Medical ethics and professional conduct

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.

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.

Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.

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

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.

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

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.

In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics.

This book explores implicit choices made by researchers, policy makers, and funders regarding who benefits from society's investment in health research.

This book is a discussion of the most timely and contentious issues in the two branches of neuroethics: the neuroscience of ethics; and the ethics of neuroscience.

In this pioneering work, Abdulaziz Sachedina - a scholar with life-long academic training in Islamic law - relates classic Muslim religious values to the new ethical challenges that arise from medical research and practice.

In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience.

Observing Bioethics examines the history of bioethics as a discipline related not only to modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the core values and beliefs of American society and its courts, legislatures, and media.

What does it take to be a scientist?

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment.

The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics.

Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient.

This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry.

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.

This book serves as an invaluable guide on how clinical trials are designed and run, how to interpret the results, and what to make of them in general.

The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers.

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.

Film and literature have long been mined for interesting examples and case studies in order to teach biomedical ethics to students.

This book is a discussion of the most timely and contentious issues in the two branches of neuroethics: the neuroscience of ethics; and the ethics of neuroscience.

Neuroethics is concerned with the wide array of ethical, legal and social issues that are raised in research and practice.

The philosopher Henry Richardson's short book is a defense of a position on a neglected topic in medical research ethics.

The human microbiome is the bacteria, viruses, and fungi that cover our skin, line our intestines, and flourish in our body cavities.

This edition represents a thorough-going revision of what has become a classic text in biomedical ethics.

Public Bioethics collects the most influential essays and articles of James F.

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

Advances in medical treatment now enable physicians to prolong life to a previously unknown extent, however in many instances these new techniques mean not the saving of life but prolonging the act of dying.

Before Bioethics narrates the history of American medical ethics from its colonial origins to current bioethical controversies over abortion, AIDS, animal rights, and physician-assisted suicide.

Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism.

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This book describes in fascinating detail the variety of experiments sponsored by the U.

Few arguments in biomedical experimentation have stirred such heated debate in recent years as those raised by animal research.

Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient.