Incurable And Intolerable

Author : Jason Szabo
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0813547105

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Incurable and Intolerable by Jason Szabo Pdf

Terminal illness and the pain and anguish it brings are experiences that have touched millions of people in the past and continue to shape our experience of the present. Hospital machines that artificially support life and monitor vital signs beg the question: Is there not anything that medical science can offer as solace? Incurable and Intolerable looks at the history of incurable illness from a variety of perspectives, including those of doctors, patients, families, religious counsel, and policy makers. This compellingly documented and well-written history illuminates the physical, emotional, social, and existential consequences of chronic disease and terminal illness, and offers an original look at the world of palliative medicine, politics, religion, and charity. Revealing the ways in which history can shed new light on contemporary thinking, Jason Szabo encourages a more careful scrutiny of today's attitudes, policies, and practices surrounding "imminent death" and its effects on society.

Author : George Weisz
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781421413020

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Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century by George Weisz Pdf

Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century challenges the conventional wisdom that the concept of chronic disease emerged because medicine's ability to cure infectious disease led to changing patterns of disease. Instead, it suggests, the concept was constructed and has evolved to serve a variety of political and social purposes. How and why the concept developed differently in the United States, an United Kingdom, and France are central concerns of this work. While an international consensus now exists, the different paths taken by these three countries continue to exert profound influence. This book seeks to explain why, among the innumerable problems faced by societies, some problems in some places become viewed as critical public issues that shape health policy. -- from back cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B2870875

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065541835

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The National Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mikhail Tombak,Mikhail Tombak, Ph.D.
Publisher : Healthy Life PressInc
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0972732837

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Cure the Incurable by Mikhail Tombak,Mikhail Tombak, Ph.D. Pdf

Nature has cures for all diseases. In Cure the Incurable the author suggests some successful alternative treatments of diseases written off by traditional medicine as incurable, such as osteoporosis, cancer, diabetes, and many other ailments and afflictions.

Author : Agnes Arnold-Forster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192635754

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The Cancer Problem by Agnes Arnold-Forster Pdf

The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America. The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain argues that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present.

Author : Bhimeswara Challa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The War Within - Between Good and Evil by Bhimeswara Challa Pdf

The human has always prided himself as an exceptional ‘moral species’ but has always been haunted by two questions: ‘Why am I not good when I want to be; ‘why do I do bad when I don’t want to’. This is at the heart of what scriptures and sages have long alluded to as the eternal internal struggle-between good and evil - that wages in the human consciousness. The book posits that much of our confusion and angst stems from our inability to recognize the ramifications of this ‘war’ between two sides of our own ‘self’. It is because we are ignoring this ‘war’ between two sides of our own ‘self’. It is because we are ignoring this war that we are losing all other wars of the world. That ignorance is the primary source of all the horrors, malevolence, and violence that fill us with so much dread. But a ‘favorable’ outcome is possible only if the forces of goodness are aided to get an upper hand consistently - and that calls for two cathartic changes: consciousness-change by inducing a turn from the mind to the heart; and contextual-change, by radically reconstructing the roles of morality, money, and mortality in our everyday lives. The book offers a menu of insights and options we all can use to tilt the scales in the war waging inside each of us.

Author : Various
Publisher : Litres
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9785040868360

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Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various Pdf

Author : K. P. Stoller
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781510707993

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Incurable Me by K. P. Stoller Pdf

In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicine’s most closely guarded secrets. As he establishes a link between commerce and medical research, K. P. Stoller also explains how to treat some of the most worrisome diseases and conditions afflicting humans today—including Lyme disease, brain trauma, dementia, and autism. Dr. Stoller maintains that the best evidence in medical research is not incorporated into clinical practice unless the medical cartel has the potential to make large amounts of money promoting the results of the research. Stoller takes his provocative argument a step further, maintaining that if specific research conflicts with a powerful entity’s financial interests, the likely result will be an effort to suppress or distort the results. Stoller cites numerous examples, including corporate influence on GMO labeling and public health. Stoller also explores how “revolving-door-employment” between the Centers for Disease Control and large pharmaceutical companies can affect research results—as well as our health. Written in an accessible style that is thoroughly appropriate for a lay audience, Incurable Me is a must-read for anyone interested in the state of modern medicine.

