Medical ethics and professional conduct

This practical guide summarizes the principles of working with dying patients and their families as influenced by the commoner world religions and secular philosophies.

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications.

Since its first publication in 1996, Ethics and Epidemiology has been an invaluable resource for practicing public health professionals and MPH students around the world.

Bioethics was "e;born in the USA"e; and the values American bioethics embrace are based on American law, including liberty and justice.

Global Research Ethics is a guide for students and their instructors as well as practitioners and researchers to understand topics linked to research ethics from a more global perspective.

The debate over whether human bodies and their parts should be governed by the laws of property has accelerated with the pace of technological change.

This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood.

In this book, part of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) textbook series, experts in the field of clinical ethics describe basic principles of clinical ethics and ethical reasoning, the fundamental pillars of intensive care medicine as well as the decision-making processes necessary to arrive at appropriate decisions for each individual patient.

The Science and Ethics of Antipsychotic Use in Children reviews the latest findings for the safety and efficacy of the rapidly rising incidence of antipsychotic use in children and examines tensions that are created by off-label use, both in clinical psychiatric practice and research.

AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 'Start the Week' : 'very moving - brilliant and profound'"e;Brilliant - a grimly humorous yet humane account of the realities of growing old in the modern age.

The book provides a detailed introduction to a major debate in bioethics, as well as a rigorous account of the role of conscience in professional decision-making.

Thinking critically is an essential skill, both for students and for the modern, evidence-based, healthcare practitioner.

Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision.

Caring for elders outside of institutions is the fastest growing sector of US health care.

How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.

Countless public health agencies are trying to solve our most intractable public health problems -- among them, the obesity and opioid epidemics -- by partnering with corporations responsible for creating or exacerbating those problems.

This updated third edition is an essential overview for teachers and students in medical and biological sciences, and for those who conduct animal-based research.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The definitive book on ethics for chemical dependency treatment professionals.

The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics.

This book fills an important gap in existing health care ethics literature by describing an egalitarian conception of moral respect which applies to autonomous and non-autonomous patients alike.

Modern medicine is one of humankind's greatest achievements.

This text addresses the how, why, and when of utilizing force against citizens in a democracy.

The 2nd Edition of Who Owns You, David Koepsell s widely acclaimed exploration of the philosophical and legal problems of patenting human genes, is updated to reflect the most recent changes to the cultural and legal climate relating to the practice of gene patenting.

This textbook examines the ways in which arguments may be used and abused in medicine and health.

Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness.

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series represents the results of this EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries.

This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine.

Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did.

This title was first published in 2002: This book is an analysis of the ways in which mental states ground attributions of responsibility to persons.

In these uncertain times, how much can you trust health news?

Raimund Pousset gives in this essential a concise account of senicide, the modern form of cultural killing of the elderly.

In dem vorliegenden Buch wird die Zulässigkeit einer ärztlichen Mitwirkung an verbotenen Kinderwunschbehandlungen im Ausland analysiert.

The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here.

This book is an evaluation of the effectiveness of housing enforcement and tenant protection in England's private rented sector using policy analysis to evaluate regulatory provisions and local authority guidance to identify the advantages and limitations of existing policies.

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The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("e;Collaborative"e;) is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care.

Examines how the framing of disability has serious implications for legal, medical, and policy treatments of disability.

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment.

Advances in our understanding of the brain and rapid advances in the medical practice of neurology are creating questions and concerns from an ethical and legal perspective.

This book explains what inalienable rights are and how they restrict the behavior of their possessors.

This book investigates how a study of Shakespeare's plays may enhance empathy in doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.

The primary aim of this textbook is to contribute towards the promotion of human security by educating nurses with a profound understanding of disaster nursing and to conduct innovative research and practices in cooperation.

Human Rights and Healthcare looks at medical law from a human rights perspective.

We will all be patients sooner or later.

Reframing Disease Contextually will be of particular interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers.