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病院で出された薬、薬局やドラッグストアで買い求めた市販薬をなぜ疑わないのか？病気になったりケガをしたりしたときに病院でお医者さんが処方してくれた薬は、なんの疑いもなく、指示された量を指示された回数飲みますよね。

心臓外科医が患者を四人連続死なせたがそれを「トレーニング」とうそぶいた（東京医大）、未熟な医師がマニュアルを見ながらの内視鏡手術で死なせた（慈恵医大青戸）、人工心肺の操作ミスで死なせたあとカルテを改竄（東京女子医大）……

移植臓器は、腎臓・心臓・肺・肝臓・膵臓・小腸etc.治らぬ病を抱え、臓器移植の道を探る患者は多い。しかし移植用臓器は世界的に不足し、殊に日本ではまったく足りない。

This new edition explores the ethical reasoning we can use to approach medical ethics, introducing the most important "tools" of ethical reasoning, and discussing how argument, thought experiments, and intuition can be combined in the consideration of medical ethics. Considering its practical application, Tony Hope and Michael Dunn explore how medical ethics supports health professionals through the growing use of ethics expertise in clinical settings.

A leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based science.

Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence—rather than having children without even thinking about whether they should—they presume that they do them no harm. Better Never to Have Been challenges these assumptions. David Benatar argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm.

The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent.

As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, a Houston-based otolaryngologist, chronicles her contentious battle against medical institutions and her passionate advocacy for early COVID-19 treatments and healthcare transparency. If there’s one Covid book you need, this is it. Dr...

Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature - to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. 

From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19.

Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system.

Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory, Frank's book has reached a large and diverse following, including the ill, medical professionals, and scholars of literary theory. In this new edition, Frank adds a preface describing the personal and cultural times when the first edition was written.

In Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit. 

Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. The drug has been derided and declared useless. Doctors have earnestly recorded pleas asking those afflicted with COVID-19 not to take the drug. But why? The War on Ivermectin is the personal and professional narrative of Dr. Pierre Kory, the co-founder of an expert group of physicians, and his plight to alert the world of his group's identification of ivermectin as a highly effective, life-saving, widely available generic medicine with an obvious ability to end the global pandemic.

After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. 

Part mind-bending medical mystery—part cutting-edge science—Hidden Guests uncovers the astonishing phenomenon of microchimerism: the presence of foreign cells inside our own bodies. The incredible story of how those cells got there—and what they do once they arrive—might change everything we know about the immune system, lineage, and identity.

What is embryonic stem cell research? Why is it so controversial? What is its relationship to human cloning? Events are moving so fast and biotechnology seems so complicated that many of us don't have an informed opinion about issues that are remaking the human future before our very eyes.

When a medical crisis happens, the hardest questions often aren’t medical. They’re human. Who should make the decisions when a patient cannot speak for themselves? How much treatment is too much? What happens when doctors, patients, and families disagree? Who has the authority to decide—and how can you make sure your own wishes are heard? In Ask Why? Medical Ethics 101, psychiatrist David A. Kent, M.D. brings more than thirty-five years of clinical experience to the difficult ethical decisions that patients and families may face in hospitals, doctors’ offices, and moments of crisis.

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Discover a compassionate and practical guide to navigating the challenges of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or dementia. This comprehensive 3-in-1 audiobook offers clear guidance for every stage of the caregiving journey, from recognizing early warning signs to managing the increasing demands of advanced memory care.