A critical look at modern medicine covers the power and accountability of doctors, medical ethics, new technology, consumerism, mental illness, and medicines

The unmasking of medicine

Kennedy, Ian

George Allen Unwin

The Inquiry was set up in 1998 "To inquire into the management of the care of children receiving complex cardiac surgical services at the Bristol Royal Infirmary between 1984 and 1995 and relevant related issues; to make findings as to the adequacy of the services provided; to establish what action was taken both within and outside the hospital to deal with concerns raised about the surgery and to identify any failure to take appropriate action promptly; to reach conclusions from these events and to make recommendations which could help to secure high quality care across the NHS." The Inquiry finds a paediatric open-heart service with high aspirations (including at one stage the ambition to become a centre for heart transplantation) overreaching itself, given its limitations, and failing to keep up with the rapid developments elsewhere in paediatric cardiac surgical care (PCS) during the late 1980s and early 1990s. It reports a mortality rate up to double that elsewhere at certain times, with some 30-35 deaths more than would have been expected. Individual failings, poor teamwork and communication locally, coupled with general failings in the NHS, combined to create an unsafe environment for PCS in Bristol. The Inquiry makes some 200 recommendations, designed to advance the central notion of a patient-centred healthcare service committed to continuous improvement. The need for a change in the culture of the NHS is of prime concern.The recommendations cover: needs of very sick children; safety; competence of healthcare professionals; organisation within hospitals; standards of care; openness; monitoring of clinicians. The Inquiry recommends the development of national standards for all aspects of the care and treatment of children with congenital heart disease (CHD).

Learning from Bristol: the Report of the Public Inquiry into Childrens Heart Surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, 1984-1995 (Cm)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The Stationery Office Books

Learning from Bristol: The Report of the Public Inquiry into Childrens Heart Surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1984-1995 Summary and Recommendations (Cm)

Controversial and amusing, this collection of Kennedy's writings illuminates the rights, duties, and liabilities of doctors as well as other aspects of medical law and ethics.

Treat Me Right: Essays in Medical Law and Ethics (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Philosophy

Clarendon Press

Controversial and amusing, this collection of Kennedy's writings illuminates the rights, duties, and liabilities of doctors as well as other aspects of medical law and ethics.

Treat Me Right: Essays on Medical Law and Ethics

Oxford University Press

Principles of Medical Law is the leading practitioner text in medical law. Now in its third edition, it provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the common law and statutory provisions governing care provision in England and Wales. The contributors include many of the leading academics and practitioners working in the area of medical law today. The book provides an authoritative and up-to-date account of medical law whilst also seeking to set the law in context and critique its application. This new edition will include greater consideration of related health care ethics and human rights issues where appropriate. The book includes major statutory and common law changes including the Human Tissue Act 2008.

Principles of Medical Law

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

A fascinating account of how the railway influenced more than a century of art in Europe and America Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in 19th-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers traveled at faster speeds than ever before while watching the scenery transform itself and take on new forms. Common notions of time and space were forever changed.
Through vivid illustrations and engaging texts, The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel as it probes the artistic response to steam locomotion within its social setting. Featuring paintings, photography, prints, and posters, the book includes numerous masterpieces by 19th- and 20th-century artists, including J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Charles Sheeler, and Edward Hopper.
With its wide variety of themes—landscape painting, the conquest of the West, Impressionism, issues of social class, Modernism, the aesthetics of the machine, and environmental concerns—this work promises an exhilarating journey for both train and art enthusiasts and for anyone interested in one of the industrial age’s defining achievements.

The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam

Arts & Photography

Treuherz, Julian

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Kennedy and Grubb: Medical Law was the first book to draw together into one accessible volume cases, statutes, articles, committee reports, reform proposals and other materials on medical law. This third edition retains that same successful formula, bringing the reader fully up to date with the new case law and legislation since the last edition. Important material from the USA, Canada and Australia, as well as the UK, is included together with detailed analysis.

Medical Law

Science & Math

Grubb, Andrew

Biological Sciences

A how-to guide for individual investors, including how to select a reliable investment adviser, how to develop and implement an investment plan, how to discriminate between what matters and doesn't matter in the noisy world of investing, how to avoid the financial predators that populate financial services, how to manage risk and how to keep track of your investments.

Simple, Smart Investing

Business & Money

Investing

Ian Kennedy

1500 Light Years

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

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