The Final Choice: End of Life Suffering: Is Assisted Dying the Answer? by Caralise Trayes
$16.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: near fine
BE INFORMED FOR YOUR VOTE AT THE REFERENDUM On 17 October 2020 A Kiwi journalist on the hunt for the truth about assisted dying and the End of Life Choice Act. Join her on a journey of discovery as she tells the stories of those with terminal illness and interviews lawyers, doctors, ethicists and cleric ...Show more
The Religio Medici and Other Writings by Sir Thomas Browne
$10.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Everyman's Library No. 92 | Reading Level: good
The Uncertain Art - Thoughts on a Life in Medicine by Sherwin B. Nuland
$14.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
"Life is short, and the Art so long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious; and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and the externals, cooperate." -attributed to Hippocrates, c. 400 B.C.E. The awar ...Show more
A Prelude to Modern Science: Being a discussion of the history, sources and circumstances of the 'Tabulae Anatomicae Sex' of Vesalius by Charles Singer and C. Rabin
$140.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: good
The Mineral Waters and Spas of New Zealand by Arthur S. Wohlmann
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in ...Show more
Differences in Medicine - Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies by Marc Berg (Editor); Annemarie Mol (Editor)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Body, Commodity, Text Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Western medicine--especially in contrast with non-Western traditions of medical practice--is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are shared. Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol debunk this myth with an interdisciplinary and intercultural collection of e ...Show more
Regulating How We Die - The Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide by Linda L. Emanuel (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
The Supreme Court has ruled that states may prohibit physician-assisted suicide. Expressing the views of his fellow justices, Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote, "Americans are engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the morality, legality, and practicality of physician-assisted suicide. Our holding ...Show more
Medical Books, Libraries and Collectors: A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the Medical Sciences by John L. Thornton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Doctors in Denial - The Forgotten Women in the 'Unfortunate Experiment' by Ronald W Jones
$20.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
When Dr Ron Jones joined the staff of National Women's Hospital in Auckland in 1973 as a junior obstetrician and gynaecologist, Professor Herbert Green's study into the natural history of carcinoma in-situ of the cervix (CIS) - later called 'the unfortunate experiment' - had been in progress for seven y ...Show more
Practical Reasoning in Bioethics by James F. Childress
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Medical Ethics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many teachers of bioethics..." --Journal of the American Medical AssociationChildress' book deserves careful study by all concerned with the ethical aspect of contemp ...Show more
Pills & Potions at the Cotter Medical History Trust by Claire Le Couteur
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
In this fascinating and by turns alarming book, Claire Le Couteur has researched the background to some of the popular medical remedies in New Zealand's medical history, based on items found in the collection of the Cotter Medical History Trust. The Cotter Trust was established in Christchurch by retire ...Show more