Health Practice, Ethics & Law: A Basic Bibliography
By Patrick S. O’Donnell
Department of Philosophy
Santa Barbara City College (2006)
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Berrios, German E. The History of Mental Symptoms: Descriptive Psychopathology since the Nineteenth
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Berrios, German and Roy Porter. A History of Clinical Psychiatry. The Origin & History of Psychiatric
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Bolton, Derek and Jonathan Hill. Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder: The Nature of Causal
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Buchanan, Allen, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler. From Chance to Choice:
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Buchanan, David R. An Ethic for Health Promotion: Rethinking the Sources of Human Well-Being.
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Dubos, Rene and Jean Dubos. The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society. New Brunswick, NJ:
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Duffy, John. A History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866. New York: Russell Sage
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Duffy, John. The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health. Champaign, IL: University of
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Dworkin, Ronald. Life’s Dominion: An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom.
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Elliot, Carl. The Rules of Insanity: Moral Responsibility and the Mentally Ill Offender. Albany, NY:
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Faden, Ruth R., Gail Geller, and Madison Powers, eds. AIDS, Women and the Next Generation:
Towards a Morally Acceptable Public Policy for HIV Testing of Pregnant Women and
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Farmer, Paul. Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley, CA: University of
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Farmer, Paul. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley,
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Feldman, Eric and Ronald Bayer, eds. Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster.
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