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Doctors Cry Too!
Frank H. Boehm
Hardcover - $28.95
Portraying a medical profession that is sensitive, emotional, spiritual, and compassionate, this collection of inspirational essays is a prescription for life from the heart of a physician.
Doctors Cry, Too : Essays from the Heart of a Physician
Frank H. Boehm
Paperback - $18.95
Doctors Cry, Too is a collection of essays from the heart of physician Frank H. Boehm. M.D. This thought-provoking and inspirational book deals with physicians, patients, their loved ones--and the complex challenges that relate to the se individuals. ...
Life and Death : Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics
Dan W. Brock
Paperback - $92.95
How should modern medicine's dramatic new powers to sustain life be employed? How should limited resources be used to extend and improve the quality of life? In this collection, Dan Brock, a distinguished philosopher and bioethicist and co-author of ...
Intoxicated by My Illness
Anatole Broyard
Paperback - $24.95
"Succeeds brilliantly....He lives as a writer and we are the wealthier for it."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Anatyole Broyad, long-time book critic, book review editor, and essayist for THE NEW YORK TIMES wants to be remembered. He will be, w ...
The Desire to Heal : A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry
Rafael Campo
Paperback - $22.95
In this "unrelenting effort to humanize the medical profession" ("Publishers Weekly"), Campo turns the doctor-patient relationship inside-out, writing not just of his attempts to heal, but of how his patients have healed "him".
Smart Mice, Not So Smart People : An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics
Arthur L. Caplan
Hardcover - $33.95
This assortment of pithy, provocative opinions on all things bioethical does more than simply give you a piece of the author's mind--it dares you to make up your own mind. In his typical tell-it-like-it-is style, America's leadig bioethicist Arthur C ...
The Woman in the Surgeon's Body
Joan Cassell
Paperback - $49.95
Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters the closely guarded arena of surgery to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. A unique portrait of the day-to-day reality of thirty-three surgeons in five North ...
Sisters on a Journey : Portraits of American Midwives
Penfield Chester
Paperback - $44.95
"Sisters on a Journey makes these astonishing women real, in all their diversity, in all their glory". -- Barbara Katz Rothman, author of Recreating Motherhood and In Labor.
Sisters on a journey is a moving collection of twenty seven profiles -- in ...
