Medical ethics and professional conduct

This paper presents a review of the history of medical ethics and applies the concepts and principles of medical ethics and morality to the clinical health-care setting.

Howard Dully was 12 years old when he was given a lobotomy.

A "e;surprisingly buoyant"e; memoir about "e;how it feels to face the likelihood of a shortened life .

Willing and Unable explores the social world where abortion politics and mainstream medicine collide.

What should medicine do when it cant save your life?

Holding a person hostage does not always require a gun or knife or another weapon.

Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death.

Clinical Negligence, Fifth Edition remains the only text of its kind to cover both medical and legal aspects of medical negligence.

Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention.

If we wish to understand loss experiences we must learn details of survivors' stories.

In this book Gadamer discusses the transformations in human self-understanding, focusing on the achievements of modern medicine.

The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers.

Clinical Negligence, Fifth Edition remains the only text of its kind to cover both medical and legal aspects of medical negligence.