Medical ethics and professional conduct

Mark Taylor demonstrates how research using genetic data can be reconciled with proper privacy protection.

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing.

This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies.

This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul.

In the last two decades, more thanever before dentists must determine how toproperly maintaintheir focus on ethics and professionalism in the face of powerfulcommercial pressures.

This book is about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly known as the D.

This revised second edition analyses social policy in Scotland since devolution in 1999 and reflects the nascent and distinctively Scottish policy agenda.

Medical Affairs is one of the three strategic pillars of the pharmaceutical and MedTech industries, but while clear career paths exist for Commercial and Research and Development, there is no formal training structure for Medical Affairs professionals.

Healthcare providers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar expectations, anxieties, and needs into the examination room.

Dieses bereits in zweiter Auflage erscheinende Buch ist eine interdisziplinäre, praxisorientierte Einführung in die Tätigkeitsfelder Klinischer Ethikberatung und spiegelt die Erfahrungen der Autoren aus eigener Unterrichts- bzw.

Documents experiences throughout the entire research process - from conceptualization, ethics approval, field-work, analysis, and publication.

Proposing a new view of global justice based on natural law, this book examines the ethics of health as they relate to neglected diseases.

Reviews the conceptual basis of evidence-based medicine and the ethical issues it gives rise to.

Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to ''one-size-fits-all'' treatment.

Medical confidentiality has long been recognised as a core element of medical ethics, but its boundaries are under constant negotiation.

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

This title was first published 2000: Ever since Michael Tooley published his article on "e;Abortion and Infanticide"e; in 1972, the abortion debate has revolved around questions such as: "e;What is a person?

Nurses are positioned on healthcare's front line, intimately connected to individuals, families, and communities.

Bonnie Steinbock presents The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics - an authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics.

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.

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

This new edited collection explores the intersection of spiritual direction and counselling/psychotherapy, and the relationship between the two.

A coherent, wide-ranging and practical account of the role of consent in biomedicine, first published in 2007.

When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish.

The central idea for this book is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating resources and in the absence of such a consensus we must rely on a fair decision-making process for setting limits on health care.

This book tells the dramatic story of Crispr and the potential impact of this gene-editing technology.

Drawing on the controversial case of Ashley X, a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever smalla procedure now known as the Ashley TreatmentReconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and bioethics.

Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research - the Tuskegee syphilis study.

Fundamentals and Frontiers of Medical Education and Decision-Making brings together international experts to consider the theoretical, practical, and sociocultural foundations of health professions education.

At the heart of research with human beings is the moral notion that the experimental subject is altruistic, and is primarily concerned for the welfare of others.

Geno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century.

In the 1850s, "e;Drapetomania"e; was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States.

The need for quality improvement and for cost saving are driving both individual choices and health system dynamics.

This book explores the many prospects, challenges and ethical questions that surround the engineering of our reproductive cells.

This is the first book to argue in favor of paying people for their blood plasma.

Drawing on his own experience, and on literature, philosophy, and medicine, Daniel Callahan offers great insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death.

Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision.

The education division is a prominent part of the public health profession.

Caring is at the core of what nurses and other health professionals do.

People should be cared for in a safe environment that is protected from internal and external harm.

What if the work of a nurse, physio, or homecare worker was designated an art, so that the qualities of the experiences they create became understood as aesthetic qualities?

Giving Blood represents a new agenda for blood donation research.

Examines the pharmaceutical industry to expose how higher-priced drugs receive favorable treatment and patients are channeled toward the most expensive medicines.

It may be unnecessary to some to publish a text on sexuality in 1986 since the popular press speaks of the sexual revolution as if it were over and was possibly a mistake.

This volume discusses the definitional problems and conceptual strategies involved in defining the human.

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Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts examine the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes.