Medical ethics and professional conduct

Learn medical ethics and professionalism in the context of real-life patientsA Doody's Core Title for 2019!

This book examines the role of law and policy in addressing the public health crisis of COVID-19 and offers reforms that could improve pandemic preparedness for future outbreaks.

Now fully revised and in a second edition, The Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals suggests solutions to the simple and complex ethical questions mental health professionals must deal with on a daily basis.

Written by experienced authorities from around the world giving a wider international perspective on palliative nursing, this substantially expanded new edition has been specifically adapted to reflect working practices within the NHS.

Surgical ethics is the application of ethics to issues specific to surgery.

Health systems need to set priorities fairly.

A survey of the medical, ethical and legal issues that surround this controversial topic.

Dieses bereits in zweiter Auflage erscheinende Buch ist eine interdisziplinäre, praxisorientierte Einführung in die Tätigkeitsfelder Klinischer Ethikberatung und spiegelt die Erfahrungen der Autoren aus eigener Unterrichts- bzw.

The aim of this book is to introduce and discuss bioethics in a three-synergistic way: from the foundations to the current debates in relation to healthcare and social bioethics, and thereafter the possible future challenges.

As more and more people survive into old age, the burden of caring for them becomes greater and greater.

This book presents principal controversies over the determination of death by neurologic criteria ("e;brain death"e;).

Offers a frank conversation about altruism in the global body market and critiques the vulnerability of altruism to corruption, coercion, pressure, and other negative externalities.

This book examines the role of law and policy in addressing the public health crisis of COVID-19 and offers reforms that could improve pandemic preparedness for future outbreaks.

This volume provides a theoretical and practical overview of the ethics of pediatric medicine.

This book arises from a two-fold conviction.

Hopes are high that stem cell (SC) research will lead to treatments and cures for some of the most serious diseases affecting humankind today.

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

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.

In the 1850s, "e;Drapetomania"e; was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States.

This book fulfils the need of doctors, medical students, and all healthcare personnel for information that addresses fundamental patient safety concepts that are not usually covered in conventional medical curricula.

Pain research is still dominated by biomedical perspectives and the need to articulate pain in ways other than those offered by evidence based medical models is pressing.

Duties to Care is the first empirically grounded, conceptually nuanced, socio-legal examination of caring for a person with dementia.

The meaning and application of the principle of beneficence to issues in health care is rarely clear or certain.

'I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.

Thinking critically is an essential skill, both for students and for the modern, evidence-based, healthcare practitioner.

This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry.

*** Awarded first place in the 2024 AJN Book of the Year Award in History and Public Policy ***This important text draws on decades of research, arguing that modern nursing germinated and grew an ethics from its own native soil, which is rich, fulsome, and philosophically informed, grounded in the tradition and practice of nursing.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

There is growing acceptance that the progress delivered under the Millennium Development Goal target for drinking water and sanitation has been inequitable.

Charles Bonnet began his career as a naturalist, from an early age establishing a reputation as a careful observer.

Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways.

This major new work updates and significantly expands The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying.

Behavioral-developmental pediatrician Lawrence Diller continues his investigation into the widespread use of psychiatric drugs for children in America, an investigation that began with his first book, Running on Ritalin.

This title was first published in 2001.

Essential for anyone who uses computers in clinical practice and cares about the ethical issues that arise in their work.

No developed nation relies exclusively on the private sector to finance health care for citizens.

This title was first published in 2001.

This timely book brings together the stories of St Francis - his preaching to birds, rejection of wealth, caring for lepers, befriending animals and living simply, his poetry and hymnody in praise of creation that is still sung today - and the influential writings and examples of inspiring Franciscans who have followed him such as Clare, Bonaventure, Duns Scotus and Angela of Foligno, and draws them into conversation with contemporary concerns for our planet.

Some conferences produce proceedings, others an inspiration to labor, which finally leads to a published work.

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues.

To what extent can we have truly universal, comprehensive and timely health services, equally available to all?

How should the law deal with the challenges of advancing biotechnology?

This book bridges the disciplines of legal studies and sociology in its engaging introduction to the history, purpose, function, and influence of the Supreme Court, demonstrating through ten landmark decisions the Court's impact on the five key sociological institutions in the United States: family, education, religion, government, and economy.

Considers problems associated with genetic information in an age of declining welfare provision, and offers direction for future policy.

Suffering is a central component of our lives.

Das Buch liefert einen umfassenden rechtlichen Überblick über das kognitive Enhancement.

'Healthcare professionals spend much of their time listening to stories of sickness related by patients and their families.

Through engaging case studies and clear explanations of the underlying science, this book makes the social impacts and ethical consequences of recent advances in biomedicine understandable for general readers.

This innovative and engaging book argues that because our genetic information is directly linked to the genetic information of others, it is impossible to assert a 'right to privacy' in the same way that we can in other areas of life.