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      • Trusted Partner
        Medicine
        February 1995

        Ethics, law and nursing

        by Nina Fletcher

        An introduction to the ethical and legal dilemmas in nursing practice, this text is designed to provoke the nurse to reflect on the nature of his or her professional obligations and future practice. The authors firstly familiarise the reader with the basic principles of ethical debate and the overall structure of the legal system as it effects nurses. They then address the fundamental dilemmas of nursing practice, such as whether or not paternalism can ever be justified, if patients have the right to die, and what a nurse's response should be to poor professional practice by colleagues. The book aims to enhance the reader's understanding of the issues, and to educate nurses to develop their own skills of reasoning and judgement. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        February 2023

        Law and healing

        A history of a stormy marriage

        by Margaret Brazier

        Exploring key aspects in the history of law's engagement with healthcare in England, Law and healing unearths fascinating stories of the fractious relationship between the two, highlighting lessons for medical law and bioethics through a focus on their history. The popular view that the courts and legislators have from time immemorial consistently deferred to medical practitioners is shown to be wrong. The book examines the regulation of healers, the doctor/patient relationship, and law's response to battles for dominance between different sorts of healers. Healthcare in a broader sense than simply medical treatment is addressed. Considering historical perceptions of the human body at all life stages from the womb to the grave, the work identifies themes running through the history of how law responds to the problems generated by understanding of bodies and how science changes popular perceptions and law.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        February 2023

        Law and healing

        A history of a stormy marriage

        by Margaret Brazier

        Exploring key aspects in the history of law's engagement with healthcare in England, Law and healing unearths fascinating stories of the fractious relationship between the two, highlighting lessons for medical law and bioethics through a focus on their history. The popular view that the courts and legislators have from time immemorial consistently deferred to medical practitioners is shown to be wrong. The book examines the regulation of healers, the doctor/patient relationship, and law's response to battles for dominance between different sorts of healers. Healthcare in a broader sense than simply medical treatment is addressed. Considering historical perceptions of the human body at all life stages from the womb to the grave, the work identifies themes running through the history of how law responds to the problems generated by understanding of bodies and how science changes popular perceptions and law.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        February 2023

        Law and healing

        A history of a stormy marriage

        by Margaret Brazier

        Exploring key aspects in the history of law's engagement with healthcare in England, Law and healing unearths fascinating stories of the fractious relationship between the two, highlighting lessons for medical law and bioethics through a focus on their history. The popular view that the courts and legislators have from time immemorial consistently deferred to medical practitioners is shown to be wrong. The book examines the regulation of healers, the doctor/patient relationship, and law's response to battles for dominance between different sorts of healers. Healthcare in a broader sense than simply medical treatment is addressed. Considering historical perceptions of the human body at all life stages from the womb to the grave, the work identifies themes running through the history of how law responds to the problems generated by understanding of bodies and how science changes popular perceptions and law.

      • Medicine
        September 2014

        The Dark Side, Real Life Accounts of an NHS Paramedic

        The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly

        by Andy Thompson

        Andy Thompson’s true-to-life, graphic and gripping account of his work as an NHS paramedic in Britain’s A&E emergency Ambulance Service will shock you, sadden you, entertain you, and perhaps inspire you. You’ll smile at some of Andy’s real patient encounters, while others will cause you to wipe a tear. Using official NHS documentation recorded at the time to give precise details of each incident, Andy has held firm to the real-life accounts, even in keeping the dialogue as close as his memory allows to what was really said at the time. It’s as if you’re there next to him, struggling with the effects of adrenaline and fighting to save life. This is a rare work of medical non-fiction delivered in a way that is factual, informative, but at the same time naturally entertaining and moving, written with candour and humour. And if you have ever thought what it takes to become a paramedic - or any other of the specialist vocations - and that you could never achieve it yourself, Andy’s inspiring story of how he went from postman to frontline healthcare professional, fulfilling his dream, will make you think again that anything is possible if you have the desire. Andy says there are no heroics in the book and that he simply did his job, but we are sure The Dark Side will leave you convinced there are true heroes on our streets right here, right now. Saving lives every day, every night and often against all the odds. It might even change your whole perspective on life.

      • Biography & True Stories
        October 2014

        The Dark Side, Part 2 - Real Life Accounts of an NHS Paramedic

        The Traumatic, the Tragic and the Tearful

        by Andy Thompson

        Following up on his well-received first book, Andy Thompson provides another captivating, thought-provoking and at times intense glimpse into the daily life of a Paramedic working in the UK’s National Health Service. In the style of his first book, Andy recalls each event from the detailed documentation recorded at the time, each account written in a way that puts the reader right there next to him so that you live the events in real-time, hear the dialogue between paramedics, patient, their loved ones and other healthcare professionals as it would have been, and share in Andy’s thought processes during each of the ten very different situations he encounters. The term ‘The Dark Side’ describes the frontline emergency aspect of the Ambulance Service, since paramedics frequently experience sombre situations. In ‘The Dark Side, Part 2’ you will share in some truly traumatic, tragic and tearful events involving a seemingly vibrant, healthy young patient, a prison inmate, the victims of an horrific car crash, heart attacks, a frightening epileptic fit, the alarming effects of an allergic reaction, and what can happen when under-strain doctors prescribe the wrong medication. But there’s still room for lighthearted moments and a taste of the sometimes dark humour that allows paramedics to continually deal with events most of us would find too horrific. The detail in the descriptions of the care given to each patient on-scene by Andy and his colleagues will have you marvelling at the ability of these healthcare professionals to work at such speed of thought, buying enough time to deliver a patient into the specialist hands of hospital care and often full recovery. Of course there are inevitably also those times when tears of hope turn to tears of despair for loved ones. You cannot feel that pain until it happens to you, but this book will bring you mighty close to it at times.

      • Medicine
        January 2015

        A Scientist in Wonderland

        A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble

        by Ernst, Edzard, A01

        This memoir provides a unique insight into the cutthroat politics of academic life and offers a sobering reflection on the damage already done by pseudoscience in the field of medicine.

      • Family & health
        July 2012

        My Boy - A memoir

        by Anthony James

        This little book tells of the sad but inspiring story and his addicted son coming together in the valley of the shadow of death.  There is poignancy, sadness but also love and redemption.  It is inspiring and will give hope and help to thousands who struggle with drug addiction in thier families.The book will give comfort to those who are experiencing loosing their loved ones.  You are not alone, the wonderful Hospice movement and the palliative care forces are there to hold you up and give you hope.

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