Author: Laurie Zoloth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197632130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book takes as its subject the intensely private discussions that arise when ordinary people confront life and death choices and struggle with decisions in a world of medical and scientific complexity. Laurie Zoloth began her work in bioethics in a large public California hospital system, where she was part of a group tasked with the creation of an ethics committee in every hospital in the system, that would hear hundreds of cases every year, including pediatric cases from the hospital's intensive care, neonatal intensive care, burn, and oncology units. The book explores the dilemmas presented in these cases and reflects on the competing, often incommensurate moral appeals offered by the participants. It then analyzes the cases against and with similar concepts within Jewish thought, using rabbinic texts to make legible the factors at play as one makes ethical judgments. This philosophical position is feminist as it considers and at times advocates for the inclusion of family and community in the rationale of the clinical setting. Intertwined with legal statements in the Talmud are aggadot, or midrashic texts, literary narratives used to argue a point, or to complicate a point, or to deepen the meaning of the communal discourse, adding history, case studies, or fictive tales to the discussion. Zoloth argues that these texts can be usefully applied to problems in bioethics. She develops the case for a textual turn that is fully imagined and enriched by the many possible re-interpretations of narrative: biblical, rabbinic, medieval, modern, and post-modern.
Second Texts and Second Opinions
Author: Laurie Zoloth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197632130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book takes as its subject the intensely private discussions that arise when ordinary people confront life and death choices and struggle with decisions in a world of medical and scientific complexity. Laurie Zoloth began her work in bioethics in a large public California hospital system, where she was part of a group tasked with the creation of an ethics committee in every hospital in the system, that would hear hundreds of cases every year, including pediatric cases from the hospital's intensive care, neonatal intensive care, burn, and oncology units. The book explores the dilemmas presented in these cases and reflects on the competing, often incommensurate moral appeals offered by the participants. It then analyzes the cases against and with similar concepts within Jewish thought, using rabbinic texts to make legible the factors at play as one makes ethical judgments. This philosophical position is feminist as it considers and at times advocates for the inclusion of family and community in the rationale of the clinical setting. Intertwined with legal statements in the Talmud are aggadot, or midrashic texts, literary narratives used to argue a point, or to complicate a point, or to deepen the meaning of the communal discourse, adding history, case studies, or fictive tales to the discussion. Zoloth argues that these texts can be usefully applied to problems in bioethics. She develops the case for a textual turn that is fully imagined and enriched by the many possible re-interpretations of narrative: biblical, rabbinic, medieval, modern, and post-modern.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197632130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book takes as its subject the intensely private discussions that arise when ordinary people confront life and death choices and struggle with decisions in a world of medical and scientific complexity. Laurie Zoloth began her work in bioethics in a large public California hospital system, where she was part of a group tasked with the creation of an ethics committee in every hospital in the system, that would hear hundreds of cases every year, including pediatric cases from the hospital's intensive care, neonatal intensive care, burn, and oncology units. The book explores the dilemmas presented in these cases and reflects on the competing, often incommensurate moral appeals offered by the participants. It then analyzes the cases against and with similar concepts within Jewish thought, using rabbinic texts to make legible the factors at play as one makes ethical judgments. This philosophical position is feminist as it considers and at times advocates for the inclusion of family and community in the rationale of the clinical setting. Intertwined with legal statements in the Talmud are aggadot, or midrashic texts, literary narratives used to argue a point, or to complicate a point, or to deepen the meaning of the communal discourse, adding history, case studies, or fictive tales to the discussion. Zoloth argues that these texts can be usefully applied to problems in bioethics. She develops the case for a textual turn that is fully imagined and enriched by the many possible re-interpretations of narrative: biblical, rabbinic, medieval, modern, and post-modern.
