Medical ethics and professional conduct

Considers problems associated with genetic information in an age of declining welfare provision, and offers direction for future policy.

This book explores and elaborates three theories of public reason, drawn from Rawlsian political liberalism, natural law theory, and Confucianism.

Modern medicine is one of humankind's greatest achievements.

Ethical medical practice and treatment in psychiatry are based on the concept of first do no harm.

The Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research is an evidence-based, succinct, and easy-to-use reference for the full range of clinical and healthcare research topics.

Public Bioethics collects the most influential essays and articles of James F.

Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine.

An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.

The quality of cancer and palliative care is going through unprecedented change and development as a result of policy initiatives.

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the experience of health and investigates how this experience is shaped by recent developments in medicine and public health.

Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.

Suffering is a central component of our lives.

Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.

Most people believe that parents have moral rights and responsibilities regarding their children.

The debate over whether human bodies and their parts should be governed by the laws of property has accelerated with the pace of technological change.

International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology.

Behind heart disease and cancer, medical error is now listed as one of the leading causes of death.

New Drugs, Fair Prices addresses the important question of how we might get the innovative new medicines we need at prices we can afford.

Publishing on the 50th anniversary of the opening of St Christopher's Hospice - widely thought of to be the first modern hospice, combining pain and symptom management with education and training - this edited collection discusses what motivates professionals and volunteers to provide spiritual care.

This edited collection is designed to explore the ethical nature of judicial decision-making, particularly relating to cases in the health/medical sphere, where judges are often called upon to issue rulings on questions containing an explicit ethical component.

"e;Luck egalitarianism"e;--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's theory of distributive justice.

First published in 1998, this volume considers the Nuremberg Code in light of new ethical grey areas which have become evident due to recent scientific advancements, particularly the questions of DNA and cloning.

This book applies a discussion of the nature of human life to resolving bioethical issues.

Since the first "e;test tube baby"e; was born over 40 years ago, In Vitro Fertilization and other Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have advanced in extraordinary ways, producing millions of babies.

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

The book engages healthcare trainees in a comprehensive and probing discussion of the communication demands that confront today''s healthcare teams.

First published in 1998, this volume considers the Nuremberg Code in light of new ethical grey areas which have become evident due to recent scientific advancements, particularly the questions of DNA and cloning.

In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical knowledge and practice occasioned by the crisis of quality-of-care, especially in terms of the various humanistic adjustments to the biomedical model.

This book-first published a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted-is the first authored volume on ethical issues in infectious disease, "e;monumental"e; for its competence and comprehensiveness.

This book provides the first comprehensive, historically based, philosophical interpretations of two texts of Thomas Percival's professional ethics in medicine set in the context of his intellectual biography.

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics is an outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in feminist bioethics, with chapters covering topics from justice and power to the climate crisis.

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness.

A proposal for resolving tensions between professionals and society regarding tissue for transplants and research, while properly protecting donors'' interests.

Whether a patient, health consumer, physician, nurse, health executive, or elected official, somewhere deep in our brains is this simple truth: the American health system isn't working, and it will only get worse if we don't do something about it.

No developed nation relies exclusively on the private sector to finance health care for citizens.

How far is too far?

What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court?

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

The title of this book derives from C.

Examines how the framing of disability has serious implications for legal, medical, and policy treatments of disability.

As more and more people survive into old age, the burden of caring for them becomes greater and greater.

Food products with genetically modified (GM) ingredients are common, yet many consumers are unaware of this.

Despite the scope and sophistication of contemporary health care, there is increasing international concern about the perceived lack of compassion in its delivery.

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

In the fifty years since DNA was discovered, we have seen extraordinary advances.

The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is one of the largest-scale research collaborations in global health, distilling a wide range of health information to provide estimates and projections for more than 350 diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 195 countries.

No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine.

The raging COVID-19 pandemic has shaken our trust in science.

The field of global health is expanding rapidly.

This book is a comprehensive survey and a sustained treatment of the major topics in contemporary medical ethics from within the Roman Catholic tradition.