This book deals with the research and use of embryonic stem cells to combat a number of diseases and the legal limitations, arising mostly from bioethical concerns regarding human life.
Uncertainty is the norm in medical practice, yet often gives rise to distress in clinicians, who fear they will make shameful or guilt inducing errors.
Patient-centered care is a way of thinking and doing things that considers patients partners in the development of a healthcare plan designed to meet their specific needs.
Most mental health professionals and behavioral scientists enter the field with a strong desire to help others, but clinical practice and research endeavors often involve decision-making in the context of ethical ambiguity.
Anyone who has spent time in a hospital as a patient or family member of a patient hopes that those who attend to us or our loved ones are at their professional best and that they care for us in ways that console us and preserve our dignity.
Der Band „Facetten von Gesundheitskompetenz in einer Gesellschaft der Vielfalt“ zeichnet ein vielseitiges Bild über die Bedeutung von Gesundheit und Gesundheitskompetenz in einer Gesellschaft, die von zunehmender Diversität, digitaler Transformation und immer leistungsfähigerer Medizin geprägt ist.
El Atlas de gastroenterología es una obra original que incluye lesiones de todo el aparato digestivo -cavidad bucal, esófago, laringe, estómago, duodeno, intestino delgado, colon, región anorrectal, hígado, vesícula biliar, vías biliares y páncreas.
In this groundbreaking volume, David Schenck and Larry Churchill present the results of fifty interviews with practitioners identified by their peers as "e;healers,"e; exploring in depth the things that the best clinicians do.
Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research.
This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.
Written by clinical lecturers, Professional Transitions in Nursing provides a practical and accessible guide to the core knowledge and skills required by nurse graduates entering the Australian workforce for the first time.
El conocimiento de la microbiota intestinal humana y su papel en la salud y enfermedad son, sin duda, unos de los grandes avances de la ciencia y la medicina contemporánea, El número de estudios de investigación publicados sobre microbiota intestinal se ha incrementado exponencialmente en las últimas dos décadas.
This guide explores spiritual direction from biblical and theological perspectives and aims both to inform teaching and equip practitioners with greater reflective skills.
By any metric, burnout is a pressing issue in medicine generally and psychiatry specifically -- particularly because of its potential impacts on patient care.
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.
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.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 was a major update to the UK's laws on the use and regulation of reproductive technology and assisted reproduction.
This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to definition of torture by bringing together behavioral science and international law perspectives on torture.
