Medical ethics and professional conduct

Clinically focused compilation of expert opinion and international perspectives from leaders in anesthesiology, building on real-life case-based problems.

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Seeks to redefine the professional role of the mental health worker by bringing perspectives from leading professionals in different fields.

This book addresses the response of law and quasi-legal bodies to human service failures.

A proposal for resolving tensions between professionals and society regarding tissue for transplants and research, while properly protecting donors'' interests.

This book provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death.

This volume provides a theoretical and practical overview of the ethics of pediatric medicine.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

Matti Häyry asks if we should make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances allow it.

Some of humankind's greatest tools have been forged in the research laboratory.

A proposal for resolving tensions between professionals and society regarding tissue for transplants and research, while properly protecting donors'' interests.

This book is an essential text for practitioners of clinical forensic medicine and for those who take them through judicial proceedings.

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

This book is a tool to help patients and families deal rationally with the perplexing and often irrational world of healthcare.

Matti Häyry asks if we should make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances allow it.

This book highlights concepts of professionalism in medicine such as ethical issues and both clinical and non-clinical challenges in patient care.

This book addresses the response of law and quasi-legal bodies to human service failures.

An interdisciplinary exploration of important developments in neuroscience, and the philosophical, ethical, and social issues that such advancements generate.

This book provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death.

This volume provides a theoretical and practical overview of the ethics of pediatric medicine.

This book highlights concepts of professionalism in medicine such as ethical issues and both clinical and non-clinical challenges in patient care.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

An examination of legal measures which might be used to solve the problem of fragmentation of patents in genetics.

This book is an essential text for practitioners of clinical forensic medicine and for those who take them through judicial proceedings.

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

A wide-ranging discussion of the morality and legality of medically assisted death.

Naturalized Bioethics shows bioethicists and health care professionals a new way to address the ethical issues surrounding health care.

This book provides a framework for addressing important philosophical issues in psychiatry and psychopharmacology.

Focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy.

Documents experiences throughout the entire research process - from conceptualization, ethics approval, field-work, analysis, and publication.

28 detailed cases explore the ethical reasoning, professional issues, and the emotional aspects of difficult consultations.

The legal status of posthumous interests is analysed in three areas of medico-legal context.

Prado addresses the question of whether it is rational to end one''s life in order to escape devastating terminal illness.

A comprehensive reference providing an approach to problems of biomedical ethics in the clinical setting.

Leading international specialists evaluate the ethical and social implications of developments in reporting surgeon performance.

An ethical and philosophical examination of our understanding of human powers and nature.

Mason explores aspects of pregnancy which involve medico-legal intervention, including unwanted or undesired pregnancies.

In this book, first published in 2007, bioethics scholars examine the ethical, legal and social questions raised by human genetic databases.

A coherent, wide-ranging and practical account of the role of consent in biomedicine, first published in 2007.

This book is a wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue.

A one-stop reference for all medical professionals who encounter ethicolegal problems during their management of patients.

Discusses the pros and cons of laws against human reproductive cloning.

The ethical issues encountered in the clinical management of extremely premature neonates.

This book connects medical liability to broader trends and goals in American health policy.

Argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies.

This book examines the ethical controversies that have surrounded the design and conduct of international medical research carried out in developing countries.

This book provides a unique and in-depth coverage of ethical and moral issues in medicine and their legal implications.

This book addresses the limits of medicine by examining two mirror-image debates in tandem.

How can Christian ethics make a significant contribution to health care ethics in today''s Western, pluralistic society?

These papers by doctors, scholars, industry executives, and NGO representatives debate ethics in the pharmaceutical industry.