The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doc...

The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care  As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital's ethics committe...

By New Yorker and Atlantic writer Carl Elliott, a readable and even funny account of the serious business of medicine.A tongue-in-cheek account of the changes that have transformed medicine into big business. Physician and medical eth...

Dying Is a Hard Thing To Do is a personal account of a loved one's death due to cancer and her struggle with the American medical system. We rely on our professional medical caregivers to provide truthful information and advice to hel...

The issues of medical ethics, from moral quandaries of euthanasia and the morality of killing to political dilemmas like fair healthcare distribution, are rarely out of today's media. This area of ethics covers a wide range of issues,...

"Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential." -- Ibram X. Kendi "Required reading to understand the context of this pandemic." -- Jelani Cobb Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans...

From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an expose of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours. Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United Stat...