Medical ethics and professional conduct

This illuminating study explores the role of professionals, patients, regulation and law in improving patient safety.

Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries.

Human genetic engineering may soon be possible.

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

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.

This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries.

Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition is a standard resource for students, professionals, and academics wishing to understand current and future issues in healthcare ethics.

Though algorithms are chosen to eliminate bias in the Learning Health Systems (LHS) that support medical decision making, we are left with unconscious bias present in data due to lack of representation for marginalized populations, particularly in palliative care.

in the culture of medicine, and they saw their mission as a generation of profit for stockholders, not necessarily medical care for clients.

This work explores the interplay of complexity and values in nurse education from a variety of vantages.

This book provides a comprehensive yet accessible look at organ donation and transplantation, including coverage of scientific, medical, social, legal, and ethical issues.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.

Nearly 120,000 people are in need of healthy organs in the United States.

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments.

Mental health professionals, more than any other clinicians, encounter legal issues on a regular basis.

The Professional Guinea Pig documents the emergence of the professional research subject in Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development.

This title was first published in 2003.

Jungian Psychotherapy with Medical Professionals guides therapists, clinicians, and healthcare workers through the transformative healing process of Jungian psychology, demonstrating how the new spirit of medicine will originate from the relationship between the healer and the healed.

Religious beliefs and attitudes have long been recognized as playing an important role in sexual functioning, but the relationship between religion and sexual behavior has rarely been studied in a comprehensive way.

When the children of Christian Scientists die from a treatable illness, are their parents guilty of murder for withholding that treatment?

This title was first published 2000: Ever since Michael Tooley published his article on "e;Abortion and Infanticide"e; in 1972, the abortion debate has revolved around questions such as: "e;What is a person?

Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it?

The place of religion in public life continues to be a much-debated topic in Western nations.

The Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision provides a global 'state of the art' overview of clinical supervision, presenting and examining the most comprehensive, robust empirical evidence upon which to base practice.

This title was first published in 2002: This book is an analysis of the ways in which mental states ground attributions of responsibility to persons.

Numerous issues confront women's healthcare today, among them the medicalization of women's bodies, cosmetic genital surgery, violence against women, HIV, perinatal mental health disorders.

Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global.

In the last fifty years, average overall health status has increased more or less in parallel with a much celebrated decline in mortality, attributed mostly to poverty reduction, sanitation, nutrition, housing, immunization, and improved medical care.

Die Digitalisierung wird – auch im Gesundheitswesen – gern als revolutionäre Entwicklung propagiert.

Since the therapeutic value of umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells was first recognised in the late 1980s, there has been a proliferation of both public and private UCB banks worldwide.

Ethics for Psychotherapists and Counselors utilizes positive discussions accompanied by a variety of thought-provoking exercises, case scenarios, and writing assignments to introduce readers to all the major ethical issues in psychotherapy.

This book is about trust and its implications for a medical theological ethics.

This volume focuses on the role that religion and spirituality can play in recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other forms of trauma, including moral injury.

First published in 1997, this book contributes to our understanding of the way our society responds to issues of death and dying.

The case of Terri Schiavo, a young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, has emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care.

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

In this book, a global panel of experts considers the international implications of legalised euthanasia based on experiences from Belgium.

The brief history of 20th century bioethics has been dominated by discussions of principles and appeals to autonomy that both divorce theory from practice and champion a notion of the individual as prior to and isolated from society.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience.

In Valuing Health Daniel M.

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.

CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVES AND CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL MORALS A Catholic perspective on medical morals antedates the current world- wide interest in medical and biomedical ethics by many centuries[5].

This book provides the first systematic study on three types of incentives for organ donation.

The legal status of posthumous interests is analysed in three areas of medico-legal context.

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.

In this groundbreaking volume, David Schenck and Larry Churchill present the results of fifty interviews with practitioners identified by their peers as "e;healers,"e; exploring in depth the things that the best clinicians do.

This book highlights concepts of professionalism in medicine such as ethical issues and both clinical and non-clinical challenges in patient care.