Medical ethics and professional conduct

What happens when two intelligent American college students with different attitudes about guns launch into a careful exploration of the ethics of gun policy?

Cultivating Moral Character and Virtue in Professional Practice is a pioneering collection of essays focused on the place of character and virtue in professional practice.

Giving Voice to Values as a Professional Physician provides students with the theoretical background and practical applications for acting on their values in situations of ethical conflict.

In comparison to medicine, the professional field of public health is far less familiar.

In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L.

Education of healthcare professionals is the cornerstone of specialist palliative services.

This book explores the ethical implications of managing uncertainty in clinical decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This edited collection is designed to explore the ethical nature of judicial decision-making, particularly relating to cases in the health/medical sphere, where judges are often called upon to issue rulings on questions containing an explicit ethical component.

In The HighPurpose Company, corporate strategist and researcher Christine Arena shows that some extraordinary companies are driven by purpose, whereas others simply pretend to be.

Healthcare chaplains working as part of interdisciplinary teams are frequently involved in contributing to discussions on all aspects of patients' wellbeing.

The aim of this book is to introduce and discuss bioethics in a three-synergistic way: from the foundations to the current debates in relation to healthcare and social bioethics, and thereafter the possible future challenges.

Comprehensive, practical and reflective of the current Australian and New Zealand legislative framework and regulations, this unique textbook addresses legal and ethical issues across a broad range of traditional and complementary practices.

According to popular belief, technical skill is far more important for surgeons than thoughtful deliberation.

Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation-these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends.

This book provides a robust analysis of the history of clinical ethics, the philosophical theories that support its practice, and the practical institutional criteria needed to become a practicing clinical ethicist.

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.

Mental health laws surrounding psychiatric treatment under coercion have remained largely unchanged since the eighteenth century.

The quality of cancer and palliative care is going through unprecedented change and development as a result of policy initiatives.

Spirituality and Coping with Loss: End of Life Healthcare Practice describes a research study that reflects nurses' experience of the nature of loss encountered in end of life care settings as well as the ways in which spirituality is a resource in coping in these situations.

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patient's and the physician's understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient.

The Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision provides a global 'state of the art' overview of clinical supervision, presenting and examining the most comprehensive, robust empirical evidence upon which to base practice.

Film and literature have long been mined for interesting examples and case studies in order to teach biomedical ethics to students.

Investigating the ways in which digital technology is transforming the roles of nurses and how they deliver care, this book explores how nurses can optimise patient care, enhance clinical decision-making, and improve healthcare outcomes in the information age.

Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition is a standard resource for students, professionals, and academics wishing to understand current and future issues in healthcare ethics.

Global health is at a crossroads.

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

In this book, an international group of philosophers, economists and theologians focus on the relationship between justice, luck and responsibility in health care.

This anthology provides a collection of new essays on ethical and philosophical issues that concern the development, dispensing, and use of pharmaceuticals.

Die Festschrift ehrt das medizinrechtliche Lebenswerk von Dieter Hart.

In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum discuss the issue of care.

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Health and healthcare are vitally important to all of us, and academic interest in the law regulating health has, over the last 50 years, become an important field of academic study.

This book offers a philosophical perspective on contemporary Tourette Syndrome scholarship, a field which has exploded over the last thirty years.

Health Promotion Ethics: A Framework for Social Justice critically considers the ethical dimensions of promoting health with individuals and communities, encouraging a nuanced understanding of health promotion in the context of fairness, empowerment and social justice.

Guidance for addiction counselors in understanding and applying ethical standards Filled with proven strategies to help you examine your current practice for ethical snags and refresh your ethical thinking, Ethics for Addiction Professionals leads you in examining, building, and rebuilding aspects of your ethical practice with the goal of helping you become the strongest clinician possible ethically speaking.

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance offers accessible coverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and health professional education.

This book explores medicine, ethics and the challenge of moral diversity in health care.

This practice-based textbook explores the ethical, legal and professional issues that characterise the field of healthcare.

The global financial crisis (GFC) that began in 2007 concentrated attention on the morality of banking and financial activities.

Both communitarianism and casuistry have sought to restore ethics as a practical sciencethe former by incorporating various traditions into a shared definition of the common good, the latter by considering the circumstances of each situation through critical reasoning.

En las últimas décadas se ha visto un incremento de los problemas éticos, condicionado por una disminución de los valores humanos en la población en general y por el rápido incremento del desarrollo de la ciencia, en especial con logros tan importantes como la ingeniería genética, la biología molecular, la superación de las técnicas de producción, las pruebas de diagnóstico molecular, la creación de unidades coronarias, las investigaciones en el campo de la genética, el incremento en la esperanza de vida, etc.

The concept of deviance is complex, given that norms vary considerably across groups, times, and places.

What happens when two intelligent and highly informed fictional college students, one strongly pro-choice and the other vigorously pro-life, are asked to put together a presentation on abortion?

The second edition of this highly successful text has been greatly expanded and updated, and is now available in two companion volumes.

This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals.

This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis.