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The Book of Secrets is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 1994. It was the winner of the first Giller Prize for Canadian fiction. Vassanji also became the award's first-ever repeat winner in 2003 for his novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall.
Gawande published his first book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, containing revised versions of 14 of his articles for Slate and The New Yorker, in 2002. [4] It was a National Book Award finalist. [4] His second book, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, was released in April 2007. It discusses three virtues that ...
The Secretum Secretorum or Secreta Secretorum (Latin, 'Secret of secrets'), also known as the Sirr al-Asrar (Arabic: كتاب سر الأسرار, lit. 'The Secret Book of Secrets'), is a treatise which purports to be a letter from Aristotle to his student Alexander the Great on an encyclopedic range of topics, including statecraft, ethics ...
In the second chapter, Allen cites John D.'s father, William, as a "bigamist, horse thief and child molester". He allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl, then deserted his wife and children to marry a ...
Therapeutic privilege is commonly discussed in the context of psychiatry. [7] Despite a widespread concern of the ethical and legal validity of therapeutic privilege, it continues to be used by behavioural healthcare professionals. [7]
Book of Secrets, another name for the Grand Albert; Book of Mysteries, also known as The Book of Secrets, a 1st-century BCE Essene text found among the Dead Sea Scrolls; Book of Mysteries (Manichaeism), also known as The Book of Secrets, a 3rd-century religious text, one of the Seven Scriptures of Manichaeism
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care is a New York Times bestseller from journalist T. R. Reid.Reid compares health care systems in a half-a-dozen wealthy nations with the health care models followed in the United States, in a straightforward, easy to read narrative.
A related phrase is found in Epidemics, Book I, of the Hippocratic school: "Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do not harm the patient". [7] Although no such phrase from which "First" or "Primum" can be translated appears in any well recognized version of the oath, a similar intention is vowed by, "I will abstain ...