Second Opinions
Author: Jerome Groopman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140298622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A unique insider's view of today's complex and often contentious world of medicine Anxious about the prognosis, lost in a blur of technical jargon, and fatigued from worry or pain, people who are ill are easily overwhelmed by treatment choices. Told through eight gripping clinical dramas, Second Opinions reveals the forces at play in making critical medical decisions. Dr. Jerome Groopman illuminates the world of medicine where knowledge is imperfect, no therapy is without risks, and no outcome is fully predictable. He portrays moments of astute diagnosis and misguided perception, of lifesaving triumphs and shattering failures. These real-life lessons prepare us to navigate the uncertain terrain of illness, and enable us to balance intuition and information, and thereby make the best possible decisions about our health and future.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140298622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A unique insider's view of today's complex and often contentious world of medicine Anxious about the prognosis, lost in a blur of technical jargon, and fatigued from worry or pain, people who are ill are easily overwhelmed by treatment choices. Told through eight gripping clinical dramas, Second Opinions reveals the forces at play in making critical medical decisions. Dr. Jerome Groopman illuminates the world of medicine where knowledge is imperfect, no therapy is without risks, and no outcome is fully predictable. He portrays moments of astute diagnosis and misguided perception, of lifesaving triumphs and shattering failures. These real-life lessons prepare us to navigate the uncertain terrain of illness, and enable us to balance intuition and information, and thereby make the best possible decisions about our health and future.
A Second Opinion
Author: Arnold Relman
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586485822
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Dr. Arnold Relman, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine brings together sixty years of experience in medicine in a book that holds the keys to a new structure for healthcare based on voluntary private contracts between individuals and not-for-profit, multi-specialty groups of physicians. Timely, provocative, and newly updated, A Second Opinion is a clarion call to action. If we heed Dr. Relman's plan, Americans could at last achieve a lasting, sensible solution to national healthcare.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586485822
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Dr. Arnold Relman, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine brings together sixty years of experience in medicine in a book that holds the keys to a new structure for healthcare based on voluntary private contracts between individuals and not-for-profit, multi-specialty groups of physicians. Timely, provocative, and newly updated, A Second Opinion is a clarion call to action. If we heed Dr. Relman's plan, Americans could at last achieve a lasting, sensible solution to national healthcare.
The Second Opinion
Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429920122
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger's syndrome, has always been an outsider. She has a brilliant medical mind, and a remarkable recall of details, but her difficulty in dealing with hidden agendas and interpersonal conflicts have led her to leave the complex, money-driven dynamics of the hospital, and to embrace working with the poor, embattled patients of Doctors Without Borders. Her father, Petros, is one of the most celebrated internal medicine specialists in the world, and the founder of the cutting-edge Sperelakis Center for Diagnostic Medicine at Boston's sprawling, powerful Beaumont Clinic. Thea's rewarding life in Africa is turned upside-down when Petros is severely injured by a hit-and-run driver. He is in the Beaumont ICU, in a deep coma. No one thinks he will survive. Thea must return home. Two of Petros' other children, both physicians, battle Thea and her eccentric brother, Dimitri, by demanding that treatment for their father be withheld. As Thea uncovers the facts surrounding the disaster, it seems more and more to be no accident. Petros, himself, is the only witness. Who would want him dead? The answers are trapped in his brain . . . until he looks at Thea and begins slowly to blink a terrifying message. In The Second Opinion, Michael Palmer has created a cat-and-mouse game where one woman must confront a conspiracy of doctors to uncover an evil practice that touches every single person who ever has a medical test. With sympathetic characters and twists and betrayals that come from the most unlikely places, The Second Opinion will make you question...everything.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429920122
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger's syndrome, has always been an outsider. She has a brilliant medical mind, and a remarkable recall of details, but her difficulty in dealing with hidden agendas and interpersonal conflicts have led her to leave the complex, money-driven dynamics of the hospital, and to embrace working with the poor, embattled patients of Doctors Without Borders. Her father, Petros, is one of the most celebrated internal medicine specialists in the world, and the founder of the cutting-edge Sperelakis Center for Diagnostic Medicine at Boston's sprawling, powerful Beaumont Clinic. Thea's rewarding life in Africa is turned upside-down when Petros is severely injured by a hit-and-run driver. He is in the Beaumont ICU, in a deep coma. No one thinks he will survive. Thea must return home. Two of Petros' other children, both physicians, battle Thea and her eccentric brother, Dimitri, by demanding that treatment for their father be withheld. As Thea uncovers the facts surrounding the disaster, it seems more and more to be no accident. Petros, himself, is the only witness. Who would want him dead? The answers are trapped in his brain . . . until he looks at Thea and begins slowly to blink a terrifying message. In The Second Opinion, Michael Palmer has created a cat-and-mouse game where one woman must confront a conspiracy of doctors to uncover an evil practice that touches every single person who ever has a medical test. With sympathetic characters and twists and betrayals that come from the most unlikely places, The Second Opinion will make you question...everything.
