Medical ethics and professional conduct

In bioethische Kontroversen geht es zumeist um den Umgang des Menschen mit sich selbst, genauer: den Umgang mit den biologischen Grundlagen seiner – der menschlichen – Existenz.

Providing a bridge between research in healthcare and spirituality and practitioner perspectives, these essays on chaplaincy in healthcare continue dialogue around constructing, negotiating and researching spiritual care and discuss the critical issues in chaplaincy work, including assisted suicide and care in children's hospices.

While the American legal system has played an important role in shaping the field of bioethics, Law and Bioethics is the first book on the subject designed to be accessible to readers with little or no legal background.

Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a natural law philosophical perspective.

Mental health issues are a growing concern in our modern Western society.

In the last two decades, more thanever before dentists must determine how toproperly maintaintheir focus on ethics and professionalism in the face of powerfulcommercial pressures.

Im Gegensatz zum Idealbild des "mündigen Patienten" zeichnen sich viele Patienten gerade dadurch aus, dass sie die Fähigkeit zur Autonomieausübung vorübergehend oder dauerhaft verloren oder aber gar nicht erst erworben haben.

The Paranormal, the new ebook series from F+W Media International Ltd, resurrecting rare titles, classic publications and out-of-print texts, as well as new ebook titles on the supernatural - other-worldly books for the digital age.

This book addresses the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system.

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series represents the results of this EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries.

Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Medical Law is all about, Beginning Medical Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.

Clinicians must practice medicine in conformity with regulatory requirements.

Physician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues?

Most mental health professionals and behavioral scientists enter the field with a strong desire to help others, but clinical practice and research endeavors often involve decision-making in the context of ethical ambiguity.

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

Students often think of science as disconnected pieces of information rather than a narrative that challenges their thinking, requires them to develop evidence-based explanations for the phenomena under investigation, and communicate their ideas in discipline-specific language as to why certain solutions to a problem work.

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.

Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im Wintersemester 2005/2006 von der Juristischen Fakultät der Universität Rostock als Dissertation angenommen.

This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities that have chosen to speak truth to power by reforming dysfunctional health care systems or creating new ones outside the box.

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.

Correctional registered nurses provide healthcare and related services, including advocacy, health education, preventive care, research, and clinical care.

This important book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding vaccine hesitancy, as well as the nuances of antivaccination claims.

First published in 1997, this title is a sequel to Dr Noel Curran's first book The Logical Universe: The Real Universe (published by Ashgate under the Avebury imprint, 1994).

This book deals with the research and use of embryonic stem cells to combat a number of diseases and the legal limitations, arising mostly from bioethical concerns regarding human life.

How can we accept that we ought to stop smoking, follow a diet, exercise, or take medications?

The book provides a detailed introduction to a major debate in bioethics, as well as a rigorous account of the role of conscience in professional decision-making.

The current development of biomedical ethics is a source of radical critique not only in the clinic, but also in the classroom.

Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine provides invaluable information, perspectives, and solutions to common ethical dilemmas in emergency medicine.

Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2.

This book argues that a conscientiously objecting medical professional should receive an exemption only if the grounds of an objector's refusal are reasonable.

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Aimed at supporting their emancipatory project, this book explores strategies for resisting dominance and enhancing agency within the caring professions.

As the use of human body parts has become increasingly commercialized, a need has arisen for new approaches to regulation that moves beyond the paradigm of altruism.

A concise and accessible overview of the design, implementation and management of medical software.

This book contrasts earlier textbooks on "e;evidence-based practices.

This book,the second produced by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, is a collection of essays on the subject of law and the human body.

The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health care system.

Contemporary bioethics, now roughly 40 years old as a discipline, originated in the United States with a primarily Anglo-American cultural ethos.

The identified lives effect describes the fact that people demonstrate a stronger inclination to assist persons and groups identified as at high risk of great harm than those who will or already suffer similar harm, but endure unidentified.

Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application.

A book for men and women from middle age to advanced years who have suddenly and unexpectedly become confronted with the huge effects that the male prostate can have on the body.

While vast numbers of nurses across the globe contribute in all areas of healthcare delivery from primary care to acute and long-term care in community settings, there are significant differences in how they are educated, as well as the precise nature of their practice.

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Over the past decades, reflection has taken centre stage in nursing education but it is easy to get stuck in a superficial cycle of storytelling and self-examination, without getting any further insights into your own practice and abilities.

nology in New Zealand.