Medical profession

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Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics.

Parents who care for children with special needs, particularly those whose children have multiple disabilities or intellectual delays, are pioneers in home health care and caregiving, yet their experience and expertise are rarely recognized.

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.

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Over the past 20 years, cognitive neuroscience has revolutionized our ability to understand the nature of human thought.

No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 was a major update to the UK's laws on the use and regulation of reproductive technology and assisted reproduction.

Challenging the dominant account of medical law as normatively and conceptually subordinate to medical or bioethics, this book provides an innovative account of medical law as a rhetorical practice.

Multiple Myeloma: The second issue of Emerging Cancer Therapeutics focuses on multiple myelomas also known as plasma cell myeloma, KahlerIs Disease and myelomatosis.

The only available compendium of management topics, written by practising doctors for doctors of all grades and all specialties.

Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient.

Ageing populations mean that palliative and end of life care for older people must assume greater priority.

Meet Therese of Lisieux one of the modern worlds best-loved saints and spiritual guides.

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

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother and child health in the developing world.

El manejo de la vía aérea en la anestesiología adquiere una importancia trascendental desde el momento en que se reconoce que la integridad de ésta es fundamental para el mantenimiento de la vida.

Most people believe that parents have moral rights and responsibilities regarding their children.

Autobiography of a Disease documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics.

Die Begegnung zwischen Arzt und Patient ist komplex.

From the medical use of marijuana to organ donations to animal testing, the medical profession is rife with controversial issues.

At the onset of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic enhancement, for wholesale redesign.

Public Bioethics collects the most influential essays and articles of James F.

There is an urgent need to improve doctors' communication skills.

The Disability Bioethics Reader is the first introduction to the field of bioethics presented through the lens of critical disability studies and the philosophy of disability.

As the use of human body parts has become increasingly commercialized, a need has arisen for new approaches to regulation that moves beyond the paradigm of altruism.

This book bridges the disciplines of legal studies and sociology in its engaging introduction to the history, purpose, function, and influence of the Supreme Court, demonstrating through ten landmark decisions the Court's impact on the five key sociological institutions in the United States: family, education, religion, government, and economy.

This book presents a contemporary view of human organ and tissue procurement.

As genetic technologies advance, genetic testing may well offer the prospect of detecting the onset of future disabilities.

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.

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This fully-updated third edition of Jon Bailey and Mary Burch's bestselling Ethics for Behavior Analysts is an invaluable guide to understanding and implementing the newly-revised Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) Professional and Ethical Compliance Code.

Commodification of the human body is gaining ground, strengthened by powerful interests.

This concise and instructive guide outlines the specific challenges faced by the Latinx population in US health care, including language barriers, unfamiliarity with the medical system, lack of insurance, access issues, monetary factors, and most importantly the fears surrounding undocumented immigrants.

The "e;Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements: Development, Interpretation, and Application, 2nd Edition"e; is an essential resource for nursing classrooms, in-service training, workshops and conferences, self-study, and wherever nursing professionals use ANA's "e;Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements"e; in their daily practice.

Practical guide for health practitioners and policy-makers, demystifying evidence-informed decision-making from the individual clinical level to global policy.

The first resource available to guide those designing and implementing programs on teaching medical professionalism.

Examines how the framing of disability has serious implications for legal, medical, and policy treatments of disability.

Philosophy of Medicine asks two central questions about medicine: what is it, and what should we think of it?

In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere.

Some of the most important and best lessons in a doctor s career are learnt from mistakes.

This book uses the Canadian cannabis legalization experiment, analyzed in the historical context of wider drug criminalization in Canada and placed in an international perspective, to examine important lessons about the differential implementation of federal law in jurisdictions within federalist constitutional democracies.