Medical ethics and professional conduct

One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process.

Jungian Psychotherapy with Medical Professionals guides therapists, clinicians, and healthcare workers through the transformative healing process of Jungian psychology, demonstrating how the new spirit of medicine will originate from the relationship between the healer and the healed.

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.

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

Before a separate Department of Medical Humanities was formed, the editors of this volume were faculty members of the Department of Pediatrics at our medical school.

This educational workbook helps people who build compassionate relationships with dying people.

Care home workers increasingly work with people nearing the end of their lives, including people with medically complex conditions.

Developed collaboratively by a doctor and nurse team, this is the first text to deal specifically with nursing difficult patients.

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

Celia Deane-Drummond examines ethical issues in genetics from a Christian virtue ethics perspective.

Die Knappheit an Spenderorganen ist ein großes Problem.

This title was first published in 2001.

This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts.

This book examines the regulatory framework for untested and unapproved uses (off-label uses) of medicines in the EU, UK, and USA.

This thoroughly updated third edition lays a solid foundation for understanding the intersection of law, ethics and the rights of the patient in the context of everyday nursing and health care practice.

The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today.

Collaborative Practice in Palliative Care explores how different professions work collaboratively across professional, institutional, social, and cultural boundaries to enhance palliative care.

The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature.

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

Proponents of the concept of ecological integrity argue that it is a necessary component of global governance on which the sustainable future of the planet and its inhabitants depends.

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

A philosopher argues there is an ethical imperative to provide psychotherapy to depressed patients because the insights gained from it promote autonomy.

Mason explores aspects of pregnancy which involve medico-legal intervention, including unwanted or undesired pregnancies.

Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science.

28 detailed cases explore the ethical reasoning, professional issues, and the emotional aspects of difficult consultations.

This handbook provides an up-to-date reference point for ethnography in healthcare research.

The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of "e;meaning"e; in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by research, and has led many palliative clinicians to look beyond the role of antidepressant treatment in this population.

Life Before Birth provides a coherent framework for addressing bioethical issues in which the moral status of embryos and fetuses is relevant.

This is a lucid, readable discussion of ethical questions in health care as they arise on the business or organizational level: an effort to spell out an ethical perspective for healthcare organizations.

Currently, humans lack the cognitive and moral capacities to prevent the widespread suffering associated with collective risks, like pandemics, climate change, or even asteroids.

The landscape of the religion and health literature is littered with a plethora of models so large and so unwieldy that they are impossible to estimate empirically.

Increasingly digital technologies are used in healthcare.

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.

The development of bioethics has presented us with an ever increasing number of very different discussions over the last four decades.

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

This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood.

Something is missing in contemporary health and social care.

This book explains what inalienable rights are and how they restrict the behavior of their possessors.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to definition of torture by bringing together behavioral science and international law perspectives on torture.

The field of bioethics was deeply influenced by religious thinkers as it emerged in the 1960s and early 1970s.

In this book, Stephen Cave and John Martin Fischer debate whether or not we should choose to live forever.

The Fourth Edition of this bestselling, highly regarded book has been fully revised to incorporate changes in law and clinical guidance making a vital impact on patient management, encompassing: The Equality Act 2010 which provides the right of older people to treatment without discrimination Case law on withdrawing nutrition and hydration Updated guidance on resuscitation from the Resuscitation Council (UK), the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing The redefining of good medical practice by the General Medical Council The abolition of the Liverpool Care Pathway with updated guidance on end-of-life care and advance care planning.

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

The context for this interdisciplinary work by a philosopher and a clinician is the psychiatric care provided to those with severe mental disorders.

Learning from Disease in Pets: A 'One Health' Model for Discovery is the first encompassing reference guide for veterinarians, researchers and physicians on conducting studies using spontaneous models of disease in animals.

Care facilities often reflect the multifaith and multicultural nature of society, not least in a very diverse population of health and social care staff and care-recipients.

We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts.

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

Addresses the social and ethical challenges raised by the promise of neuroscience to revolutionise the treatment of addiction.