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A medical doctor and political activist traces his life from India at partition to graduate work and practice in the UK and America, comparing health standards, economic well-being, race relations, and the political atmosphere on three continents during the socially-conscious 1960s and later under bare-knuckle capitalism. He includes a brief synopsis of Pakistan's tumultuous history, including the role played by superpowers with an interest in the region.

Contents: The role of the life insurance company in health conservation programs, by L. K. Frankel; Co-operation between life insurance and trust companies, by E. A. Woods; Insurance of substandard lives, by Robert Henderson; Investment tendencies of life insurance companies, F. H. Ecker; Group life insurance, by W. J. Graham; Life insurance as an aid to education and philanthropy, by J. A. Stevenson; The modern life underwriter, by J. M. Holcombe, jr; Non-medical life insurance, by H. F. Larkin; Salary savings insurance, by R. L. Place; Inspection reports on persons as a factor in life insurance, by J. A. Fitzgerald; Beneficiary provisions under modern life insurance policies, by L. E. Thompson; Fraternal life insurance, by C. K. Knight.

For over thirty years, David F. Kelly has worked with medical practitioners, students, families, and the sick and dying to confront the difficult and often painful issues that concern medical treatment at the end of life. In this short and practical book, Kelly shares his vast experience, providing a rich resource for thinking about life's most painful decisions. Kelly outlines eight major issues regarding end-of-life care as seen through the lens of the Catholic medical ethics tradition. He looks at the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means; the difference between killing and a

In this essay, I survey egalitarian and utilitarian approaches
to the distribution of scarce life-saving medical resources.
In my view, the major criterion for the distribution of scarce
life-saving medical resources (hereinafter sometimes the
"distribution of life") should be life expectancy:
we should distribute life so as to maximize life-years. In Section
II, I discuss the life-year maximization approach and situate
it within utilitarian theory.

In an environment of tension and division of labor such as healthcare services, the quality of the working life of employees is one of the most fundamental challenges, especially for doctors and nurses. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of satisfaction with quality of working life among medical staff in Algeria, taking into consideration all its dimensions. Data was obtained from a sample of 80 Algerian medical staff (doctors and nurses), using the questionnaire instrument. Data analyzes were carried out using SPSS 22, descriptive statistics, spearman correlation coefficient, Mann-Whitney-U test and Kruskal-Wallis test were used.. Data analysis found that medical personnel's quality of work life was poor. In order to enhance their quality of work, the study concluded that preventive services should be provided to health workers in Algeria.

Framing the issue -- Wisdom begins with the word -- A detailed look at organ-supporting measures -- Resuscitation for cardiac arrest -- Introduction to the intensive care -- Mechanical ventilation -- Cardiovascular support : vasopressors, inotropes, and lines -- Artificially-administered nutrition -- Dialysis -- Brain injury -- Discernment at life's end -- Comfort measures and hospice -- Physician assisted suicide -- Advance care planning -- Being a voice : surrogate decision making

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Danes undergoing CT scans as part of follow-up testing for potential lung cancer, we explore how access to technologies generates diagnostic uncertainty and trends of continuous testing. Our research is set in the context of a welfare state that has cultivated forms of government whose public health branches focus on early diagnosis and cancer control. Many studies on biotechnologies emphasise subject-making and power relations. Inspired by the work of Veena Das, we adopt an approach that focuses on the entanglement of diagnostic investigations with everyday life. We argue that being followed establishes a mode of being which we call 'in the meantime'. Life in the meantime is equally characterised by a dramatic mode of being—that is, waiting for death—and an ambiguous mode of being: feeling quite well. As with any life crisis, it involves some sense of agency. We show in this paper how life in the meantime informs an ordinary ethics that encourages three ethical concerns in everyday life: firstly, how to inhabit life in the meantime? Secondly, what good is the testing for? And finally, what is a good death?