Product Description: This reader is a spin-off publication from Law, Science and Medicine, Third Edition. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective on ethical and moral questions raised by medicine and introduces undergraduates to the manner in which law and policy shape society’s views on birth, death, human experimentation, reproduction, use of genetic information, and beyond...read more

Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism. This volume brings together twenty-five articles by leading thinkers in the field, writing on topics that concern both classic and novel problems. They open up new terrain in each area, including tobacco and drug control, infectious disease, environmental and occupational health, the effect of new genetics on the publics health, and the impact of social inequalities on patterns of morbidity and mortality. The volume editors offer a context for discussion with introductory essays for each of the books five sections.

Product Description: Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2002 is a fast, efficient way to access important diagnostic and therapeutic information. Five distinct sections offer key information on patient and disease management, differential diagnosis, clinical algorithms, laboratory and diagnostic tests, and preventive medicine...read more