ACCA Options P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance (International) Study Text 2014
Author: BPP Learning Media
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
ISBN: 1445367475
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The examining team reviewed P7 Study Text covers all the relevant ACCA P7 Syllabus topics. It explores all the main professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements, ethics and practice management, the audit and considers current issues and developments. Detailed examples throughout the text will help build your understanding and reinforce learning.
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
ISBN: 1445367475
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The examining team reviewed P7 Study Text covers all the relevant ACCA P7 Syllabus topics. It explores all the main professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements, ethics and practice management, the audit and considers current issues and developments. Detailed examples throughout the text will help build your understanding and reinforce learning.
Second Opinion
Author: Jennie Mary Hornosty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199018130
Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Taking an intersectional approach to the study of health and illness, Second Opinion introduces students to the field through an accessible yet authoritative overview of key theories, debates, and research findings. Written in a clear, straightforward style, with contributions from bothCanadian and international scholars, this comprehensive volume examines a wide range of topics including racialization, disability, aging, the environment, Aboriginal health, and the political economy of the health industry. Themes such as the social determinants of health, health inequalities,intersectionality, and the roles of both structure and agency in creating and maintaining the status quo are integrated throughout. The array of pedagogical features fosters engagement with the material, while providing study support and suggestions for further learning. New content and examples -on maternal mortality rates, the latest in sociological theory, health care inequalities in Canada, obesity, appearance norms, healthy aging, physician-assisted death, drug costs in Canada and the world, and integrated health care - encourage students to think critically about health-care practicesand policies in Canada within a global health perspective. Thoroughly revised and up-to-date, with a new visual program to appeal to visual learners and a new chart on the inside cover that details the coverage of social determinants throughout the text, the second Canadian edition of Second Opinion ensures that students of health sociology have everythingthey need to understand this complex discipline, right at their fingertips.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199018130
Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Taking an intersectional approach to the study of health and illness, Second Opinion introduces students to the field through an accessible yet authoritative overview of key theories, debates, and research findings. Written in a clear, straightforward style, with contributions from bothCanadian and international scholars, this comprehensive volume examines a wide range of topics including racialization, disability, aging, the environment, Aboriginal health, and the political economy of the health industry. Themes such as the social determinants of health, health inequalities,intersectionality, and the roles of both structure and agency in creating and maintaining the status quo are integrated throughout. The array of pedagogical features fosters engagement with the material, while providing study support and suggestions for further learning. New content and examples -on maternal mortality rates, the latest in sociological theory, health care inequalities in Canada, obesity, appearance norms, healthy aging, physician-assisted death, drug costs in Canada and the world, and integrated health care - encourage students to think critically about health-care practicesand policies in Canada within a global health perspective. Thoroughly revised and up-to-date, with a new visual program to appeal to visual learners and a new chart on the inside cover that details the coverage of social determinants throughout the text, the second Canadian edition of Second Opinion ensures that students of health sociology have everythingthey need to understand this complex discipline, right at their fingertips.
ACCA Options P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance (UK) Study Text 2014
Author: BPP Learning Media
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
ISBN: 1445367467
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
The examining team reviewed P7 Study Text covers all the relevant ACCA P7 Syllabus topics. It explores all the main professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements, ethics and practice management, the audit and considers current issues and developments. Detailed examples throughout the text will help build your understanding and reinforce learning.
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
ISBN: 1445367467
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
The examining team reviewed P7 Study Text covers all the relevant ACCA P7 Syllabus topics. It explores all the main professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements, ethics and practice management, the audit and considers current issues and developments. Detailed examples throughout the text will help build your understanding and reinforce learning.
ACCA P7 - Advanced Audit and Assurance (UK) - Study Text 2013
Author: BPP Learning Media
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
ISBN: 1445392194
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The examiner-reviewed P7 Study Text includes everything you need for this paper, including detailed guidance on the exam. The question bank includes questions in the style of the P7 paper, and each chapter contains useful exam focus points and chapter roundups. The Study Text provides an excellent source of the main professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements, focusing on ethics and regulation and practice management, before going through the audit and assurance engagement process, and ending with a consideration of current issues and developments.
