Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians
by Bernard Lo
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Every day clinicians encounter ethical dilemmas that have a direct impact on patient care. This timely Fourth Edition gives you expert guidance in approaching a wide range of ethical dilemmas and developing an action plan even when competing points of view have equal merit. Most chapters include real-life sample cases that the author walks through, discussing the salient issues and how to approach them.

Highlights of this edition include:

• A new chapter on ethical issues in cross-cultural medicine
• New material addressing conscientious objection by physicians, with particular reference to reproductive health and caring for underserved populations
• Revised sections on disclosure of errors to patients, gifts to physicians from drug companies, involuntary psychiatric treatment, genomic medicine, and ethical issues during public health emergencies such as pandemics
• Updates on organ transplantation including increasing the donor pool and non-heart beating donors
• Updated references throughout
• A summary of key points at the end of each chapter

A companion Website includes instant fully searchable text. This useful resource is a must-read for medical students and practicing professionals at every level of experience.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #432166 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-07
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: .60" h x 6.90" w x 9.80" l, 1.27 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Pot, Inc.: Inside Medical Marijuana, America's Most Outlaw Industry

Pot, Inc.: Inside Medical Marijuana, America's Most Outlaw Industry
by Greg Campbell
Publication Date: April 3, 2012

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Greg Campbell, coauthor of the bestselling Flawless and Blood Diamonds, presents a compelling, close-up investigation of a hot-button topic: America's schizophrenic attitude to the legalization of pot.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #23960 in Books
• Published on: 2012-04-03
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

All the Justice Money Can Buy: Corporate Greed on Trial

All the Justice Money Can Buy: Corporate Greed on Trial
by Snigdha Prakash
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Snigdha Prakash was born and brought up in Delhi, India and has lived in the United States since she came here as an undergraduate. She got her start in journalism as a copy aide at the Washington Post writing for the paper’s local and business sections. She covered the mortgage industry and its biggest players, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for the American Banker, an independent, daily newspaper, from 1993 to 1998. Most recently, she was a reporter for National Public Radio (NPR) from 1998 to 2007, where she investigated and documented several important chapters in the history of the painkiller Vioxx on NPR’s flagship news magazines, “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition.” In 2009, she was awarded the Gene Roberts Book Award by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. This is her first book.  

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• Published on: 2011-06-07
• Released on: 2011-06-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink

Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?
by Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, Mason Tvert, Norm Stamper
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Nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert compare and contrast the relative harms and legal status of the two most popular recreational substances in the world--marijuana and alcohol. Through an objective examination of the two drugs and the laws and social practices that steer people toward alcohol, the authors pose a simple yet rarely considered question: Why do we punish adults who make the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol?

Marijuana Is Safer reaches for a broad audience. For those unfamiliar with marijuana, it provides an introduction to the cannabis plant and its effects on the user, and debunks some of the government's most frequently cited marijuana myths. For current and aspiring advocates of marijuana-law reform, as well as anyone else who is interested in what is becoming a major political battle, the authors spell out why the message that marijuana is safer than alcohol must be a prominent part of the public debate over legalization.

Most importantly, for the millions of Americans who want to advance the cause of marijuana-policy reform--or simply want to defend their own personal, safer choice--this book provides the talking points and detailed information needed to make persuasive arguments to friends, family, coworkers, and elected officials.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #58384 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-24
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• 240 pages

Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
by Lawrence R. Jacobs, Theda Skocpol
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United States more equal, reversing four decades of rising disparities between the very rich and everyone else. Millions of people of modest means will gain new benefits and protections from insurance company abuses - and the tab will be paid by privileged corporations and the very rich.

How did such a bold reform effort pass in a polity wracked by partisan divisions and intense lobbying by special interests? What does Affordable Care mean - and what comes next? In Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol--two of the nation's leading experts on politics and health care policy--provide a concise and accessible overview. They explain the political battles of 2009 and 2010, highlighting White House strategies, the deals Democrats cut with interest groups, and the impact of agitation by Tea Partiers and progressives. Jacobs and Skocpol spell out what the new law can do for everyday Americans, what it will cost, and who will pay. Above all, they explain what comes next, as critical yet often behind-the-scenes battles rage over implementing reform nationally and in the fifty states. Affordable Care might end up being weakened. But, like Social Security and Medicare, it could also gain strength and popularity as the majority of Americans learn what it can do for them.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #27724 in Books
• Published on: 2010-10-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .80" h x 5.40" w x 8.10" l, .57 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages