Medical ethics and professional conduct

This title was first published in 2001: Ethical thinking about medical decision-making has roots deep in history.

Child sexual abuse is a major public policy challenge.

Autobiography of a Disease documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics.

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

The emergence of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) presents an object lesson in the dangers that lie at the intersection of science and criminal law.

The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying.

Aging is a public health priority that is becoming increasingly important in both developed and less developed nations, with individual health care providers and law-makers each facing difficult ethical and policy dilemmas.

The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Center.

This title was first published in 2000: Over the past decade the welfare state has come under sustained attack not only from quarters which never approved of its policies, but also from political theorists who used to support it.

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

Global experts present thought-provoking debates on over 50 topics in reproductive medicine, one of modern healthcare''s most controversial areas.

The panorama of bioethical problems is different today.

Everyday, new advances are being made in the science of human genetics.

In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics.

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

Ethical issues inherent in psychiatric research and clinical practice are invariably complex and multi-faceted.

Proposing a new view of global justice based on natural law, this book examines the ethics of health as they relate to neglected diseases.

The ability to anticipate, avoid, and resolve ethical conflicts in neuropsychology is a dynamic process that must be developed and maintained over time.

Caring is at the core of what nurses and other health professionals do.

Regulating the End of Life: Death Rights is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field.

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

This book examines the question of what parental obligations procreators incur by bringing children into being.

Essential Primary Care aims to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive overview of the clinical problems encountered in primary care.

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Law and Ethics in Children's Nursing is an important and practical guide on the legal and ethical spects of child healthcare that enables nurses to understand the legal and ethical principles that underpin everyday nursing practice.

The human microbiome is the bacteria, viruses, and fungi that cover our skin, line our intestines, and flourish in our body cavities.

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).

Global capitalism has created the problems of our time.

Values and Ethics for Care Practice introduces readers to values and ethics and their importance in patient-centred care.

As one of the 'learned' professions requiring advanced learning and high principles, law enjoys a special standing in society.

This book examines some of the more disturbing representations of nurses in popular culture, to understand nursing's complex identities, challenges and future directions.

Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage?

Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape curates the current state of untested sexual assault kit research and highlights emerging best practices by exploring the past, the present, and the future of our collective response to rape.

This book gathers together recent international research in intellectual disability (ID), examining the diverse modes of existence that characterise living with intellectual disabilities in the 21st century.

This book examines the intersection of legal and social work in India and beyond.

Why health care reform must tackle the escalating cost of medical technologyTechnological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care.

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

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.

One of America's top doctors rips the Band-Aid off to expose the American health care system Legislation written by drug and insurance companies, malpractice by corrupt and incompetent doctors, misguided and dishonest medical policythe reality may be worse than you feared, and Medical Politics exposes all the secrets of a dirty American health care industry.

First published in 1997, this book contributes to our understanding of the way our society responds to issues of death and dying.

This work maps the criminal process''s impact on several key issues in medicine and its arbitration of bioethics.

Unlocking Medical Law and Ethics will help you grasp the main concepts of Medical Law with ease.

This book presents a comprehensive theory of the ethics and political philosophy of public health surveillance based on reciprocal obligations among surveillers, those under surveillance, and others potentially affected by surveillance practices.

Children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses--and their families--require a unique kind of care to meet a wide variety of needs.

This book offers a comprehensive ethical analysis of conscientious objection in three representative health care professions: medicine, nursing and pharmacy.

To what extent can we have truly universal, comprehensive and timely health services, equally available to all?

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

The book engages healthcare trainees in a comprehensive and probing discussion of the communication demands that confront today''s healthcare teams.

The SAGE Handbook of Health Care Ethics is an influential collection of work by leading scholars on the fundamental and emerging themes which define health care ethics.