Medical ethics and professional conduct

Proposes that the human embryo in vitro is in a unique ''legal stasis'' between potential person and useful research artefact.

One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time.

Millions of people each year decide to participate in clinical trials--medical research studies involving an innovative treatment for a medical problem.

The "e;Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements: Development, Interpretation, and Application, 2nd Edition"e; is an essential resource for nursing classrooms, in-service training, workshops and conferences, self-study, and wherever nursing professionals use ANA's "e;Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements"e; in their daily practice.

Offering rhetorically informed strategic interventions, this innovative collection moves beyond critiques of mental health issues, problems, and care.

As one of the most massive and successful business sectors, the pharmaceutical industry is a potent force for good in the community, yet its behaviour is frequently questioned: could it serve society at large better than it has done in the recent past?

The practice of intensive care medicine raises multiple legal and ethical issues on a daily basis, making it increasingly difficult to know who to admit and when, at what stage invasive management should be withdrawn, and who, importantly, should decide?

Struggling to understand ethics?

Das deutsche Strafgesetzbuch kennt keinen Sondertatbestand der Suizidbeteiligung.

This is the first book to explore the epistemology and ethics of advanced imaging tests, in order to improve the critical understanding of the nature of knowledge they provide and the practical consequences of their utilization in healthcare.

Patientenverfügung und mutmaßlicher Wille sind zwei der wichtigsten Grundlagen für Behandlungsentscheidungen bei einwilligungsunfähigen Patienten.

How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.

According to popular belief, technical skill is far more important for surgeons than thoughtful deliberation.

Mediziner sehen sich tagtäglich mit Konflikten aus zwei Richtungen konfrontiert: zum einen dem Erwartungsdruck seitens der Patienten, die im Sinne einer "Wunschmedizin" Ärzte als Dienstleister verstehen, zum anderen dem sozialpolitisch motivierten Ökonomisierungsdruck.

Hark, Hark!

This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul.

Many books have been published about physician-assisted death.

Introduction and investigation of the concept – and utility – of legacy in the field of medical jurisprudence.

In this book, a global panel of experts considers the international implications of legalised euthanasia based on experiences from Belgium.

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

How work gets done in complex health care systems is ethically important.

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

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

The 2nd Edition of Who Owns You, David Koepsell s widely acclaimed exploration of the philosophical and legal problems of patenting human genes, is updated to reflect the most recent changes to the cultural and legal climate relating to the practice of gene patenting.

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

Disorders of Consciousness (DoCs) raise difficult and complex questions about the value of life for persons with impaired consciousness, the rights of persons unable to make medical decisions, and our social, medical, and ethical obligations to patients whose personhood has frequently been challenged and neglected.

A darkly powerful and blackly funny expos of the horrors of life as a junior doctor, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty and co-creator of the graphic novel Sleeper 'Funny, readable, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places' GuardianInside every hospital exists a world no outsider is allowed to see: a storm of malpractice, corruption, sex, drink and drop-dead exhaustion.

It is often claimed that local churches provide a significant proportion of social care today.

There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy.

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

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

First published in 1992, Quality and Regulation in Health Care employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to examine the methods used to influence the quality of health care in the US, UK, and Western Europe.

Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case.

Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying.

Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and Young People A crucially important text, which brings together many different philosophical aspects and ethical issues in children s nursing practice.

This edited volume examines the complex entanglements of human, animal, and environmental health.

PERSONHOOD AND HEALTH CARE This book arose as a result of a pre-conference devoted to the topic held June 28, 1999 in Paris, France.

Discusses the pros and cons of laws against human reproductive cloning.

Reproductive health care professionals in fields such as Obstetrics and Gynecology, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics face difficult ethical issues because they work at the crossroads of patient decision-making, scientific advancement, political controversy, legal regulation, and profound moral considerations.

Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law.

Definitive, comprehensive guidance for members of healthcare ethics committees confronted with ethically challenging situations.

Rewriting Nature is a cogent, riveting interdisciplinary exploration of the law, science, and policy of emerging genome-editing technology.

Now more than ever, doctors are being targeted by government prosecutors and whistleblowers challenging the legality of their relationships with drug and device companies.

When is clinical research in developing countries exploitation?

How does the market affect and redefine healthcare?

Coercion is one of the most fascinating and controversial subjects in psychiatry.