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Download or read book Death by Medicine written by Gary Null and published by Axios Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cites published research demonstrating that the American medicine system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US." -- P. [4] of cover.
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by : James Le Fanu
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine written by James Le Fanu and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2002-01-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, medicine won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio. In the same period it also produced treatments to control the progress of Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, test-tube babies. Unquestionably, the medical accomplishments of the postwar years stand at the forefront of human endeavor, yet progress in recent decades has slowed nearly to a halt. In this winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, medical doctor and columnist James Le Fanu both surveys the glories of medicine in the postwar years and analyzes the factors that for the past twenty-five years have increasingly widened the gulf between achievement and advancement: the social theories of medicine, ethical issues, and political debates over health care that have hobbled the development of vaccines and discovery of new "miracle" cures. While fully demonstrating the extraordinary progress effected by medical research in the latter half of the twentieth century, Le Fanu also identifies the perils that confront medicine in the twenty-first. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs add to what the Los Angeles Times cited as "a sobering, contrarian challenge" to the "nostrum of medicine as a never-ending font of ‘miracle cures'." "[From] a respected science writer ... important information that ... has been overlooked or ignored by many physicians." —New Republic "Provocative and engrossing and informative." —Houston Chronicle "Marvelously written, meticulously researched ... one of the most thought-provoking and important works to appear in recent years." —Choice
Book Synopsis The End of Medicine by : Andy Kessler
Download or read book The End of Medicine written by Andy Kessler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-07-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kessler follows the money into the frontiers of medicine and discovers that people may never have heart attacks again.
Book Synopsis The End of Medicine by : Kaare Bursell
Download or read book The End of Medicine written by Kaare Bursell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the tender age of 15, the author set out to discover the answers to two questions – “What is disease?” and “What does disease signify?” His quest began in 1966 when he enrolled in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at the University of Liverpool. After 5 years of study he then worked as a Veterinary Clinician and Surgeon in large animal practice for 8 years. This experience did not answer the questions. In 1975 he began living, thinking and eating according to macrobiotic principles and philosophy, and as he did, the answers to these questions began to become clearer. In 1982, he discovered the work of Rudolf Steiner, and as he began to study his lecture cycles and books, the answers became revealed. The End of Medicine is the result of over 40 years of study, experience, and learning working with thousands of sick individuals from all walks of life. The contents of the book describe how and why illnesses develop, what illness signifies, and makes a distinction between illness, disease and health. The crucial significance of the digestive processes of assimilation and elimination in the onset of illnesses and recovery of health are described in detail. The book thus fulfils the indication given by Rudolf Steiner in a lecture, given in 1923, where he says, “a modern system of medicine must always take the metabolic system, that is to say the normal processes of digestion, as its point of departure, and starting from there it must deduce how internal illnesses in the widest possible sense can arise from the metabolism”. In addition, the book contains instruction on how to do self-diagnosis and then gives the reader, speaking imaginatively, a pair of new legs, a compass and a map. The reader who is sufficiently inspired can then learn to use the “new pair of legs”, comprising a change to a macrobiotic way of eating and doing the ginger compress regimen described, learning how to use “the compass”, yin and yang theory, and use “the map” contained in the latter chapters to explore the new territory which opens up before us as we do so.
Book Synopsis Death of Medicine in Nazi Germany by : Wolfgang Weyers
Download or read book Death of Medicine in Nazi Germany written by Wolfgang Weyers and published by Madison Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only one generation ago, the world watched as highly trained physicians abandoned medical ethics in response to the Nazi regime. Weyers' book takes an in-depth look at the circumstances which allowed this to happen and the steps necessary to ensure such genocide never happens again.
