Patient, Heal Thyself: How the "New Medicine" Puts the Patient in Charge

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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-11-04
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195313720
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Robert Veatch is one of the founding fathers of contemporary bioethics. In Patient, Heal Thyself, he sheds light on a fundamental change sweeping through the American health care system, a change that puts the patient in charge of treatment to an unprecedented extent. The change is in how we think about medical decision-making. Whereas medicine's core idea was that medical decisions should be based on the hard facts of science--the province of the doctor--the "new medicine" contends that medical decisions impose value judgments. Since physicians are not trained to make value judgments, the pendulum has swung greatly toward the patient in making decisions about their treatment. Veatch shows how this is presently true only for value-loaded interventions (abortion, euthanasia, genetics) but is coming to be true for almost every routine procedure in medicine--everything from setting broken arms to choosing drugs for cholesterol. Veatch uses a range of fascinating examples to reveal how Download Patient, Heal Thyself for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Legally Poisoned: How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants Pdf

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Release: 2011-02-15
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0674049705
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Take a random walk through your life and you’ll find it is awash in industrial, often toxic, chemicals. Sip water from a plastic bottle and ingest bisphenol A. Prepare dinner in a non-stick frying pan or wear a layer of Gore-Tex only to be exposed to perfluorinated compounds. Hang curtains, clip your baby into a car seat, watch television—all are manufactured with brominated flame-retardants. Cosmetic ingredients, industrial chemicals, pesticides, and other compounds enter our bodies and remain briefly or permanently. Far too many suspected toxic hazards are unleashed every day that affect the development and function of our brain, immune system, reproductive organs, or hormones. But no public health law requires product testing of most chemical compounds before they enter the market. If products are deemed dangerous, toxicants must be forcibly reduced or removed—but only after harm has been done. In this scientifically rigorous legal analysis, Carl Cranor argues that just as Download Legally Poisoned for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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