Medical ethics and professional conduct

Gehört es zu einer liberalen Gesellschaft und einer humanen modernen Medizin, dass Menschen aktiv aus dem Leben scheiden und sich dabei helfen lassen dürfen?

Anwendungen der Gendiagnostik und Reproduktionsmedizin erlauben es Wunscheltern, immer weiter auf das Erbgut ihrer Nachkommen Einfluss zu nehmen.

Bis wohin stellen neue biomedizinische Technologien willkommene Wege zur Therapie von Krankheiten oder zur Minderung von Leiden dar und wo beginnt das Streben nach einer "Verbesserung" des Menschen?

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.

This book focuses on ethical issues faced by a variety of healthcare practitioners across the Anglophone African continent.

There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy.

This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related medical traditions, the Hippocratic and the Galenic.

This book addresses the pressing issues involved with the ethical conduct of research in one developing world region - the Arab Region.

This book is aimed at analyzing the foundations of medical ethics by considering different moral theories and their implications for judgments in clinical practice and policy-making.

This book is a critical survey of and guidebook to the literature on biological functions.

This book offers a theoretical and practical overview of the specific ethical and legal issues in pediatric organ transplantation.

In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of 'biological function', a concept of 'reference class' and the notion of 'statistical normality'.

This book offers a comprehensive and unitary study of the philosophy of Francis Bacon, with special emphasis on the medical, ethical and political aspects of his thought.

This book exposes, and fills, a notable void in the educational content generally covered in modern schools of medicine.

This volume brings together a set of critical essays on the thought of Professor Doctor H.

How can we accept that we ought to stop smoking, follow a diet, exercise, or take medications?

This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research.

Clinical practice guidelines were initially developed within the context of evidence-based medicine with the goal of putting medical research findings into practice.

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Das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 26.

In der psychotherapeutischen Praxis ergeben sich häufig ethische Konstellationen, die auch den Rechtsrahmen berühren.

In der psychotherapeutischen Praxis ergeben sich häufig ethische Konstellationen, die auch den Rechtsrahmen berühren.

Ist Freiheit aus neurowissenschaftlicher Perspektive eine Illusion?

"Advance Care Planning" (ACP, gesundheitliche Vorausplanung) zielt auf eine konsequent am vorausverfügten Patientenwillen orientierte Behandlung für den Fall, dass der Betroffene sich nicht mehr selbst äußern kann.

"Woher kommen wir?

Es besteht das offenkundige Desiderat einer interdisziplinären Diskussion moralpsychologischer Themen in ethischer Perspektive.

Die Begegnung zwischen Arzt und Patient ist komplex.