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
ISBN: 1445392194
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The examiner-reviewed P7 Study Text includes everything you need for this paper, including detailed guidance on the exam. The question bank includes questions in the style of the P7 paper, and each chapter contains useful exam focus points and chapter roundups. The Study Text provides an excellent source of the main professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements, focusing on ethics and regulation and practice management, before going through the audit and assurance engagement process, and ending with a consideration of current issues and developments.
ACCA Essentials P1 Governance, Risk and Ethics Study Text 2014
Author: BPP Learning Media
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
ISBN: 1445367408
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
The examining team reviewed P1 Study Text covers all the relevant ACCA P1 syllabus topics. It explores the theories behind the key areas of corporate governance and ethics and demonstrates how these theories are put in to practice. Examiner highlighted points to focus on such as risks organisations face and how businesses are coping with wider social responsibilities are also discussed. Detailed examples throughout the text will help build your understanding and reinforce learning.
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
ISBN: 1445367408
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
The examining team reviewed P1 Study Text covers all the relevant ACCA P1 syllabus topics. It explores the theories behind the key areas of corporate governance and ethics and demonstrates how these theories are put in to practice. Examiner highlighted points to focus on such as risks organisations face and how businesses are coping with wider social responsibilities are also discussed. Detailed examples throughout the text will help build your understanding and reinforce learning.
ACCA Paper P7 - Advanced Audit and Assurance (INT) Study Text
Author: BPP Learning Media
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
ISBN: 0751783226
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global body for professional accountants. With over 100 years of providing world-class accounting and finance qualifications, the ACCA has significantly raised its international profile in recent years and now supports a BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting and an MBA.BPP Learning Media is an ACCA Official Publisher. The P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance paper aims to develop further your application skills when analysing, concluding and reporting on assurance engagements, building on the knowledge and skills gained from paper F8. As well as emphasising the practical aspects of carrying out assurance engagements from start to finish, this paper also develops your awareness of best practice and current developments in this field.It focuses on the following key themes: * Audit framework and regulation, including ethical and professional considerations * Quality control and practice management * The audit and assurance process, from planning through to fieldwork and final review * Reporting the results of audit and assurance engagements * Current issues and developments within the field of audit and assurance.The examiner-reviewed P7 Study Text includes everything you need for this paper, including detailed guidance on the exam and the pilot paper questions. The question bank includes questions in the style of the P7 paper, and each chapter contains useful exam focus points and chapter roundups. The Study Text provides an excellent source of the main professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements, focussing on ethics and regulation and practice management, before going through the audit and assurance engagement process, and ending with a consideration of current issues and developments.BPP Learning Media is the publisher of choice for many ACCA students and tuition providers worldwide. Join them and plug into a world of expertise in ACCA exams.
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
ISBN: 0751783226
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global body for professional accountants. With over 100 years of providing world-class accounting and finance qualifications, the ACCA has significantly raised its international profile in recent years and now supports a BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting and an MBA.BPP Learning Media is an ACCA Official Publisher. The P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance paper aims to develop further your application skills when analysing, concluding and reporting on assurance engagements, building on the knowledge and skills gained from paper F8. As well as emphasising the practical aspects of carrying out assurance engagements from start to finish, this paper also develops your awareness of best practice and current developments in this field.It focuses on the following key themes: * Audit framework and regulation, including ethical and professional considerations * Quality control and practice management * The audit and assurance process, from planning through to fieldwork and final review * Reporting the results of audit and assurance engagements * Current issues and developments within the field of audit and assurance.The examiner-reviewed P7 Study Text includes everything you need for this paper, including detailed guidance on the exam and the pilot paper questions. The question bank includes questions in the style of the P7 paper, and each chapter contains useful exam focus points and chapter roundups. The Study Text provides an excellent source of the main professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements, focussing on ethics and regulation and practice management, before going through the audit and assurance engagement process, and ending with a consideration of current issues and developments.BPP Learning Media is the publisher of choice for many ACCA students and tuition providers worldwide. Join them and plug into a world of expertise in ACCA exams.