Kenneth Iserson: 4 books

Thinking about volunteering with a healthcare team in a less-developed country? The need for global healthcare volunteers is critical. Yet, many healthcare professionals and students find the path to volunteering their services to be confusing and fraught with frustration. This book, based on Dr....

Abandoning the Hippocratic Oath, a few physicians over the past few centuries intentionally killed patients, experimental subjects, family members, and hapless strangers. Some had hundreds of victims; others destroyed or hid their victims’ bodies well enough so the body count is uncertain. This...

Death is inevitable. But what happens to the body after death? This book sheds a little light into the darker recesses of the morgue, answering--in exquisite detail--the questions we’re often afraid to ask: How and on whom are autopsies performed? What special techniques do pathologists and medical...

Everyone dreads having to notify survivors about sudden deaths. Yet healthcare, law enforcement, fire service, religious and military personnel must often take on that task—often with little or no formal training. Grave Words helps lessen notifiers’ stress by providing them with detailed protocols...