Patch's Library: Health Care

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The Rights of Patients: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to the Rights of Patients [1]

Author: Annas, George
Publisher: Southern Ill U (2004)

B

The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire [2]

Author: Baiev, Khassan
Publisher: Walker and Co. (2004)

Targets of Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism [3]

Author: Baird-Windle, Patricia and Eleanor J. Bader
Publisher: Palgrave Press (2001)

Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism [4]

Author: Banja, John
Publisher: Jones and Barlett (2005)

Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness [5]

Author: Barasch, Marc Ian
Publisher: Rodale (2005)

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine [6]

Author: Barlett, Donald L, and James B Steele
Publisher: Doubleday (2004)

Narrative, Pain and Suffering: Progress in Pain Research and Management [7]

Author: Barr, Daniel, ed. et al.
Publisher: IASP Press (2005)

Being Human: Reading from the President's Council on Bioethics [8]

Author: President's Council on Bioethics
Publisher: Washington DC (2003)

An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine [9]

Author: Bernard, Claude
Publisher: Dover, Paris (1865)

War Against the Weak: Eugenics in Americaâ€™s Campaign to Create a Master Race [10]

Author: Black, Edwin
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Press (2004)

William Osler: A Life in Medicine [11]

Author: Bliss, Michael
Publisher: Oxford (1999)

A Horse and Buggy Doctor Caught in the 21st Century [12]

Author: Block, J. E. MD
Publisher: Leathers Publishing (2001)

The Word As Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology [13]

Author: Bloom, Samuel W.
Publisher: Oxford (2002)

Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders [14]

Author: Bortolotti, Dan
Publisher: Firefly Books (2004)

Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure, 2nd Edition [15]

Author: Bosk, Charles L.
Publisher: University of Chicago (2003)

Joe's Trial: A Doctor Who Served in the Arab-Jewish Conflict [16]

Author: Brand, Moses
Publisher: Big B Publications (2000)

Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women [17]

Author: Burns, A. August, et al.
Publisher: The Hesperian Foundation (1997)

An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race. Volume 1: Beginning to 1900 [18]

Author: Byrd, W. Michael, and Linda A. Clayton
Publisher: Routledge (2000)

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Traditions, Values and Humanitarian Action [19]

Author: Cahill, Kevin M. MD, editor
Publisher: Fordham U Press (2003)

What Price Better Health?: Hazards of the Research Imperative [20]

Author: Callahan, Daniel
Publisher: Univer of Calif. (2003)

Letting Them Die: Why HIV AIDS Prevention Programs Fail in Africa [21]

Author: Campbell, Catherine
Publisher: Indiana University Press (2003)

Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine [22]

Author: Cassell, Eric J.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (1997)

Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination [23]

Author: Castro, Arachu, et al.
Publisher: Altamira Press (2004)

Science in the Service of Human Rights [24]

Author: Claude, Richard Pierre
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (2002)

The Lost Art of Caring: A Challenge to Health Professionals, Families, Communities, and Societies [25]

Author: Cluff, Leighton E., MD and Robert H. Binstock PhD
Publisher: Johns Hopkins (2001)

Overdose: The Case Against the Drug Companies; Prescription Drugs, Side Effects, and Your Health [26]

Author: Cohen, Jay S., MD
Publisher: Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam (2001)

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology [27]

Author: Coles, Robert MD, et al.
Publisher: The New Press (2002)

Dr. Golem: How to Think About Medicine [28]

Author: Collins, Harry and Trevor Pinch
Publisher: University of Chicago (2005)

Health in the 21st Century: Will Doctors Survive? [29]

Author: Contreras, Francisco, MD and Pamela M. Lowe
Publisher: Inter-Pacific Press (1997)

Making a Killing: HMO's, and the Threat to Your Health [30]

Author: Court, Jamie and Francis Smith
Publisher: Common Courage Press (1999)

Streams of Idealism and Health Care Innovation: An Assessment of Service-Learning and Community Mobilization [31]

Author: Couto, Richard A.
Publisher: Teacherâ€™s College Press (1982, 2005)

Compassion's Way: A Doctor's Quest into the Soul of Medicine [32]

Author: Crawshaw, Ralph
Publisher: Medi-Ed Press (2002)

Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds and Bodies [33]

Author: Critser, Greg
Publisher: Houghton-Mifflin (2005)

Famine, Conflict and Response: A Basic Guide [34]

Author: Cuny, Frederick C. with Richard B. Hill
Publisher: Kumarian Press (1999)

Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System [35]

Author: Cutler, David M.
Publisher: Oxford (2005)

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Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS [36]

Author: D'Adesky, Anne-Christine
Publisher: Verso (2004)

Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa [37]

Author: de Waal, Alex
Publisher: Indiana University Press (1998)

Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America [38]

Author: Derickson, Alan
Publisher: Johns Hopkins (2005)

