Medical profession

A Companion to Genethics is the first substantial study of the multifaceted dimensions of the genetic revolution and its philosophical, ethical, social and political significance.

Pflegewissenschaft, Gesundheitswissenschaften und die neu entstehenden Wissenschaften der Therapie- und Heilberufe benötigen als Qualitätsmerkmale ethische Standards und zugleich Kenntnisse über die rechtlichen Aspekte von Forschung (Datenschutzgesetz, Betreuungsrecht etc.

In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012.

Unmasks the role of psychological essentialism in cloning bans, explaining how intuitions cause individuals to act against their own values.

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives.

Pharmaceutical Ethics is an important text, which aims to provide the ethical guidelines much needed by the pharmaceutical industry.

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A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters offers practitioners highly practical advice on the legal principles which they need to apply to everyday clinical practice.

Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts examine the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes.

This volume captures the recent changes and evolution in ethics in research involving humans and provides future directions to achieve alternative drug development strategies for equitable global health.

Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law.

Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics.

This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry.

We all know how much time, effort and money it takes to develop a new drug.

Fragen der medizinischen Ethik haben mit existentiell herausfordernden Situationen am Lebensanfang, in Krankheit und am Lebensende zu tun.

Marking its 25th anniversary, this fascinating collection examines the pioneering work of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

This volume opens with an exploration of the Confucian recognition of the family as an entity existing in its own right and which is not reducible to its members or their interests.

The book provides a detailed introduction to a major debate in bioethics, as well as a rigorous account of the role of conscience in professional decision-making.

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

Ärzte, Pflegekräfte und Psychotherapeuten erheben in Europa bislang im Rahmen ihrer Diagnostik in aller Regel keine spirituelle Anamnese und gehen in der Behandlung nur selten auf die spirituellen Bedürfnisse ihrer Patienten ein.

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 Dark Side of Healthcare draws uncomfortable lessons from over 300 case studies of events that occurred in the healthcare sector.

Despite the massive scale of global inequalities, until recently few political philosophers or bioethicists addressed their ethical implications.

What happens when two intelligent and highly informed fictional college students, one strongly pro-choice and the other vigorously pro-life, are asked to put together a presentation on abortion?

This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis.

This book introduces bioengineers and students who must generate and/or report scientific data to the ethical challenges they will face in preserving the integrity of their data.

Advances in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) have been revolutionary.

This practical book is written specifically for junior doctors by a team of highly experienced authors, as an introductory guide to clinical research.

Anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or knows someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer recognizes that cancer raises a host of questions concerning its nature and how we treat it.

This updated third edition is an essential overview for teachers and students in medical and biological sciences, and for those who conduct animal-based research.

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The first inside story of one of TV's most popular and beloved dramas, Grey's Anatomy.

A major focus of the philosophy of medicine and, in general, of the philosophy of science has been the interplay of facts and values.

Intuition is central to discussions about the nature of scientific and philosophical reasoning and what it means to be human.

What does it mean to be a good professional?

Due to new developments in prenatal testing and therapy the fetus is increasingly visible, examinable and treatable in prenatal care.

Reconstructing Medical Practice examines how doctors see health care and their place in it, why they remain in medicine and why they are limited in their ability to lead change in the current system.

Addressing the changing world of professionalism, this text combines theory, research and practice, using real case studies, to investigate the process of becoming professional.

This accessible co-produced textbook presents essential knowledge, skills, and values relevant to all undergraduate student nurses up to Master's level.

When Tanya Ward Goodman came home to New Mexico to visit her dad at the end of 1996, he was fifty-five years old and just beginning to show symptoms of the Alzheimer's disease that would kill him six years later.

What do you do when you run into a patient in a public place?

This book is about the interaction between biomedical engineering and ethics during emergencies, such as low-resource settings and the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book is a part of the ongoing enterprise to understand the nature of human health and illness.

This practical guide summarizes the principles of working with dying patients and their families as influenced by the commoner world religions and secular philosophies.

In the 1850s, "e;Drapetomania"e; was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States.

This concise and challenging examination of medical education aims to discuss curriculum design and evaluation in medical schools and to take a fresh look at current trends in patient care and continuing education teaching methods.