It has probably happened to everyone that we have discontinued medication prescribed by the doctor or taken it differently from what the doctor advised. We have not followed our diet, not fully undergone the recommended rehabilitation or not sought advice from a specialist recommended...
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Patient-doctor relationship models
In colloquial conversations, there are disputes about whether an efficient doctor or a kind and sympathetic one is better. Even at first glance, however, it is clear that there is something wrong with this kind of dispute. When we go to the doctor, after all, we are not only interested in getting ...
Cured: A Doctor's Journey from Panic to Peace
A pioneering doctor and health researcher tells the story of her perseverance and discovery. Anne McTiernan's memoir begins in 1982, shortly after she completed her PhD in public health research at the age of twenty-nine at...
Medical Sexism: Contraception Access, Reproductive Medicine, and Health Care
Doctors deny patients access to medications related to hormonal contraception, and the issue is widely linked to feminism, biomedical ethics and applied ethics in general. Medical sexism claims that such practices violate a variety of legal standards and...
Starved: A Nutrition Doctor's Journey from Empty to Full
At the age of four, Anne McTiernan is left by her mother at boarding school. Overwhelmed with sadness at the neglect she experiences there, Anne starves herself emotionally and physically. A doctor, appalled by her excessive weight loss, forces Anne's mother to...
Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women And What We Can Do About It
In Pain and Prejudice, acclaimed investigative journalist Gabrielle Jackson takes readers behind the scenes of doctors' offices, pharmaceutical companies and research labs to show that - at almost every level of healthcare - men's health claims are...
Nurse: The True Story of Mary Benjamin
This harrowing and inspiring bestseller is the story of eight weeks in the life of a nurse in a large urban hospital. It's all here: joy and pain, death and drama, mistakes, successes and secrets. The Nurse reads like a novel, but lingers in the memory like a real...
Bioethics and Women: Across the Life Span 2006
All individuals, though different, have the same value: this is the author's relatively uncontroversial starting point. Her end point is not uncontroversial: the ideal of justice as human flourishing, based on the unique set of capacities of each...
The Fourth Sun Sign: From A Doctor's Diary Paperback
Cancer, unlike many diseases, is not age-related; whether it is a young child of five, a young girl going to university, a pregnant mother or an old farmer, no one is spared. The emotional state of mind in the face of illness ...
Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do about It 2020
Sex Matters addresses one of the most pressing but unspoken issues facing women's healthcare today: all models of research and medical practice are based on male-centred models that ignore the unique...
I'm here. Compassionate communication in patient care
Modern medical technology is helping patients recover faster than ever before in history. However, the human interaction between patient and caregiver is still the basic foundation of treatment. 'I'm Here' is a personal narrative from the patient's perspective. Full of...
Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly: Historical Perspectives on Gendered Inequality in Roles, Rights, and Range of Practice 2001
Nursing, medical control and the medical monopoly follow doctors' efforts to achieve a monopoly in healthcare, often by subjugating nurses - their only real competitors. Attempts to reform many aspects of care ...
Sex and Medicine: Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession
This book asks whether women doctors are making a difference. Based on an extensive survey of GPs and specialists from Australia and the UK, the book evokes the culture of modern medicine by describing the experiences of the doctors themselves. Pringle applies...
A Doctor's Diary: Health, Healing and Hope Paperback
The book is neatly divided into seven sections, each dealing with different aspects of healthcare in India. Apart from medicine, Dr Sen also discusses the psychology of patients and victims. The author deals with various diseases that people think they know about....
Invisible. How young women with serious health issues navigate work, relationships and the pressure to seem fine already
Although young women with serious illnesses are usually seen as outliers, young female patients are in fact the primary demographic for many illnesses. They are also one of the most ignored groups in our medical system - a system in which young...