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Who Says You're Dead?: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned
Appel, Jacob M. · Algonquin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"An original, compelling, and provocative exploration of ethical issues in our society, with thoughtful and balanced commentary. I have not seen anything like it." - Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams Drawing upon the author's two decades teaching medical ethics,... |
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Passive-Aggression: Understanding the Sufferer, Helping the Victim, 2nd Edition
Kantor, Martin · Praeger
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover
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Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder (PAPD) is now recognized as a distinct personality disorder. Those who suffer from PAPD are sorely in need not only of diagnostic recognition, but also of specific therapeutic intervention. This new book from Martin Kantor speaks to therapists;... |
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Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death
Korda, Michael · Liveright
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor's unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer.It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding.... |
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Diagnosis Female: How Medical Bias Endangers Women's Health
Emily Dwass · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Why do so many women have trouble getting effective and compassionate medical treatment? Diagnosis Female examines this widespread problem, with a focus on misdiagnosis and gender bias. The book zeroes in on specialties where women are more likely to encounter particularly troubling roadblocks:... |
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Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
Kenneth Paul Rosenberg · Avery
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-health-care crisis in the United States.When Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg trained as a psychiatrist in the late 1980s, the state mental hospitals, which had reached peak occupancy in the 1950s, were being closed at an alarming... |
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A Short Philosophy of Birds
DuBois, Philippe J. · Dey Street Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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A French ornithologist and philosopher teach us to pause, look to the sky, and reconnect with the natural world, in twenty-two short lessons inspired by the secret lives of birds. There is a lot we can learn from birds if we pay attention. This elegant volume invites us to take a step back... |
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Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink
Seth M. Siegel · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs... |
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Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
Christopher Ryan · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they become difficult to distinguish from the voices in our heads: Civilization is human-kind's greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Today is better than any yesterday. Count your blessings. You're lucky to be alive here... |
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From the Periphery: Real-Life Stories of Disability
Justesen, Pia · Lawrence Hill Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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From the Periphery consists of more than thirty first-person narratives of everyday people who describe what it's like to be treated differently by society because of their disabilities. The stories are raw and painful, but also surprisingly funny and deeply inspiring. The oral histories... |
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The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor
Kleinman, Arthur · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today's world.When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began... |
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