Medical profession

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

A Palliative Care Book of the Month: IAHPC (International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care) From a medical insider comes a plea to renew medicine’s mandate to relieve suffering.

Issues in bioethics often turn, at least in part, on the law and regulatory requirements.

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.

This book, written by a lawyer and a doctor explains to everyday readers ways in which they can avoid death and injury caused by medical mistakes.

Medical ethics changed dramatically in the past 30 years because physicians and humanists actively engaged each other in discussions that sometimes led to confrontation and controversy, but usually have improved the quality of medical decision-making.

People should be cared for in a safe environment that is protected from internal and external harm.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.

This fully-updated third edition of Jon Bailey and Mary Burch's bestselling Ethics for Behavior Analysts is an invaluable guide to understanding and implementing the newly-revised Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) Professional and Ethical Compliance Code.

Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism.

Since its first publication in 1996, Ethics and Epidemiology has been an invaluable resource for practicing public health professionals and MPH students around the world.

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics.

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series focuses on the 'Privacy in Research Ethics and Law' EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries.

The ethical aspects of the operation of healthcare organizations (HCOs) are central to the delivery of health care.

In this groundbreaking book, Dr.

What is it like to be sued for medical malpractice?

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups.

How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.

CHRISTOPH REHMANN-SUTTER, MARCUS DUWELL, DIETMAR MIETH When we placed "e;finitude"e;, "e;limits of human existence"e; as a motto over a round of discussion on biomedicine and bioethics (which led to this collection of essays) we did not know how far this would lead us into methodological quandaries.

Reproductive health care professionals in fields such as Obstetrics and Gynecology, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics face difficult ethical issues because they work at the crossroads of patient decision-making, scientific advancement, political controversy, legal regulation, and profound moral considerations.

Ethics and the Good Doctor brings together existing literature and an analysis of empirical research conducted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues to examine the ethical nature of medical practice and explore medicine as a virtuous profession.

This book explores, through case studies, the interplay between religion, culture, government, and politics in diverse societies on questions arising in the domain of bioethics.

Suffering is an unavoidable reality in health care.

This fascinating book gives readers an appreciation of how biomedical research should work and how the reality is all too often seriously flawed.

This book analyses the concept of disease, as defined in the context of evolutionary medicine.

This book guides the physician through the daunting communication challenges of explaining life-threatening illness to patients and families.

Introducing the first definitive training guide to point-of-care ultrasoundWhether you're a medical student or other health professional, this complete, one-stop tutorial takes you through everything you need to know about ultrasound scanners and their use across the full range of medical settings.

What are the goals of health promotion and the most apropriate means of achieving them?

Revolutionary advances in biomedical research and information systems technology pose new and difficult issues for American health care policy, especially in the context of managed care.

Take the intimidation out of medical terminology Every job in the medical field needs some background in medical terminology.

A hopeful memoir that shares the author's voyage of discovery as a mother, wife, and physician in underserved communities in northern Ontario.

This book combines empirical research with commentary on ethics, policy and legislation, raising provocative questions about reproductive donation and surrogacy.

The Emmy Award-winning broadcaster shares a New York Times-bestselling, unvarnished personal account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Are you involved in caring for people at the end of their life?

There is an urgent need to improve doctors' communication skills.

This title was first published in 2001.

Language exercises a powerful impact on medical care as the words that physicians use with patients have the power to heal or harm.

One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process.

Interest in environmental health research conducted with community participation has increased dramatically in recent years.

Leaders from academia and industry offer guidance for professionals and general readers on ethical questions posed by modern technology.

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

A thoroughly researched, empirically-based explanation of the failures of end-of-life communication & decision-making in the United States.

Medical Professionals: Conflicts and Quandaries in Medical Practice offers a fresh approach to understanding the role-related conflicts and quandaries that pervade contemporary medical practice.

In a world where incredible medical technologies are possible does ';can do' mean ';should do'?

Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and their caregivers striving together to maintain comfort and hope in the face of incurable illness.

Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics.

This work maps the criminal process''s impact on several key issues in medicine and its arbitration of bioethics.