Facets of Diamond: Reflections of a Healer [39]

Author: Diamond, John MD
Publisher: Enhancement Books (2003)

Where There is No Dentist [40]

Author: Dickson, Murray
Publisher: The Hesperian Foundation (1983)

Love Your Patients! Improving Patient Satisfaction with Essential Behaviors That Enrich the Lives of Patients and Professionals [41]

Author: Diering, Scott Louis, MD
Publisher: Blue Dolphin Publishing (2004)

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Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters are Contaminating America's Drug Supply [42]

Author: Eban, Katherine
Publisher: Harcourt (2005)

Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream [43]

Author: Elliott, Carl
Publisher: W.W. Norton (2004)

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child , Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures [44]

Author: Fadiman, Anne
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998)

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor [45]

Author: Farmer, Paul
Publisher: University of California Press (2003)

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues [46]

Author: Farmer, Paul
Publisher: University of California Press (1999)

Playing Sick?: Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome, Munchausen by Proxy, Malingering, and the Factitious Disorder [47]

Author: Feldman, Mark D., MD
Publisher: Routledge (2004)

Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: the Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age [48]

Author: Fenster, Julie M.
Publisher: Carroll and Graf (2003)

War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival in Bosnian War [49]

Author: Fink, Sheri MD
Publisher: Public Affairs (2003)

Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health [50]

Author: Fort, Meredith et al.
Publisher: South End Press (2004)

The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live [51]

Author: Frank, Arthur W.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2004)

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The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the 'New' Tuberculosis [52]

Author: Gandy, Mathew, et al.
Publisher: Verson (2003)

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health [53]

Author: Garrett, Laurie
Publisher: Hyperion Press (2001

Nobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide [54]

Author: Gass, Thomas Edward
Publisher: Cornell University Press (2004)

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science [55]

Author: Gawande, Atul
Publisher: Picador (2003)

The D.O.'s: Osteopathic Medicine in America [56]

Author: Gevitz, Norman
Publisher: Johns Hopkins (2004)

Health Care In America: Can Our Ailing System be Healed? [57]

Author: Geyman, John P., MD
Publisher: Butterworth and Heimemann (2002)

Falling Through the Safety Net: Americans Without Health Insurance [58]

Author: Geyman, John P., MD
Publisher: Common Courage Press (2005)

The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs [59]

Author: Goozner, Merrill
Publisher: University of California Press (2004)

Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in 20th Century America [60]

Author: Gordon, Colin
Publisher: Princeton (2004)

Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost-Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care [61]

Author: Gordon, Suzanne
Publisher: ILR Press (2005)

The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations [62]

Author: Gostin, Lawrence O.
Publisher: U of North Carolina (2004)

Health of the People, Health of the Nation

Author: Grenough, Mary, et al.
Publisher: Final Proof Printing (2003)

New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration [63]

Author: Grey, Michael R.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins (1999)

Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine [64]

Author: Groopman, Jerome MD
Publisher: Viking (2000)

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The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health Care System [65]

Author: Hadler, Nortin M., MD
Publisher: McGill-Queens University (2004)

Epidemic of Care: A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care [66]

Author: Halvorson, George C, and George J. Isham, MD
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (2003)

The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art [67]

Author: Hannant, Larry and Norman Bethune
Publisher: University of Toronto Press (1998)

Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression [68]

Author: Healy, David
Publisher: New York University (2004)

Great Feuds in Medicine [69]

Author: Hellman, Hal
Publisher: John Wylie and Sons (2001)

Private Guns, Public Health: A Dramatic New Plan for Ending America's Epidemic of Gun Violence [70]

Author: Hemenway, David
Publisher: U of Michigan (2004)

Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policy Makers [71]

Author: Herzlinger, Regina E.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (2004)

Global Inequalities at Work: Work's Impact on the Health of Individuals, Families and Societies [72]

Author: Heymann, Joel MD, et al.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2003)

Prescription for Greed [73]

Author: Hurst, Philip W. et al.
Publisher: Frederic C. Beil (2000)

Powerful Partnering: With Words I never learned in Medical School [74]

Author: Hollenberg, E.L., MD
Publisher: Xulon Press (2001)

Health Wars: On the Global Front Lines of Modern Medicine [75]

Author: Horton, Richard
Publisher: New York Review of Books (2003)

Closing the Chart: A Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith, and Medicine [76]

Author: Hsi, Steven D., MD
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press (2005)

AIDS in Asia: A Continent in Peril [77]

Author: Hunter, Susan S.
Publisher: Palgrave (2005)

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The Doctor's Tale: Professionalism and the Public Trust [78]

Author: Irvine, Sir Donald
Publisher: Radcliff Medical Press (2003)

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Health Care Without Medicare: A New Practice Manual for Community-Based Care Management [79]

