Medical ethics and professional conduct

This book explores the legal and ethical implications - both challenges and opportunities - of using big data in health care and research.

While paternalism has been a long-standing philosophical issue, it has recently received renewed attention among scholars and the general public.

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

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This comprehensive yet accessible resource provides readers with everything they need to know about intersex - people who are born with any range of sex characteristics that might not fit typical binary notions about male and female bodies.

Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it?

Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or motor neurone disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that can cause profound suffering for both the patient and their family.

In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities.

The Basics of Bioethics, Fourth Edition offers an easy-to-follow introduction to this dynamic field, intended for healthcare professionals, teachers, students, and anyone interested in bioethics.

End-of-life care, within critical care, continues to be a controversial topic.

This timely volume provides a comprehensive examination of how the proposed new European Health Data Space (EHDS) legislation will impact upon health and genetic data, individual privacy and providers of health services.

This book is a concise introduction to the fundamental issues and debates in health care ethics.

'Healthcare professionals spend much of their time listening to stories of sickness related by patients and their families.

Consent is the golden principle that determines the legality of most medical treatment.

On the part of the patient, healthcare demands unconditional trust in the professional.

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

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.

Numerous issues confront women's healthcare today, among them the medicalization of women's bodies, cosmetic genital surgery, violence against women, HIV, perinatal mental health disorders.

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Recent scientific developments, in particular advances in pharmacogenetics and molecular genetics, have given rise to numerous predictive procedures for detecting predispositions to diseases in patients.

Everyone knows the old adage, "e;an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,"e; but we seem not to live by it.

Alongside globalization, the sense of vulnerability among people and populations has increased.

Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science.

Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention.

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Setting out the implications of the postmodern condition for medical ethics, Troubled Bodies challenges the contemporary paradigms of medical ethics and reconceptualizes the nature of the field.

Alasdair Maclean examines the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment and offers proposals for reform.

This important book shows those working with clinical populations how to develop an understanding of the psychology of patients with cardiovascular problems to support appropriate medical care.

In recent times, the phrase 'personalised medicine' has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future.

First published in 1974, Charles Fried's Medical Experimentation is a classic statement of the moral relationship between doctor and patient, as expressed within the concept of personal care.

The Disability Bioethics Reader is the first introduction to the field of bioethics presented through the lens of critical disability studies and the philosophy of disability.

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

Examining Georges Canguilhem's enduring attention to the problem of error, from his early writings to Michel Foucault's first major responses to his work, this pathbreaking book shows that the historian of science was also a centrally important philosopher in postwar France.

The place of religion in public life continues to be a much-debated topic in Western nations.

The 2nd Edition of Who Owns You, David Koepsell s widely acclaimed exploration of the philosophical and legal problems of patenting human genes, is updated to reflect the most recent changes to the cultural and legal climate relating to the practice of gene patenting.

Cancer has become the scourge of the twentieth century.

An argument that modern liberal democracies should tolerate human enhancement technologies, answering key objections by critics of these practices.

The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades.

Die ehemalige Vorsitzende des Deutschen Ethikrats  Alena Buyx über die großen Fragen des Lebens – allgemein verständlich und lebensnahWenn es um unsere Gesundheit geht, wir mit Krankheit konfrontiert werden, oder es um Leben und Tod geht, stehen wir vor Entscheidungen, die uns nicht selten überfordern.

As asymmetric 'wars among the people' replace state-on-state wars in modern armed conflict, the growing role of military medicine and medical technology in contemporary war fighting has brought an urgent need to critically reassess the theory and practice of military medical ethics.

Human genetic engineering may soon be possible.

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

Walter Charleton is an intriguing character-he flits through the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn, the correspondence of Margaret Cavendish, and his texts appear in the libraries of better-known contemporaries.

'Healthcare professionals spend much of their time listening to stories of sickness related by patients and their families.

Infertility affects about five million individuals of childbearing age in the United States, yet infertility is a subject about which many people are reluctant to talk.

Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare argues that traditional modes of bioethics are proving incommensurable with burgeoning biotechnologies and consequently, emerging subjectivities.

This revised second edition analyses social policy in Scotland since devolution in 1999 and reflects the nascent and distinctively Scottish policy agenda.

This book looks at the integration of blockchain technology in healthcare settings, focusing on its potential to address security and privacy concerns of medical applications.