Medical ethics and professional conduct

Pandemic Voices sheds light on previously unheard or overlooked international perspectives of patients and health care and community services workers through unprecedented access to some of the most challenging moments of the COVID-19 pandemic: the innovations, the stories of lives saved, those of lives lost, and the prices paid.

Health and healthcare are vitally important to all of us, and academic interest in the law regulating health has, over the last 50 years, become an important field of academic study.

Health and healthcare are vitally important to all of us, and academic interest in the law regulating health has, over the last 50 years, become an important field of academic study.

This introduction to the philosophy of medicine surveys the landscape of western philosophy as it pertains to healthcare in an accessible way.

Develop a practical and comprehensive view of professional ethics In the newly updated Second Edition of Positive Ethics for Mental Health Professionals: A Proactive Approach, distinguished psychologists Drs.

Although the history of organ transplant has its roots in ancient Christian mythology, it is only in the past fifty years that body parts from a dead person have successfully been procured and transplanted into a living person.

This volume discusses the definitional problems and conceptual strategies involved in defining the human.

Internationally, marginalized populations, including indigenous people, refugees fleeing both war and the effects of climate change and people-of-color, have borne a disproportionate share of serious COVID 19 illnesses and deaths.

Changes are occurring in the multiple sclerosis community.

*Highly Commended in the Popular Medicine category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*The simple sensation of touching someone's hand can have a powerful therapeutic effect.

Caring for elders outside of institutions is the fastest growing sector of US health care.

Providing a bridge between research in healthcare and spirituality and practitioner perspectives, these essays on chaplaincy in healthcare continue dialogue around constructing, negotiating and researching spiritual care and discuss the critical issues in chaplaincy work, including assisted suicide and care in children's hospices.

The Myth of Psychotherapy is a provocative critique of psychotherapy and its role in modern society.

The Science and Ethics of Antipsychotic Use in Children reviews the latest findings for the safety and efficacy of the rapidly rising incidence of antipsychotic use in children and examines tensions that are created by off-label use, both in clinical psychiatric practice and research.

The most trusted and reader-friendly guide on how to make the right decisions when facing ethical issues in clinical practiceA Doody s Core Title for 2019!

Medical confidentiality is an essential cornerstone of effective public health systems, and for centuries societies have struggled to maintain the illusion of absolute privacy.

A history and analysis of the tragic 1955 American pharmaceutical disaster involving one company's polio vaccine.

Millions of children have been born in the United States with the help of cutting-edge reproductive technologies, much to the delight of their parents.

Mental health nurses need to work within the law to ensure good, legal care for their patients, while at the same time being guided by appropriate values.

Advances in our understanding of the brain and rapid advances in the medical practice of neurology are creating questions and concerns from an ethical and legal perspective.

When the children of Christian Scientists die from a treatable illness, are their parents guilty of murder for withholding that treatment?

Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world.

The Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision provides a global 'state of the art' overview of clinical supervision, presenting and examining the most comprehensive, robust empirical evidence upon which to base practice.

Why the battle between superstition and science is far from overFrom uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture?

When is clinical research in developing countries exploitation?

Millions of people experience symptoms of central sensitization (CS) and central sensitivity syndromes (CSS) such as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivities.

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.

At the onset of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic enhancement, for wholesale redesign.

Whether you're coping with a loved one who has received a terminal diagnosis, has a long-term illness or disability, or suffers with dementia, caregiving is challenging and crucial.

The definitive book on ethics for chemical dependency treatment professionals.

In The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning, Richard Paul and Linda Elder present the vital role of ethics in the creation and ultimate success of cooperative societies.

Death is increasingly on the agenda for baby boomers moving ever closer to it.

Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics, Second Edition, integrates theology, methodology, and practical application into a detailed and practical examination of the bioethical issues that confront students, scholars, and practitioners.

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.

This comprehensive yet accessible resource provides readers with everything they need to know about intersex - people who are born with any range of sex characteristics that might not fit typical binary notions about male and female bodies.

This established and well-regarded Guide describes the management of patients with advanced disease.

The physical effects of a stroke are often the most obvious, and hospitals can offer medication and therapy to help alleviate them.

What is 'legal' about bioethics?

This volume - for pharmacologists, systems biologists, philosophers and historians of medicine - points to investigate new avenues in pharmacology research, by providing a full assessment of the premises underlying a radical shift in the pharmacology paradigm.

This book focuses on justice and its demands in the way of providing people with medical care.

The aim of this book is to show how feminist perspectives can extend and advance the field of nursing ethics.

This book fills an important gap in existing health care ethics literature by describing an egalitarian conception of moral respect which applies to autonomous and non-autonomous patients alike.

This is the first monograph to deal with medicine as a form of hermeneutics, now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, including a whole new chapter on medical ethics.

This book explores a new way of applying clinical ethics.

This book explores how the continental philosophical tradition in the 20th century attempted to understand madness as madness.

This volume addresses gaps in the existing literature of global mental health by focusing on the ethical considerations that are implicit in discussions of health policy.

This book provides a bridge between the theory to practice gap in contemporary health care ethics.

This book addresses the fundamental conflict of interest that physicians face in their daily work lives between the ethics of proper medical care versus the demands of standard business practices.

This book provides an update on recent clinical practice and an in-depth view of selected topics relevant to hospital medicine.