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“abdallah s daar”

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  • Garment of Destiny

    Zanzibar to Oxford: A Surgeon's Global Quest for Identity and the Ties that Bind

    by Abdallah Daar ...
    The author, a world-renowned transplant surgeon, scientist, bioethicist and global health expert, is a Tanzanian born into Swahili culture, with ancestral roots in Arabia, the Caucasus Mountains, and Ethiopia. This memoir chronicles the exploration of his multiple identities, taking the reader on an absorbing journey to Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Zanzibar, South Africa, Idi Amin's Uganda, London, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • BioIndustry Ethics

    by David L. Finegold, Cecile M Bensimon, Abdallah S. Daar, Margaret L. Eaton, Beatrice Godard, Bartha Maria Knoppers, Jocelyn Mackie, Peter A. Singer ...
    This book is the first systematic, detailed treatment of the approaches to ethical issues taken by biotech and pharmaceutical companies. The application of genetic/genomic technologies raises a whole spectrum of ethical questions affecting global health that must be addressed. Topics covered in this comprehensive survey include considerations for bioprospecting in transgenics, genomics, drug ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Replacement Parts

    The Ethics of Procuring and Replacing Organs in Humans

    by Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, Daniel P. Reid, Elysa R. Koppelman, Robert D. Truog, Franklin G. Miller, Scott D. Halpern, Frank C. Chaten0, Winston Chiong1, David Magnus2, Ben S. Wilfond3, Karol Wojtyła4, D. Alan Shewmon5, James L. Bernat6, Dominic Wilkinson7, Julian Savulescu8, Kristin Zeiler9, Elisabeth Furberg0, Gunnar Tufveson1, Staffen Welin2, Alexander M. Capron3, Richard M. Zaner4, Canadian Paediatric Society5, Ahad J. Ghods6, Shokoufeh Savaj7, Amelie Raz8, Rachel Kohn9, Michael Rey0, David A. Asch1, Peter Reese2, Sheila M. Rothman3, David J. Rothman4, Leigh Turner5, Gabriel M. Danovitch6, Alan B. Leichtman7, David Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber8, Robert Fitzgerald9, Kyle Powys Whyte0, Evan Selinger1, Jathan Sadowski2, Ian Kennedy3, Robert A. Sells4, Abdallah S. Daar5, Ronald D. Guttmann6, Raymond Hoffenberg7, Michael Lock8, Janet Radcliffe-Richards9, Nicholas L. Tilney0, Sahin Aksoy1, Jennifer A. Chandler2, Jacquelyn A. Burkell3, Sam D. Shemie4, Barbara L. Neades5, David Serur6, Michael R. Charlton7, Charles Bradley Wallis8, Kannan P. Samy9, Alvin Elliot Roth0, Michael A. Rees1, Kristina Fiore2, Francis L. Delmonico3, Rosamond Rhodes4, Thomas D. Schiano5, Mohammad Sanaei Ardekani6, Janis M. Orlowski7, Jennifer deSante8 ...
    In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Grandest Challenge

    Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village

    by Abdallah Daar, Peter A. Singer ...
    The health-sciences equivalent of Thomas Friedman's bestseller The World is Flat, this inspiring and revelatory book by two of today's finest scientists shows how advances in global health will transform lives -- particularly in the developing world -- over the next decade.The Grandest Challenge begins with a simple premise: that every person's life is of equal value, regardless of where in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • A Crack In Creation

    Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

    by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg ...
    BY THE WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY | Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A powerful mix of science and ethics . . . This book is required reading for every concerned citizen—the material it covers should be discussed in schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country.”— New York Review of BooksNot since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors ... Read more

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  • Specification of Drug Substances and Products

    Development and Validation of Analytical Methods

    Edited by Thomas W. Rosanske, Christopher M. Riley ...
    Specification of Drug Substances and Products: Development and Validation of Analytical Methods is a comprehensive and critical analysis of the requirements and approaches to setting specifications for new pharmaceutical products, with an emphasis on phase-appropriate development and validation of analytical methods. This book is intended as more than a review of new regional guidelines, existing ... Read more

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  • Narrative Medicine : Honoring the Stories of Illness

    Honoring the Stories of Illness

    by Rita Charon ...
    Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine primary care medicine narratology and the study of doctor-patient relationships narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize absorb ... Read more

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  • Doppler Radar Physiological Sensing

    by Olga Boric-Lubecke, Victor M. Lubecke, Amy D. Droitcour, Byung-Kwon Park, Aditya Singh ...
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    Presents a comprehensive description of the theory and practical implementation of Doppler radar-based physiological monitoringThis book includes an overview of current physiological monitoring techniques and explains the fundamental technology used in remote non-contact monitoring methods. Basic radio wave propagation and radar principles are introduced along with the fundamentals of ... Read more

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  • Managing Quality

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    Managing Quality provides a comprehensive review and critical analysis of quality management discourses and techniques by drawing on a number of management disciplines such as operations management, HRM, organizational behaviour, strategy, marketing and organization theory.The book:- introduces readers to key concepts and issues in quality management- provides an overview of both managerial and ... Read more

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  • Plant Biotechnology

    by Naveen Gaurav ...
    In vitro propagation and cultivation of plant parts like seed, roots, shoots, leaves and different part of plants in suitable nutrient culture media in aseptic condition referred to as plant tissue culture. Plant tissue and cells in vitro generated to form whole plant due to totipotency nature of each plant cell. Totipotency is the ability of cells to retain their meristematic state and ... Read more

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  • Bioreactors

    Design, Operation and Novel Applications

    by Carl-Fredrik Mandenius ...
    In this expert handbook both the topics and contributors are selected so as to provide an authoritative view of possible applications for this new technology. The result is an up-to-date survey of current challenges and opportunities in the design and operation of bioreactors for high-value products in the biomedical and chemical industries.Combining theory and practice, the authors explain such ... Read more

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