Author: Jackson, Joseph A.
Publisher: Solarian Press (2000)

K

The Face of Human Rights [80]

Author: Kalin, Walter, et al.
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers (2004)

HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology [81]

Author: Kalipeni, Ezekiel, et al.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers (2003)

On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health [82]

Author: Kassirer, Jerome P.
Publisher: Oxford (2004)

The Silent World of Doctor and Patient [83]

Author: Katz, Jay
Publisher: Johns Hopkins (2002)

The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health [84]

Author: Kawachi, Ichiro and Bruce P. Kennedy
Publisher: The New Press (2002)

The Society and Population Health Reader: Income, Inequality, and Health [85]

Author: Kawachi, Ichiro, et al.
Publisher: The New Press (1999)

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World [86]

Author: Kidder, Tracy
Publisher: Random House (2003)
(about Paul Farmer)

Nurses On the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy [87]

Author: Kingma, Mireille
Publisher: Cornell University Press (2006)

Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy [88]

Author: Kirby, David
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2005)

Medicine's Dilemmas: Infinite Need Versus Finite Resources [89]

Author: Kissick, William MD, PhD
Publisher: Yale University Press (1994)

Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom [90]

Author: Kline, Wendy
Publisher: University of California Press (2001)

Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS [91]

Author: Klitzman, Robert, et al.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins (2003)

Critical Issues in Global Health [92]

Author: Koop, C. Everett, et al.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (2001)

Embodying Inequality: Epidemiological Perspectives [93]

Author: Krieger, Nancy, et al.
Publisher: Baywood Press

Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research? [94]

Author: Krimsky, Sheldon
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield (2003)

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On Being a Doctor, 2: Voices of Physicians and Patients [95]

Author: LaCombe, Michael A.
Publisher: American College of Physicians (2000)

Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today [96]

Author: Lantos, John D., MD
Publisher: Routledge (1997)

Humanitarian Crises: The Medical and Public Health Response [97]

Author: Leaning, Jennifer, et al.
Publisher: Harvard (1999)

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine [98]

Author: LeFanu, James
Publisher: Carroll and Graff (2002)

Anatomy of Anatomy in Words and Images [99]

Author: Levin, Meryl
Publisher: Third Rail Press (2001)

Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People [100]

Author: Levy, Barry and Victor W. Sidel
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2003)

Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care [101]

Author: Ludmerer, Kenneth M.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (1999)

Severed Trust: Why American Medicine Hasn't Been Fixed [102]

Author: Lundberg, George D., MD
Publisher: Basic Books (2000)

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The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Effects Our Health and Longevity [103]

Author: Marmot, Michael
Publisher: Owl Books (2005)

Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Consequences of Killing [104]

Author: MacNair, Rachel M.
Publisher: Praeger (2002)

Saving the Soul of Medicine [105]

Author: Mahony, Margaret A., MD
Publisher: Robert Reed (2000)

Whose View of Life?: Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells [106]

Author: Maienschein, Jane
Publisher: Harvard (2003)

The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade [107]

Author: Malarek, Victor
Publisher: Arcade Publishers (2003)

Health and Human Rights [108]

Author: Mann, Jonathan M., et al.
Publisher: Routledge (1999)

Medicine: Preserving the Passion in the 21st Century [109]

Author: Manning, Phil R., and Lois DeBakey
Publisher: Springer-Verlag (1987)

Inspired to Serve: Today's Faith Activist [110]

Author: Masse, Mark H.
Publisher: Indiana University Press (2004)

Universal Coverage: The Illusive Quest for National Health Insurance [111]

Author: Mayes, Rick
Publisher: University of Michigan (2004)

Circle of Caring: The Story of the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic

Author: McConnell, Jack B., MD
Publisher: Estes Park Institute (1998)

The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine [112]

Author: Miles, Steven H.
Publisher: Oxford (2004)

The Handbook of International Adoption Medicine: A Guide for Physicians, Parents and Providers [113]

Author: Miller, Laure C.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2005)

Swallowing a Bitter Pill: How Prescription and Over-the Counter Drug Abuse Is Ruining Lives [114]

Author: Mogil, Cindy R.
Publisher: New Horizon Press (2001)

The Intensive Care Unit: What Every Family Needs to Know [115]

Author: Mohnssen, Steven R., MD
Publisher: Robert Reed Publishers (2001)

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees [116]

Author: Moorehead, Caroline
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co (2005)

Healthy, Wealthy and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society [117]

Author: Morone, James A. and Lawrence R. Jacobs
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2005)

As Sick as It Gets: The Shocking Reality of America's Healthcare, A Diagnosis and Treatment Plan [118]

Author: Mueller, Rudolph, MD
Publisher: Olin Frederick Inc. (2003)

Big Doctoring In America: Profiles in Primary Care [119]

