Medical ethics and professional conduct

28 detailed cases explore the ethical reasoning, professional issues, and the emotional aspects of difficult consultations.

This volume considers the ethical legitimacy of invoking the criminal law to regulate medical and scientific practice and bioethical issues.

This volume considers the ethical legitimacy of invoking the criminal law to regulate medical and scientific practice and bioethical issues.

Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts examine the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes.

Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts examine the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes.

This book presents original, critical and diverse perspectives on topics spanning the breadth of this emerging new field.

A portable and imaginative aid to moral decision-making for students in all disciplines from social sciences to engineering.

A portable and imaginative aid to moral decision-making for students in all disciplines from social sciences to engineering.

Identifies ethical issues and requirements of genetically-based addiction research, specifies the ethical and public policy implications of applying research.

Identifies ethical issues and requirements of genetically-based addiction research, specifies the ethical and public policy implications of applying research.

This book combines empirical research with commentary on ethics, policy and legislation, raising provocative questions about reproductive donation and surrogacy.

This book is the first comprehensive report and analysis of the Dutch euthanasia experience over the last three decades.

This book is the first comprehensive report and analysis of the Dutch euthanasia experience over the last three decades.

This book combines empirical research with commentary on ethics, policy and legislation, raising provocative questions about reproductive donation and surrogacy.

Definitive, comprehensive guidance for members of healthcare ethics committees confronted with ethically challenging situations.

Definitive, comprehensive guidance for members of healthcare ethics committees confronted with ethically challenging situations.

This text addresses the how, why, and when of utilizing force against citizens in a democracy.

Provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in genetics for health professionals, patients and their families.

Provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in genetics for health professionals, patients and their families.

Mark Taylor demonstrates how research using genetic data can be reconciled with proper privacy protection.

This book presents original, critical and diverse perspectives on topics spanning the breadth of this emerging new field.

Examines the legislative oversight in the regulation of prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies across a number of jurisdictions.

Examines the legislative oversight in the regulation of prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies across a number of jurisdictions.

Mark Taylor demonstrates how research using genetic data can be reconciled with proper privacy protection.

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A case-based approach to the principles of informed consent and their application in clinical practice.

John Coggon analyses important ethical, legal and political claims related to public health and health regulation.

A case-based approach to the principles of informed consent and their application in clinical practice.

John Coggon analyses important ethical, legal and political claims related to public health and health regulation.

Insightful analysis of how senior doctors manage the difficult moral problems they confront in leadership roles.

Insightful analysis of how senior doctors manage the difficult moral problems they confront in leadership roles.

Addresses the social and ethical challenges raised by the promise of neuroscience to revolutionise the treatment of addiction.

Addresses the social and ethical challenges raised by the promise of neuroscience to revolutionise the treatment of addiction.

Practical overview of ethical issues arising in pediatric practice, with a case-based approach that grounds bioethical concepts in real-life situations.

Practical overview of ethical issues arising in pediatric practice, with a case-based approach that grounds bioethical concepts in real-life situations.

This book provides the tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases people with disabilities and bioethicists have.

This book provides the tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases people with disabilities and bioethicists have.

This book offers a comprehensive ethical analysis of conscientious objection in three representative health care professions: medicine, nursing and pharmacy.

This book offers a comprehensive ethical analysis of conscientious objection in three representative health care professions: medicine, nursing and pharmacy.

An ethically-principled and pragmatic approach offering solutions to the problem of organ shortage, which remains pervasive in many countries.

An ethically-principled and pragmatic approach offering solutions to the problem of organ shortage, which remains pervasive in many countries.

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.

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.

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.

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

This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood.