First published in 1992, Quality and Regulation in Health Care employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to examine the methods used to influence the quality of health care in the US, UK, and Western Europe.
Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and Young People A crucially important text, which brings together many different philosophical aspects and ethical issues in children s nursing practice.
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.
After is a ground-breaking book for anyone curious about the scope of the human mind, the nature of consciousness, and the pursuit of a meaningful life.
Now more than ever, doctors are being targeted by government prosecutors and whistleblowers challenging the legality of their relationships with drug and device companies.
El consumo de sustancias psicotrópicas, sean psicoactivas, psicodepresoras, legales o ilegales, es una causa importante de ingresos a las unidades hospitalarias por diferentes causas: trastornos psicológicos o psiquiátricos, cardiovasculares, neurológicos y traumatológicos, así como complicaciones del embarazo, entre otros.
This volume addresses some of the most prominent questions in contemporary bioethics and philosophy of medicine: 'liberal' eugenics, enhancement, the normal and the pathological, the classification of mental illness, the relation between genetics, disease and the political sphere, the experience of illness and disability, and the sense of the subject of bioethical inquiry itself.
Bringing together the crucially important topics of cultural competence and compassion for the first time, this book explores how to practise 'culturally competent compassion' in healthcare settings - that is, understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it using culturally appropriate and acceptable caring interventions.
While the EU legitimacy crisis and the Great Recession prevail, certain European Union principles and policies have to be implemented in the member states.
Aimed at supporting their emancipatory project, this book explores strategies for resisting dominance and enhancing agency within the caring professions.
of UB's medical school, that UB developed its School of Arts and Sciences, and thus, assumed its place among the other institutions of higher education.
Clinically focused compilation of expert opinion and international perspectives from leaders in anesthesiology, building on real-life case-based problems.
Regulating the End of Life: Death Rights is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field.
Clinical dilemmas in dementia contexts are often not because the clinical facts are in doubt, but because the ethical and legal underpinnings are uncertain - which can cause worry and confusion.
This volume elucidates the pivotal ethical and legal issues arising from the use of brain organoids for research, therapeutic and enhancement purposes.
A Long Walk Home is Rachel Clark's evocative and moving account of her treatment and experiences with health professionals in Britain and Australia while she was living with, and dying from, cancer.
