Medical ethics and professional conduct

With the opening of physical barriers and borders, European nurses have new opportunities to share knowledge and develop fresh insights by working and studying throughout Europe.

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

A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.

Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the problem of vulnerability.

Der Alltag der Medizin sowie gesundheitspolitische Lösungsstrategien legen nahe, dass unser Gesundheitssystem maßgeblich vom biomedizinisch-technischen Fortschritt und der Finanzierbarkeit geprägt ist.

This is the first book to explore the epistemology and ethics of advanced imaging tests, in order to improve the critical understanding of the nature of knowledge they provide and the practical consequences of their utilization in healthcare.

Mental health professionals, more than any other clinicians, encounter legal issues on a regular basis.

Born in Britain in 1960, James Orbinski's family moved to Canada when he was seven years old.

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment.

The ethic of care has developed to become a body of theory that has expanded from its roots in social psychology to many other disciplines in the social sciences as well as the humanities.

This title was first published in 2001.

Seeks to redefine the professional role of the mental health worker by bringing perspectives from leading professionals in different fields.

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.

Proposes that the human embryo in vitro is in a unique ''legal stasis'' between potential person and useful research artefact.

Professional values in healthcare are in a state of constant and increasingly rapid change.

Why has Egypt, a pioneer of organ transplantation, been reluctant to pass a national organ transplant law for more than three decades?

Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine provides invaluable information, perspectives, and solutions to common ethical dilemmas in emergency medicine.

The nursing profession is under pressure.

This book examines the ethical controversies that have surrounded the design and conduct of international medical research carried out in developing countries.

Emergency Ethics brings together leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice.

In this age of increasing headlines about drug addiction and prescription drug abuse, this book is a timely revelation of how the nursing profession is also impacted by substance abuse.

Trans people in the UK currently face widespread prejudice and discrimination, from how they are described in the media to the lack of healthcare support they receive.

It is well known that the numbers of organs that become available each year for transplantation fall far short of the numbers that are actually required.

The possibility of treating patients with organ replacement therapy has created a new frontier in medical care.

Presents the first comprehensive study of Indigenous perspectives on genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and access and benefit sharing in Canada.

In this book, public health ethicist Daniel S.

Where should physicians get their ethics?

A Long Walk Home is Rachel Clark's evocative and moving account of her treatment and experiences with health professionals in Britain and Australia while she was living with, and dying from, cancer.

Interest in environmental health research conducted with community participation has increased dramatically in recent years.

This volume covers a wide range of topics concerning methodological, epistemological, and regulatory-ethical issues around pharmacology.

Setting out the implications of the postmodern condition for medical ethics, Troubled Bodies challenges the contemporary paradigms of medical ethics and reconceptualizes the nature of the field.

A proposal for resolving tensions between professionals and society regarding tissue for transplants and research, while properly protecting donors'' interests.

This volume provides both the scientific and medical background to manipulation, as well as sound practical advice on how to carry out manipulative techniques.

There has been much recent excitement amongst neuroscientists and ethicists about the possibility of using drugs, as well as other technologies, to enhance cognition in healthy individuals.

Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism.

This is the ideal textbook for students and practitioners of all levels.

The best things in my Ufe have come to me by accident and this book results from one such accident: my having the opportunity, out of the blue, to go to work as H.

After the young South African athlete Caster Semenya won the 800m title at the 2009 World Championships she was obliged to undergo gender testing and was temporarily withdrawn from international competition.

Cancer has become the scourge of the twentieth century.

Like its pioneering predecessor, this new edition of Professionalism and Ethics: Q & A Self-Study Guide for Mental Health Professionals offers an interactive, case-oriented approach to mental health ethics.

This book provides a detailed insight into the amalgamation of the healthcare and hospitality sector, which brought forward the concept of healthcare tourism or medical tourism.

There has been much recent excitement amongst neuroscientists and ethicists about the possibility of using drugs, as well as other technologies, to enhance cognition in healthy individuals.

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!

Marking its 25th anniversary, this fascinating collection examines the pioneering work of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

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.

Ist Freiheit aus neurowissenschaftlicher Perspektive eine Illusion?

Issues of faith and spirituality have been resurgent in the UK since the opening of the twenty-first century.

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The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent, healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to technologies of human enhancement.