities. Offers a fascinating look into Kenyan tribal culture, from the Masai to the Kipsigis. Photographs.
This compelling account of the impact an African tribesman had on the life of a world-renowned neurosurgeon challenges everyone--health-care professio...
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79,16 zł |
Doctors and Their Patients: A Social History
ISBN: 9780887388712 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With every passing year, the mutual mistrust between doctor and patient widens, as doctors retreat into resentment and patients become increasingly disillusioned with the quality of care. Rich in anecdote as well as science Doctors and Their Patients describes how both have arrived at this sad shape.
With every passing year, the mutual mistrust between doctor and patient widens, as doctors retreat into resentment and patients become increasingly di...
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Against the Odds: Blacks in the Profession of Medicine in the United States
ISBN: 9781560003762 / Angielski / Twarda / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Racial separatism, gender discrimination, and white dominance have historically thwarted black Americans' occupational aspirations. Access to medical education has also been limited, and mobility within the profession, leading to unequal access to health care. There have, however, been notable triumphs. In Against the Odds, Wilbur Watson describes successful efforts by determined individuals and small groups of black Americans, since the early nineteenth century, to establish a strong black presence in the medical profession. Changes in medical education and hospital management,... Racial separatism, gender discrimination, and white dominance have historically thwarted black Americans' occupational aspirations. Access to medic... |
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On Being a Doctor, Volume 3
ISBN: 9781930513884 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once again, On Being a Doctor illuminates the art and science of medicine with an all-new collection of stories, essays, and poems If you are a physician who has felt the joy of patient care, the frustrations of bureaucracy, the satisfaction of a good catch, the anguish of a mistake, or the long sorrow of losing a patient, you will find sympathy and companionship in these pages. If you are patient who has been frightened by an illness or strengthened by enduring it . . . treated compassionately by one medical professional or coldly by another . . . cured by the miracle of science or made...
Once again, On Being a Doctor illuminates the art and science of medicine with an all-new collection of stories, essays, and poems If you are a physi...
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174,72 zł |
Physicians of Western Medicine: Anthropological Approaches to Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9789027717900 / Angielski / Twarda / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their collaborators show the medical leviathan, warts and all, for what it is: changing, pluralistic, problematic, powerful, provocative. What medicine proclaims itself to be - unified, scientific, biological and not social, non-judgmental - it is shown not to resemble very much. Those matters about which medicine...
After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least shou...
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767,51 zł |
How Doctors Think
ISBN: 9780547053646 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New Yorker staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments--or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.
A New Yorker staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatme...
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74,99 zł |
Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor
ISBN: 9780465037780 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you've ever sat on an examination table and wondered what is really going on in your doctor's head, then this book is for you. New York Times contributor and beloved author Perri Klass addresses the primary issues in the life of any doctor and, by extension, the lives of those for whom they care. She explores the moral judgments of doctors, questions of death and physician-assisted suicide, the daily life of a doctor, doctors as patients, and more. Klass offers a fascinating glimpse inside the doctor's office for aspiring physicians and medical buffs. Treatment Kind and Fair...
If you've ever sat on an examination table and wondered what is really going on in your doctor's head, then this book is for you. New York Times
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122,96 zł |