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A Flourishing Practice?
Toon, Peter

Peter Toon is the leading writer on primary care virtue ethics and this thought-provoking book builds on the thinking of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. A Flourishing Practice? looks at the moral problems that currently seem prevalent in health care. Common moral dilemmas highlighted by the media include threats to continuity of care, inappropriate care at the end of life, problems associated w…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780850843903
Collation
x, 145p : ill.
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Call Number
610 TOO f
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A Doctor Across Borders : Raphael Cilento and Public Health from Empire to th…
Cameron-Smith, Alexander

In his day, Raphael Cilento was one of the most prominent and controversial figures in Australian medicine. As a senior medical officer in the Commonwealth and Queensland governments, he was an active participant in public health reform during the inter-war years and is best known for his vocal engagement with public discourse on the relationship between hygiene, race and Australian nationhood.…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781760462659
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xi, 326p ; ill.
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Call Number
610.92 CAM d
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British women surgeons and their patients, 1860-1918
Brock, Claire

When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon from the second half of the nineteenth …

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ISBN/ISSN
9781316911921
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x, 305p. : ill.
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Call Number
610.9 BRO b
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A history of force feeding : hunger strikes, prisons and medical ethics, 1909…
Miller, Ian

This book is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes, Irish republicans and convict prisoners. It also explores the fraught role of prison doctors called upon to perform the…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783319311135
Collation
ix, 267p. : ill.
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Call Number
306.09 MIL h