Medical ethics and professional conduct

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.

In this book, the author argues that no current philosophical theory of evidence in clinical medical science is adequate.

This volume - for pharmacologists, systems biologists, philosophers and historians of medicine - points to investigate new avenues in pharmacology research, by providing a full assessment of the premises underlying a radical shift in the pharmacology paradigm.

This volume covers a wide range of topics concerning methodological, epistemological, and regulatory-ethical issues around pharmacology.

This interdisciplinary volume gathers selected, refereed contributions on various aspects of public health from several disciplines and research fields, including the philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics.

This textbook examines the ways in which arguments may be used and abused in medicine and health.

The Nazi Viewpoint on the Position and Responsibilities of the Physician in the German National Socialist Society.

This book provides an up-to-date description of cross-cultural aspects of end-of-life decision-making.

This book focuses on justice and its demands in the way of providing people with medical care.

This book provides a condensed but comprehensive up-to-date overview of spirituality and its application to health care.

This book fills an important gap in existing health care ethics literature by describing an egalitarian conception of moral respect which applies to autonomous and non-autonomous patients alike.

Examining Georges Canguilhem's enduring attention to the problem of error, from his early writings to Michel Foucault's first major responses to his work, this pathbreaking book shows that the historian of science was also a centrally important philosopher in postwar France.

Un patient atteint d’une maladie incurable terminale demande à mourir dans la dignité.

Afin d’aider les professionnels de la santé à prendre des décisions éthiques éclairées, cet ouvrage fournit des outils théoriques et pratiques.

Le temoignage interpellant d'un medecin de campagne qui, apres plus de quarante annees au service de ses malades, a effraye par ses travaux et ses prises de position le microcosme parisien ordinal, ce qui lui a valu d'etre interdit d'exercer.

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

Un código de ética profesional hace explícitos los objetivos, valores y obligaciones principales de una profesión dada.

Un código de ética profesional hace explícitos los objetivos, valores y obligaciones principales de una profesión dada.

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This innovative care program blends nursing care and meaningful activities to promote peaceful and relaxing end-of-life experiences for older adults with late-stage dementia.

"e;At a time when there is considerable interest in the palliative care needs of people with advanced dementia, this 'tour de force' on the development/psycho-metric testing of 11 tools (all included) will be invaluable to both researchers and practitioners wanting to develop better care.

In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her.

What is 'legal' about bioethics?

Die Knappheit an Spenderorganen ist ein großes Problem.

The conference on "e;Innovative Synergies: Business, Agriculture, Technology and Resource Management for Sustainable Development (CVBSG2024)"e; is designed to drive sustainable development across various sectors.

This book represents the coming together of a number of internationally renowned scholars from science, philosophy, law and social science.

The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought.

Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application.

Values and Ethics for Care Practice introduces readers to values and ethics and their importance in patient-centred care.

Palliative Care: Learning in Practice is an interactive textbook based on models of open learning, action learning, work-based learning, critical companionship and reflective practice.

Values are a fundamental component of the provision, practice and delivery of health and social care.

From first person accounts of pharmaceutical studies gone bad to intricate medical histories, Guinea Pig Zero provides a fascinating look at the people who sell their bodies to science.

This book tells the story of John, who has an intellectual disability.

Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, this enhanced introduction to bioethics first provides balanced, philosophically based coverage of moral reasoning, moral theories, and the law.

Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, this enhanced introduction to bioethics first provides balanced, philosophically based coverage of moral reasoning, moral theories, and the law.

The physical effects of a stroke are often the most obvious, and hospitals can offer medication and therapy to help alleviate them.

The first book to explore the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears.

Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke has written a gripping moral thriller that uses the lens of medical ethics to examine urgent questions of faith, belief, and scientific rationality.