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Medical Harm

Historical, Conceptual and Ethical Dimensions of Iatrogenic Illness

By: Virginia Ashby Sharpe,Alan I. Faden

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Medical Harm

Historical, Conceptual and Ethical Dimensions of Iatrogenic Illness

By: Virginia Ashby Sharpe,Alan I. Faden

It is estimated that up to thirteen percent of hospital admissions result from the adverse effects of diagnosis or treatment, and that almost seventy percent of iatrogenic complications are preventable. The obligation to 'do no harm' has been central to medical conduct since ancient times, yet iatrogenic illness has now come to be recognized as a significant risk factor in health care delivery. This book integrates history, philosophy, medical ethics and empirical data to examine the concept and phenomenon of medical harm. Issues covered include appropriateness of care, acceptable risk and practitioner accountability, and the book concludes with recommendations for limiting iatrogenic harm. Essential reading for medical ethicists, physicians and those involved in health care policy and administration, this stimulating and highly readable book will be of interest to all providers of health care, and many of their patients.

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296

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Cambridge University Press

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0521634903

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9780521634908

The Lonely Hunter

A Biography of Carson McCullers

By: Virginia Spencer Carr

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The Lonely Hunter

A Biography of Carson McCullers

By: Virginia Spencer Carr

The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented, vulnerable but exploitative, McCullers led a life that had all the elements--and more--of a tragic novel. From McCullers's birth in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, The Lonely Hunter thoroughly covers every significant event in, and aspect of, the writer's life: her rise as a young literary sensation; her emotional, artistic, and sexual eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; her travels in America and Europe; and the provenance of her works from their earliest drafts through their book, stage, and film versions. To research her subject, Virginia Spencer Carr visited all of the important places in McCullers's life, read virtually everything written by or about her, and interviewed hundreds of McCullers's relatives, friends, and enemies. The result is an enduring, distinguished portrait of a brilliant, but deeply troubled, writer.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820325228

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9780820325224

Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

By: Virginia McConnell Simmons

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Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

By: Virginia McConnell Simmons

Using government documents, archives, and local histories, Simmons has painstakingly separated the often repeated and often incorrect hearsay from more accurate accounts of the Ute Indians.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457109891

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9781457109898

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