Medical ethics and professional conduct

Medical healing implies knowledge of the assumptions that underlie our understanding of "e;health,"e; and, concomitantly, how we define well being and its opposites, illness and disease.

Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did.

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Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration.

The development of bioethics has presented us with an ever increasing number of very different discussions over the last four decades.

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What we now call 'deep venous thrombosis' (DVT) has been studied in diverse ways during the last 200-300 years.

In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical knowledge and practice occasioned by the crisis of quality-of-care, especially in terms of the various humanistic adjustments to the biomedical model.

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Autonomy and Human Rights in Healthcare: An International Perspective is a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics during the twentieth century.

In this remarkable book, Gary Wright brings his thirty years of experience as a physician in pediatric and family medicine together with his Ph.

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.

Medicine has been a very fruitful source of significant issues for philosophy over the last 30 years.

Since the 90's, issues of scarcity, priority setting, and rationing lie at the centre of most current debates on health care.

This collection of 21 articles is designed to serve as a state-of-the art reference book for intersexuals, their parents, health care professionals, ethics committee members, and anyone interested in problems associated with intersexuality.

CHRISTOPH REHMANN-SUTTER, MARCUS DUWELL, DIETMAR MIETH When we placed "e;finitude"e;, "e;limits of human existence"e; as a motto over a round of discussion on biomedicine and bioethics (which led to this collection of essays) we did not know how far this would lead us into methodological quandaries.

Moral Dilemmas in Real Life purports to supply ways of thinking of, perhaps even dealing with, the ins and outs of ethical argument.

Few diseases have made more difference to our understanding of illness, the relation of the patient to the physician and other health care professionals, and the social context of disease than breast cancer.

The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics treats a number of distinct moral questions and ?

Bioethicists, moral philosophers and social policy analysts have long debated about how we should decide who shall be saved with scarce, lifesaving resources when not all can be saved.

At all times physicians were bound to pursue not only medical tasks, but to reflect also on the many anthropological and metaphysical aspects of their discipline, such as on the nature of life and death, of health and sickness, and above all on the vital ethical dimensions of their practice.

What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court?

The idea of preparing a new critical edition of Elisha Bartlett's Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science was suggested to me several years ago by Dr.

This book is about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly known as the D.

Walter Charleton is an intriguing character-he flits through the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn, the correspondence of Margaret Cavendish, and his texts appear in the libraries of better-known contemporaries.

In general, the history of virtue theory is well-documented (Sherman, 1997; O'Neill, 1996).

Public Health Policy and Ethics brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced.

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.

The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries.

"e;Luck egalitarianism"e;--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's theory of distributive justice.

Why the battle between superstition and science is far from overFrom uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture?

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation.

This indispensable textbook explores the ethics of issues from the interpersonal to the political.

Recent years have revealed the different experiences of abortion in the UK and the USA.

Recent years have revealed the different experiences of abortion in the UK and the USA.

Is there a place for palliative care within mental health?

"e;Luck egalitarianism"e;--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's theory of distributive justice.

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

Interest in environmental health research conducted with community participation has increased dramatically in recent years.

Interest in environmental health research conducted with community participation has increased dramatically in recent years.

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

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

This book is an attempt to address the ethical issues raised by mental illness and its treatment by focusing on the question of autonomy.

This book is an attempt to address the ethical issues raised by mental illness and its treatment by focusing on the question of autonomy.

Despite the continuing dominance of market relations and market forces in contemporary society, there remain fundamental questions about the ethical acceptability of markets and their effects.

Despite the continuing dominance of market relations and market forces in contemporary society, there remain fundamental questions about the ethical acceptability of markets and their effects.

This volume draws together essays from leading scholars on the challenges that arise for health, law, policy and ethics at the intersections of health, rights and globalization.

This volume draws together essays from leading scholars on the challenges that arise for health, law, policy and ethics at the intersections of health, rights and globalization.