Medical ethics and professional conduct

Deprescribing practice in hospice medicine has expanded exponentially in recent years.

To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings?

Autonomy is a vital principle in medical law and ethics.

Biobanks are promising instruments of biomedical research and of transnational medicine in particular.

Coherent Judaism begins by excavating the theologies within the Torah and tracing their careers through the Jewish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.

Across a broad range of disciplines - in medicine, social science, and the humanities - researchers, scholars, teachers, and administrators increasingly are looking for new ways to approach ethical issues in research with human subjects.

In bioethische Kontroversen geht es zumeist um den Umgang des Menschen mit sich selbst, genauer: den Umgang mit den biologischen Grundlagen seiner – der menschlichen – Existenz.

Civil Dialogue on Abortion provides a cutting-edge discussion between two philosophy scholars on each side of the abortion debate.

Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care examines the conflicting normative claims of partiality and impartiality in nursing care, looking in depth at how to reconcile reasonable concerns for one particular patient with equally important concerns for the maximisation of health-related welfare for all with relevant nursing-care needs, in a resource-limited setting.

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

This book is a machine-generated literature overview of the legal and ethical debates over privacy and data protection measures in the last three decades, showcasing the expectations vis-à-vis realities of their presence and application in different sectors.

Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application.

Long before it cured disease, medicine aimed to relieve suffering-but despite that precedence, the relief of suffering often takes a back seat in today's biomedical research and treatment.

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data.

Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision.

This text addresses the host of ethical questions that has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies.

When is a human study ethical?

As one of the 'learned' professions requiring advanced learning and high principles, law enjoys a special standing in society.

Bis wohin stellen neue biomedizinische Technologien willkommene Wege zur Therapie von Krankheiten oder zur Minderung von Leiden dar und wo beginnt das Streben nach einer "Verbesserung" des Menschen?

Hospice care is one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.

When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap.

The lack of trust in our healthcare system brings ominous results, from decreasing health outcomes to increasing costs, from organization inefficiencies to a pervasive pattern of litigation.

The current opioid epidemic in the United States began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of a new drug, OxyContin, viewed as a safer and more effective opiate for chronic pain management.

Religious freedom has become increasingly important across the global spectrum over the past decades but has remained a contested concept.

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics.

Encouraging a broad, compassionate, humanistic approach to spirituality, this book shows how patients' spiritual needs can be communicated well within interdisciplinary teams, leading to better patient wellbeing.

The field of bioethics was deeply influenced by religious thinkers as it emerged in the 1960s and early 1970s.

After reviewing related theories on stigmatisation of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), this book applies social exclusion theory, actor theory and stigma theory to the study of social mechanisms of stigmatisation of PLWHA in China to show the influence and mechanism of stigmatisation on them, and tries to construct the policy framework to tackle stigmatisation from the perspective of welfare pluralism.

This book contains the most recent papers problematizing the notions of health, vulnerability, and well-being for individuals and their environment.

A portable and imaginative aid to moral decision-making for students in all disciplines from social sciences to engineering.

This book presents original, critical and diverse perspectives on topics spanning the breadth of this emerging new field.

First published in 1998, Reproducing Narrative sets out to interrogate a number of medico-legal reproductive discourses.

This textbook explores public health and individual health care through the prism of global human rights and ethical decision-making.

Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science.

Applied ethics is an essential part of practical knowledge in pluralistic and democratic societies.

Examines trust, its definition, value, and decline from the perspective of a physician and a medical ethicist.

The three essays reprinted in this book were first published in 1963 as individual chapters of a psychiatric treatise entitled Psychiatrie der Gegen- wart (Psychiatry of the Present Day).

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine.

Selbsttötungsgedanken sind häufige Begleitphänomene schwerer, unheilbarer körperlicher und psychischer Erkrankungen.

This book is intended for all those who not only have to give bad news but who are also keen to give as much help and support as possible to partners and families - both immediately and during remission relapse terminal illness dying or grieving.

The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent, healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to technologies of human enhancement.

Unmasks the role of psychological essentialism in cloning bans, explaining how intuitions cause individuals to act against their own values.

While the American legal system has played an important role in shaping the field of bioethics, Law and Bioethics is the first book on the subject designed to be accessible to readers with little or no legal background.