Medical ethics and professional conduct

Drawing on his own experience, and on literature, philosophy, and medicine, Daniel Callahan offers great insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death.

In a fast-paced, complicated, and evermore dangerous world it is easy to become self-absorbed and consumed with our own problems.

Where should physicians get their ethics?

While the American legal system has played an important role in shaping the field of bioethics, Law and Bioethics is the first book on the subject designed to be accessible to readers with little or no legal background.

Between 1990 and 1993, breast cancer activism became a significant political movement.

The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 required medical facilities to provide patients with written notification of their right to refuse or consent to medical treatment.

At the center of the debate over complementary and alternative medicine-from acupuncture and chiropractic treatments to homeopathy and nutritional supplements-is how to scientifically measure the effectiveness of a particular treatment.

Do people of differing ethnicities, cultures, and races view medicine and bioethics differently?

At the edge of mortality there is a place where the seriously ill or dying wait-a place where they may often feel vulnerable or alone.

A pioneer in the theory of pluralistic casuistry, the idea that there are almost as many facets to moral choices as there are cases that call for choices, Baruch Brody takes issue with conventional bioethical wisdom and challenges the rigid principalism of contemporary bioethics.

If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded?

Both communitarianism and casuistry have sought to restore ethics as a practical science-the former by incorporating various traditions into a shared definition of the common good, the latter by considering the circumstances of each situation through critical reasoning.

In these essays, a diverse group of ethicists draw insights from both religious and feminist scholarship in order to propose creative new approaches to the ethics of medical care.

Debates over health care have focused for so long on economics that the proper goals for medicine seem to be taken for granted; yet problems in health care stem as much from a lack of agreement about the goals and priorities of medicine as from the way systems function.

A bioethic of obligations and responsibilities, based on the Jewish tradition

The Jewish tradition has important perspectives, history, and wisdom that can contribute significantly to crucial contemporary healthcare deliberations.

Nearly 120,000 people are in need of healthy organs in the United States.

Biosecurity Dilemmas examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of "e;biosecurity,"e; the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies.

Torture doctors invent and oversee techniques to inflict pain and suffering without leaving scars.

A call to reform Catholic health care ethics, inspired by the teachings of Pope Francis

Since its first edition in 1948, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERD) has guided Catholic institutions in the provision of health care that reflects both the healing ministry of Jesus and the Church's understanding of human dignity.

Neural grafting, virtual reality, gene therapy, psychotropic drugs As startling new treatments emerge for disorders of the brain, new concerns are arising along with them.

Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a "e;natural law"e; philosophical perspective.

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died.

David M.