 The Woman Who Decided to Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine
Advances in medical technology force us to struggle with new and often gut-wrenching decisions. How do we know when someone is dead and not just in a coma? Should a convicted felon qualify for a new heart? In The Woman Who Decided to Die, novelist and medical ethicist Ronald Munson takes readers to the very edges of medicine, where... |  |  Stem Cells in Endocrinology (Contemporary Endocrinology)
A critical review by prominent experts of both the cutting-edge of stem cell biology and the application of stem cells to endocrine diseases, including diabetes, infertility, and liver-associated metabolic disorders. The authors discuss current research to modify stem cells, develop an endocrine-like cell, and use adult bone marrow stem cells... |  |  FasciolosisFasciolosis, a parasitic disease caused by the liver fluke, has a tremendous impact on livestock each year. In addition, an estimated 2.4 million people are infected, and the disease is now recognized as an emerging human disease by the World Health Organization. This volume, the first comprehensive treatment devoted to these parasites and their... |