Medical ethics and professional conduct

Psychiatry and religion/spirituality (R/S) share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for community.

In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012.

This collection of cases and commentaries highlights ethical dilemmas arising during high-tech hospital care of seriously ill children.

With advances in personalised medicine, the field of medical law is being challenged and transformed.

Once rarely discussed in medical circles, the relationship between spirituality and health has become an important topic in health care.

When confronted by the concerns of human sexual function or dys- function, American medicine finds itself well impaled on the horns of a dilemma.

While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years, with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the philosophical map.

Civil Dialogue on Abortion provides a cutting-edge discussion between two philosophy scholars on each side of the abortion debate.

Provides a research-informed review of topics essential to clinical psychological assessment and diagnosis.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life.

The goals of healthcare and health policy, and the health-related dilemmas facing policy makers, professionals, and citizens are extensively analysed and debated in a range of disciplines including public health, sociology, and applied philosophy.

Focusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be.

Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation.

Erkennen und Lösen von Barrieren und Herausforderungen Deutschland ist ein zentrales Einwanderungsland Europas und eines der wichtigsten weltweit.

Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law and Ethics presents a valuable collection of materials relating to often controversial areas of the law.

This volume brings together researchers from different European countries and disciplines who are involved in Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC).

Die Zahl der Migranten, die als Patienten psychosoziale Einrichtungen aufsuchen, nimmt ?

Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law?

Bioethics is a discipline still not fully explored in spite of its rather remark- able expansion and sophistication during the past two decades.

Clinical research ethics consultation has emerged in the last 15 years as a service to those involved in the conduct of clinical research who face challenging issues for which more than one course of action may be justified.

Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.

This book provides an update on recent clinical practice and an in-depth view of selected topics relevant to hospital medicine.

Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.

International developments within the last twenty years have demonstrated controversial shifts in treatment for people with mental illnesses and the care of persons with intellectual disabilities.

The neurosurgical, surgical and medical training and practice models have to keep up with the technological revolution in the 21st Century as our lives changed on a swift base.

Examining Georges Canguilhem's enduring attention to the problem of error, from his early writings to Michel Foucault's first major responses to his work, this pathbreaking book shows that the historian of science was also a centrally important philosopher in postwar France.

In der psychotherapeutischen Praxis ergeben sich häufig ethische Konstellationen, die auch den Rechtsrahmen berühren.

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.

Provides a thematically integrated analysis and discussion of neuroethical questions about memory capacity, content, and interventions.

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath.

A bioethic of obligations and responsibilities, based on the Jewish traditionThe Jewish tradition has important perspectives, history, and wisdom that can contribute significantly to crucial contemporary healthcare deliberations.

Law and Ethics in Children's Nursing is an important and practical guide on the legal and ethical spects of child healthcare that enables nurses to understand the legal and ethical principles that underpin everyday nursing practice.

Identifies ethical issues and requirements of genetically-based addiction research, specifies the ethical and public policy implications of applying research.

Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, this enhanced introduction to bioethics first provides balanced, philosophically based coverage of moral reasoning, moral theories, and the law.

Biosecurity Dilemmas examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of biosecurity, the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies.

This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted women's health and healthcare across the world.

In this book, part of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) textbook series, experts in the field of clinical ethics describe basic principles of clinical ethics and ethical reasoning, the fundamental pillars of intensive care medicine as well as the decision-making processes necessary to arrive at appropriate decisions for each individual patient.

Priests and pastoral caregivers often accompany people who are struggling to negotiate experiences of sickness, bereavement or anxiety.

Social justice is a concept which is widely touted and lauded as desirable, yet its meaning may differ depending on whether its focus is on the underlying values of social justice, the more specific objectives these entail, or the actual practices or policies which aim to achieve social justice.

This book provides an update on recent clinical practice and an in-depth view of selected topics relevant to hospital medicine.

One of the most difficult issues that confronts veterinarians and staff today concerns the profession s obligation to the animal and the sometimes conflicting demands from clients, peers and society.

How does a patient with sensory disability - such as a hearing or vision impairment, or both - get effective communication from a health care provider?

This book gathers together recent international research in intellectual disability (ID), examining the diverse modes of existence that characterise living with intellectual disabilities in the 21st century.

The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 required medical facilities to provide patients with written notification of their right to refuse or consent to medical treatment.

This Element provides a new overarching perspective on responsibility for health, covering public health, healthcare policies, and clinical medicine.

This book presents ideas and guidance about human development to enhance medical education''s ability to form competent and responsible physicians.