Medical ethics and professional conduct

Environmental health law is a wide-ranging, detailed and complex body of law within the UK.

Environmental health law is a wide-ranging, detailed and complex body of law within the UK.

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

This book is a collection of original, interdisciplinary essays on the topic of medical error.

This book provides an account of the ethics of chronic illness.

This book is a collection of original, interdisciplinary essays on the topic of medical error.

This book provides an account of the ethics of chronic illness.

This established and well-regarded Guide describes the management of patients with advanced disease.

The high profile cases of Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans, and Tafida Raqeeb raised the questions as to why the state intrudes into the exercise of parental responsibility concerning the medical treatment of children and why parents may not be permitted to decide what is in the best interests of their child.

The high profile cases of Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans, and Tafida Raqeeb raised the questions as to why the state intrudes into the exercise of parental responsibility concerning the medical treatment of children and why parents may not be permitted to decide what is in the best interests of their child.

Learning from Disease in Pets: A 'One Health' Model for Discovery is the first encompassing reference guide for veterinarians, researchers and physicians on conducting studies using spontaneous models of disease in animals.

Learning from Disease in Pets: A 'One Health' Model for Discovery is the first encompassing reference guide for veterinarians, researchers and physicians on conducting studies using spontaneous models of disease in animals.

The Basics of Bioethics, Fourth Edition offers an easy-to-follow introduction to this dynamic field, intended for healthcare professionals, teachers, students, and anyone interested in bioethics.

The Basics of Bioethics, Fourth Edition offers an easy-to-follow introduction to this dynamic field, intended for healthcare professionals, teachers, students, and anyone interested in bioethics.

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research.

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research.

Are you involved in caring for people at the end of their life?

This book is for readers who wish to understand the ethical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic - holistically - on communities, politics, the economy, the environment, international relations, public health, and, most importantly, on their own lives and their own futures.

Mental health nurses need to work within the law to ensure good, legal care for their patients, while at the same time being guided by appropriate values.

Holistic models of cancer and palliative care frequently refer to spirituality as an important element.

In 1841 the American sailing ship William Brown struck an iceberg.

None of the literature in the field of terminal care provides a full treatment of the laws, documents, and policies relating to the difficult issues arising at the end of life.

The possibility of treating patients with organ replacement therapy has created a new frontier in medical care.

Students and professional nurses at any level of clinical practice will find this book to be a vital resource on the basic legal concepts and principles of malpractice, liability, and risk management, and their implications for the profession.

Today, most people use prescription medications.

From the medical use of marijuana to organ donations to animal testing, the medical profession is rife with controversial issues.

Au quotidien, les professionnels de la santé ont à convaincre différentes personnes ou communautés – qu’il s’agisse de patients, de collègues, de supérieurs ou de partenaires – de la pertinence de leurs points de vue.

As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive medicine and good, ethical patient care, this book investigates the impact of legalities on medical treatment.

Noted economist Douglas Vickers reexamines the relationship between economics and moral philosophy.

Autonomy is a vital principle in medical law and ethics.

What responsibilities, if any, do we have towards our genetic offspring, before or after birth and perhaps even before creation, merely by virtue of the genetic link?

Transnational surrogacy the creation of babies across borders has become big business.

Diane Blood first hit the headlines in 1996 when she went to court to fight for the right to use her late husband's sperm to try for the child they had planned together before his sudden death from meningitis.

The world's leading source of evidence-based guidance on caring for patients at the end of life.

In questions of psychiatric ethics, simple "e;yes"e; or "e;no"e; answers are rare, yet questions arise frequently in the clinical setting.

Here is the first practical guide for dealing with the moral issues that regularly confront clinicians in their work.

Currently, positive pressure mechanical ventilation has gained widespread recognition as an essential strategy in the treatment of various forms of acute and chronic respiratory failure.

The world's leading source of evidence-based guidance on caring for patients at the end of life.

Professional negligence cases are a minefield and clinical negligence cases are no exception.

Professional negligence cases are a minefield and clinical negligence cases are no exception.

'I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.

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.

When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey.

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation.

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics.

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