Medical profession

When Ivan Illich published Medical Nemesis in 1975, he offered a withering critique of the medical profession and the medical model.

Ist wirklich alles eine Frage der Zeit?

This book offers a novel theory of childhood well-being as a social good.

The concept of deviance is complex, given that norms vary considerably across groups, times, and places.

A unique, documented case against the legalisation of ''assisted dying'', based mainly on empirical and logical ''slippery slope'' concerns.

All you need to know about becoming a doctor in the UK This book contains all the help you need to become a doctor.

Was war die Medizin, was ist sie und was soll sie sein?

This innovative book strips the concept of evidence-based practice back to basics using deconstructive analysis, so that readers can move towards a clearer understanding of it.

Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case.

Offers a frank conversation about altruism in the global body market and critiques the vulnerability of altruism to corruption, coercion, pressure, and other negative externalities.

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died.

Physician Suicide examines the multiple risk factors that account for the higher rates of burnout, depressive symptoms, and suicide risk physicians experience compared with the general population.

Science and Public Policy: A Philosophical Introduction argues that in order to effectively apply science in any relevant or meaningful way, we must first understand what science is, how it works, and what its limitations are.

A timely exploration of balancing Islamic heritage with contemporary medical and health concernsMuslim Medical Ethics draws on the work of historians, health-care professionals, theologians, and social scientists to produce an interdisciplinary view of medical ethics in Muslim societies and of the impact of caring for Muslim patients in non-Muslim societies.

Seit 1974 hat diese herausragende Serie kontinuierlich an Popularität gewonnen und ist mittlerweile der meistgelesene Arztroman im deutschen Sprachraum.

This book provides an exploration of the ethics of cardiology practice.

Why health care reform must tackle the escalating cost of medical technologyTechnological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care.

Stem cell therapy is ushering in a new era of medicine in which we will be able to repair human organs and tissue at their most fundamental level- that of the cell.

Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics.

No developed nation relies exclusively on the private sector to finance health care for citizens.

Das Buch versteht sich als ein Gegenentwurf zu einem ökonomisierten, ergebnisorientierten Pflegeverständnis.

In the past few years the long-held concern with animal welfare in Britain has combined with an increased insterest in professional ethics.

While paternalism has been a long-standing philosophical issue, it has recently received renewed attention among scholars and the general public.

A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified.

What is pediatric suffering, and how is the suffering of sick children different from that of sick adults?

This book explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism.

A unique Jewish legal history of abortion from earliest biblical references to the present day.

Analyses the limitations of respect for autonomy and consent in human research ethics and explores alternative ethical approaches.

As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive medicine and good, ethical patient care, this book investigates the impact of legalities on medical treatment.

We often hear stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by someone offering promises of help.

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Embryonic stem cell research holds unique promise for developing therapies for currently incurable diseases and conditions, and for important biomedical research.

Every day we hear stories of people caught up in conflict, violence, trauma and abuse, which can affect anyone in any walk of life.

'How to be Good?

This is the first monograph to deal with medicine as a form of hermeneutics, now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, including a whole new chapter on medical ethics.

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The brief history of 20th century bioethics has been dominated by discussions of principles and appeals to autonomy that both divorce theory from practice and champion a notion of the individual as prior to and isolated from society.

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

This book provides a clear pathway through the common yet complex legal dilemmas frequently encountered in emergency medical practice.

This book adopts an approach based on relational psychoanalysis, developed in the USA in and since the 1990s and guided by the self-psychology championed by Kohut and the Post-Kohutians.

"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.

This publication identifies and discusses important challenges affecting eHealth in the EU and North America in the three areas of law, ethics and governance.

*Highly Commended in the Popular Medicine category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*The simple sensation of touching someone's hand can have a powerful therapeutic effect.

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