The Fiction of Bioethics(1st Edition) by TodChambers Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-415-91988-3, ISBN: 0-415-91988-6
"Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics. The Fiction of Bioethics explores the medical case study and distills the idea that bioethicists study real-life cases, while philosophers contemplate fictional accounts."
Prozac as a Way of Life(Updated) (Studies in Social Medicine) by Carl Elliott, TodChambers Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-2880-9, ISBN: 0-8078-2880-7
"Prozac and its chemical cousins, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft, are some of the most profitable and most widely used drugs in America. Their use in the treatment of a multitude of disorders--from generalized anxiety disorder and premenstrual syndrome to eating disorders and sexual compulsions--has provoked a whirlwind of public debate. Talk shows ask, Why is Prozac so popular? What, exactly, do these drugs treat? But sustained critical disc ..."
Prozac as a Way of Life(1st Edition) (Studies in Social Medicine) by Carl Elliott, TodChambers Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5551-5, ISBN: 0-8078-5551-0
"Prozac and its chemical cousins, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft, are some of the most profitable and most widely used drugs in America. Their use in the treatment of a multitude of disorders--from generalized anxiety disorder and premenstrual syndrome to eating disorders and sexual compulsions--has provoked a whirlwind of public debate. Talk shows ask, Why is Prozac so popular? What, exactly, do these drugs treat? But sustained critical disc ..."
"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."
The Fiction of Bioethics(1st Edition) (Reflective Bioethics) by ToddChambers Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-91989-0, ISBN: 0-415-91989-4
"Frank Berger, the Czech physician who developed Miltown and took it to Wallace
Laboratories in the early 1950s, had no such doubts himself. ''Anxiety has no
relation to intelligence and scholastic achievement or to the desire to achieve,''
Berger wrote in a celebratory 1964 issue of the Journal of Neuropsychiatry.
Anxiety is ''not a motivating force,'' he claimed, ''but rather a symptom of disease.''
5 Berger then went on to defend ..."
"Yet in the final case presentation in the Hastings Center Report, also a form of
historical narration and not fiction, there is a dissociation between the author and
the narrator due to the creation of a heterodiegetic narrator. How strange it would
be, for instance, if in the video White began talking about himself in the third
person. Printed immediately after the case presentation in the Hastings Center
Report, White«s commentar ..."
Reflective Bioethics Ser. The Fiction of Bioethics by TodChambers 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-317-79535-3, ISBN: 1-317-79535-0
"—Milan Kundera Tzvetan Todorov divides narratives into those that focus on
character and those that focus on plot. He describes these as psychological
versus apsychological narratives. Apsychological narratives are those in which “
the ..."
"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."
"In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the ..."
"Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources--from news reports to Web sites to tv shows--for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical terrain for news stories and plot lines, those in the health-care industry use the media to publicize legitimate stories and advance particular agendas. The e ..."