Medical ethics and professional conduct

Since its first publication in 1996, Ethics and Epidemiology has been an invaluable resource for practicing public health professionals and MPH students around the world.

Since its first publication in 1996, Ethics and Epidemiology has been an invaluable resource for practicing public health professionals and MPH students around the world.

This book-first published a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted-is the first authored volume on ethical issues in infectious disease, "e;monumental"e; for its competence and comprehensiveness.

The rapid expansion of the halal industry and its markets has occurred not only in the heavily Islamic regions of Southeast Asia and the Middle East, but also in more unexpected countries such as Turkey, Japan, and South Korea, plus many others around the world.

The rapid expansion of the halal industry and its markets has occurred not only in the heavily Islamic regions of Southeast Asia and the Middle East, but also in more unexpected countries such as Turkey, Japan, and South Korea, plus many others around the world.

Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics provides the first comprehensive treatment of principles and positions on questions of bioethics encountered by members, professionals, and ecclesiastical leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon).

Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics provides the first comprehensive treatment of principles and positions on questions of bioethics encountered by members, professionals, and ecclesiastical leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon).

The foundations of research ethics are riven with fault lines emanating from a fear that if research is too closely connected to weighty social purposes an imperative to advance the common good through research will justify abrogating the rights and welfare of study participants.

In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012.

In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012.

Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child.

Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child.

Bridging memoir with key concepts in narratology, philosophy and history of medicine, and disability studies, this book identifies and names the phenomenon of metagnosis: the experience of learning in adulthood of a longstanding condition.

Bridging memoir with key concepts in narratology, philosophy and history of medicine, and disability studies, this book identifies and names the phenomenon of metagnosis: the experience of learning in adulthood of a longstanding condition.

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

We often hear stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by someone offering promises of help.

We often hear stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by someone offering promises of help.

Mental health professionals face many complex questions in the course of their work with clients and patients.

Every day, thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.

Every day, thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.

Based on a non-consequentialist ethical theory, this book critically examines the prevalent view that if a fetus has the moral standing of a person, it has a right to life and abortion is impermissible.

The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today.

Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation.

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

This book explains what inalienable rights are and how they restrict the behavior of their possessors.

Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today.

The concept of altruism, or disinterested concern for another's welfare, has been discussed by everyone from theologians to psychologists to biologists.

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

When Ivan Illich published Medical Nemesis in 1975, he offered a withering critique of the medical profession and the medical model.

When Ivan Illich published Medical Nemesis in 1975, he offered a withering critique of the medical profession and the medical model.

Ethical issues inherent in psychiatric research and clinical practice are invariably complex and multi-faceted.

Ethical issues inherent in psychiatric research and clinical practice are invariably complex and multi-faceted.

This book explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism.

This book explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism.

Research participants who have cognitive disabilities and differences may be considered a vulnerable population.

Research participants who have cognitive disabilities and differences may be considered a vulnerable population.

This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook.

This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook.

Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an essential part of end of life care in the UK and most developed countries.

Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an essential part of end of life care in the UK and most developed countries.

In this masterful book, Julian Hughes makes a convincing case that many acts in clinical and care practice are ethical matters.

Caring for terminally ill patients and their families is challenging.

Caring for terminally ill patients and their families is challenging.

Mental health laws surrounding psychiatric treatment under coercion have remained largely unchanged since the eighteenth century.

Mental health laws surrounding psychiatric treatment under coercion have remained largely unchanged since the eighteenth century.

With advances in personalised medicine, the field of medical law is being challenged and transformed.

With advances in personalised medicine, the field of medical law is being challenged and transformed.

It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of 'recovery' from mental health has been more widely considered and researched.

Samuel J.

Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives.