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Patients and Practitioners
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Publication Date: 1986The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness. The 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. There are three sections: the first explores the methodological challenges and historiographical debates generated by working in particular historical ages; the second explores the history of medicine in specific regions of the world and their medical traditions, and includes discussion of the `global history of medicine'; the final section analyses, from broad chronological and geographical perspectives, both established and emerging historical themes and methodological debates in the history of medicine. -
Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
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Publication Date: 2016Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher. These essays will challenge--and possibly change--your beliefs about a wide range of real-world ethical questions. -
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.