Download or read book Being Mortal written by Atul Gawande and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
Book Synopsis The Demise of Medicine by : Andrew Morton
Download or read book The Demise of Medicine written by Andrew Morton and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The art of practicing actual medicine is not, in reality, tied to some ethereal code of ethics and morality. It is not glamorous. I do not show up in scrubs to a television show and talk to you about which supplements you should or should not be taking. I don't jet off to some developing nation to discuss water sanitation. And no, I don't live in a big house and play golf on Wednesdays. As a matter of fact, my day is mostly focused on survival, both yours and mine."The Demise of Medicine takes a hard-hitting look at the current and future state of health care in America. Family physician and Gulf War veteran Andrew Morton takes readers inside his life as an infantry medic in Desert Storm, a medical student, and finally, a physician, to show the problems with the health care system. From the basic organization of modern health care delivery to the financial structure, liability, and the office visit, the American health care system is a dysfunctional mess. Americans are losing their privacy, autonomy, and choice. Providers may or may not be sufficiently trained to treat the patient they're attending, and everyone is paying the price as the level of health care deteriorates. Forget what you know about what's wrong with the health care system. It's much worse. The Demise of Medicine is upon us.
Book Synopsis The Way of Medicine by : Farr Curlin
Download or read book The Way of Medicine written by Farr Curlin and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift; this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal. What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of “health care services” for the sake of the patient’s subjective well-being. Against this trend, Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen call for practitioners to recover what they call the Way of Medicine, which offers physicians both a path out of the provider of services model and also the moral resources necessary to resist the various political, institutional, and cultural forces that constantly push practitioners and patients into thinking of their relationship in terms of economic exchange. Curlin and Tollefsen offer an accessible account of the ancient ethical tradition from which contemporary medicine and bioethics has departed. Their investigation, drawing on the scholarship of Leon Kass, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Finnis, leads them to explore the nature of medicine as a practice, health as the end of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, the rule of double effect in medical practice, and a number of clinical ethical issues from the beginning of life to its end. In the final chapter, the authors take up debates about conscience in medicine, arguing that rather than pretending to not know what is good for patients, physicians should contend conscientiously for the patient’s health and, in so doing, contend conscientiously for good medicine. The Way of Medicine is an intellectually serious yet accessible exploration of medical practice written for medical students, health care professionals, and students and scholars of bioethics and medical ethics.
Book Synopsis The Demise of Medicine by : Andrew Morton
Download or read book The Demise of Medicine written by Andrew Morton and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The art of practicing actual medicine is not, in reality, tied to some ethereal code of ethics and morality. It is not glamorous. I do not show up in scrubs to a television show and talk to you about which supplements you should or should not be taking. I don't jet off to some developing nation to discuss water sanitation. And no, I don't live in a big house and play golf on Wednesdays. As a matter of fact, my day is mostly focused on survival, both yours and mine."The Demise of Medicine takes a hard-hitting look at the current and future state of health care in America. Family physician and Gulf War veteran Andrew Morton takes readers inside his life as an infantry medic in Desert Storm, a medical student, and finally, a physician, to show the problems with the health care system. From the basic organization of modern health care delivery to the financial structure, liability, and the office visit, the American health care system is a dysfunctional mess. Americans are losing their privacy, autonomy, and choice. Providers may or may not be sufficiently trained to treat the patient they're attending, and everyone is paying the price as the level of health care deteriorates. Forget what you know about what's wrong with the health care system. It's much worse. The Demise of Medicine is upon us.
Book Synopsis The Creative Destruction of Medicine by : Eric Topol
Download or read book The Creative Destruction of Medicine written by Eric Topol and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of medicine reveals how technology like wireless internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to save lives.
Download or read book Slow Medicine written by Victoria Sweet and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the quarter-century that Victoria Sweet has been a doctor, 'healthcare' has replaced medicine, 'providers' look at their laptops more than at their patients, and the ruthless pursuit of efficiency has vanquished the effectiveness of treatment. Victoria Sweet knows that there is an alternative way, because she has lived and practised it. In her new book, she reflects with compassion, wit, and profound insight on experiences drawn from her time in medical school, internship, and residencies, the path to the 'slow medicine' in which she has been pioneer and inspiration.
