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  1. The government owns your DNA. What are they doing with it?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Some US states have created biobanks of genetic material left over from patient screening tests, with specimens potentially used for purposes that have not granted informed consent, bringing up disturbing ethical and privacy concerns.
  2. Second Opinion
    Diseases and decisions in modern medicine

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    The author focuses on the ills of modern medical practice, focusing on the participation patients need to have in the decision-making process involved in their treatments. He also critics the pharmaceutical industry about their prices and his involvement in global health.
  3. Some Lives
    A GP's East End

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    The author, a Marxist and a doctor, writes about the patients he treated in Canary Wharf - a community in East London plagued by poverty and crime.


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