Medical ethics and professional conduct

The context for this interdisciplinary work by a philosopher and a clinician is the psychiatric care provided to those with severe mental disorders.

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.

The Ethics of Private Practice helps mental health professionals understand the essential ethical issues related to the many challenges of being in independent practice.

Mental health is the one area of health care where people are often treated against their will, with the justification that it is in their own interest.

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics.

This title was first published in 2002.

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.

Autobiography of a Disease documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics.

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.

Mental health nurses need to work within the law to ensure good, legal care for their patients, while at the same time being guided by appropriate values.

Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a natural law philosophical perspective.

The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990.

Global health is at a crossroads.

This volume is the first to present a framework of general principles for animal research ethics together with an analysis of the principles' meaning and moral requirements.

This book is a critical examination of the philosophical and moral issues in relation to human enhancement and the various related medical developments that are now rapidly moving from the laboratory into the clinical realm.

​Mit Hilfe prädiktiv-gendiagnostischer Untersuchungsverfahren gelingt die Identifizierung genetischer Risikofaktoren weit vor Sichtbarwerdung erster Erkrankungssymptome.

Beleaguered countries struggling against aggression or powerful nations defending others from brutal regimes mobilize medicine to wage just war.

The definitive reference guide to designing scientifically sound and ethically robust medical research, considering legal, ethical and practical issues.

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.

Countless public health agencies are trying to solve our most intractable public health problems -- among them, the obesity and opioid epidemics -- by partnering with corporations responsible for creating or exacerbating those problems.

There exists today a fast growing availability of personal genetic information.

Without an appropriate spiritual care model, it can be difficult to discuss existential questions about death and dying with people who are confronted with life-threatening or incurable diseases.

An authoritative introduction to bioethics, Life Choices examines a comprehensive range of ethical questions and brings together some of the most probing and instructive essays published in the field.

Can religious arguments provide a reasonable basis for restrictive public policies regarding politically controversial medical interventions?

This book is dedicated to an analysis of the writings of modern religious Jewish thinkers who adopted a neo-fundamentalist, illusionary, apologetic approach, opposing the notion that there may sometimes be a contradiction between reason and revelation.

In the last half century, a revolution in biology and medicine has taken place, bringing about emerging practical, philosophical, and societal issues with which academia in general, and medicine and oncology in particular, must grapple.

This comprehensive resource explores the role of science and scientific discovery in the nature versus pathology debate surrounding homosexuality.

Life Before Birth provides a coherent framework for addressing bioethical issues in which the moral status of embryos and fetuses is relevant.

What roles do different kinds of knowledge play in medicine?

This book examines some of the more disturbing representations of nurses in popular culture, to understand nursing's complex identities, challenges and future directions.

Healthcare providers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar expectations, anxieties, and needs into the examination room.

Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures is a long-standing, must-have reference book for practising environmental health officers in local government and in private practice.

Why health care reform must tackle the escalating cost of medical technologyTechnological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care.

Elder abuse has been increasingly recognised over the past ten years in many countries and progress has been made in both understanding and addressing the issue.

Privacy is an unwieldy concept that has eluded an essentialised definition despite its centrality and importance in the body of bioethics.

God's Church in the World: The Gift of Catholic Mission presents a confident and joyful assertion of the Catholic character of Christian mission and its sacramental nature, exploring the transforming role the Catholic tradition can play in evangelism.

This volume provides both the scientific and medical background to manipulation, as well as sound practical advice on how to carry out manipulative techniques.

This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students.

This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted women's health and healthcare across the world.

This volume discusses the definitional problems and conceptual strategies involved in defining the human.

Die Begegnung mit sterbenden Menschen löst häufig Hilf- und Sprachlosigkeit aus.

"e;Children's palliative care is an evolving specialty and as such our knowledge base cannot remain static.

This volume opens with an exploration of the Confucian recognition of the family as an entity existing in its own right and which is not reducible to its members or their interests.

This book serves as an invaluable guide on how clinical trials are designed and run, how to interpret the results, and what to make of them in general.

This book investigates pharmaceutical regulation and the public health issue of fake or illicit medicines in developing countries.

The global financial crisis (GFC) that began in 2007 concentrated attention on the morality of banking and financial activities.

This book explores the Care Trust concept promoted by central government for improving partnership working between health and social care.

Molecular Biology of Weed Control assesses the impact of the new tools of molecular biology on the science of weed control as well as the ways in which the science of weed control has helped and influenced molecular biology.

Revolutionary advances in biomedical research and information systems technology pose new and difficult issues for American health care policy, especially in the context of managed care.