Despite the continuing dominance of market relations and market forces in contemporary society, there remain fundamental questions about the ethical acceptability of markets and their effects.
As the demand for organs continues to outstrip availability and waiting lists surge, the pressure to make morally questionable, unethical decisions becomes more likely and trust in transplant medicine starts to erode.
Featuring contributions from leading scholars of health privacy law, this important volume offers insightful reflection on issues such as confidentiality, privacy, and data protection, as well as analysis in how a range of jurisdictions-including the US, the UK, Europe, South Africa, and Australia-navigate a rapidly developing biomedical environment.
Whether you are a doctor, nurse, student, or otherwise interested reader, the stories here will help you to understand how medicine works and how medical error can happen.
Dieses Buch richtet sich an Pflegende auf der Intensivstation und ist ein Leitfaden für die Betreuung von Patienten mit extrakorporaler Membranoxygenierung, kurz ECMO.
This book is aimed at analyzing the foundations of medical ethics by considering different moral theories and their implications for judgments in clinical practice and policy-making.
Las neurociencias, entre las que destaca la neuroanestesiología, han tenido un gran avance en los últimos años debido a un mayor conocimiento y entendimiento de los procesos genético–moleculares involucrados en la función y la disfunción del sistema nervioso y a su interacción con diferentes disciplinas que enriquecen a esta importante área de la medicina.
Ideal for quick reference, this pocket-sized (120x80mm), spiral-bound book in the popular Nursing & Health Survival Guide series puts all the crucial information about patient consent at your fingertips.
Auf Empfehlung des Wissenschaftsrats wurde der Querschnittsbereich Geschichte, Theorie, Ethik der Medizin als benotetes Pflichtfach für Medizinstudierende in der ärztlichen Approbationsordnung verankert.
Ideal for quick reference, this pocket-sized (120x80mm), spiral-bound book in the popular Nursing & Health Survival Guide series puts all the crucial information about patient consent at your fingertips.
From first person accounts of pharmaceutical studies gone bad to intricate medical histories, Guinea Pig Zero provides a fascinating look at the people who sell their bodies to science.
This compact and innovative book tackles one of the central issues in drug policy: the lack of a coherent conceptual structure for thinking about drugs.
We encourage children to play sports from an early age in order to instill in them such virtues as teamwork, perseverance, respect, fairness, and discipline, but, as perennial scandals in the headlines show us, sports also give rise to thorny ethical problems.
We encourage children to play sports from an early age in order to instill in them such virtues as teamwork, perseverance, respect, fairness, and discipline, but, as perennial scandals in the headlines show us, sports also give rise to thorny ethical problems.
Dieses essential bietet einen Überblick über vorliegende Forschungsdaten zu den Gründen des Schwangerschaftskonflikts und präsentiert eine detaillierte aktuelle Studie sowie den zugehörigen standardisierten Erfassungsansatz.
Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke has written a gripping moral thriller that uses the lens of medical ethics to examine urgent questions of faith, belief, and scientific rationality.
Dieses essential bietet einen Überblick über vorliegende Forschungsdaten zu den Gründen des Schwangerschaftskonflikts und präsentiert eine detaillierte aktuelle Studie sowie den zugehörigen standardisierten Erfassungsansatz.
Callous Disregard is the account of how a doctor confronted first a disease and then the medical system that sought and still seeks to deny that disease, leaving millions of children to suffer and a world at risk.
