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Patients and Practitioners
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Publication Date: 1986The authors examine the meanings that were attached to sickness; popular medical beliefs and practices; the diffusion of popular medical knowledge; and the relations between patients and their doctors seen from the patients' point of view.
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine
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Publication Date: 2011The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. -
The Real Typhoid Mary
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Publication Date: 2019Everyone knows her story, but do you know the REAL history behind the story of Typhoid Mary? -
The Bureaucracy of Empathy: Law, Vivisection, and Animal Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Publication Date: 2023The Bureaucracy of Empathy revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of nonhuman animals? -
The Global Bioethics of Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Publication Date: 2020Human annihilation has never been so easy. Artificial intelligence-guided genetic-engineered nanotechnology and robotics (AI-GNR) are widely recognized as our most transformative technological revolution ever, yet we do not even have a common moral language to unite our pluralistic world to prevent an AI apocalypse should this revolution explode out of our control.
