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Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance…
Increasing quantities of information about our health, bodies, and biological relationships are being generated by health technologies, research, and surveillance. This escalation presents challenges to us all when it comes to deciding how to manage this information and what should be disclosed to the very people it describes. This book establishes the ethical imperative to take seriously the p…
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- 9781108652599
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- xiv, 316p: ill,
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- Cambridge Bioethics and Law
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- 610 EMI e
Healthcare biotechnology : a practical guide
Foreseeing and planning for all of the possibilities and pitfalls involved in bringing a biotechnology innovation from inception to widespread therapeutic use takes strong managerial skills and a solid grounding in biopharmaceutical research and development procedures. Unfortunately there has been a dearth of resources for this aspect of the field.
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- 9781439847466
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- vii. ;ill. :661 p.
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- 615.19. DIM h
Healthcare Biotechnology : A Practical Guide
Foreseeing and planning for all of the possibilities and pitfalls involved in bringing a biotechnology innovation from inception to widespread therapeutic use takes strong managerial skills and a solid grounding in biopharmaceutical research and development procedures. Unfortunately there has been a dearth of resources for this aspect of the field.
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- 9781439894125
- Collation
- 689p.
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- -
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- 615.19 DIM h
The comprehensive cancer center: development, integration, and implementation
This open access book provides a valuable resource for hospitals, institutions, and health authorities worldwide in their plans to set up and develop comprehensive cancer care centers. The development and implementation of a comprehensive cancer program allows for a systematic approach to evidence-based strategies of prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, and palliation. Comprehensi…
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- 9783030820527
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- ix, 193 p. : ill.
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- 616.99406 ALJ t
Chemical Youth : Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life
This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables across diverse socio-cultural settings, illustrating how young people seek to avoid harm, while harnessing the bene…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030570811
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- 318p. ; ill.
- Series Title
- Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
- Call Number
- 362.29 ANI c
Personalised cancer medicine : future crafting in the genomic era
What does it mean to personalise cancer medicine? Personalised cancer medicine explores this question by foregrounding the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners in the UK. Drawing on an ethnographic study of cancer research and care, we trace patients’, carers’ and practitioners’ efforts to access and interpret novel genomic tests, information and treatments as they craft pers…
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- 9781526156532
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- viii, 277 p.
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- -
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- 616.9940695 KER p
Ageing and health : the politics of better policies
One of the most important political and economic challenges facing Europe and elsewhere is the ageing of societies. Must ageing populations create conflict between generations and crisis for health systems? Our answer is no. The problem is not so much demographic change as the political and policy challenge of creating fair, sustainable and effective policies for people of all ages. This book, …
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- 9781108973236
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- xvii, 188 p. ; ill
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- 362.10846 GEE a
Access to medicines and vaccines : implementing flexibilities under intellect…
This open access book is the outcome of a Global Forum on Innovation, Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines held in December 2019 at the Max Plank Instititute in Munich, organised by the South Centre and the Max Plank Institute. The academics and experts from international organisations participating have contributed chapters to this book. The book is for policy makers (in Ministries of…
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- 9783030831141
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- x, 369 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 346.0486 COR a
Global health : a challenge for interdisciplinary research
Human, animal and plant health is a field of work which offers opportunities for inter- and trans-disciplinary research. The whole topic bridges the natural and social sciences. Today, in a world of global environmental change it is widely recognized that human societies and their wellbeing depend on a sustainable equilibrium of ecosystem services and the possibility of cultural adaptation to g…
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- 9783863950477
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- iv, 400 p. : ill
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- 362.1 KAP g
Non-communicable disease prevention: best buys, wasted buys and contestable buys
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, contributing to over 73% of all deaths annually. Each day NCDs cause more than 100,000 deaths, 80% of which occur in low- and middle-income countries. NCDs, however, are largely preventable, and a great deal of technical knowledge exists about how to prevent and manage them. Why, then, have we, as a global community, not…
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- 9781783748655
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- xxix, 181 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 362.1 NON n
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