Book Synopsis Medicolegal Death Investigation System by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Medicolegal Death Investigation System written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-08-22 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of The National Academies to conduct a workshop that would examine the interface of the medicolegal death investigation system and the criminal justice system. NIJ was particularly interested in a workshop in which speakers would highlight not only the status and needs of the medicolegal death investigation system as currently administered by medical examiners and coroners but also its potential to meet emerging issues facing contemporary society in America. Additionally, the workshop was to highlight priority areas for a potential IOM study on this topic. To achieve those goals, IOM constituted the Committee for the Workshop on the Medicolegal Death Investigation System, which developed a workshop that focused on the role of the medical examiner and coroner death investigation system and its promise for improving both the criminal justice system and the public health and health care systems, and their ability to respond to terrorist threats and events. Six panels were formed to highlight different aspects of the medicolegal death investigation system, including ways to improve it and expand it beyond its traditional response and meet growing demands and challenges. This report summarizes the Workshop presentations and discussions that followed them.
Book Synopsis 33 Meditations on Death by : David Jarrett
Download or read book 33 Meditations on Death written by David Jarrett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 'Start the Week' : 'very moving - brilliant and profound' "Brilliant - a grimly humorous yet humane account of the realities of growing old in the modern age." - Henry Marsh "A remarkably likeable guide to a grisly subject ... daunting, yet ultimately life-affirming" - Independent What is a good death? How would you choose to live your last few months? How do we best care for the rising tide of very elderly? This unusual and important book is a series of reflections on death in all its forms: the science of it, the medicine, the tragedy and the comedy. Dr David Jarrett draws on family stories and case histories from his thirty years of treating the old, demented and frail to try to find his own understanding of the end. Profound, provocative, strangely funny and astonishingly compelling, it is an impassioned plea that we start talking frankly and openly about death. He writes about all the conversations that we, our parents, our children, the medical community, our government and society as a whole should be having. And it is a call to arms for us to make radical changes to our perspective on 'the seventh age of man'. - More praise for 33 Meditations on Death: "This book will stay with you." - Derren Brown "Bursting with empathy, common sense and humour." - Professor Dame Sue Black
Book Synopsis The Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting and the Collapse of Traditional Medicine by : K. Codell Carter
Download or read book The Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting and the Collapse of Traditional Medicine written by K. Codell Carter and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of a single generation, without significant discussion or debate, a key practice of traditional medicine was almost completely abandoned in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. K. Codell Carter’s book describes how and why bloodletting was abandoned, noting that it was part of a process in which innovation was required so that modern scientific medicine could begin. This book is a masterful study on the collapse of a traditional medical practice. Bloodletting had been a prominent medical therapy in early nineteenth-century Europe and can be traced back to Greek and Roman physicians. The Hippocratic corpus contains several discussions of bloodletting. Galen, the most famous physician in classical antiquity, wrote tracts explaining and defending the practice. It was employed in ancient Egypt and is the most commonly mentioned therapy in the Babylonian Talmud. Indeed, it was practiced in virtually every part of the ancient world. Even though the practice abruptly ceased, there was little argument against it or reason to believe it ineffective. In reality, bloodletting actually worked. However, the rise of modern medicine required not just a change in how disease and causation were conceived, but also a change in the role of medicine in society. It has been claimed that the collapse of traditional medicine was a precondition for the rise of modern medicine, but there has been little support for this assertion before now. Carter provides this missing support. The result is a fascinating study in the history of medical practice and social expectations.
Book Synopsis The End of Illness by : David B. Agus
Download or read book The End of Illness written by David B. Agus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers comes a monumental work that radically redefines conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for living a long, healthy life.
Book Synopsis Antibiotic Resistance by : Siouxsie Wiles
Download or read book Antibiotic Resistance written by Siouxsie Wiles and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ten years’ time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race? In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this BWB Text, microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles explores the looming crisis of antibiotic resistance and its threat to New Zealand. Wiles concludes that New Zealand must do more to protect the public from a future without antibiotics.
Download or read book Modern Death written by Haider Warraich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary exploration of death and dying by a young Duke Fellow who investigates the hows, whys, wheres, and whens of modern death and their cultural significance.
