Medical ethics and professional conduct

Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine provides invaluable information, perspectives, and solutions to common ethical dilemmas in emergency medicine.

Correctional registered nurses provide healthcare and related services, including advocacy, health education, preventive care, research, and clinical care.

Examines the pharmaceutical industry to expose how higher-priced drugs receive favorable treatment and patients are channeled toward the most expensive medicines.

From the medical use of marijuana to organ donations to animal testing, the medical profession is rife with controversial issues.

This book provides a detailed guide to the ethical considerations involved when making decisions in surgery.

This book encompasses two inter-related disciplines of health law and medical ethics applicable to Singapore.

This book offers an extensive range of ideas and practical developing service users' creativity including songmaking, drama, dance, creative writing, music, video and visual arts.

Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality.

A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the patient rebellion against medical paternalism.

Concussion has become one of the most significant issues in contemporary sport.

Examines the theoretical and practical implications of using criminal law as a tool for protecting public health.

This volume draws together essays from leading scholars on the challenges that arise for health, law, policy and ethics at the intersections of health, rights and globalization.

The identified lives effect describes the fact that people demonstrate a stronger inclination to assist persons and groups identified as at high risk of great harm than those who will or already suffer similar harm, but endure unidentified.

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

Viele Menschen wunschen am Ende ihres Lebens, zuhause sterben zu konnen.

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.

Over the past 20 years, cognitive neuroscience has revolutionized our ability to understand the nature of human thought.

The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of "e;meaning"e; in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by research, and has led many palliative clinicians to look beyond the role of antidepressant treatment in this population.

Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern.

*Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*A near-death experience (NDE) is a phenomenon whereby powerful physical and emotional sensations and visions are experienced by someone who is either close to death or has been declared clinically dead.

Medicine has recently discovered spectacular tools for human enhancement.

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

What does supportive oncology do that palliative care doesn't already do?

This book contains a foreword by Maurice Conlon, Associate Director, Appraisal and Revalidation Lead, NHS Clinical Governance Support Team.

This title was first published 2000: Ever since Michael Tooley published his article on "e;Abortion and Infanticide"e; in 1972, the abortion debate has revolved around questions such as: "e;What is a person?

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.

Literature reviews are undertaken by students, researchers, clinicians and educationalists - that is, almost all nurses.

In these uncertain times, how much can you trust health news?

Conveys all the core topics emphasising the interplay between medical law and medical ethics in a unique chapter structure.

Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Public health activity, and the state's public health responsibilities to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy, can only be achieved through different means of social coordination.

Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways.

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International developments within the last twenty years have demonstrated controversial shifts in treatment for people with mental illnesses and the care of persons with intellectual disabilities.

Nurses are positioned on healthcare's front line, intimately connected to individuals, families, and communities.

This book expands, in a modest way, the discussion of hope and does so by focusing on a field where it is at the core of care-taking: medicine.

The use of narrative methods has a long history in palliative care, pioneered by Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement, Narrative and Stories in Health Care provides a vibrant, multidisciplinary examination of work with narrative and stories in contemporary health and social care, with a focus on the care of people who are ill and dying.

Health and social care decisions, and how they impact a family, are often viewed from the perspective of the individual family member making them--for example, the role of the parent in surrogacy questions, the care of the elderly, or decisionis that involve fetuses or organ donations.

This book provides the best information available on the ways priorities are currently set for health care around the world.

Cultivating Moral Character and Virtue in Professional Practice is a pioneering collection of essays focused on the place of character and virtue in professional practice.

This is an updated guide to the range of drugs commonly unused in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing remains the most comprehensive treatise on the art and science of palliative care nursing available.

Can religious arguments provide a reasonable basis for restrictive public policies regarding politically controversial medical interventions?

This book will be of tremendous use to all healthcare professionals from physicians to nurses to social workers, rehabilitation therapists, and chaplains.

This is the first book to explore the epistemology and ethics of advanced imaging tests, in order to improve the critical understanding of the nature of knowledge they provide and the practical consequences of their utilization in healthcare.

Enhancing Human Capacities is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement.

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) emerged in response to the longstanding tradition of "e;top-down"e; research-studies in which social scientists observe social phenomena and community problems as outsiders, separate from the participants' daily lives.

We have provided the reader with a resource for applied ethical decision-making for use in clinical, educational, and research settings.

Nursing Work has been transformed by political economy and women's struggle.