Medical ethics and professional conduct

Biotechnologische Eingriffe in den menschlichen Organismus (genetisch, psychopharmazeutisch oder technisch) können die körperliche oder geistige Leistungsfähigkeit von Menschen steigern und das menschliche Erleben gezielt verändern, auch über ein "normales" oder "natürliches" Maß hinaus.

This book provides the first comprehensive, historically based, philosophical interpretations of two texts of Thomas Percival's professional ethics in medicine set in the context of his intellectual biography.

Die Fortschritte in der biomedizinischen Forschung und ihrer therapeutischen Anwendung werden kontrovers diskutiert.

Die Auseinandersetzung mit HIV und Aids berührt nicht nur medizinische Themen, sondern wirft grundlegende ethische Fragen auf.

Das Wort "Gen" wurde 1909 geprägt.

In der philosophischen Ethik ist "die gute Welt" außer Mode gekommen.

Dieses praxisorientierte Handbuch bietet Ärzten und Ärztinnen eine strukturierte Orientierung für den medizinischen Arbeitsalltag.

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.

This book equips the reader with a sound understanding of the treatment of neglected and vulnerable patients in the dental office.

This book explores how the continental philosophical tradition in the 20th century attempted to understand madness as madness.

Responding to public health challenges at the global and local levels can give rise to an array of tensions.

This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine.

This is the first monograph to deal with medicine as a form of hermeneutics, now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, including a whole new chapter on medical ethics.

This book proposes an ethical and legal framework to improve the responses to social issues related not only to the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, but also to future pandemics.

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.

The primary aim of this textbook is to contribute towards the promotion of human security by educating nurses with a profound understanding of disaster nursing and to conduct innovative research and practices in cooperation.

This book addresses the fundamental conflict of interest that physicians face in their daily work lives between the ethics of proper medical care versus the demands of standard business practices.

This volume elucidates the pivotal ethical and legal issues arising from the use of brain organoids for research, therapeutic and enhancement purposes.

This book provides an update on recent clinical practice and an in-depth view of selected topics relevant to hospital medicine.

This book provides a robust analysis of the history of clinical ethics, the philosophical theories that support its practice, and the practical institutional criteria needed to become a practicing clinical ethicist.

This book provides the first comprehensive, historically based, philosophical interpretations of two texts of Thomas Percival's professional ethics in medicine set in the context of his intellectual biography.

This book provides a detailed guide to the ethical considerations involved when making decisions in surgery.

This book contrasts earlier textbooks on "e;evidence-based practices.

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.

In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum discuss the issue of care.

Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "e;Loss"e; explores the many ways in which literature and film have engaged with the subject of amputation.

This book offers a multidisciplinary look at the much-debated concept of "e;personalized medicine"e;.

This book reveals how economic restrictions and limited healthcare resources, combined with growing care demands due to advanced technology and more care options, have to a great extent contributed to increased workloads for healthcare professionals and put them under pressure to prioritize their work.

This volume addresses gaps in the existing literature of global mental health by focusing on the ethical considerations that are implicit in discussions of health policy.

This book questions the notions of person, personality, dignity, and other connected notions such as (informed) consent, and discusses new perspectives on categories that allow ethical debates in medicine to overcome morals and ordinary religious schemes.

This book explores a new way of applying clinical ethics.

This book presents a comprehensive theory of the ethics and political philosophy of public health surveillance based on reciprocal obligations among surveillers, those under surveillance, and others potentially affected by surveillance practices.

This book explores and elaborates three theories of public reason, drawn from Rawlsian political liberalism, natural law theory, and Confucianism.

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.

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.

This book provides a bridge between the theory to practice gap in contemporary health care ethics.

This edited volume aims to better understand the multifaceted phenomenon we call health.

This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts.

The aim of this book is to show how feminist perspectives can extend and advance the field of nursing ethics.

This book explores, through case studies, the interplay between religion, culture, government, and politics in diverse societies on questions arising in the domain of bioethics.