Medical ethics and professional conduct

This volume is dedicated to the philosophy of medicine advanced by Edmund D.

Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine.

PERSONHOOD AND HEALTH CARE This book arose as a result of a pre-conference devoted to the topic held June 28, 1999 in Paris, France.

Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational.

Mental health issues are a growing concern in our modern Western society.

Medicine's crucial concern with health is perennial, but its reflection, concepts, means change with the advance of science and social life.

The contributions to this volume grew out of papers presented at an international conference Individual, Community & Society: Bioethics in the Third Millennium, held in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, between 25-28 May 1999.

This book arises from a two-fold conviction.

This is an original contribution to the much debated area of the value that we should place on human life.

This volume offers a collection of writings on ethical issues regarding retarded persons.

Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity: - is the first volume on bioethics all contributors of which are exclusively non-western scholars; - unfolds a rich and colourful picture; - addresses thorny bioethical issues from comprehensive Asian perspectives and different from the western paradigm of bioethics; - covers many topics including the intellectual foundation of Asian bioethics, bioethics and Asian culture, life and death, euthanasia and end-of-life care in Asia; - shows in its discussions moral diversity in Asia; - sheds light on the debate about universal ethics, global ethics and moral diversity.

in the culture of medicine, and they saw their mission as a generation of profit for stockholders, not necessarily medical care for clients.

Reframing Disease Contextually will be of particular interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers.

Patient autonomy is a much discussed and debated subject in medical ethics, as well as in healthcare practice, medical law, and healthcare policy.

For decades, health professionals have asserted the importance of public participation in interventions for health.

lt is with great pleasure that I write this preface for Or Li's book, wh ich addresses the venerable and vexing issues surrounding the problem of whether death can be a harm to the person who dies.

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT The Human Genome Project (HGP) is now almost completed.

In this book, developed by a group of collaborating scholars in bioethics from different European countries, an overview is given of the most salient themes in present-day bioethics.

Fredrik Svenaeus' book is a delight to read.

This book is a part of the ongoing enterprise to understand the nature of human health and illness.

This is the first book in healthcare ethics addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body.

The editors of the Philosophy and Medicine series recognize with grat- itude the foresight, understanding, hard labor, and patience of Prof.

Efforts to evaluate the clinical encounter in terms of autonomous agents governed by rationally justified moral principles continue to be criticised.

Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap- plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years.

Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious communities, professional caregiving traditions, and philosophical perspectives, the dominant moral language in contemporary biomedical ethics is that of `rights'.

The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here.

Religious beliefs and attitudes have long been recognized as playing an important role in sexual functioning, but the relationship between religion and sexual behavior has rarely been studied in a comprehensive way.

In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action theory.

We who live in this post-modern late twentieth century culture are still children of dualism.

The concept 'health' is ambiguous [18,9, 11].

It may be unnecessary to some to publish a text on sexuality in 1986 since the popular press speaks of the sexual revolution as if it were over and was possibly a mistake.

The relation of mind and body is one of the central problems of post- Cartesian times.

Patients have personal strategies in solving the problems concerning their illness.

That concern about human genetics is at the top of many lists of issues requiring intense discussion from scientific, political, social, and ethical points of view is today no surprise.

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.

The subject of medical ethics is always current and offers an inviting theme, particularly for anyone who has spent his life in medical practice.

As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention is being paid to how bioethical issues are treated in different moral and religious traditions and in different parts of the world.

Some conferences produce proceedings, others an inspiration to labor, which finally leads to a published work.

We all know how much time, effort and money it takes to develop a new drug.

For centuries the Roman Catholic Church has been concerned with the moral implications of medical practice.

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.

As noted in Volume 1, the Yearbook series alternates between a biennial volume tracing recent theological discussions on topics in bioethics and a biennial volume tracing recent regional discussions in bioethics.

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patient's and the physician's understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient.

As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention is being paid to how bioethical issues are treated in different moral and religious traditions and in different regions of the world.

This book is about trust and its implications for a medical theological ethics.