Medical profession

In der Formierungsphase der Neuzeit hat Blaise Pascal den durch den Fortschritt der Wissenschaften verursachten Wandel des Weltbildes sowohl existentiell erlitten wie kritisch reflektiert.

Every year in the United States, 12 per cent of all births are preterm births, 5 per cent of all babies need help to breathe at birth, and 3 per cent of neonates are born with at least one severe malformation.

PrólogoLa historia es el faro que ilumina nuestro camino y nos da la oportunidad de comprender no solo de dónde venimos, sino también hacia dónde nos dirigimos.

Examines the ethical, legal, and regulatory challenges presented as genomics become commonplace, easily available consumer products.

In a single convenient resource, this revised and updated edition of a classic text organizes and presents clearly the documents of the Catholic Church pertaining to medical ethics.

The present book is a sequel to Ephraim Chamiel's two previous works The Middle Way and The Dual Truth-studies dedicated to the "e;middle"e; trend in modern Jewish thought, that is, those positions that sought to combine tradition and modernity, and offered a variety of approaches for contending with the tension between science and revelation and between reason and religion.

Essential Clinical Oral Biology is an accessible guide to oral biology, introducing the scientific knowledge necessary to succeed in clinical practice.

Medical education is a life-long process, and it is important for beginning medical students to gain a solid understanding of the basics within the first year of medical school.

All health care students must be familiar with the basic concepts of health care in the United States.

Everyday, new advances are being made in the science of human genetics.

Use of the arts in palliative care settings is a powerful and effective way of addressing the practical, psychological, social and spiritual issues faced by service users in end-of-life care.

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Ease the pressure of the GP Vocational Training Scheme Stage 2 exams, and ensure your progress to Stage 3, with this complete preparation guide Featuring all question types from the exam, including SBAs, EMQs and Professional Dilemmas, and covering a range of medical and surgical specialties, this invaluable guide not only tests appropriate application of clinical knowledge, but encourages doctors to think logically and ethically - vital in recognising appropriate behaviour in professional dilemmas.

This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States.

In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race.

This volume captures the recent changes and evolution in ethics in research involving humans and provides future directions to achieve alternative drug development strategies for equitable global health.

This is the first volume to comprehensively discuss the ethical, regulatory, and social aspects of xenotransplantation research.

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath.

This book offers a philosophically-based, yet clinically-oriented perspective on current medical reasoning aiming at 1) identifying important forms of uncertainty permeating current clinical reasoning and practice 2) promoting the application of an abductive methodology in the health context in order to deal with those clinical uncertainties 3) bridging the gap between biomedical knowledge, clinical practice, and research and values in both clinical and philosophical literature.

Public health law has been a subject of much controversy and contestation, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

Immigration is a key concern in British society; however, the ethical implications of the issue are often overlooked.

Bringing together an international range of case studies and interviews with individuals who have had genital re/construction, Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries explores the socio-cultural meanings of clitoral re/construction following female genital cutting (FGC), hymen reconstruction, trans and intersex bodily interventions; and cosmetic surgery.

Today s medicines are regulated for their efficacy and safety and, once approved, they can be marketed for certain uses as justified by the data.

Addresses the social and ethical challenges raised by the promise of neuroscience to revolutionise the treatment of addiction.

Proponents of the concept of ecological integrity argue that it is a necessary component of global governance on which the sustainable future of the planet and its inhabitants depends.

La biopsia hepática es uno de los procedimientos de mayor utilidad para el estudio y la evaluación del hígado, así como para el diagnóstico, el pronóstico y el tratamiento en determinadas enfermedades hepáticas.

Anwendungen der Gendiagnostik und Reproduktionsmedizin erlauben es Wunscheltern, immer weiter auf das Erbgut ihrer Nachkommen Einfluss zu nehmen.

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

Contemporary debates over issues as wide-ranging as the protection of wildernesses and endangered species, the spread of genetically modified organisms, the emergence of synthetic biology, and the advance of human enhancement, all of which seem to spin into deeper and more baffling questions with every change in the news cycle, often circle back to the same fundamental question: should there be limits to the human alteration of the natural world?

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died.

Justice is foundational to discussion, debate, and policy making surrounding biomedical research.

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives.

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

Emergency Ethics brings together leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice.

This is the first volume to comprehensively discuss the ethical, regulatory, and social aspects of xenotransplantation research.

This book presents an important reflection on the concept and limits of the Fundamental Right to Health as opposed to a supposed "e;Right to Hope"e; in the context of the treatment of patients with advanced cancer.

Pharmacists constantly face ethical choices -- sometimes dramatic matters of life-and-death decisions, but more often subtle, less conspicuous choices that are nonetheless important.

Each year, tens of thousands of children are conceived with donated gametes (sperm or eggs).

This book provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death.

Explores differences in beliefs of what constitutes reliable scientific evidence during public health emergencies, including COVID-19.

Before Bioethics narrates the history of American medical ethics from its colonial origins to current bioethical controversies over abortion, AIDS, animal rights, and physician-assisted suicide.

In der Krankenpflege, Sozialen Arbeit oder Erziehung werden Fachkräfte mit intensiven Emotionen anderer Menschen wie Angst, Hilflosigkeit oder Wut konfrontiert und erleben sie empathisch mit.

For many health care professionals and social service providers, the hardest part of the job is breaking bad news.

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.

This book is a wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue.

The first textbook on the subject, this is a practical, clinically comprehensive guide to ethical issues in surgical practice, research, and education written by some of the most prominent figures in the fields of surgery and bioethics.