Resources » Lending Library: Reserve Here!

NSHEN has a library of books, audiobooks and CD books available for reserving. We have a variety of subjects and authors to choose from.

Below is a listing of what is currently available in the NSHEN library. If you see a book title that interests you, click on the book title for more information on that book (which will take you to another webpage) or click on the reserve here link for an email to reserve the book. In this email, please indicate the book you would like to reserve, your name and mailing address. You will receive the book within 5-7 business days.  We are lenient with our return time, so if the assigned borrowing time is not enough, please let the Administrator know and your time will be extended. You will receive your request with a return postage paid envelope.

If you would like to search our listing with a specific keyword, press CTRL & F, and this will give you a search function. Enter your keyword and each match will be highlighted.

NSHEN Current Resource Listing

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A Companion to Bioethics	Edited by Kuhse H, Singer P	Reserve Here
A Nurse’s Story, Life Death and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit	Shalof T	Reserve Here
A Practical Guide to Developing & Sustaining a Clinical Ethics Consultation Service	Bruce CR, Majumbder MA, Bibler T, McCullough L, et al	Reserve Here
A Practical Guide to Value Clarification	Smith M	Reserve Here
Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives	Waldram JB, Herring DA, Young TK	Reserve Here
And Again, A Novel	Chiarella, J	Reserve Here
Anti-Racist Health Care Practice	McGibbon EA, Etowa JB	Reserve Here
Autonomy and Long-Term Care	Agich GJ	Reserve Here
Being Mortal	Gawande A	Reserve Here
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance	Gawande A	Reserve Here
Biomedical Ethics: A Canadian Focus	Edited by Fisher J	Reserve Here
Black Man in a White Coat A Doctors Reflections on Race and Medicine	Tweedy, D	Reserve Here
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures	Lam V	Reserve Here
Bringing it Home A Nurse Discovers Health Care Beyond the Hospital	Shalof T	Reserve Here
Case Files Medical Ethics and Professionalism	Toy, Raine, Cochrane	Reserve Here
Case Studies in Public Health Ethics	Coughlin S	Reserve Here
Clinical Ethics A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine	Jonsen AR, Siegler M, Winslade WJ	Reserve Here
Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy	Edited by Kittay EF, Carlson L	Reserve Here
Complex Ethics Consultations: Cases that Haunt Us	Edited by Ford PJ, Dudzinski DM	Reserve Here
Complications: A Surgeons Notes on an Imperfect Science	Gawande A	Reserve Here
Core Competencies for Healthcare Ethics Consultation	The Report of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities	Reserve Here
Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life and Everything in Between	Brown T	Reserve Here
Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making	Buchanan A, Brock DW	Reserve Here
Dependence and Autonomy in Old Age: An Ethical Framework for Long-Term Care	Agich GJ	Reserve Here
Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada	Greenwood M, de Leeuw S, Lindsay NM, Reading C	Reserve Here
Doing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Medical Trainees and Physicians	Hebert PC	Reserve Here
Dying Well	Byock, I	Reserve Here
Enhancing Autonomy in Long-Term Care	Gamroth LM, Semradek J, Tornquist EM	Reserve Here
Ethics and Epidemiology, 2nd Ed.	Coughlin S, Beauchamp T, Weed DL	Reserve Here
Ethics by Committee: A Textbook on Consultation, Organization and Education for Hospital Ethics Committees	Hester DM	Reserve Here
Ethics Consultation: From Theory to Practice	Edited by Aulisio MP, Arnold RM, Younger SJ	Reserve Here
Ethics in Clinical Practice 2nd Edition	Ahronheim JC, Moreno JD, Zuckerman C	Reserve Here
Ethics in Epidemiology and Public Health Practice, 2nd Ed.	Coughlin S	Reserve Here
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis	Sanders L	Reserve Here
Flowers for Algernon (book AND audiobook available)	Keyes, D	Reserve Here
Galileo’s Middle Finger	Dreger, A	Reserve Here
Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right	Gentile, Mary	Reserve Here
God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine	Sweet, V	Reserve Here
Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees	Hester DM, Schonfeld T	Reserve Here
The Healthcare Professional’s Guide to Clinical Cultural Competence	Srivastava, RH	Reserve Here
Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees 2nd Edition	Farber Post L, Blustein J	Reserve Here
Health and Social Justice	Ruger JP	Reserve Here
Health Care Ethics Committees: The Next Generation	Wilson Ross J, Glaser, JW, Rasinski-Gregory D, et al	Reserve Here
Health Care Ethics in Canada	Baylis F, Hoffmaster B, Sherwin S, Borgensen K	Reserve Here
Health Policy in Canada, Second Edition	Bryant, T	Reserve Here
Health Promotion in Canada; Critical Perspectives on Practice	O’Neil M, Pederson A, Supere S, Rootman I	Reserve Here
Imperfect Endings, A Daughter’s Story of Love, Loss and Letting Go	Fitzgerald Carter Z	Reserve Here
Informed Consent, Legal Theory and Clinical Practice	Berg JW, Appelbaum PS, Lidz CW, Parker LS	Reserve Here
Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly	Daniels N	Reserve Here
Justice and Health Care; Selected Essays	Buchanan A	Reserve Here
Justice; What’s the Right Thing to Do	Sandel MJ	Reserve Here
Left Neglected (audioCD)	Genova, L	Reserve Here
Lives in the Balance: Nurses’ Stories from the ICU	Edited by Shalof T	Reserve Here
