Medical ethics and professional conduct

Intimate and medicalized, natural and technological, reproduction poses some of the most challenging ethical dilemmas of our time.

A Companion to Genethics is the first substantial study of the multifaceted dimensions of the genetic revolution and its philosophical, ethical, social and political significance.

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

Unmasks the role of psychological essentialism in cloning bans, explaining how intuitions cause individuals to act against their own values.

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives.

Pharmaceutical Ethics is an important text, which aims to provide the ethical guidelines much needed by the pharmaceutical industry.

A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters offers practitioners highly practical advice on the legal principles which they need to apply to everyday clinical practice.

Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts examine the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes.

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

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

This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry.

This volume opens with an exploration of the Confucian recognition of the family as an entity existing in its own right and which is not reducible to its members or their interests.

The book provides a detailed introduction to a major debate in bioethics, as well as a rigorous account of the role of conscience in professional decision-making.

Everyday Medical Ethics and Law is based on the core chapters of Medical Ethics Today, focussing on the practical issues and dilemmas common to all doctors.

Despite the massive scale of global inequalities, until recently few political philosophers or bioethicists addressed their ethical implications.

What happens when two intelligent and highly informed fictional college students, one strongly pro-choice and the other vigorously pro-life, are asked to put together a presentation on abortion?

This book introduces bioengineers and students who must generate and/or report scientific data to the ethical challenges they will face in preserving the integrity of their data.

Advances in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) have been revolutionary.

This practical book is written specifically for junior doctors by a team of highly experienced authors, as an introductory guide to clinical research.

Anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or knows someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer recognizes that cancer raises a host of questions concerning its nature and how we treat it.

This updated third edition is an essential overview for teachers and students in medical and biological sciences, and for those who conduct animal-based research.

A major focus of the philosophy of medicine and, in general, of the philosophy of science has been the interplay of facts and values.

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

What does it mean to be a good professional?

Due to new developments in prenatal testing and therapy the fetus is increasingly visible, examinable and treatable in prenatal care.

Reconstructing Medical Practice examines how doctors see health care and their place in it, why they remain in medicine and why they are limited in their ability to lead change in the current system.

Addressing the changing world of professionalism, this text combines theory, research and practice, using real case studies, to investigate the process of becoming professional.

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

This practical guide summarizes the principles of working with dying patients and their families as influenced by the commoner world religions and secular philosophies.

Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter.

We live at a time when the human lifespan has increased like never before.

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research.

At the heart of research with human beings is the moral notion that the experimental subject is altruistic, and is primarily concerned for the welfare of others.

Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Ethical Practice explores the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas that occur surrounding people experiencing mental health problems and disorders.

Are you involved in caring for people at the end of their life?

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

Here is the first practical guide for dealing with the moral issues that regularly confront clinicians in their work.

For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves.

All persons, while different from one another, have the same value: this is the author's relatively uncontroversial starting point.

Some of humankind's greatest tools have been forged in the research laboratory.

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

Fundamental questions about the morality of pediatric medical research persist despite years of debate and the establishment of strict codes of ethics.

Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses the ethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, and meta-philosophical questions raised by cognitive disability Features essays by a prominent clinicians and medical historians of cognitive disability, and prominent contemporary philosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer Represents the first collection that brings together philosophical discussions of Alzheimer's disease, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and autism under the rubric of cognitive disability Offers insights into categories like Alzheimer's, mental retardation, and autism, as well as issues such as care, personhood, justice, agency, and responsibility

The second edition of Medical Ethics deals accessibly with a broad range of significant issues in bioethics, and presents the reader with the latest developments.

In this groundbreaking volume, David Schenck and Larry Churchill present the results of fifty interviews with practitioners identified by their peers as "e;healers,"e; exploring in depth the things that the best clinicians do.

This book re-examines privacy in a world where genome sequencing is cheap, databases can be large, and access rights are hidden.

Learn medical ethics and professionalism in the context of real-life patientsA Doody's Core Title for 2019!

This book investigates the politicization process of social dispute resolution and its unintended consequences, under the context of over 70 percent of China's public hospitals have experienced hospital violence, with patients acting violently toward medical workers to express anger, protect their rights, or monetary reasons.

This important book shows those working with clinical populations how to develop an understanding of the psychology of patients with cardiovascular problems to support appropriate medical care.