The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics is an outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in feminist bioethics, with chapters covering topics from justice and power to the climate crisis.
This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry.
In The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning, Richard Paul and Linda Elder present the vital role of ethics in the creation and ultimate success of cooperative societies.
The practice of intensive care medicine raises multiple legal and ethical issues on a daily basis, making it increasingly difficult to know who to admit and when, at what stage invasive management should be withdrawn, and who, importantly, should decide?
This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience.
This book explores the experiences and emotional expression of 30 people Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) using qualitative research methods such as "e;illness narratives,"e; and analyzes the dilemmas of "e;sicknesses of the society"e; including "e;Acquired Needs Deficiency"e; Syndrome, "e;Acquired Expectation Insufficiency"e; Syndrome, and "e;Acquired Punishment"e; Syndrome at the micro, meso and macro levels, so as to investigate higher-intensity negative emotions.
Guidance for addiction counselors in understanding and applying ethical standards Filled with proven strategies to help you examine your current practice for ethical snags and refresh your ethical thinking, Ethics for Addiction Professionals leads you in examining, building, and rebuilding aspects of your ethical practice with the goal of helping you become the strongest clinician possible ethically speaking.
First published in 1998, this unique, timely book applies sociological concepts and analysis to the study of organ transplantation and related medical phenomena.
La desnutrición es un problema de salud frecuente en los pacientes hospitalizados, con una prevalencia de alrededor de 50% en diversos hospitales del mundo, tanto de países industrializados como de países en desarrollo.
There are few resources and books for professionals within the patient safety sector that use case studies to model the practical application of theories of patient safety incident investigation.
The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Center.
For anyone who communicates directly with patients-the complete guide to handling emotionally charged conversations with the empathy vulnerable people deserveEmpathy: Real Stories to Inspire and Enlighten Busy Clinicians helps you approach tough conversations with patients in a new, more effective way-by imagining what patients and their families may be thinking and feeling, and then communicating that recognition clearly and confidently.
The expense of critical care and emergency medicine, along with widespread expectations for good care when the need arises, pose hard moral and political problems.
Die Philosophie der Medizin wird gegenwärtig heftig diskutiert – und zwar mit Recht: zu konträr sind ihre Heilsbotschaften, therapeutischen Methoden und sozialen Ziele.
This collection of 21 articles is designed to serve as a state-of-the art reference book for intersexuals, their parents, health care professionals, ethics committee members, and anyone interested in problems associated with intersexuality.
Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies draws students into this rapidly changing field, helping them to actively untangle the many issues at the intersection of medicine and moral concern.
Through a rich variety of case studies, this book provides insight into the patient's needs and the chaplain's perspective, as well as discussions of spiritual assessments and spiritual care interventions.
In this age of increasing headlines about drug addiction and prescription drug abuse, this book is a timely revelation of how the nursing profession is also impacted by substance abuse.
Unique among readers in American political and social thought, From Many, One is a broad and balanced anthology that explores the problem of diversity and American political identity throughout American history.
This is the first volume in which an account of personal autonomy is developed that both captures the contours of this concept as it is used in social philosophy and bioethics, and is theoretically grounded in, and a part of, contemporary autonomy theory.
For all the political branding and rebranding of healthcare in the United States, its fundamental unit of currency remains the doctor-patient relationship.
This book provides novel perspectives on ethical justifiability of assisted dying in the revised edition of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.
Human population genetic research (HPGR) seeks to identify the diversity and variation of the human genome and how human group and individual genetic diversity has developed.
This book offers a unique guide to medical ethics and law for applicants to medical school, current medical students at all stages of their training, those attending postgraduate ethics courses and clinicians involved in teaching.
Everyday Medical Ethics and Law is based on the core chapters of Medical Ethics Today, focussing on the practical issues and dilemmas common to all doctors.
The Ethics of Private Practice helps mental health professionals understand the essential ethical issues related to the many challenges of being in independent practice.
This book draws a connection between ethics and research across social sciences, philosophy, medical sciences and legal sciences, and demonstrates that any research activity needs to be conducted by means of rules deriving from the field of ethics.