Long-term Care Decisions:  Ethical and Conceptual Dimension	McCullough LB & Wilson NL	Reserve Here
Medicine in Translation. Journeys with My Patients	Ofri D	Reserve Here
Meeting Yourself Halfway	Simon SB	Reserve Here
Moments That Matter; Cases in Ethical Eldercare	Gordon M	Reserve Here
Monday Mornings: A Novel (AudioCD)	Gupta, S	Reserve Here
On What Matters: Volume 1 AND   On What Matters: Volume 2	Parfit, D	Reserve Here
Organizational Ethics in Health Care: Principles, Cases, and Practical Solutions	Boyle PJ, DuBose ER, Ellingson SJ, Guinn DE, McCurdy DB	Reserve Here
Poems from Both Sides of the Fence	Lawn, B	Reserve Here
Principles of Biomedical Ethics; Seventh Edition	Beauchamp TL, Childress JF	Reserve Here
Public Health Ethics	Holland S	Reserve Here
Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy and Practice	Bayer R, Goastin LO, Jennings B, Steinbock B	Reserve Here
Public Health, Ethics and Equity	Edited by Anand S, Peter F, Sen A	Reserve Here
Rescuing Justice and Equality	Cohen, GA	Reserve Here
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas; A Guide for Clinicians. 5th Edition	Lo, B	Reserve Here
Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics	Manson NC, O’Neill O	Reserve Here
Sars Unmasked: Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada	Tyshenko MK	Reserve Here
Setting Limits Fairly Early, 2nd Ed.	Daniels N, Sabin JE	Reserve Here
Singular Intimacies. Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue	Ofri D	Reserve Here
Social Determinants of Health, 2nd Ed.	Marmot M, Wilkinson RG	Reserve Here
Social Determinants of Health, 3rd Ed.	Dennis Raphael, Editor.	Reserve Here
Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Policy	Powers M, Faden R	Reserve Here
Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System	Callahan, D	Reserve Here
The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life	Byock, I	Reserve Here
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right	Gawande A	Reserve Here
The Conversation A Revolutionary Plan for End of Life Care	Volandes AE	Reserve Here
The Digital Doctor Hope, Hype and the Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age	Watcher R	Reserve Here
The Ethics of Consent, Theory and Practice	Edited by Miller FG, Wertheimer A	Reserve Here
The Ethos of Medicine in Postmodern America	Eiser, AR	Reserve Here
The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life	Berlinger N, Jennings B, Wolf SM	Reserve Here
The Healthcare Professionals Guide to Clinical Cultural Competence	Srivastava, RH	Reserve Here
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat	Sacks, Oliver	Reserve Here
The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics	Edited by Steinbock B	Reserve Here
The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care	Sharman, Z	Reserve Here
The Secret Language of Doctors	Goldman, B	Reserve Here
The Silent World of Doctor and Patient	Katz J	Reserve Here
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger	Wilkinson RG, Pickett K	Reserve Here
The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects our Health and Longevity	Marmot M	Reserve Here
Towards a Moral Horizon: Nursing Ethics for Leadership and Practice	Storch JL, Rodney P, Startzomski R	Reserve Here
What Patients Teach The Everyday Ethics of Health Care	Churchill LR, Fanning JB, Schenck D	Reserve Here
When Breath Becomes Air	Kalanithi P	Reserve Here
Why Are Some People Healthy And Others Not	Evans RG, Barer ML, Marmor TR	Reserve Here

The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics

Malik,K

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The Shift

Brown, T

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Gender Medicine: The Groundbreaking New Science of Gender – and Sex-based Diagnosis and Treatment

Glezerman, M

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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Gay, R

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Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

Offit, P.A.

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Walkaway: A Novel

Doctorow, C

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Managing Innovation In Healthcare

Barlow, J

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Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health

Goldberg, D.S.

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Rethinking Rural Health Ethics

Simpson, C., & McDonald, F.

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Life on the Ground Floor

Maskalyk, M.D., J

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Administration Ethics: Executive Decisions in Canadian Healthcare

Byrne, J

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Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

Zitter, M.D., J

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A Course in Deception

Rieger, J

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Every Note Played

Genova, L

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The Fortunate Brother

Morrissey, D

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Malignant: Medical Ethicists Confront Cancer

Dresser, R

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The Power of Kindness: Why Empathy is Essential in Everyday Life

Goldman, B

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Choosing Down Syndrome: Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies

Kaposy, C

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Diagnosis: Truths and Tales

Jutel, A

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