Medical profession

Millions of children suffer from diseases and illnesses that do not have adequate treatment, and many other children are harmed by medicines intended to help them.

Succeeding at a clinical interview is a critical hurdle you will face throughout your training requiring you to demonstrate confidence, professionalism, and strong communication skills.

Spirituality and Coping with Loss: End of Life Healthcare Practice describes a research study that reflects nurses' experience of the nature of loss encountered in end of life care settings as well as the ways in which spirituality is a resource in coping in these situations.

This is a lucid, readable discussion of ethical questions in health care as they arise on the business or organizational level: an effort to spell out an ethical perspective for healthcare organizations.

The field of medical education and training has undergone dramatic changes within the past few years, and continues to evolve.

The management function is practice-based primary care and who performs it varies by practice.

This edited collection is designed to explore the ethical nature of judicial decision-making, particularly relating to cases in the health/medical sphere, where judges are often called upon to issue rulings on questions containing an explicit ethical component.

Knowledge of the genetic basis of human diseases is growing rapidly, with important implications for pre-conceptional, prenatal, and predictive testing.

Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern.

This is the ideal textbook for students and practitioners of all levels.

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Building on Level One, this volume of Human Factors in Healthcare continues to enhance and develop the SHEEP model, delving deeper into the challenges of leadership, conflict resolution, and decision making that healthcare professionals currently face.

Is there a place for palliative care within mental health?

With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals.

An interdisciplinary exploration of important developments in neuroscience, and the philosophical, ethical, and social issues that such advancements generate.

Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality.

Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism: Essays on the Works of Alastair V.

This volume presents in tightly edited form more than ninety papers from the third international symposium on circumpolar health, held in Yellowknife in July 1974.

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Focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy.

More than fifty years ago, Thomas Szasz showed that the concept of mental illness-a disease of the mind-is an oxymoron, a metaphor, a myth.

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

This book exposes significant threats to research integrity and identifies policies and practices that can reverse these trends.

Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species and to extend the commercial reach of synthetic biology or "e;extreme genetic engineering.

An extensive introduction to patient-centeredness in critical care through case-based examples of shared decision making.

A history and analysis of the tragic 1955 American pharmaceutical disaster involving one company's polio vaccine.

Medicine has recently discovered spectacular tools for human enhancement.

Written by a naturopathic physician specializing in complementary cancer care, Prostate Cancer: Thriving Through Treatment to Recovery provides solutions for maintaining health and improving quality of life during conventional cancer treatment.

Massage, aromatherapy, reflexology and a variety of relaxation techniques are frequently used in hospices, supportive care settings and some hospitals.

Caring is at the core of what nurses and other health professionals do.

by MICHEL FOUCAULT Everyone knows that in France there are few logicians but many historians of science; and that in the 'philosophical establishment' - whether teaching or research oriented - they have occupied a considerable position.

Since the turn of the millennium, the potential for patients' knowledge to contribute to medical knowledge has been increasingly recognized by medical sociologists and anthropologists.

Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways.

The public has taken a new level of interest in outbreak response since 2020, learning epidemiological terms and seeking information about how to stay prepared in a pandemic.

In recent times, the phrase 'personalised medicine' has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future.

Communication and relationships have become an increasing focus of attention in debates about the future of health and social care.

Ethical medical practice and treatment in psychiatry are based on the concept of first do no harm.

"e;The fixed person for fixed duties, who in older societies was such a godsend, in the future ill be a public danger.

This is an updated guide to the range of drugs commonly unused in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

What does it mean to be a good doctor today?

A case-based approach to the principles of informed consent and their application in clinical practice.

In Making Pre-Med Count, med student Elisabeth Fassas shares personal stories from her own experiences to help guide you through the pre-med process.

We will all be patients sooner or later.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

By any metric, burnout is a pressing issue in medicine generally and psychiatry specifically -- particularly because of its potential impacts on patient care.

Comprometido con uno de los principales objetivos de la Asociación Mexicana de Gastroenterología, que es la difusión y el fomento de la gastroenterología en nuestro país, y cumpliendo con uno de los compromisos académicos que propuse al tomar la presidencia de dicha Asociación, el continuar con la publicación de las Clínicas de Gastroenterología de México, iniciada por el Dr.

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

Infectious Diseases: Smart Study Guide for Medical Students, Residents, Physicians and Clinical Pharmacists attempts to consolidate knowledge and information into a step-by-step process that would be easy to understand, remember, and apply in a clinical setting.