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This book fills an important gap in existing health care ethics literature by describing an egalitarian conception of moral respect which applies to autonomous and non-autonomous patients alike.

Healthcare Simulation at a Glance presents an accessible overview of everything you need to know about simulation in clinical practice and healthcare education.

On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds.

Provides a research-informed review of topics essential to clinical psychological assessment and diagnosis.

Over the past decade health care systems around the world have placed increasing importance on the relationship between patient choice and clinical decision-making.

Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) are the key drivers of the economy and development of a country.

Nous cherchons souvent le remède miracle à nos maux, la pilule qui permettrait d'enrayer rapidement nos symptômes.

This title was first published in 2003.

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IT ALL RESTS ON A STORY.

This interdisciplinary volume gathers selected, refereed contributions on various aspects of public health from several disciplines and research fields, including the philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics.

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Examines trust, its definition, value, and decline from the perspective of a physician and a medical ethicist.

This work includes Foreword by Nigel Sykes, Medical Director, St Christopher's Hospice, London.

How does the market affect and redefine healthcare?

The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics offers the reader an informed view of how the brain sciences are being used to approach, understand, and reinvigorate traditional philosophical questions, as well as how those questions, with the grounding influence of neuroscience, are being revisited beyond clinical and research domains.

Mental health laws surrounding psychiatric treatment under coercion have remained largely unchanged since the eighteenth century.

This book is the first comprehensive report and analysis of the Dutch euthanasia experience over the last three decades.

Preparing for Professional Practice in Health and Social Care is the ultimate companion for students and newly qualified practitioners in occupational therapy, physiotherapy and other allied health professions.

Considers problems associated with genetic information in an age of declining welfare provision, and offers direction for future policy.

This book explores and elaborates three theories of public reason, drawn from Rawlsian political liberalism, natural law theory, and Confucianism.

Modern medicine is one of humankind's greatest achievements.

Ethical medical practice and treatment in psychiatry are based on the concept of first do no harm.

The Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research is an evidence-based, succinct, and easy-to-use reference for the full range of clinical and healthcare research topics.

Public Bioethics collects the most influential essays and articles of James F.

Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine.

The current state of medicine has witnessed the long-term adverse effects of certain medications, an increased rate of polypharmacy, and a cultural shift that emphasizes patient-centered practice.

An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.

The quality of cancer and palliative care is going through unprecedented change and development as a result of policy initiatives.

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the experience of health and investigates how this experience is shaped by recent developments in medicine and public health.

Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.

Suffering is a central component of our lives.

Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.

Most people believe that parents have moral rights and responsibilities regarding their children.

This book delves into the evolution of the New Thought Movement and its pervasive influence on modern healthcare.

The debate over whether human bodies and their parts should be governed by the laws of property has accelerated with the pace of technological change.

'Stories that will curl your toes, make you laugh out loud and break your heart all at the same time.

International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology.

Behind heart disease and cancer, medical error is now listed as one of the leading causes of death.

For Readers ofPaul Kalanithi'sWhen Breath Becomes Air,an Intensive Care Doctor Reveals How Everyday Emotions Are Taken to Extremes in the ICU Dr.

New Drugs, Fair Prices addresses the important question of how we might get the innovative new medicines we need at prices we can afford.

Publishing on the 50th anniversary of the opening of St Christopher's Hospice - widely thought of to be the first modern hospice, combining pain and symptom management with education and training - this edited collection discusses what motivates professionals and volunteers to provide spiritual care.

This edited collection is designed to explore the ethical nature of judicial decision-making, particularly relating to cases in the health/medical sphere, where judges are often called upon to issue rulings on questions containing an explicit ethical component.

"e;Luck egalitarianism"e;--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's theory of distributive justice.

First published in 1998, this volume considers the Nuremberg Code in light of new ethical grey areas which have become evident due to recent scientific advancements, particularly the questions of DNA and cloning.

Prognostication of acute neurologic disease is a major task for neurohospitalists and neurointensivists.

This book applies a discussion of the nature of human life to resolving bioethical issues.

Since the first "e;test tube baby"e; was born over 40 years ago, In Vitro Fertilization and other Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have advanced in extraordinary ways, producing millions of babies.