Ordinary Medicine
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Author | : Sharon R. Kaufman |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2015-05-29 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0822375508 |
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Most of us want and expect medicine’s miracles to extend our lives. In today’s aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see—it’s being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance companies. In Ordinary Medicine Sharon R. Kaufman investigates what drives that storm’s “more is better” approach to medicine: a nearly invisible chain of social, economic, and bureaucratic forces that has made once-extraordinary treatments seem ordinary, necessary, and desirable. Since 2002 Kaufman has listened to hundreds of older patients, their physicians and family members express their hopes, fears, and reasoning as they faced the line between enough and too much intervention. Their stories anchor Ordinary Medicine. Today’s medicine, Kaufman contends, shapes nearly every American’s experience of growing older, and ultimately medicine is undermining its own ability to function as a social good. Kaufman’s careful mapping of the sources of our health care dilemmas should make it far easier to rethink and renew medicine’s goals.
Author | : Kathlyn Conway |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780472032358 |
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A searingly honest account of one woman's ordeal with cancer that offers insights into all the emotions and reactions that illness evokes---sometimes noble, sometimes selfish, often despairing
Author | : Christopher Cowley |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2007-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0230591566 |
Download Medical Ethics, Ordinary Concepts and Ordinary Lives Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Mainstream discussions of ethics often search for a problem-solving theory or explore ontological status. This book argues instead that the proper starting point should be the words and deeds of ordinary people in ordinary disagreements - the ethical concepts in play can only derive full meaning within the context of ordinary human lives.
Author | : Susannah Meadows |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 081299647X |
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"True stories about people who triumphed over seemingly impossible medical diagnoses using untraditional, inventive therapies and perseverance--and about what scientists are discovering on the psychology of healing and the mind-body connection--from the author of the New York Times Magazine article about her own son, 'The Boy with the Thorn in his Joints,' which led to this book about other families"
Author | : Thomas F. Babor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2010-02-25 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199551146 |
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From a public health perspective, alcohol is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality, and impacts on many aspects of social life. This text describes advances in alcohol research with direct relevance to the development of effective policies at local, national and international level.
Author | : Robert St. Amant |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0199775303 |
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In Computing for Ordinary Mortals, cognitive scientist and AI expert Robert St. Amant explains what he calls, "the really interesting part" of computing, which are the ideas behind the technology. They're powerful ideas, and the foundations for everything that computers do, but they are little discussed. This book will not tell you how to use your computer, but it will give you a conceptual tour of how it works. Some of the ideas, like modularity which are so embedded in what we do as humans, can also give us insight into our own daily activities, how we interact with other people, and in some cases even what's going on in our heads. Computing is all around us, and, to quote Richard Hamming, the influential mathematician and computer scientist, "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers," and it is this insight that informs the entire book.
Author | : Ann S. Masten |
Publisher | : Guilford Publications |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015-10-12 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1462523714 |
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From a pioneering researcher, this book synthesizes the best current knowledge on resilience in children and adolescents. Ann S. Masten explores what allows certain individuals to thrive and adapt despite adverse circumstances, such as poverty, chronic family problems, or exposure to trauma. Coverage encompasses the neurobiology of resilience as well as the role of major contexts of development: families, schools, and culture. Identifying key protective factors in early childhood and beyond, Masten provides a cogent framework for designing programs to promote resilience. Complex concepts are carefully defined and illustrated with real-world examples.
Author | : Beata Świtek |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2022-03-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030839621 |
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This book untangles the relationship between expert categorisations of risk and the on-the-ground experiences of untrained ‘ordinary’ people who may be routinely subjected to significant danger in a variety of extraordinary contexts. It considers political, ethical and moral dimensions of risk and calls for more targeted ethnographic research, designed to reveal how grass-roots risk dispositions and practice intersect with official discourses, individual agency and community resilience.
Author | : Lennart Nordenfelt |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2022-07-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9004496009 |
Download Health, Science, and Ordinary Language Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is a contribution to the current philosophical discussion on the nature of health and illness. It contains a comparative analysis and reevaluation of four influential contemporary theories in this field. These are the biostatistical theory of Christopher Boorse which represents the mainstream thinking in medicine, and three versions of a holistic and normative understanding of health and illness which are the theories of Lawrie Reznek, K. W. M. Fulford, and Lennart Nordenfelt. In this unusual volume of assessment, Nordenfelt critically reexamines his own theory, and George Khushf and K. W. M. Fulford contribute critical responses.
Author | : Deborah Labovitz |
Publisher | : SLACK Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Occupational therapy |
ISBN | : 9781556425714 |
Download Ordinary Miracles Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Find out how people have learned to cope with their troubles and have become stronger by the very act of overcoming obstacles and surviving catastrophes. These are their stories, written by the people who lived them, their families, or those who helped them save the day.