Medical profession

Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter.

We live at a time when the human lifespan has increased like never before.

Like its pioneering predecessor, this new edition of Professionalism and Ethics: Q & A Self-Study Guide for Mental Health Professionals offers an interactive, case-oriented approach to mental health ethics.

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research.

At the heart of research with human beings is the moral notion that the experimental subject is altruistic, and is primarily concerned for the welfare of others.

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.

Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Ethical Practice explores the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas that occur surrounding people experiencing mental health problems and disorders.

A series of recent high-profile court cases has demonstrated the inadequacy of current laws in addressing issues relating to medical treatment decisions involving seriously ill children.

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Care facilities often reflect the multifaith and multicultural nature of society, not least in a very diverse population of health and social care staff and care-recipients.

Are you involved in caring for people at the end of their life?

Rewriting Nature is a cogent, riveting interdisciplinary exploration of the law, science, and policy of emerging genome-editing technology.

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted by an American nurse, Caring in Context is an exploration of how most of the world experiences cancer, and how nurses bear witness and respond to the suffering of others when they have little means to help-or for complex reasons, choose not to.

Here is the first practical guide for dealing with the moral issues that regularly confront clinicians in their work.

For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves.

All persons, while different from one another, have the same value: this is the author's relatively uncontroversial starting point.

Interpretando a diferentes autores y enfocándolos en el concepto de medicina asertiva — propuesta que se hace para combatir la medicina defensiva— en un esfuerzo de síntesis, se trata de mantener ante los pacientes un comportamiento asertivo, considerando que el mensaje básico de la aserción es: "esto es lo que yo pienso; esto es lo que yo siento; así es como yo veo la situación", sin afectar o degradar la otredad, en actitud siempre conciliadora y abierta a la negociación.

Some of humankind's greatest tools have been forged in the research laboratory.

This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook.

Fundamental questions about the morality of pediatric medical research persist despite years of debate and the establishment of strict codes of ethics.

Through engaging case studies and clear explanations of the underlying science, this book makes the social impacts and ethical consequences of recent advances in biomedicine understandable for general readers.

El fenómeno trombótico constituye el resultado de un sinnúmero de desencadenantes comunes en la actualidad, los que, sumados a padecimientos quizá aún desconocidos por la ciencia, colocan a la enfermedad trombótica como una de las principales causas de muerte en nuestros días tanto en México como en el resto del mundo, sin respetar diferencias en desarrollo, económicas ni políticas.

Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses the ethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, and meta-philosophical questions raised by cognitive disability Features essays by a prominent clinicians and medical historians of cognitive disability, and prominent contemporary philosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer Represents the first collection that brings together philosophical discussions of Alzheimer's disease, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and autism under the rubric of cognitive disability Offers insights into categories like Alzheimer's, mental retardation, and autism, as well as issues such as care, personhood, justice, agency, and responsibility

A biography of the author's background which provides insight into his training in medicine and his opinions on the concepts and training that are necessary to be a good doctor.

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.

In this groundbreaking volume, David Schenck and Larry Churchill present the results of fifty interviews with practitioners identified by their peers as "e;healers,"e; exploring in depth the things that the best clinicians do.

Just as the health costs of aging threaten to bankrupt developed countries, this book makes the scientific case that a biological "e;bailout"e; could be on the way, and that human aging can be different in the future than it is today.

La Dirección de Educación y Capacitación en Salud del Hospital General de México tiene el agrado de presentar el libro Diagnóstico y terapéutica a través de mapas conceptuales del Dr.

This book re-examines privacy in a world where genome sequencing is cheap, databases can be large, and access rights are hidden.

Para el Centro Médico ABC, el trabajo de investigación que se ha llevado a cabo para la elaboración del presente libro es motivo de orgullo y una señal inequívoca de que estamos cumpliendo con nuestra misión de enseñanza.

Learn medical ethics and professionalism in the context of real-life patientsA Doody's Core Title for 2019!

This book investigates the politicization process of social dispute resolution and its unintended consequences, under the context of over 70 percent of China's public hospitals have experienced hospital violence, with patients acting violently toward medical workers to express anger, protect their rights, or monetary reasons.

This important book shows those working with clinical populations how to develop an understanding of the psychology of patients with cardiovascular problems to support appropriate medical care.

One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process.

When confronted by the concerns of human sexual function or dys- function, American medicine finds itself well impaled on the horns of a dilemma.

Jungian Psychotherapy with Medical Professionals guides therapists, clinicians, and healthcare workers through the transformative healing process of Jungian psychology, demonstrating how the new spirit of medicine will originate from the relationship between the healer and the healed.

Der freiwillige Verzicht auf Nahrung und Flüssigkeit – Sterbefasten genannt – ist eine natürliche Form des Sterbens.

Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world.

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.

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost effective care.

Before a separate Department of Medical Humanities was formed, the editors of this volume were faculty members of the Department of Pediatrics at our medical school.

This educational workbook helps people who build compassionate relationships with dying people.

Care home workers increasingly work with people nearing the end of their lives, including people with medically complex conditions.

Living Normally with Dementia tells the successful story of Dagmarsminde, a small innovative nursing home in Denmark with a remarkable and life-affirming approach to dementia care.

Michael Quante befasst sich in diesem Buch mit allen Aspekten der modernen Biotechnologien von der Stammzellforschung bis zur Sterbehilfe und fragt nach den Folgen, die sich aus ihnen für den Erhalt der demokratischen Werte ergeben (Autonomie, Freiheit, Gleichheit, etc.

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Developed collaboratively by a doctor and nurse team, this is the first text to deal specifically with nursing difficult patients.