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News hour with Jim Lehrer. Medical ethics & issues anthology
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"This anthology of NewsHour segments confronts ethical dilemmas and complex issues in medicine today. Through in-depth reporting and interviews with doctors, nurses, patients, and other experts, th...
"This anthology of NewsHour segments confronts ethical dilemmas and complex issues in medicine today. Through in-depth reporting and interviews with doctors, nurses, patients, and other experts, the anthology examines case studies, scientific breakthroughs, and connections between corporate and public policy."--Container.
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- Title on disc label: Newshour medical ethics and issues anthology
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- News hour with Jim Lehrer (Television program)
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- English
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- Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [2007]
- ©2007
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- 3 videodiscs (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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- ocn236051878
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- DVD-R.
- Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Disc 1. Rising healthcare costs ; Uninsured Americans Longevity and income ; Plan to insure everyone ; Foreign country doctors ; Medical mistakes (54 min.) -- Disc 2. Nurses denied training ; Caregivers struggle with Alzheimer's ; Restructuring the ER ; Risk of hospital infections ; Changing face of AIDS ; Conducting drug research in India (55 min.) -- Disc 3. Debating drug company gifts ; Drug safety ; Mandatory cervical cancer vaccine debate ; Pricing drugs Assisted suicide: a case study ; Embryonic stem cell tests (70 min.)
Subjects
- Medical ethics -- United States.
- Medical care, Cost of -- United States.
- Medically uninsured persons -- United States.
- Health insurance -- United States.
- Longevity -- Economic aspects -- United States.
- Older people -- Health and hygiene.
- Physicians, Foreign -- United States.
- Hospitals -- United States -- Medical staff.
- Hospital patients -- United States -- Mortality.
- Medical care -- United States -- Evaluation.
- Medical care -- United States -- Quality control.
- Pharmaceutical ethics.
- Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
- Drugs -- Testing -- Government policy -- United States.
- Drugs -- Law and legislation -- United States.
- Papillomavirus diseases -- Prevention.
- Cervix uteri -- Cancer -- Prevention.
- Drugs -- Prices -- United States.
- Prescription pricing -- United States.
- Assisted suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
- Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation -- Oregon.
- Embryonic stem cells -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
- Nurses -- Education -- United States.
- Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care -- United States.
- Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships.
- Emergency medical services -- Utilization -- United States.
- Hospitals -- Emergency services -- Utilization -- United States.
- AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- United States.
- AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- Africa.