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Spiritual determinants of patient care
The monograph focuses on the importance of the spiritual dimension for a positive therapeutic process. It aims to make members of the medical staff involved in organising and providing patient care aware of the importance of spiritual care....
Intervening in the Brain: Changing Psyche and Society 2010
The wealth of insight into brain function gained by neuroscience in recent years has led to the development of new options for brain interventions such as neurotransplantation, neural prostheses and brain stimulation techniques. Furthermore, new and safer classes of drugs ...
Who stole tomorrow?
Autism, aphasia, dysphasia, are just some of the terms for mental disabilities that we encounter in the media or in professional literature. Those who personally experience the illness or care for people with disabilities do not always know how to, a...
How to talk to children about illness, suffering, and death. Stories and fables
We associate childhood with safety. With a carefree world of play, protected by adults, where nothing bad can happen. Sometimes, however, everyday life and the sense of security begin to waver alarmingly. This is particularly the case in situations,...
Waves
Grandpa's memory is no longer as good as it used to be. But I love him as much as ever and I know that although he often forgets important things, he also loves me with all his might! A beautiful story about family, love and the joy of being together and how we can...
Letters to A
LETTERS TO A. - IS THIS A WORLD FOR OLD PEOPLE? An uninvited tenant turns a family's life upside down. Alzheimer's moves into the home of Anielka, her sister, parents and grandmother. He is the one who makes Grandma forgetful, confuses names, doesn't recognise the household members and...
Publications abroad
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...