Author : Richard Schulze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Detoxification (Health)
ISBN : 0967156734

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There are No Incurable Diseases by Richard Schulze Pdf

Author : Bonnie (Professor Emerita of the Department of Philosophy Steinbock, Professor Emerita of the Department of Philosophy University at Albany),Professor Emerita of the Department of Philosophy Bonnie Steinbock,Paul T. (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Menzel, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Pacific Lutheran University),Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Paul T Menzel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780197657997

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Bioethics by Bonnie (Professor Emerita of the Department of Philosophy Steinbock, Professor Emerita of the Department of Philosophy University at Albany),Professor Emerita of the Department of Philosophy Bonnie Steinbock,Paul T. (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Menzel, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Pacific Lutheran University),Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Paul T Menzel Pdf

The questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Should people who refuse to be vaccinated be treated for COVID-19, even if that displaces vaccinated patients with other serious conditions? What restrictions on abortion should there be, if any? Should women be paid to donate eggs? Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know ® discusses these and other similar questions facing the public today--as well as providing a way for thinking deeply about them. Steinbock and Menzel first examine major moral theories and how they can be used to analyze bioethical issues. They then provide historical background to the birth of bioethics and explain how it shifted from a paternalistic doctor knows best approach to respect for autonomy, a fundamental value in contemporary bioethics. Subsequent chapters cover advance directives, experimentation on human subjects, the definition of death, physician-assisted dying, abortion, disability, just healthcare systems, the allocation of scarce resources, pharmaceutical drug pricing, assisted reproductive technology, egg donation, surrogate motherhood, sex selection, and the genetic modification of humans. Race and gender are considered throughout, as are the ethical issues raised by pandemics. Steinbock and Menzel consider the controversial questions that surface in the public sphere, explaining the facts, and then evaluating different approaches to resolving them.

Author : Joseph Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590775874

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The People [ed. by J. Barker]. by Joseph Barker Pdf

Author : Jeanette A. Auger
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773631479

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Social Perspectives on Death and Dying by Jeanette A. Auger Pdf

Death is inevitable, but our perspectives about death and dying are socially constructed. This updated third edition takes us through the maze of issues, both social and personal, which surround death and dying in Canada. Topics include euthanasia and medically assisted death, palliative care and hospices, the high incidence of opioid deaths, the impact of cyber bullying in suicide deaths, the sociology of hiv/aids, funeral and burial practices, the high rates of suicide in Canada and dealing with grief and bereavement, among others. Additionally, Auger explores alternative methods for helping dying persons and their loved ones deal with death in a holistic, patient-centred way. Each chapter includes suggested readings, discussion questions and in-class assignments.

Author : Josef Kuře
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789533072609

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Euthanasia by Josef Kuře Pdf

No one really wants to die, or do they? From classical times to our post-modern era of medical high tech, societies have struggled with the thorny issue of euthanasia, and what it entails. Who shall be entitled to a "good death" and in what form shall it arrive? This book provides the reader with insight and enlightenment on the medical, philosophical, social, cultural and existential aspects of "good death" amid our digitized, individualized and ageing society, hampered by rising health care costs but unchained from one standardized level of care.

Author : The Expert Panel Working Group on MAID Where a Mental Disorder Is the Sole Underlying Medical Condition
Publisher : Council of Canadian Academies
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781926522494

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The State of Knowledge on Medical Assistance in Dying Where a Mental Disorder Is the Sole Underlying Medical Condition by The Expert Panel Working Group on MAID Where a Mental Disorder Is the Sole Underlying Medical Condition Pdf

In December 2016, the CCA was asked by then Minister of Health Jane Philpott and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould to undertake independent reviews related to medical assistance in dying (MAID). Specifically, the CCA was tasked with examining three particularly complex types of requests for MAID that were identified for further review and study in the legislation passed by Parliament in 2016: requests by mature minors, advance requests, and requests where a mental disorder is the sole underlying medical condition. On December 12, 2018 the CCA released the three final reports of the Expert Panel, one on each type of request: The State of Knowledge on Medical Assistance in Dying for Mature Minors; The State of Knowledge on Advance Requests for Medical Assistance in Dying; and The State of Knowledge on Medical Assistance in Dying Where a Mental Disorder is the Sole Underlying Medical Condition.