Medical ethics and professional conduct

Clinicians must practice medicine in conformity with regulatory requirements.

Ethics and the Good Doctor brings together existing literature and an analysis of empirical research conducted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues to examine the ethical nature of medical practice and explore medicine as a virtuous profession.

Tom L.

In light of the potential novel applications of neurotechnologies in psychiatry and the current debate on moral bioenhancement, this book outlines the reasons why more conceptual work is needed to inform the scientific and medical community, and society at large, about the implications of moral bioenhancement before a possible, highly hypothetical at this point, broad acceptance, and potential implementation in areas such as psychiatry (e.

Issues in bioethics often turn, at least in part, on the law and regulatory requirements.

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

This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts.

'How to be Good?

This book explores central aspects of genetic modification of animals for scientific purposes in the context technological possibilities, regulatory issues in different regions, animal welfare implications and wider ethical issues exemplified through current theories and frameworks.

This volume - for pharmacologists, systems biologists, philosophers and historians of medicine - points to investigate new avenues in pharmacology research, by providing a full assessment of the premises underlying a radical shift in the pharmacology paradigm.

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.

Each year, neonatal Intensive care units (NICUs) in the U.

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

This book discusses the development of key issues in research ethics relevant for clinical sociologists, concerning client rights to confidentiality, privacy, and informed consent.

As part of a continuing effort to tackle issues of major social concern, this 280th conference of internationally recognized experts from the fields of molecular biology, medicine, philosophy, theology, and the law looks into the scientific, legal, ethical, social, and economic issues confronting man and his ability to map and sequence the human genome.

An ethical and philosophical examination of our understanding of human powers and nature.

This book is a concise introduction to the fundamental issues and debates in health care ethics.

For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal.

Patient-centered care for chronic illness is founded upon the informed and activated patient, but we are not clear what this means.

Regulating the End of Life: Death Rights is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field.

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

Reconstructing Medical Practice examines how doctors see health care and their place in it, why they remain in medicine and why they are limited in their ability to lead change in the current system.

What limits the genetic choices parents make for their children?

The pursuit of excellent compassionate care should be at the heart of all practice.

What happens when two intelligent American college students with different attitudes about guns launch into a careful exploration of the ethics of gun policy?

This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research.

While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B.

In Morality, Mortality, Volume II, Kamm continues to explore questions of life and death as illustrations of general issues in moral theory.

This practice-based textbook explores the ethical, legal and professional issues that characterise the field of healthcare.

International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology.

This book explores, through case studies, the interplay between religion, culture, government, and politics in diverse societies on questions arising in the domain of bioethics.

Why trust science?

Professionals are a growing group in China and increasingly make their presence felt in governance and civil society.

This important volume is the first to address the use of neuroimaging in civil and criminal forensic contexts and to include discussion of prior precedents and court decisions.

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics.

The subject of medical ethics is always current and offers an inviting theme, particularly for anyone who has spent his life in medical practice.

Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds, such as health care, philosophy, law, the social sciences, and religious studies.

The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century.

This title was first published in 2000: Over the past decade the welfare state has come under sustained attack not only from quarters which never approved of its policies, but also from political theorists who used to support it.

Der vorliegende Band enthält eine Sammlung von Aufsätzen zum Thema Leihmutterschaft aus Blickrichtungen verschiedener Disziplinen, die allesamt jeweils an den aktuellen Forschungsstand anknüpfen.

For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal.

For much of the developed world, health care for a surging elderly population looms as one of the most daunting problems of the coming decade.

An argument that modern liberal democracies should tolerate human enhancement technologies, answering key objections by critics of these practices.

Eine Orientierungshilfe für ethische Entscheidungen in der MedizinIn der komplett überarbeiteten 2.

A detailed analysis of the ethical, legal, and regulatory landscape of medical devices in the US and EU.

This thoroughly updated third edition lays a solid foundation for understanding the intersection of law, ethics and the rights of the patient in the context of everyday nursing and health care practice.

Bridging memoir with key concepts in narratology, philosophy and history of medicine, and disability studies, this book identifies and names the phenomenon of metagnosis: the experience of learning in adulthood of a longstanding condition.