Medical ethics and professional conduct

For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal.

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

In the fifty years since DNA was discovered, we have seen extraordinary advances.

Environmental health law is a wide-ranging, detailed and complex body of law within the UK.

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

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

In this pioneering work, Abdulaziz Sachedina - a scholar with life-long academic training in Islamic law - relates classic Muslim religious values to the new ethical challenges that arise from medical research and practice.

This book encompasses two inter-related disciplines of health law and medical ethics applicable to Singapore.

Patient organizations and social health movements offer one of the most important and illuminating examples of civil society engagement and participation in scientific research and research politics.

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waitingThere are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing.

Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies draws students into this rapidly changing field, helping them to actively untangle the many issues at the intersection of medicine and moral concern.

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

A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.

The current opioid epidemic in the United States began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of a new drug, OxyContin, viewed as a safer and more effective opiate for chronic pain management.

Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death.

Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage?

This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand nursing as a profession and as a culture.

Most of us desire to be moral people, but too often we struggle to translate philosophical concepts about morality and ethics to everyday life.

The essence of nursing care continually exposes nurses to suffering.

In comparison to medicine, the professional field of public health is far less familiar.

In this original study, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering.

This book offers a philosophically-based, yet clinically-oriented perspective on current medical reasoning aiming at 1) identifying important forms of uncertainty permeating current clinical reasoning and practice 2) promoting the application of an abductive methodology in the health context in order to deal with those clinical uncertainties 3) bridging the gap between biomedical knowledge, clinical practice, and research and values in both clinical and philosophical literature.

This title was first published in 2003.

This text examines the concepts which are fundamental to everyday nursing practice.

The field of medical education and training has undergone dramatic changes within the past few years, and continues to evolve.

Civil Dialogue on Abortion provides a cutting-edge discussion between two philosophy scholars on each side of the abortion debate.

What does it mean to be a good professional?

Learning from Disease in Pets: A 'One Health' Model for Discovery is the first encompassing reference guide for veterinarians, researchers and physicians on conducting studies using spontaneous models of disease in animals.

All health care students must be familiar with the basic concepts of health care in the United States.

Hospice care is one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.

In this book, Laurence Armand French frames the emergence of medical, clinical, and legal ethical standards within the long history of institutional and systemic racial and gender biases in the United States.

Today s medicines are regulated for their efficacy and safety and, once approved, they can be marketed for certain uses as justified by the data.

Telling the story of a clinical trial testing an innovative gel designed to prevent women from contracting HIV, Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty provides new insight into the complex and contradictory relationship between medical researchers and their subjects.

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

Alasdair Maclean examines the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment and offers proposals for reform.

Guidance for addiction counselors in understanding and applying ethical standards Filled with proven strategies to help you examine your current practice for ethical snags and refresh your ethical thinking, Ethics for Addiction Professionals leads you in examining, building, and rebuilding aspects of your ethical practice with the goal of helping you become the strongest clinician possible ethically speaking.

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 introductory textbook relates theory to practice and enhances students' learning and understanding of cultural issues that impact on patient care and their own practice as nurses, while considering wider social and political issues.

This title was first published in 2001.

Offers a frank conversation about altruism in the global body market and critiques the vulnerability of altruism to corruption, coercion, pressure, and other negative externalities.

Health Care Ethics is a comprehensive study of significant issues affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic theology.

Mental health is the one area of health care where people are often treated against their will, with the justification that it is in their own interest.

Examines trust, its definition, value, and decline from the perspective of a physician and a medical ethicist.

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

Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing 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.

As a mental health nurse, possessing an ethical sensibility and developing ethical reasoning is vital.

First published in 2000, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychopathy was highly topical in tackling the interface of applied philosophy and psychiatry at a time when government and clinicians were giving careful consideration to new forms of treatment for people with psychopathic disorder.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to definition of torture by bringing together behavioral science and international law perspectives on torture.

Scientific facts can be so complicated that only specialists in a field fully appreciate the details, but the nature of everyday practice that gives rise to these facts should be understandable by everyone interested in science.