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A boy holding a mouse trap on his knees and a dead mouse in his right hand sits with his feet immersed in a pool. Line engraving by H. Guttenberg after P.C. van Slingelandt.
Slingelandt, Pieter Cornelisz. van.Date: [1792]Reference: 42283iPart of: Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands de Le Brun- Books
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The merchant, citizen and country-man's instructor: or, a necessary companion for all people. Containing, I. Directions to planters of sugar, and to make it. II. To a Planter touching Cotton, and the Advantage thereof. III. The Art of Distillation, and the great Advantage thereof to England. IV. Of Fermentation, and the Invention thereof. V. Directions for Young and Old to attain speedily the Knowledge of any Language, and speak it as well and fluently as a Native. VI. To teach Children or others Musick or Singing in three or four Months. Vii. Of Education, or the natural and right way to bring up Children. Viii. Of Astrology, shewing the Reason why Persons Born at the same Minute and of different Shapes and Forms, are of various Fortunes. IX. To make Coal-Fires, and the best Grates, with less Fuel, and better than ordinary. X. The best Method of tempering Clay, making Mortar, Tyles, Flooring and Bricks. XI. Of the five Senses, their Nature and Use. XII. Of Dropsies and Consumptions, and to Cure them by a frugal way of Living proposed. XIII. Of perpetual Motion, and the Impossibility thereof. XIV. Of an afflicted Mind, and how it may be cured. XV. Of Death, and why all Creatures are unwilling to Die. XVI. Of the Burial of Birds, and the Author's Conception thereof. And XX. Other notable and curious subjects are treated of, by way of Letter. By Tho. Tryon, Merchant.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.Date: [1701]- Pictures
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A man sits in solitude on the ledge of an open window with his head leaning on his arm with a clock to the right and the word 'SIDA' below; an advertisement about AIDS discrimination by the Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA. Colour lithograph by Publicis Ciesa, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 676118i- Pictures
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An anatomist making an incision from the neck through the upper ribs of a skeletal cadaver. He stands behind the cadaver, his right hand cutting with a large blade while his left arm comes round the cadaver's neck as he uses his left hand to pull back the ribs at the incision. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
Date: [1926]Reference: 26665i- Pictures
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The widow's son returns to life in response to Elijah's prayer. Wood engraving.
Reference: 23724i- Books
If that ever happens to me : making life and death decisions after Terri Schiavo / Lois Shepherd.
Shepherd, Lois L., 1962-Date: 2009- Books
Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging medical treatment : guidance for decision-making / British Medical Association.
Date: 2001- Books
Withdrawing and withholding treatment : a consultation paper / from the BMA's Medical Ethics Committee.
British Medical Association. Medical Ethics Committee.Date: [1998?]- Books
A charter for dignity at the end of life / Dignity in Dying.
Dignity in dying (Society)Date: [2008?]- Books
Who owns our bodies? : making moral choices in health care / John Spiers ; [foreword by Ray Robinson].
Spiers, John, 1941-Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
A defense of dignity : creating life, destroying life, and protecting the rights of conscience / Christopher Kaczor.
Kaczor, Christopher, 1969-Date: [2013], ©2013- Pictures
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The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
Date: [1926]Reference: 26646i- Books
Ethical issues in death and dying / edited by Tom L. Beauchamp, Seymour Perlin.
Date: [1978], ©1978- Books
A concise history of euthanasia : life, death, God, and medicine / Ian Dowbiggin.
Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, 1952-Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
Jean murio a su manera / Derek Humphry.
Humphry, Derek, 1930-Date: 2007- Books
Euthanasia : death, dying and the medical duty / G.R. Dunstan, P.J. Lachmann, scientific editors.
Date: [1996], ©1996- Books
Matters of life and death : key writings / Iona Heath, with a contribution from John Berger.
Heath, Iona.Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
At death's door : end of life stories from the bedside / Sebastian Sepulveda and Gini Graham Scott.
Sepulveda, Sebastian, 1960-Date: [2017]- Books
The roots of bioethics : health, progress, technology, death / Daniel Callahan.
Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019Date: [2012], ©2012- Books
Seeking fair treatment : from the AIDS epidemic to national health care reform / Norman Daniels.
Daniels, Norman, 1942-Date: 1995- Books
The patient's wish to die : research, ethics, and palliative care / edited by Christopher Rehmann-Sutter, Heike Guddat, and Kathrin Ohnsorge.
Date: [2015]- Books
The crisis of US hospice care : family and freedom at the end of life / Harold Braswell.
Braswell, Harold, 1981-Date: 2019- Books
Bioethics / edited by John Harris.
Date: 2001- Books
Active euthanasia and assisted suicide / by Pat Milmoe McCarrick.
McCarrick, Pat Milmoe.Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
Prescription medicide : the goodness of planned death / Jack Kevorkian.
Kevorkian, Jack.Date: 1991