Medical ethics and professional conduct

The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century.

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

This book is for readers who wish to understand the ethical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic - holistically - on communities, politics, the economy, the environment, international relations, public health, and, most importantly, on their own lives and their own futures.

Our ability to map and intervene in the structure of the human brain is proceeding at a very quick rate.

This book examines the central structures in medicine-medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority-from the perspective of an ethics of care.

In this book Paul Carrick charts the ancient Greek and Roman foundations of Western medical ethics.

Assisted dying is still an extremely contested topic in Bioethics.

John Coggon analyses important ethical, legal and political claims related to public health and health regulation.

This book draws a connection between ethics and research across social sciences, philosophy, medical sciences and legal sciences, and demonstrates that any research activity needs to be conducted by means of rules deriving from the field of ethics.

Now revised and expanded to cover today's most pressing health threats, Public Health Law and Ethics probes the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health through an incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and relevant court cases.

Introduction and investigation of the concept – and utility – of legacy in the field of medical jurisprudence.

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.

This work explores the interplay of complexity and values in nurse education from a variety of vantages.

This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can inform each other.

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If you are looking for an accessible introduction to the essential concepts that define the field of professional ethics, then this is the book for you.

Clinical trials used to be conducted overwhelmingly in the US and Europe but for a range of economic, technical and ethical reasons, the number of multicentre studies recruiting subjects in different regions of the World has grown exponentially.

Handing envelopes containing money or gifts to doctors in public health care is often seen as a remnant of socialism that continues as an integral part of the Lithuanian health care system.

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

Examines the impact of increased transparency on the legal, medical, and business structures of the American health care system.

In these uncertain times, how much can you trust health news?

Transnational surrogacy the creation of babies across borders has become big business.

Details the provision of good-quality care to the victims of sexual and domestic violence.

Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives.

Struggling to understand ethics?

How medical education and practice can move beyond a narrow focus on biological intervention to recognize the lived experiences of illness, suffering, and death.

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.

This book provides a framework for addressing important philosophical issues in psychiatry and psychopharmacology.

Raimund Pousset gives in this essential a concise account of senicide, the modern form of cultural killing of the elderly.

Organs for Sale is a study of the bioethical question of how to increase human organ supply.

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

The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes through which they are produced are examined through the use of specific case studies.

'This book is a tribute to expert nursing.

Although the investigation and regulation of the faculties of the human mind appear to be the proper and sole concern of philosophers, you see that they are in some part nevertheless so little foreign to the medical forum that while someone may deny that they are proper to the physician he cannot deny that physicians have the obliga- tion to philosophize.

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

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.

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

This ground-breaking book uses organizational ethics and stakeholder theory to explore the ethical accountability of leadership in healthcare organizations to their distinct vulnerable stakeholder communities.

Something is missing in contemporary health and social care.

Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.

Environmental health law is a wide-ranging, detailed and complex body of law within the UK.

In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight--she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type.

The neurosurgical, surgical and medical training and practice models have to keep up with the technological revolution in the 21st Century as our lives changed on a swift base.

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public LanguageAlthough Roe v.

A Patient-Centered Approach to the Chronically-Ill addresses the unique needs of chronically-ill patients and the challenges they present for medical doctors.

In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "e;democratic disease"e; to a fearsome threat in communities of color.