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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv,260 pages. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Often when death is the inevitable and impending outcome of a health diagnosis, doctors are reluctant to discuss alternatives to treatment, feeding into a culture of denial that can result in expensive, ineffective, and unnecessary over treatment that may or may not extend life but almost always damages the quality of life. Here, a seasoned doctor and researcher looks at the ways in which we are accustomed to treating illness at all costs, even at...
4) Fox forever
Author
Series
The Jenna Fox chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before he can start a life with Jenna, Locke, who was brought back to life in a bioengineered body after an accident destroyed his body, must do a favor for the resistance movement opposing the nightmarish medical technology.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
456 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, Elsi discovers her mother's desperate attempt to end her pregnancy and comes face-to-face with the impossibility of their situation. Risking her own life, Elsi joins a resistance group to sabotage the regime. Blonde, blue-eyed Matilda is wrenched from her family in Romania and taken to Germany, where her captors attempt to mold her into the perfect Aryan child. Spirited and brave, she must inspire hope in the other stolen...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science, trampling ethical...
Author
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Where are the children: Nancy Harmon flees her disastrous marriage and the deaths of her two children to Cape Cod, where she marries again and starts a new family, but when her two new children disappear, the nightmare begins anew.--Where.
A Stranger is Watching: Ronald Thompson knows he never killed Nina Peterson ... yet in two days the state of Connecticut will take his life, having found him guilty via due process of law. But Thompson's death...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...