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  Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign : The Science and Culture of Why We Hurt

  by Marni Jackson

  Pain. Everyone experiences it, yet we have trouble talking about it and science has only recently begun to understand how it works. Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign is a groundbreaking inquiry into the nature, treatment, and definition of modern pain. In the United States, there has been a recent campaign to treat pain as the fifth vital sign. Just as temperature, respiration, pulse, and blood pressure, the four... (more)
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  Turning Point Science Society and the Risi

  by Fritjof Capra

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  My Lobotomy: A Memoir

  by Howard Dully, Charles Fleming

  In this gut-wrenching memoir, Howard Dully recounts what life was like after he was needlessly lobotomized by an unlicensed physician at the age of twelve at the behest of his abusive stepmother.
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  Looking Within: A Sociocultural Examination of Fetoscopy (Basic Bioethics)

  by Deborah Blizzard

  In Looking Within, Deborah Blizzard examines the high-risk in utero surgery known as fetoscopy, considering it as both cutting-edge medical technology and as a sociocultural construction of patients, their social networks, and medical providers. She looks at the way individual experiences shape these procedures and how fetoscopy affects individuals (both patients and providers) on a personal, emotional level.... (more)