Medical profession

Errors and violations harm many patients: this book explores how to improve both accountability and patient safety in healthcare.

The Rebirth of the Clinic begins with a bold assertion: the doctor-patient relationship is sick.

Child sexual abuse is a major public policy challenge.

This book presents a new view on the concept of solidarity and explains how it complements justice in health and social care.

Hospice is the premiere end of life program in the United States, but its requirement that patients forgo disease-directed therapies and that they have a prognosis of 6 months or less means that it serves less than half of dying patients and often for very short periods of time.

Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most widely read and oft-cited theologians writing today.

The second edition of Medical Ethics deals accessibly with a broad range of significant issues in bioethics, and presents the reader with the latest developments.

The first resource available to guide those designing and implementing programs on teaching medical professionalism.

"e;Doctors reading this book will not only be convinced of the need for medical supervison (for all doctors - even pathologists and coroners); they will also be given a handy smorgasbord of different types of medical supervision from which to choose .

ABC of Learning and Teaching in Medicine is an invaluable resource for both novice and experienced medical teachers.

Based on over a decade of research, this book examines the social harms of Australian prescription and non-prescription medicine regulation and how these ultimately stem from neoliberalism and its reinforcement of state and corporate power.

Gout has become increasingly prevalent in recent years, and is now the most common form of inflammatory arthritis.

Challenging the dominant account of medical law as normatively and conceptually subordinate to medical or bioethics, this book provides an innovative account of medical law as a rhetorical practice.

Originally published in 2001, the Textbook of Palliative Nursing has become the standard text for the field of hospice and palliative care nursing.

El vasto campo que tiene la medicina interna permite su interrelación con otras disciplinas y ser expandida tanto como la mente y el conocimiento deseen, o ser limitada por la capacidad y curiosidad del médico.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience.

Where should physicians get their ethics?

En 1989 se publicó la primera edición del libro Anestesia cardiovascular; ocho años después, en 1997, se presentó la segunda edición, y en 2005 se elaboró la tercera edición, todo ello con el fin de mantener al día los conceptos que vertiginosamente han venido cambiando, sobre todo cuando se trata del cuidado anestésico de los pacientes sometidos a cirugía cardiaca y no cardiaca.

Observing Bioethics examines the history of bioethics as a discipline related not only to modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the core values and beliefs of American society and its courts, legislatures, and media.

From registered nurse and public health advocate Sana Goldberg, RN, a timely, accessible, and comprehensive handbook to navigating common medical situations.

This book offers a philosophical perspective on contemporary Tourette Syndrome scholarship, a field which has exploded over the last thirty years.

This book offers a theoretical and practical overview of the specific ethical and legal issues in pediatric organ transplantation.

An examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived  eugenics.

On Becoming a Psychotherapist explores how psychotherapists develop as practitioners through both professional training and the training that can only be obtained through personal experience.

Un patient atteint d’une maladie incurable terminale demande à mourir dans la dignité.

La primera edición del libro Infectología Práctica para el Pediatra (2001) fue más exitosa de lo esperado.

This book describes a novel health interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) program established at King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Das Kurzlehrbuch zur End-of-Life Care spannt einen breiten Schirm über die letzte Lebensphase und beleuchtet ethische, philosophische, psychologische, spirituelle und rechtliche Aspekte des Sterbens.

Aimed at supporting their emancipatory project, this book explores strategies for resisting dominance and enhancing agency within the caring professions.

It is well recognised that clinical audit is a fundamental tool to maintain high standards of clinical excellence within healthcare.

A book for nurses, doctors and all who provide end of life care, this essential volume guides readers through the ethical complexities of such care, including current policy initiatives, and encourages debate and discussion on their controversial aspects.

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The term bioethics was first used in the early 1970s by biologists who were concerned about ethical implications of genetic and ecological interventions, but was soon applied to all aspects of biomedical ethics, including health care delivery, research, and public policy.

This book addresses the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system.

*; Outlines 10 steps for dying gracefully with the help of psychedelics, including how to navigate the complex legal landscape and find the right guide and therapy*; Looks at clinical studies of psychedelics from UCLA, Johns Hopkins, and NYU School of Medicine that show dramatic lessening of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill patients*; Shares wisdom from experts on psychedelic research and palliative care, including Roland Griffiths, Katherine MacLean, Ira Byock, and Anthony BossisExamining the evolving landscape that is found around end-of-life psychedelic care, Dr.

This book explores the ethical implications of managing uncertainty in clinical decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"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.

Das umfassende Lehrbuch für die neue Pflege-Assistenzausbildung 'Assistenz Gesundheit und Soziales' stellt ausgehend von typischen Pflege- und Alltagssituationen konkrete Handlungskompetenzen zu den folgenden sechs Bereichen vor: 1.

The ABC of Clinical Leadership explores and develops the key principles of leadership and management.

When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap.

Diagnosis is a practically-oriented guide to the complex reasoning, observations, and judgment that health professionals draw on to make a clinical diagnosis.

This book provides a comprehensive and approachable overview of Medicare under the Affordable Care Act.

Advancing Practice in Cancer and Palliative Care critically explores and analyses the themes and pragmatics of advancing nursing practice in relation to cancer and palliative care.