Medical ethics and professional conduct

An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.

How medical education and practice can move beyond a narrow focus on biological intervention to recognize the lived experiences of illness, suffering, and death.

An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.

An examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived  eugenics.

Legal, regulatory, and ethical perspectives on balancing social benefit and human autonomy in research using human biospecimens.

Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.

Why preterm birth rates in the United States remain high even as access to prenatal care has improved and infant mortality has steadily dropped.

A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.

An argument that modern liberal democracies should tolerate human enhancement technologies, answering key objections by critics of these practices.

An analysis of current biomedical research misconduct policy that proposes a new approach emphasizing the context of misconduct and improved oversight.

Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.

Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.

One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time.

A novel and multidisciplinary exposition and theorization of human dignity and rights, brought to bear on current issues in bioethics and biolaw.

An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring.

A philosopher argues there is an ethical imperative to provide psychotherapy to depressed patients because the insights gained from it promote autonomy.

The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body.

Practicing as a radiologist is about more than image interpretation.

Practicing as a radiologist is about more than image interpretation.

The Psychology of Eating is the essential multidisciplinary introduction to the psychology of eating, looking at the biological, genetic, developmental, and social determinants of how humans find and assimilate food.

A hospice chaplain's lessons on the meaning of life, from those who are leaving itWhat are the top regrets of the dying?

In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues.

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

Medical confidentiality is an essential cornerstone of effective public health systems, and for centuries societies have struggled to maintain the illusion of absolute privacy.

Research physicians face intractable dilemmas when they consider introducing new medical procedures.

Intuition is central to discussions about the nature of scientific and philosophical reasoning and what it means to be human.

Intuition is central to discussions about the nature of scientific and philosophical reasoning and what it means to be human.

We have provided the reader with a resource for applied ethical decision-making for use in clinical, educational, and research settings.

Justice is foundational to discussion, debate, and policy making surrounding biomedical research.

Health systems need to set priorities fairly.

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.

Intimate and medicalized, natural and technological, reproduction poses some of the most challenging ethical dilemmas of our time.

The Ethics of Private Practice helps mental health professionals understand the essential ethical issues related to the many challenges of being in independent practice.

The Ethics of Private Practice helps mental health professionals understand the essential ethical issues related to the many challenges of being in independent practice.

This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States.

This major new work updates and significantly expands The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying.

The ethics of creating -- or declining to create -- human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and embryo research; literature on "e;self-creation"e;; and discussions of procreative rights and responsibilities, genetic engineering, and future generations.

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Childhood obesity has become a central concern in many countries and a range of policies have been implemented or proposed to address it.

Most mental health professionals and behavioral scientists enter the field with a strong desire to help others, but clinical practice and research endeavors often involve decision-making in the context of ethical ambiguity.

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

Of every thousand children born in Iceland, two will die before their first birthday, but in Mozambique the death rate is sixty times higher.

Interesting and important ethical questions confront researchers, regulators, institutional review boards, support personnel, and research participants committed to the ethical conduct of human subjects research at all stages of research.

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.

Adopting a broadly compatibilist approach, this volume's authors argue that the behavioral and mind sciences do not threaten the moral foundations of legal responsibility.

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While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B.

Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care.

Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human?

In this groundbreaking volume, David Schenck and Larry Churchill present the results of fifty interviews with practitioners identified by their peers as "e;healers,"e; exploring in depth the things that the best clinicians do.