Medical ethics and professional conduct

The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades.

Following the boom in population databases in recent years there has been sustained and intense international debate about political processes and legal and ethical issues surrounding the protection and use of genetic data.

Interest in environmental health research conducted with community participation has increased dramatically in recent years.

Research involving human fetuses and fetal tissue has been a subject of national debate and rancor for more than two decades.

If God can be used by the powerful to justify violence in the name of order, he can also be used by the weak to illuminate the position of the victims of political conflict.

This book explores, in rich and rigorous ways, the possibilities and limitations of "e;thick"e; (concepts of) autonomy in light of contemporary debates in philosophy, ethics, and bioethics.

This Elements offers an introduction to various ethical issues in medical decision-making.

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Analyses the limitations of respect for autonomy and consent in human research ethics and explores alternative ethical approaches.

Over a period of a year, the symposium on clinical judgment has taken shape as a volume devoted to the analysis of how knowledge claims are framed in medicine and how choices of treatment are made.

Where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering?

Perinatal hospice is a novel form of care for an unborn child who has been diagnosed with a significantly life-limiting condition.

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

This edited volume aims to better understand the multifaceted phenomenon we call health.

Die Festschrift ehrt das medizinrechtliche Lebenswerk von Dieter Hart.

Cancer is a deadly disease that puts not only physical and financial pressure on the patient but also even more psychological pressure.

Focusing on a matter of continuing contemporary significance, this book is the first work to offer an in-depth exploration of exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship.

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

Care facilities often reflect the multifaith and multicultural nature of society, not least in a very diverse population of health and social care staff and care-recipients.

The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature.

A timely exploration of balancing Islamic heritage with contemporary medical and health concernsMuslim Medical Ethics draws on the work of historians, health-care professionals, theologians, and social scientists to produce an interdisciplinary view of medical ethics in Muslim societies and of the impact of caring for Muslim patients in non-Muslim societies.

This book explores implicit choices made by researchers, policy makers, and funders regarding who benefits from society's investment in health research.

This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries.

Drawing on the controversial case of Ashley X, a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever smalla procedure now known as the Ashley TreatmentReconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and bioethics.

What does it mean to be a "e;just"e; and "e;caring"e; society when we have only limited resources to meet unlimited health care needs?

While the importance of consent has been discussed widely over the last few decades, interest in its study has received renewed attention in recent years, particularly regarding medical treatment, clinical research and sexual acts.

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics is an outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in feminist bioethics, with chapters covering topics from justice and power to the climate crisis.

This handy reference will help medical school department chairs and other Academic Health Center (AHC) leaders navigate the important, challenging and complex responsibilities and opportunities of their positions, whether they are new, experienced or future leaders.

Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most widely read and oft-cited theologians writing today.

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice.

The perceived value of philosophy to medical education is increasing.

This book provides a comprehensive and approachable overview of Medicare under the Affordable Care Act.

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These are some of the urgent questions posed by this stimulating and wide-ranging new colloquy.

Research Methods in Health Humanities surveys the diverse and unique research methods used by scholars in the growing, transdisciplinary field of health humanities.

In 1841 the American sailing ship William Brown struck an iceberg.

The Nazi Viewpoint on the Position and Responsibilities of the Physician in the German National Socialist Society.

Intuition is central to discussions about the nature of scientific and philosophical reasoning and what it means to be human.

Infertility affects about five million individuals of childbearing age in the United States, yet infertility is a subject about which many people are reluctant to talk.

Over recent decades, the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science appear as a marked shift of societal attitudes towards many institutions and professionals.

Organs for Sale is a study of the bioethical question of how to increase human organ supply.

In Suffering Narratives of Older Adults, Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey turns to the traditions of phenomenology, humanistic psychology and social work to provide an in-depth exploration of the deep structure of the suffering experience.

Published in 1760, midwife Elizabeth Nihell wrote this book intending to educate soon to be parents on the role of the midwife.

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or worse, in the opening century of the third millennium.

This volume is the first to present a framework of general principles for animal research ethics together with an analysis of the principles' meaning and moral requirements.

That concern about human genetics is at the top of many lists of issues requiring intense discussion from scientific, political, social, and ethical points of view is today no surprise.

Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications.