Medical ethics and professional conduct

One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process.

One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process.

Research on human beings saves countless lives, but has at times harmed the participants.

Research on human beings saves countless lives, but has at times harmed the participants.

Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness.

Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness.

Originally published by Oxford in 1998, Psycho-Oncology was the first comprehensive text in the field and remains the gold standard today.

Originally published by Oxford in 1998, Psycho-Oncology was the first comprehensive text in the field and remains the gold standard today.

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

The emergence of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) presents an object lesson in the dangers that lie at the intersection of science and criminal law.

Geriatric Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of older adults living with cancer and their families.

Geriatric Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of older adults living with cancer and their families.

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness.

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness.

Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage?

This book examines the many ethical issues related to health and health care in children.

This book examines the many ethical issues related to health and health care in children.

The social practice of forming, shaping, expressing, contesting, and maintaining personal identities makes human interaction, and therefore society, possible.

Contemporary debates over issues as wide-ranging as the protection of wildernesses and endangered species, the spread of genetically modified organisms, the emergence of synthetic biology, and the advance of human enhancement, all of which seem to spin into deeper and more baffling questions with every change in the news cycle, often circle back to the same fundamental question: should there be limits to the human alteration of the natural world?

Contemporary debates over issues as wide-ranging as the protection of wildernesses and endangered species, the spread of genetically modified organisms, the emergence of synthetic biology, and the advance of human enhancement, all of which seem to spin into deeper and more baffling questions with every change in the news cycle, often circle back to the same fundamental question: should there be limits to the human alteration of the natural world?

Pediatric Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of adolescents living with cancer and their families.

Pediatric Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of adolescents living with cancer and their families.

This landmark text is the key resource for nurses working in the field of palliative care.

Being a patient is a unique interpersonal experience but it is also a universal human experience.

Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments.

Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments.

Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine.

Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine.

Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States.

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.

Hospice is the premiere end of life program in the United States, but its requirement that patients forgo disease-directed therapies and that they have a prognosis of 6 months or less means that it serves less than half of dying patients and often for very short periods of time.

Food products with genetically modified (GM) ingredients are common, yet many consumers are unaware of this.

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.

A wide variety of ambitions and measures to slow, stop, and reverse phenomena associated with aging have been part of human culture since early civilization.

Over recent decades, tremendous advances in the prevention, medical treatment, and quality of life issues in children and adolescents surviving cancer have spawned a host of research on pediatric psychosocial oncology.

We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts.

While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond.

This is a comprehensive introduction to the ethical issues at stake in the conduct of biomedical research, with extensive use of case examples.

In this original study, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering.

In Morality, Mortality, Volume II, Kamm continues to explore questions of life and death as illustrations of general issues in moral theory.

On March 2, 1994, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (a division of the Public Health Service) made headlines by releasing new cancer pain management guidelines.

Conflicts of interest are rampant in the American medical community.

Why is death bad for us, even on the assumption that it involves the absence of experience?

Children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses--and their families--require a unique kind of care to meet a wide variety of needs.

When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap.

When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap.

Patients today are more empowered and knowledgeable than they have ever been.

Patients today are more empowered and knowledgeable than they have ever been.

The landscape of the religion and health literature is littered with a plethora of models so large and so unwieldy that they are impossible to estimate empirically.

The landscape of the religion and health literature is littered with a plethora of models so large and so unwieldy that they are impossible to estimate empirically.