Medical ethics and professional conduct

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

In ancient Rome parents would consult the priestess Carmentis shortly after birth to obtain prophecies of the future of their newborn infant.

Unfit for the Future argues that the future of our species depends on our urgently finding ways to bring about radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our own human nature.

Autonomy is a fundamental though contested concept.

This practical book is written specifically for junior doctors by a team of highly experienced authors, as an introductory guide to clinical research.

This practical book is written specifically for junior doctors by a team of highly experienced authors, as an introductory guide to clinical research.

Ageing populations mean that palliative and end of life care for older people must assume greater priority.

Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global.

This is a new health economics textbook with a difference.

Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

What shapes our sexuality?

A book for nurses, doctors and all who provide end of life care, this essential volume guides readers through the ethical complexities of such care, including current policy initiatives, and encourages debate and discussion on their controversial aspects.

The Oxford Specialist Handbooks series provides readers with clear, concise information on all that is needed to successfully train in the medical sub-specialties.

Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global.

To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings?

The field of medical education and training has undergone dramatic changes within the past few years, and continues to evolve.

Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

What shapes our sexuality?

Progress in genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't have.

In the last fifty years, average overall health status has increased more or less in parallel with a much celebrated decline in mortality, attributed mostly to poverty reduction, sanitation, nutrition, housing, immunization, and improved medical care.

Lainie Ross presents a rigorous critical investigation of the development of policy governing the involvement of children in medical research.

The goals of healthcare and health policy, and the health-related dilemmas facing policy makers, professionals, and citizens are extensively analysed and debated in a range of disciplines including public health, sociology, and applied philosophy.

Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence.