9,948円 In recent times, the phrase ’personalised medicine’ has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future. However, a controversial debate has developed around whether these promises of better, more personal and more cost-efficient medicine are realistic. This...

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1,892円 “The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.” ー New York Times The 50th anniversary edition of the most influential critique of psychiatry every written, with a new preface on the ag...

1,991円 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “We should aspire to Colapinto's stellar journalist example: listening carefully to the circumstances of those who are different rather than demanding that they conform to our own.” ーWashington Post The true story about the "twins case" and a riveting exploration of med...

1,793円 Here is a Human Being delivers the first in-depth look at the Personal Genome Projectーthe effort to construct complete genomic maps of a specific human beingsーwritten by one of the study’s ten human participants. Misha Angrist recounts the project’s fascinating nuances, including the larger-tha...

1,892円 International Bestseller • "An extraordinarily important book." ーMarcia Angell, Harvard Medical School A deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality, by "one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists" (The Atlantic) Anyone living a full, ric...

11,772円 Law, Immunization and the Right to Die focuses on the urgent matter of legal appeals and judicial decisions on assisted death. Drawing on key cases from the United Kingdom and Canada, the book focuses on the problematic paternalism of legal decisions that currently deny assisted dying and questio...

3,600円 Sie wollen gesund bleiben? Essen Sie Gemüse, schlucken Sie Vitamine und treiben Sie Sport! Ist es wirklich so einfach? Und warum glauben wir das? Und was, wenn alles, was wir in Sachen Gesundheit von Kindesbeinen an gelernt haben, hanebüchener Unfug wäre? Diät, Sport, Vitaminpräparate – all das s...

5,355円 The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research--vaccines for polio, rubella, and hepatitis B are just a few. But we have also learned more in recent years about how intelligent apes and monkeys...

9,302円 Emergency Ethics brings together leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice. The book fills a gap in the existing publi...

7,893円 Observing Bioethics examines the history of bioethics as a discipline related not only to modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the core values and beliefs of American society and its courts, legislatures, and media. The book is written from the perspective of two social scient...