Medical ethics and professional conduct

Is there a place for palliative care within mental health?

With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals.

An interdisciplinary exploration of important developments in neuroscience, and the philosophical, ethical, and social issues that such advancements generate.

Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality.

Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism: Essays on the Works of Alastair V.

Focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy.

More than fifty years ago, Thomas Szasz showed that the concept of mental illness-a disease of the mind-is an oxymoron, a metaphor, a myth.

This practical book is written specifically for junior doctors by a team of highly experienced authors, as an introductory guide to clinical research.

This book exposes significant threats to research integrity and identifies policies and practices that can reverse these trends.

Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species and to extend the commercial reach of synthetic biology or "e;extreme genetic engineering.

An extensive introduction to patient-centeredness in critical care through case-based examples of shared decision making.

A history and analysis of the tragic 1955 American pharmaceutical disaster involving one company's polio vaccine.

Medicine has recently discovered spectacular tools for human enhancement.

Caring is at the core of what nurses and other health professionals do.

by MICHEL FOUCAULT Everyone knows that in France there are few logicians but many historians of science; and that in the 'philosophical establishment' - whether teaching or research oriented - they have occupied a considerable position.

Since the turn of the millennium, the potential for patients' knowledge to contribute to medical knowledge has been increasingly recognized by medical sociologists and anthropologists.

Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways.

In recent times, the phrase 'personalised medicine' has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future.

Communication and relationships have become an increasing focus of attention in debates about the future of health and social care.

Ethical medical practice and treatment in psychiatry are based on the concept of first do no harm.

"e;The fixed person for fixed duties, who in older societies was such a godsend, in the future ill be a public danger.

This is an updated guide to the range of drugs commonly unused in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

A case-based approach to the principles of informed consent and their application in clinical practice.

We will all be patients sooner or later.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives.

Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of biotechnological progress.

Before a separate Department of Medical Humanities was formed, the editors of this volume were faculty members of the Department of Pediatrics at our medical school.

The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature.

This book-first published a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted-is the first authored volume on ethical issues in infectious disease, "e;monumental"e; for its competence and comprehensiveness.

On the part of the patient, healthcare demands unconditional trust in the professional.

This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects of managing pain and other symptoms, as well as ethical and societal issues that affect the standards of care received.

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

Medical law and ethics are frequently referred to in conjunction, and appear together in many textbooks.

Human population genetic research (HPGR) seeks to identify the diversity and variation of the human genome and how human group and individual genetic diversity has developed.

This collection of stories from two practising GPs describes the reality of working within a failing and highly bureaucratic system, where there is a balancing act: regulation versus relationships; autonomy versus standard practice; algorithm versus individual attention.

Patient organizations and social health movements offer one of the most important and illuminating examples of civil society engagement and participation in scientific research and research politics.

Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.

This practical and positive guide shows how good, effective reflection can help people to stay on track, as well as understand what is working well and what might be improved - essential skills for leaders at all levels of practice from newly qualified staff to senior managers.

Examines the legislative oversight in the regulation of prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies across a number of jurisdictions.

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.

Argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies.

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

The 14 chapters in Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments, all published here for the first time, focus on recent thinking in this important area, helping initiate issues and lines of argument that have not been explored previously.

The story of an innovative program of treatment for AIDS in Africa that succeeded in the face of international development agencies' "e;afro pessimism"e;Until this century, Western governments and foundations framing policies for AIDS relief in Africa maintained that prevention alone was a preferable alternative to prevention-plus-treatment, which would be costly and impractical in Africa, or would benefit only the prosperous and well-connected.

Helping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of effective palliative care.

Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body.