In einer sich stetig wandelnden (Migrations-)Gesellschaft kommen immer mehr Menschen mit unterschiedlichen kulturellen Prägungen in ein Alter, in dem Pflege notwendig wird.
In light of the potential novel applications of neurotechnologies in psychiatry and the current debate on moral bioenhancement, this book outlines the reasons why more conceptual work is needed to inform the scientific and medical community, and society at large, about the implications of moral bioenhancement before a possible, highly hypothetical at this point, broad acceptance, and potential implementation in areas such as psychiatry (e.
After reviewing related theories on stigmatisation of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), this book applies social exclusion theory, actor theory and stigma theory to the study of social mechanisms of stigmatisation of PLWHA in China to show the influence and mechanism of stigmatisation on them, and tries to construct the policy framework to tackle stigmatisation from the perspective of welfare pluralism.
Let Them Go Free offers families a way to cope with a problem particular to our time: what to do when medical treatment sustains life but does not cure or resuscitate a critically ill loved one.
Dieses bereits in zweiter Auflage erscheinende Buch ist eine interdisziplinäre, praxisorientierte Einführung in die Tätigkeitsfelder Klinischer Ethikberatung und spiegelt die Erfahrungen der Autoren aus eigener Unterrichts- bzw.
Im Gegensatz zum Idealbild des "mündigen Patienten" zeichnen sich viele Patienten gerade dadurch aus, dass sie die Fähigkeit zur Autonomieausübung vorübergehend oder dauerhaft verloren oder aber gar nicht erst erworben haben.
Der Alltag der Medizin sowie gesundheitspolitische Lösungsstrategien legen nahe, dass unser Gesundheitssystem maßgeblich vom biomedizinisch-technischen Fortschritt und der Finanzierbarkeit geprägt ist.
Der Band „Facetten von Gesundheitskompetenz in einer Gesellschaft der Vielfalt“ zeichnet ein vielseitiges Bild über die Bedeutung von Gesundheit und Gesundheitskompetenz in einer Gesellschaft, die von zunehmender Diversität, digitaler Transformation und immer leistungsfähigerer Medizin geprägt ist.
Vermutlich sind sich Technik und Mensch nirgendwo so nahe, sind auf intime und verbindliche Weise miteinander verschränkt, wie in den Bereichen von Medizin, Therapie und Pflege.
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.
Die in diesem Buch präsentierte Studie befasst sich mit der Frage, welcher Zusammenhang zwischen der Bereitschaft besteht, in der COVID‐19‐Pandemie anderen Menschen in deren Lebensvollzug zu helfen und der Furcht vor dem Tod durch COVID‐19.
The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent, healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to technologies of human enhancement.
Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a "e;natural law"e; philosophical perspective.
Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-FictionThe shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victimsIn Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life.
This book is about the interaction between biomedical engineering and ethics during emergencies, such as low-resource settings and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Intended for students and general readers alike, this encyclopedia covers the history of human medical experimentation, for better and worse, from the time of Hippocrates to the present.
Bioethics: 50 Puzzles, Problems, and Thought Experiments collects 50 cases-both real and imaginary-that have been, or should be, of special interest and importance to philosophical bioethics.
This book addresses the many ethical issues and extraordinary risks that nurses and others are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, which creates physical, emotional, and economic burdens, affecting nurses' overall health and well-being.
This book explores, in rich and rigorous ways, the possibilities and limitations of "e;thick"e; (concepts of) autonomy in light of contemporary debates in philosophy, ethics, and bioethics.
This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India.
This book explores the experiences and emotional expression of 30 people Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) using qualitative research methods such as "e;illness narratives,"e; and analyzes the dilemmas of "e;sicknesses of the society"e; including "e;Acquired Needs Deficiency"e; Syndrome, "e;Acquired Expectation Insufficiency"e; Syndrome, and "e;Acquired Punishment"e; Syndrome at the micro, meso and macro levels, so as to investigate higher-intensity negative emotions.
This book offers a philosophically-based, yet clinically-oriented perspective on current medical reasoning aiming at 1) identifying important forms of uncertainty permeating current clinical reasoning and practice 2) promoting the application of an abductive methodology in the health context in order to deal with those clinical uncertainties 3) bridging the gap between biomedical knowledge, clinical practice, and research and values in both clinical and philosophical literature.
