Medical Ethics Today - Its Practice and Philosophy by BMA Staff
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
This text answers the range of questions commonly raised and relates the long accepted standards which have governed professional behaviour to newly emerging situations. It aims to produce a tool for doctors, whilst recognizing that debate of ethical issues extends beyond the medical profession.
Recovering Bodies - Illness, Disability, and Life Writing by G. Thomas Couser; Nancy Mairs (Foreword by)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Health | Series: Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability--in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis--who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, colla ...Show more
Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk by Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn
$20.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn studied stories, topic control, "true" questions, and rhetorical questions in 101 medical encounters in US private-practice settings. In exceptionally lucid and accessible style, Ainsworth-Vaughn explains how power was claimed by and co-constructed for both patients and doctors (p ...Show more
Little People: Learning to See the World Through My Daughter's Eyes by Dan Kennedy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
A week after her birth in 1992, Dan Kennedy's firstborn daughter was diagnosed with achondroplasia, the most common type of dwarfism. Reassured by doctors that Becky would have normal intelligence and a normal life span, Dan and his wife, Barbara, quickly adjusted to the reality of her condition. What w ...Show more
The Fever Trail : In Search of the Cure for Malaria by Mark Honigsbaum
$16.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
Part science, part riveting historical adventure about one of the great scourges to afflict mankind Every year malaria kills 1.5 to 2.7 million people -- more than half of those deaths are children -- and 300 to 500 million people fall ill with the disease. As of yet, there is no cure. Malaria is a dead ...Show more
The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects by Roberto Abadie
$14.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: fine
The Professional Guinea Pig documents the emergence of the professional research subject in Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development. Until the mid-1970s Phase I trials were conducted on prisoners. After that practice was outlawed, the pharmaceutical industry needed a replaceme ...Show more
Pickerill - Pioneer in Plastic Surgery, Dental Education and Dental research by Harvey Brown
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: Near Fine
Founding Director of a new Dental School at the age of twenty-eight, only eighteen months after completing his medical and dental studies at the University of Birmingham, was just one of Henry Percy Pickerill's achievements in a highly productive life. His research and writing on dental caries were inte ...Show more
Otago Medical School 1875-1975 An Historical Sketch by Gordon Parry
$20.00 NZD
Category: Regional | Reading Level: Very Good
History Of Scottish Medicine Volume 1 and Volume II by John D Comrie
$60.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
The Otago Medical School Under the First Three Deans by Charles Hercus; Gordon Bell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Education | Reading Level: Very Good
The Social Organization of Sexuality Sexual Practices in the United States by Laumann, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael and Stuart Michaels
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: Near Fine