This volume, which has developed from the Fourteenth Trans- Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, September 5-8, 1982, at Tel Aviv University, Israel, contains the contributions of a group of distinguished scholars who together examine the ethical issues raised by the advance of biomedical science and technology.
As 1992 looms on the horizon and preparation is made for the completion of the internal market in Europe, the CMR realised the value of addressing some of the issues involved and defining the objectives and achievements of medicines regulations in a number of EEC countries in comparison with Japan and the USA.
Based on the study of neuroscientific developments and innovations, examined from different angles, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the international neuroethical debate, and offers unprecedented insights into the impact of neuroscientific research, diagnosis, and therapy.
This work offers a comprehensive understanding rooted in Catholic anthropology and moral theory of the meaning and limits of informed and proxy consent to experimentation on human subjects.
Issues in reproductive ethics, such as the capacity of parents to 'choose children', present challenges to philosophical ideas of freedom, responsibility and harm.
The Asian Development Bank is at the forefront of providing countries across Asia and the Pacific with the technical assistance needed to develop long-term care systems and services for older people.
The CAREC Health Strategy 2030 aims to enhance health security through regional cooperation, benefiting the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region's population (including migrants and vulnerable population groups), health system managers and workers, and active development partners; and CAREC countries' ministries of health.
This Simple Linear Actuarial Model (SLAM) manual is the accompanying publication to An Actuarial Model for Costing Universal Health Coverage in Armenia.
This publication presents findings of a study on the availability and provision of long-term care (LTC) in Thailand, including the need for and supply of LTC, regulatory and policy frameworks, service provision, quality management, human resources, and financing.
Unique health identifiers help improve quality and continuum of care, strengthen surveillance of communicable diseases, eradicate diseases, and optimize provider and payer transactions in health financing schemes.
This publication presents findings of a study on the availability and provision of long-term care (LTC) in Sri Lanka, including the need for and supply of LTC, regulatory and policy frameworks, service provision, quality management, human resources, and financing.
ADB's Strategy 2030's first operational priority focuses on addressing remaining poverty and reducing inequalities through a three-pronged strategy: investing in human capital and social protection, facilitating access to good-quality jobs, and reducing inequality of opportunity through such means as removing barriers to access to services and infrastructure, especially for the poor and vulnerable.
Ethics in Psychiatry: (1) presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research; (2) relates ethical issues to changes and challenges of society; (3) examines the application of general ethics to specific psychiatric problems and relates these to moral implications of psychiatry practice; (4) deals with recently arising ethical problems; (5) contains contributions of leading European ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, historians and psychiatrists; (6) provides a basis for the exploration of culture-bound influences on morals, manners and customs in the light of ethical principles of global validity.
Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health explores the theory and background of social justice in the context of mental health of individuals, cultures, and communities.
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals William Harvey - William Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is a classic work of the scientific revolution and of modern medicine, for in it he famously argued, with extensive evidence based on dissections and vivisections, for the circulation of the blood.
The debate about the use of genetically modified organisms in European agriculture is fuelled by the fear of the general public about potential risks of GM farming, whether substantiated or not.
Mit zunehmender Lebenserwartung steigt auch die Anzahl älterer Patienten, die nicht mehr in der Lage sind, Entscheidungen zu treffen und ihre häuslichen Aufgaben selbst zu erledigen.
Vernachlässigung der Schutzpflichten des Staates, Psychiatrisierung statt Ermittlung, Verletzung des Anspruchs auf ein faires Verfahren, Freiheitsberaubung, Verletzung von Treu und Glauben, ungerechtfertigter und unverhältnismässiger Eingriff in die persönliche Freiheit, Willkür … Eine Geschichte der Schweiz der letzten zehn Jahre.
Die vorliegende Darstellung stellt die Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens in Nordrhein-Westfalen umfassend und übersichtlich dar.
Die durch eine strafrechtliche Entscheidung des Landgerichts Köln in der breiten Öffentlichkeit geführte Debatte um die rechtliche Bewertung von Beschneidungen männlicher Kleinkinder mündete im Dezember 2012 in der neu eingeführten Norm § 1631d BGB.
Seit Ende Februar 2013 ist die Behandlungsbeziehung zwischen Arzt und Patient im Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch (BGB) als eigenständiger Vertragstypus geregelt.
Für die ärztliche Behandlung sind neben dem Abschluss eines Behandlungsvertrages auch die Aufklärung des Patienten sowie dessen Einwilligung erforderlich.