Author: Mullan, Fitzhugh, MD
Publisher: University of Calif. (2002)

This Ain't E.R.: A Heart Surgeon's Struggle to Keep the Faith [120]

Author: Murrah, C. Patrick MD
Publisher: Robert Reed (2000)

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Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World [121]

Author: Neuwirth, Robert
Publisher: Routledge Press (2005)

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Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine [122]

Author: Ofri, Danielle, MD
Publisher: Beacon Press (2005)

The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the '90's [123]

Author: Ogata, Sadako
Publisher: William Norton (2005)

Ultimate Patient Satisfaction: Designing, Implementing, or Rejuvenating an Effective Patient Satisfaction and TQM Program [124]

Author: O'Malley, John F.
Publisher: Mcgraw Hill (1997)

The Globalization of Terrorism [125]

Author: Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing (2001)

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Health Care Politics and Policy in America [126]

Author: Patel, Kant and Mark Rushefsky
Publisher: M.E. Sharp (2005)

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One Nation, Uninsured: Why the US Has No National Health Insurance [127]

Author: Quadagno, Jill
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2005)

R

Medicine and Compassion: A Tibetan Lama's Guidance for Caregivers [128]

Author: Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima
Publisher: Wisdom Publications (2004)

An Alternative Path: The Making and Re-Making of Hahnemann Medical College [129]

Author: Rogers, Naomi
Publisher: Rutgers (1998)

The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement [130]

Author: Rothman, Sheila M., and David J. Rothman
Publisher: Pantheon (2003)

Marginal to Mainstream: Alternative Medicine in America [131]

Author: Ruggie, Mary
Publisher: Cambridge (2004)

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Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill [132]

Author: Saks, Elyn R.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2002)

The Trial of the Medical Mafia [133]

Author: Schafer, Joachim
Publisher: Here's the Key Inc. (1998)

Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment [134]

Author: Schettler, Ted, et al.
Publisher: MIT Press (1999)

O, By George! Risks His Neck to Practice Medicine the Way Moms Love It

Author: Schlosser, H. William, Dr.
Publisher: Smyrna (2002)

Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity [135]

Author: Sered, Susan Starr and Rushika Fernandopulle
Publisher: University of California (2005)

Who Should Pay for Medicare? [136]

Author: Shaviro, Daniel
Publisher: University of Chicago (2004)

Vulnerable Populations in the United States [137]

Author: Shi, Leiyu, and Gregory D. Stevens
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (2005)

The Future of Primary Care [138]

Author: Showstack, Jonathan, et al.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (2004)

The Physician's Essential MBA: What Every Physician Leader Needs to Know [139]

Author: Stahl, Michael J, et al.
Publisher: Aspen Publications (1999)

The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests [140]

Author: Stephens, Martha
Publisher: Duke University (2002)

Green Parrots: A War Surgeon's Diary [141]

Author: Strada, Gino
Publisher: Charta Press (2004)

Catharsis: On the Art of Medicine [142]

Author: Szczeklik, Audrzej
Publisher: University of Chicago (2005)

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What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors [143]

Author: Takakuwa, Kevin M., et al.
Publisher: University of Calif. (2004)

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New Diasporas: The Mass Exodus, Dispersal and Regrouping of Migrant Communities [144]

Author: Van Hear, Nicholas
Publisher: University of Washington Press (1998)

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Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan [145]

Author: de Waal, Alexander
Publisher: Dafur, Sudan. Oxford U Press (2004)

Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and Healer [146]

Author: Watts, David, MD
Publisher: Harmony Books (2005)

Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing [147]

Author: Weinberg, Dana Both
Publisher: Cornell University Press (2003)

A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation [148]

Author: Weitz, Eric D.
Publisher: Princeton (2003)

Helping Health Workers Learn: A Book of Methods, Aids, and Ideas for Instructors at the Village Level [149]

Author: Werner, David, and Bill Bower
Publisher: The Hesperian Foundation (1982)

Where There is No Doctor [150]

Author: Werner, David
Publisher: The Hesperian Foundation. Revised English Ed. (1992)

The Abuse of Man: Illustrated History of Dubious Medical Experimentation [151]

Author: Weyers, Wolfgang
Publisher: Ardor Scribendi (2003)

Why Normal Isn't Healthy: How to Find Heart, Meaning, Passion, and Humor on the Road Most Traveled [152]

Author: White, Bowen, MD
Publisher: Hazelden (2000)

First Do No Harm: The Cure for Medical Mal-Practice [153]

Author: Williams, Ira E., MD
Publisher: Quality Books (2004)

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Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor [154]

Author: Young, Jim and Joyce V. Millen
Publisher: Common Courage Press (2000)

Transplanting Human Tissue: Ethics, Policy, and Practice [155]

Author: Youngner, Stuart J., et al.
Publisher: Oxford (2004)