Medical ethics and professional conduct

This is the first volume to comprehensively discuss the ethical, regulatory, and social aspects of xenotransplantation research.

This book presents an important reflection on the concept and limits of the Fundamental Right to Health as opposed to a supposed "e;Right to Hope"e; in the context of the treatment of patients with advanced cancer.

Pharmacists constantly face ethical choices -- sometimes dramatic matters of life-and-death decisions, but more often subtle, less conspicuous choices that are nonetheless important.

Each year, tens of thousands of children are conceived with donated gametes (sperm or eggs).

This book provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death.

Explores differences in beliefs of what constitutes reliable scientific evidence during public health emergencies, including COVID-19.

Before Bioethics narrates the history of American medical ethics from its colonial origins to current bioethical controversies over abortion, AIDS, animal rights, and physician-assisted suicide.

This book expands, in a modest way, the discussion of hope and does so by focusing on a field where it is at the core of care-taking: medicine.

This book is a wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue.

The first textbook on the subject, this is a practical, clinically comprehensive guide to ethical issues in surgical practice, research, and education written by some of the most prominent figures in the fields of surgery and bioethics.

Professional negligence cases are a minefield and clinical negligence cases are no exception.

Current policy initiatives that address the health of youth, a group where more than one set of developmental standards may apply, often are based on conflicting evidence.

Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics.

"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.

Healthcare simulation is the modern way to educate healthcare providers to achieve high performance and to improve patient safety.

The book, intended for biomedical researchers, attempts to foster a comprehensive understanding of the elements that impact scientific research, such as clinical trial design, communication, and publication methods.

This book surveys the main methods of analysing ethical problems in modern medicine.

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance offers accessible coverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and health professional education.

Explores how new techniques in genetic testing have changed the relationship between ethics and medicine.

This Element presents an original argument for regarding the prospect of ''love drugs'' with caution.

This book explores the Care Trust concept promoted by central government for improving partnership working between health and social care.

This review analyses regulatory barriers to competition in the gas sector in Mexico, with the goal of helping Mexican authorities make regulation more pro-competitive while fostering long-lasting growth.

Offering a model of care that the church can use with survivors of sexual abuse, this supportive book is backed up by Rene Girard's Mimetic Theory throughout.

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

Emerging medical technologies are changing our views on human nature and what it means to be alive, healthy, and leading a good life.

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series focuses on the 'Privacy in Research Ethics and Law' EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries.

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data.

Showing how spiritual care is practiced in a variety of different contexts such as healthcare, detention and higher education, as well as settings that may not have formal chaplaincy arrangements, this book offers an original and unique resource for Hindu chaplains to understand and practice spiritual care in a way that is authentic to their own tradition and that meets the needs of Hindus.

In der Formierungsphase der Neuzeit hat Blaise Pascal den durch den Fortschritt der Wissenschaften verursachten Wandel des Weltbildes sowohl existentiell erlitten wie kritisch reflektiert.

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.

Intuition is central to discussions about the nature of scientific and philosophical reasoning and what it means to be human.

What do you do when you run into a patient in a public place?

Policing is a highly pragmatic occupation.

Progress in genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't have.

Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics provides the first comprehensive treatment of principles and positions on questions of bioethics encountered by members, professionals, and ecclesiastical leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon).

This book questions the notions of person, personality, dignity, and other connected notions such as (informed) consent, and discusses new perspectives on categories that allow ethical debates in medicine to overcome morals and ordinary religious schemes.

This unique compilation of legal and ethical guidance was first published in 2003, and incorporates key guidelines.

When Ivan Illich published Medical Nemesis in 1975, he offered a withering critique of the medical profession and the medical model.

The definitive book on ethics for chemical dependency treatment professionals.

Why is medical care in the United States so expensive?

Nearly 120,000 people are in need of healthy organs in the United States.

Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research - the Tuskegee syphilis study.

Applied ethics is an essential part of practical knowledge in pluralistic and democratic societies.

The perceived value of philosophy to medical education is increasing.

Australia is increasingly recognised as a multicultural and diverse society.

Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism.

At present, the international community cannot be assured that the quality and, in particular the safety of tissues for transplants, is properly guaranteed in all countries and regions.