Medical ethics and professional conduct

Details the provision of good-quality care to the victims of sexual and domestic violence.

In this groundbreaking work, the authors explore the intricate interplay between commercial surrogacy and the global healthcare system, challenging conventional views with fresh insights into ethical, legal, and medical dimensions.

Details the provision of good-quality care to the victims of sexual and domestic violence.

This book re-examines privacy in a world where genome sequencing is cheap, databases can be large, and access rights are hidden.

Offers guidance on the current debate about the value and purpose of healthcare, helping readers to make rational, defensible decisions.

This book re-examines privacy in a world where genome sequencing is cheap, databases can be large, and access rights are hidden.

Offers guidance on the current debate about the value and purpose of healthcare, helping readers to make rational, defensible decisions.

A treatment of the fundamental ethical issues underlying the application of genetic technologies to humans, first published in 2000.

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

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

Human genetics has blossomed from an obscure biological science and explanation for rare disorders to a field that is profoundly altering health care for everyone.

Human genetics has blossomed from an obscure biological science and explanation for rare disorders to a field that is profoundly altering health care for everyone.

Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman As the population in western cultures ages, more people suffer chronic, ultimately life-limiting diseases and medical professionals need to be equipped to cope with the ever growing pressure of palliative care.

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.

This book provides a clear approach to establishing a user involvement system in a healthcare organisation and its potential impact on cancer services.

'This book is a tribute to expert nursing.

This book explores the Care Trust concept promoted by central government for improving partnership working between health and social care.

This book provides the best information available on the ways priorities are currently set for health care around the world.

This Second Edition of The Psychiatry of Palliative Medicine remains a practical and pragmatic distillation of the psychiatry relevant to the terminally ill.

Education of healthcare professionals is the cornerstone of specialist palliative services.

Illuminating the Diversity of Cancer and Palliative Care Education examines a myriad of original approaches, techniques, methods, educational strategies and imaginative innovations within this vital field of medicine.

This book contains a foreword by Maurice Conlon, Associate Director, Appraisal and Revalidation Lead, NHS Clinical Governance Support Team.

Advances in medical science and technology are saving the lives of more children worldwide than ever.

The quality of cancer and palliative care is going through unprecedented change and development as a result of policy initiatives.

This is an updated guide to the range of drugs commonly unused in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

This volume provides both the scientific and medical background to manipulation, as well as sound practical advice on how to carry out manipulative techniques.

This educational workbook helps people who build compassionate relationships with dying people.

This comprehensive resource book, the key text for the Gold Standards Framework (GSF) Programme, supports and enables all primary health professionals, and all those involved in palliative care, to make improvements in care provided for their patients, as recommended in the NICE guidance on Supportive and Palliative Care.

Helping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of effective palliative care.

This book is intended for all those who not only have to give bad news but who are also keen to give as much help and support as possible to partners and families - both immediately and during remission relapse terminal illness dying or grieving.

This work includes Foreword by Nigel Sykes, Medical Director, St Christopher's Hospice, London.

This book offers an extensive range of ideas and practical developing service users' creativity including songmaking, drama, dance, creative writing, music, video and visual arts.

A Long Walk Home is Rachel Clark's evocative and moving account of her treatment and experiences with health professionals in Britain and Australia while she was living with, and dying from, cancer.

The second edition of this highly successful text has been greatly expanded and updated, and is now available in two companion volumes.

Focusing on a matter of continuing contemporary significance, this book is the first work to offer an in-depth exploration of exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship.

Focusing on a matter of continuing contemporary significance, this book is the first work to offer an in-depth exploration of exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship.

This book is created for a diverse audience that includes geologists and Earth scientists studying the impacts of geological processes on human health, as well as health professionals and medical researchers interested in the environmental determinants of health.

Understand the legal principles of nursing all nurses should know with this definitive guide Diamond's Legal Aspects of Nursing, 8th edition, by Iwan Dowie and Richard Griffin, is the definitive guide to the law that all nurses should know.

Understand the legal principles of nursing all nurses should know with this definitive guide Diamond's Legal Aspects of Nursing, 8th edition, by Iwan Dowie and Richard Griffin, is the definitive guide to the law that all nurses should know.

This book presents the recent findings on air quality in Africa from the virtual event of the first International Conference on Air Quality in Africa (ICAQ 2022), providing a comprehensive overview on many subjects of air pollution that affect African society.

This book explores medicine, ethics and the challenge of moral diversity in health care.

This book explores medicine, ethics and the challenge of moral diversity in health care.

Conveys all the core topics emphasising the interplay between medical law and medical ethics in a unique chapter structure.

Conveys all the core topics emphasising the interplay between medical law and medical ethics in a unique chapter structure.

Unmasks the role of psychological essentialism in cloning bans, explaining how intuitions cause individuals to act against their own values.

Unmasks the role of psychological essentialism in cloning bans, explaining how intuitions cause individuals to act against their own values.

A comprehensive reference providing an approach to problems of biomedical ethics in the clinical setting.

This revised edition of Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants is an accessible and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary skills for your practice.