Trust is Not Enough: Bringing Human Rights to Medicine Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2006-06-06
Publisher: New York Review Books
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: B008SLXG6I
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Addresses the issues at the heart of international medicine and social responsibility.

During the last half-century many international declarations have proclaimed health care to be a fundamental human right. But high aspirations repeatedly confront harsh realities, in societies both rich and poor. To illustrate this disparity, David and Sheila Rothman bring together stories from their investigations around the world into medical abuses. A central theme runs through their account: how the principles of human rights, including bodily integrity, informed consent, and freedom from coercion, should guide physicians and governments in dealing with patients and health care.

Over the past two decades, the Rothmans have visited post-Ceausescu Romania, where they uncovered the primitive medical practices that together with state oppression caused hundreds of orphans to develop AIDS. They have monitored the exploitative international traffic in organs in India, China, Singapore, an Download Trust is Not Enough for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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It's Enough to Make You Sick: The Failure of American Health Care and a Prescription for the Cure

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Release: 2012-04-16
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1442214627
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More and more Americans are finding themselves without health insurance or with coverage that is so inadequate they face financial ruin in the event they actually get sick. So they go without. Their children don't receive their immunizations. They allow that worrisome lump in their breast to grow so large that by the time the cancer has been detected it has spread beyond the ability to cure. Seniors can't pay their heating bills or sustain adequate nutrition as the rising cost of their prescription drugs compels them to make difficult choices. Just how did our system become so dysfunctional and who is responsible? This book will tell you.

Too often, discussions on the health care crisis focus a myopic lens on the usual suspects. We are all quick to point a finger at insurance companies who place profit over patients or the pharmaceutical industry that extorts obscene amounts of American dollars for the same drugs that cost 50 to 75 percent less when we cross our borders north or Download It's Enough to Make You Sick for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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