Medical ethics and professional conduct

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.

This fascinating book gives readers an appreciation of how biomedical research should work and how the reality is all too often seriously flawed.

This fascinating book gives readers an appreciation of how biomedical research should work and how the reality is all too often seriously flawed.

There is no end in sight to the frequency with which physicians, nursing professionals and other healthcare providers will become lawsuit targets in our litigious society.

There is no end in sight to the frequency with which physicians, nursing professionals and other healthcare providers will become lawsuit targets in our litigious society.

Australia is increasingly recognised as a multicultural and diverse society.

Australia is increasingly recognised as a multicultural and diverse society.

This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress and construct pain as a potentially positive experience.

This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress and construct pain as a potentially positive experience.

Professional identity is a central topic in all courses of professional training and educators must decide what kind of identity they hope their students will develop, as well as think about how they can recruit for, facilitate and assess this development.

Professional identity is a central topic in all courses of professional training and educators must decide what kind of identity they hope their students will develop, as well as think about how they can recruit for, facilitate and assess this development.

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.

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.

This book proposes an innovative new model for transforming racial and cultural lines in health and social care through communication processes, and introduces listening partnerships as a cost-effective, sustainable intervention to improve communication skills.

This book proposes an innovative new model for transforming racial and cultural lines in health and social care through communication processes, and introduces listening partnerships as a cost-effective, sustainable intervention to improve communication skills.

This book examines the intersection of legal and social work in India and beyond.

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

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

This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings.

This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings.

This revised second edition analyses social policy in Scotland since devolution in 1999 and reflects the nascent and distinctively Scottish policy agenda.

This revised second edition analyses social policy in Scotland since devolution in 1999 and reflects the nascent and distinctively Scottish policy agenda.

This new edition provides the essential clinical guidance both for those embarking upon a career in palliative medicine and for those already established in the field.

This handbook provides an up-to-date reference point for ethnography in healthcare research.

This handbook provides an up-to-date reference point for ethnography in healthcare research.

This new edition provides the essential clinical guidance both for those embarking upon a career in palliative medicine and for those already established in the field.

Written by clinical lecturers, Professional Transitions in Nursing provides a practical and accessible guide to the core knowledge and skills required by nurse graduates entering the Australian workforce for the first time.

Written by clinical lecturers, Professional Transitions in Nursing provides a practical and accessible guide to the core knowledge and skills required by nurse graduates entering the Australian workforce for the first time.

This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels.

This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels.

Originally published in 1979, The Care of the Sick is a detailed and comprehensive exploration of the emergence of modern nursing.

Originally published in 1979, The Care of the Sick is a detailed and comprehensive exploration of the emergence of modern nursing.

Concussion has become one of the most significant issues in contemporary sport.

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.

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.

Concussion has become one of the most significant issues in contemporary sport.

Clinicians must practice medicine in conformity with regulatory requirements.

Clinicians must practice medicine in conformity with regulatory requirements.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.

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

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

Originally published in 1990, this study of the moral problems bound up with transplant therapy addresses a finely balanced distinction between ethical issues relating to its experimental nature on the one hand and those which arise when transplantation is routine on the other.

Originally published in 1990, this study of the moral problems bound up with transplant therapy addresses a finely balanced distinction between ethical issues relating to its experimental nature on the one hand and those which arise when transplantation is routine on the other.

Hark, Hark!

Hark, Hark!

Originally published in 1985, this book examines the concept of death against the background of dramatic changes in medical technology.

Originally published in 1985, this book examines the concept of death against the background of dramatic changes in medical technology.

Important links between health and human rights are increasingly recognised, and human rights can be viewed as one of the social determinants of health.