Medical ethics and professional conduct

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics.

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This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States.

Cancer has become the scourge of the twentieth century.

Author Tom Preston, MD, and his terminally ill patients and their families often face the controversial predicament of how to die when suffering has been medically extended.

Americans' health and well-being are slowly but steadily disintegrating at an alarming rate.

A major focus of the philosophy of medicine and, in general, of the philosophy of science has been the interplay of facts and values.

Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death.

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Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute.

Before a separate Department of Medical Humanities was formed, the editors of this volume were faculty members of the Department of Pediatrics at our medical school.

The best things in my Ufe have come to me by accident and this book results from one such accident: my having the opportunity, out of the blue, to go to work as H.

The right to turn ones chosen source is now well established in both law and ethics, but where children are unable to choose for themselves the situation is fraught with moral difficulties.

This volume introduces a new subseries of Philosophy and Medicine, Classics of Medical Ethics.

Now revised and expanded to cover today's most pressing health threats, Public Health Law and Ethics probes the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health through an incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and relevant court cases.

This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the state of global health and current challenges, and offers innovative proposals for change.

This book applies a discussion of the nature of human life to resolving bioethical issues.

This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the state of global health and current challenges, and offers innovative proposals for change.

This book applies a discussion of the nature of human life to resolving bioethical issues.

A critical evaluation of the law''s engagement with the process of healthcare decision-making, and how the relationship might be enhanced.

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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 unique compilation of legal and ethical guidance was first published in 2003, and incorporates key guidelines.

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

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.