Medical ethics and professional conduct

Moral distress among nurses is often the result of knowing the right course to follow, but not being able to act due to institutional constraints.

Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition is a standard resource for students, professionals, and academics wishing to understand current and future issues in healthcare ethics.

This book explores medicine, ethics and the challenge of moral diversity in health care.

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care.

Clinical trials used to be conducted overwhelmingly in the US and Europe but for a range of economic, technical and ethical reasons, the number of multicentre studies recruiting subjects in different regions of the World has grown exponentially.

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

This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook.

A wide-ranging discussion of the morality and legality of medically assisted death.

Now fully revised and in its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Oncology has been the essential go-to guide for students and practitioners in oncology for over a decade.

This book presents a new view on the concept of solidarity and explains how it complements justice in health and social care.

Many professionals confront ethical issues concerning their proper roles and the manner in which they should carry out those roles.

The Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision provides a global 'state of the art' overview of clinical supervision, presenting and examining the most comprehensive, robust empirical evidence upon which to base practice.

Callous Disregard is the account of how a doctor confronted first a disease and then the medical system that sought and still seeks to deny that disease, leaving millions of children to suffer and a world at risk.

Medical Ethics and Moral Psychology: An Integrative Approach is a pioneering book which provides a comprehensive exploration of the ethical challenges in contemporary healthcare.

This book is the first in a series of planned volumes focused on preserving the character of the development of bioethics in particular cultural contexts.

This book describes in fascinating detail the variety of experiments sponsored by the U.

Mental health nurses need to work within the law to ensure good, legal care for their patients, while at the same time being guided by appropriate values.

This valuable book is distinctive in that it deals with both law and ethics.

This engaging book examines what the Hippocratic Oath meant to Greek physicians 2400 years ago and reflects on its relevance to medical ethics today.

This book uses the Canadian cannabis legalization experiment, analyzed in the historical context of wider drug criminalization in Canada and placed in an international perspective, to examine important lessons about the differential implementation of federal law in jurisdictions within federalist constitutional democracies.

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States.

Written by a leading proponent of the philosophy and ethics of healthcare, this volume is filled with thought-provoking and frequently controversial ideas and arguments.

Commodification of the human body is gaining ground, strengthened by powerful interests.

Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies draws students into this rapidly changing field, helping them to actively untangle the many issues at the intersection of medicine and moral concern.

Scientists and engineers seek to discover and disseminate knowledge so that it can be used to improve the human condition.

Transnational surrogacy the creation of babies across borders has become big business.

Enhancing Human Capacities is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement.

Bioethics was "e;born in the USA"e; and the values American bioethics embrace are based on American law, including liberty and justice.

This book proposes an innovative new model for transforming racial and cultural lines in health and social care through communication processes, and introduces listening partnerships as a cost-effective, sustainable intervention to improve communication skills.

of UB's medical school, that UB developed its School of Arts and Sciences, and thus, assumed its place among the other institutions of higher education.

The legal status of posthumous interests is analysed in three areas of medico-legal context.

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Details the provision of good-quality care to the victims of sexual and domestic violence.

We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us.

Those involved in family and sexual relationships today face a bewildering variety of medico-legal dilemmas.

Develop a practical and comprehensive view of professional ethics In the newly updated Second Edition of Positive Ethics for Mental Health Professionals: A Proactive Approach, distinguished psychologists Drs.

Genetics research with stored human tissues provides many benefits and holds much promise.

This book provides an overview and critical discussion of the main philosophical methods that have dominated the field of bioethics since its origins in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Essential Clinical Oral Biology is an accessible guide to oral biology, introducing the scientific knowledge necessary to succeed in clinical practice.

Stem cell therapy is ushering in a new era of medicine in which we will be able to repair human organs and tissue at their most fundamental level- that of the cell.

Critical illness is a fact of life.

Health care in the US and elsewhere has been rocked by economic upheaval.

Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying.

Childhood obesity has become a central concern in many countries and a range of policies have been implemented or proposed to address it.

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications.

Law, Palliative Care and Dying critically examines the role of the legal framework in shaping the boundaries of palliative care practice.

This book provides a clear pathway through the common yet complex legal dilemmas frequently encountered in emergency medical practice.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

This book examines some of the more disturbing representations of nurses in popular culture, to understand nursing's complex identities, challenges and future directions.