Medical ethics and professional conduct

Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die.

The chilling, ghostly account of a doctor who is determined to find light in a lifeless body.

In a world where incredible medical technologies are possible does ';can do' mean ';should do'?

Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries.

The abortifacient RU-486 was born in the laboratory, but its history has been shaped by legislators, corporate marketing executives, and protesters on both sides of the abortion debate.

Research involving human fetuses and fetal tissue has been a subject of national debate and rancor for more than two decades.

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

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

Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries.

Papers presented at a symposium on philosophy and medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1974 were published in the inaugural volume of this series.

of UB's medical school, that UB developed its School of Arts and Sciences, and thus, assumed its place among the other institutions of higher education.

The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Center.

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Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter.

The pervasive influence of law on medical practice and clinical bioethics is often noted with a combination of exasperation and lamentation.

This text examines the dominant ways of looking at patient/clinician relationships in healthcare.

Millions of children have been born in the United States with the help of cutting-edge reproductive technologies, much to the delight of their parents.

The cadaver industry in Britain and the United States, its processes and profits Except for organ transplantation little is known about the variety of stuff extracted from corpses and repurposed for medicine.

We stand on the brink of unprecedented growth in our ability to understand and change the human genome.

This collection of stories from two practising GPs describes the reality of working within a failing and highly bureaucratic system, where there is a balancing act: regulation versus relationships; autonomy versus standard practice; algorithm versus individual attention.

A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the patient rebellion against medical paternalism.

An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation.

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.

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.

Have you ever had a conversation in a healthcare setting and come away from it thinking Say, WHAT?

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.

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.

Due to the changing nature of the practice of pharmacy, today's pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, and researchers are faced with an increasing amount of ethical dilemmas.

Oocyte cryopreservation entails important potential advantages for humanIVF, offering a less ethically disputable alternative to embryo cryopreservation,simplifying and making safer oocyte donation, and giving an opportunity forfertility preservation to women at risk of premature ovarian failure as an effectof genetic factors or chemo- or radiotherapies.

Ethical dilemmas are more common in assisted reproduction than in any other area of medicine.