This volume - for pharmacologists, systems biologists, philosophers and historians of medicine - points to investigate new avenues in pharmacology research, by providing a full assessment of the premises underlying a radical shift in the pharmacology paradigm.
Der zweite Band der Reihe "Palliative Care", entstanden im Universitätsinstitut für interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung (IFF) in Wien, gibt Aufschluss, was alte Menschen für ihre letzte Lebensphase wünschen und brauchen, ermutigt dazu, sie selbst zu befragen und das Thema Sterben und Tod anzusprechen.
The Geneva Declaration, a modern successor to the Hippocratic Oath, was recently revised to include the clause "e;I will attend to my own health, well-being, and abilities in order to provide care of the highest standard.
The case of Terri Schiavo, a young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, has emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care.
Written by epidemiologists, ethicists and legal scholars, this book provides an in-depth account of the moral problems that often confront epidemiologists, including both theoretical and practical issues.
What happens when two intelligent American college students with different attitudes about guns launch into a careful exploration of the ethics of gun policy?
This new volume in the Reproductive Medicine for Clinicians series of the International Academy of Human Reproduction (IAHR) focuses on current hot topics in the field, their ethical and legal aspects and their impact on society.
Ethics for Psychotherapists and Counselors utilizes positive discussions accompanied by a variety of thought-provoking exercises, case scenarios, and writing assignments to introduce readers to all the major ethical issues in psychotherapy.
This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand nursing as a profession and as a culture.
Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Dokumente handeln, wie Informationen literarisch zu Tatbeständen gemacht werden - kurzum: wie ein Gegenstand herausgebildet wird und sich, einer Romanfigur nicht unähnlich, fortan bewähren muss.
Drawing on the controversial case of Ashley X, a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever smalla procedure now known as the Ashley TreatmentReconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and bioethics.
Sind Haus- und Palliativärztinnen und -ärzte ausreichend vorbereitet auf die Versorgung alter Patientinnen und Patienten mit geistiger Behinderung am Lebensende?
It is well over a decade since John Fischer and Mark Ravizza - and before them, Jay Wallace and Daniel Dennett - defended responsibility from the threat of determinism.
The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body.
La información que usted encontrará en este libro, ya la cuarta versión de El ABC de la Medicina Interna, cumple con una de las metas que nos hemos trazado en el Centro Médico ABC, que es la divulgación del conocimiento.
Patientinnen und Patienten im stationären und ambulanten Gesundheitswesen erwarten eine interprofessionell organisierte Versorgung in Diagnostik, Therapie und Pflege, die sich am aktuellen Stand von Wissenschaft und Forschung orientiert.
Though the current political climate might lead one to suspect that religion and medicine make for uncomfortable bedfellows, the two institutions have a long history of alliance.
Both communitarianism and casuistry have sought to restore ethics as a practical sciencethe former by incorporating various traditions into a shared definition of the common good, the latter by considering the circumstances of each situation through critical reasoning.
Most mental health professionals and behavioral scientists enter the field with a strong desire to help others, but clinical practice and research endeavors often involve decision-making in the context of ethical ambiguity.
This timely volume provides a comprehensive examination of how the proposed new European Health Data Space (EHDS) legislation will impact upon health and genetic data, individual privacy and providers of health services.
Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional interests.
Handbook of Nutrition and Diet in Palliative Care, Second Edition, is a comprehensive guide, providing exhaustive information on nutrition and diet in terminal and palliative care.
Providing a comparison between context in Europe and the US, this volume investigates the digital transformation of health systems, comparing strategies for digital development while identifying both key innovations and future challenges.
First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or worse, in the opening century of the third millennium.
