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It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier's extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A documentary about a woman, who is determined to give birth to her breech baby naturally, even though hospital authorities insisted she would have to have a Cesarean. This is an inspiring story about her attempt, against all odds, to give birth naturally within the system. "Prepare to be moved by this intelligent and poignant film about one womans birth journey with a breech pregnancy and breech birth. Experience the fear, anticipation, support...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Americans today pay far more for health care while having among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality of any affluent nation. Gutmann and Moreno explain how bioethics came to dominate the national spotlight, leading and responding to a revolution in doctor-patient relations, a burgeoning world of organ transplants, and new reproductive technologies that benefit millions but create a host of legal and ethical challenges. They address...
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"In short, engaging scenarios, Dr. Appel takes on hot-button issues that many of us will confront: genetic screening, sexuality, privacy, doctor-patient confidentiality. He unpacks each hypothetical with a brief reflection drawing from science, philosophy, and history, explaining how others have approached these controversies in real-world cases. Who Says You're Dead? is designed to defy easy answers and to stimulate thought and even debate among...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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There are many potential legal and ethical problems faced every day in the health care setting. Maintaining a good relationship with the patient is one of the health care assistant's strongest safeguard. This program is intended to give your assistants the does and the dont's of the most common situations they face.
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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Culturally competent care adapts care interventions to the cultural needs and preferences (ethnic and religious beliefs, values, and practices) of diverse clients. This program provides practical and effective methods of recognizing and dealing with the special needs of different cultures.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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The doctors, nurses and staff of the city's most cutting-edge trauma center take on critical medical cases and their ethical dilemmas. Woven into this high-intensity environment are engrossing personal dramas where life or death is always on the line.
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Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2017]
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日本語
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The year is 1968, the war in Vietnam is approaching its zenith, and the counterculture movement that's been sweeping the world is engulfing Japan. While others are in the streets protesting, one young medical student becomes embroiled in a different kind of battle. As new medical technologies to save and extend lives come into play, the temptation for a surgeon to play God has never been so powerful.
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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When lives are on the line, dedicated doctors, nurses, and staff of Chicago's busiest trauma center are the ones to trust. In the engrossing second season, big changes put the ER on an emotional collision course. A slew of both professional and personal issues, from legal setbacks to romantic entanglements, illnesses, and the elusive work-life balance-threaten to affect those trying to maintain cutting-edge medicine with care and compassion.
10) Temple: Season 1
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Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Deep below the streets of London, descending past Temple tube in the beating heart of the city, lies a dark secret: an illegal clinic has been set up in an abandoned subterranean network of tunnels. Daniel is a surgeon driven by personal tragedy to treat anyone who is willing to pay for medical help outside the system. Aided by Lee, a disgruntled transport employee, and Anna, a guilt-ridden medical researcher, they treat a variety of increasingly...
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Picador
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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In Shock is a riveting first-hand account from a young critical care physician, who in the passage of a moment is transfigured into a dying patient. This transposition, coincidentally timed at the end of her medical training, instantly lays bare the vast chasm between the conventional practice of medicine and the stark reality of the prostrate patient. Hauntingly perceptive and beautifully written, it allows the reader to transform alongside her,...
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Accelerated Reader
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
13) Temple: Season 2
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Daniel Milton's once comfortable world as a talented surgeon is pushed to even greater extremes as he risks everything to stay ahead of his lies in the much-anticipated second season. Daniel's wife Beth has woken from her coma and their daughter Eve is reeling with the discovery that her mother has been alive all this time. Lee, the co-founder of the underground clinic, gets swept up in a fanatical cause and Anna begins luring patients down beneath...
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PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
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English
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When David Vetter died at the age of 12, he was already world famous: the boy in the plastic bubble. Here, serious questions are answered. Did doctors, in a rush to save a child, condemn the boy to a life not worth living and instead kill him?
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Films Media Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Want the perfect baby? Now you have to cross your fingers and hope for the best. But imagine if you could go down to the local baby clinic and max out your credit card. You could ensure your child was beautiful and intelligent. You could even guarantee they would never become an alcoholic. It may sound farfetched but the groundwork is already in place. But what are the dangers of tinkering with our genetic makeup? Who owns human genes and should they...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Chicago's courageous medical heroes continue to confront the city's most challenging medical cases in Season Seven of the emotionally charged drama series from Emmy-winning executive producer Dick Wolf. This season, Dr. Will Halstead finds his career at risk after his cover-up of a serious ethics violation; Dr. Daniel Charles continues to provide outstanding psychiatric insight; Sharon Goodwin deals with the fiscal scrutiny that comes with being the...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Executive producer Dick Wolf delivers the latest installment of the compelling Chicago franchise, an emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors, nurses, and staff who hold it together. Crossing paths with familiar faces from ₁Chicago P.D.₂ and ₁Chicago Fire,₂ this third team of Chicago heroes take on cases inspired by topical events while forging fiery relationships...
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In this course, we will discuss the various moral aspects of human reproduction from methods of conception to methods of ending a pregnancy. We will discuss the moral, cultural, legal, and political influences on reproduction as well as the scientific advances in reproductive technology.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The mesmerizing biography of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart,...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Dr. Will Halstead balances the stress as the ER's supervising attending physician with his complicated relationship with Dr. Natalie Manning, an attending physician in emergency pediatrics. Newly remarried, Dr. Daniel Charles remains he Sherlock Holmes of psychiatry. Former Navy flight surgeon Dr. Ethan Choi brings his battlefield skills to the front lines of Chicago's busiest ER, the go-to-place for victims.
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