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This book provides a sophisticated yet accessible account of emerging trends in stem cell research and their accompanying ethical issues.

Eine Orientierungshilfe für ethische Entscheidungen in der MedizinIn der komplett überarbeiteten 2.

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series focuses on the 'Privacy in Research Ethics and Law' EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries.

Healthcare providers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar expectations, anxieties, and needs into the examination room.

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.

The guidelines and skills required to become a nurse are always changing and it can be difficult to stay up-to-date with the current standards.

There exists today a fast growing availability of personal genetic information.

We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them.

This title was first published in 2001: Ethical thinking about medical decision-making has roots deep in history.

Child sexual abuse is a major public policy challenge.

This book provides a detailed insight into the amalgamation of the healthcare and hospitality sector, which brought forward the concept of healthcare tourism or medical tourism.

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

Physician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues?

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

The emergence of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) presents an object lesson in the dangers that lie at the intersection of science and criminal law.

The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying.

Aging is a public health priority that is becoming increasingly important in both developed and less developed nations, with individual health care providers and law-makers each facing difficult ethical and policy dilemmas.

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.

This title was first published in 2000: Over the past decade the welfare state has come under sustained attack not only from quarters which never approved of its policies, but also from political theorists who used to support it.

Ein neues, differenziertes MenschenverständnisDer Mensch ist ein Kosmos, unendlich und faszinierend.

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance offers accessible coverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and health professional education.

Global experts present thought-provoking debates on over 50 topics in reproductive medicine, one of modern healthcare''s most controversial areas.

The panorama of bioethical problems is different today.

Digestive complaints have become increasingly common.

Everyday, new advances are being made in the science of human genetics.

In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics.

The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today.

Ethical issues inherent in psychiatric research and clinical practice are invariably complex and multi-faceted.

Proposing a new view of global justice based on natural law, this book examines the ethics of health as they relate to neglected diseases.

The ability to anticipate, avoid, and resolve ethical conflicts in neuropsychology is a dynamic process that must be developed and maintained over time.

Welche rechtlichen Gesetze, Rahmenbedingungen und Prinzipien gelten für Berufe im Schweizer Gesundheitswesen?

Die neue Biologie des Alterns (Biogerontologie) stellt unter anderem in Aussicht, dass sich die biologische Alterung des Menschen medizinisch verlangsamen lassen könnte.

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

Selbsttötungsgedanken sind häufige Begleitphänomene schwerer, unheilbarer körperlicher und psychischer Erkrankungen.

Neural grafting, virtual reality, gene therapy, psychotropic drugs As startling new treatments emerge for disorders of the brain, new concerns are arising along with them.

Regulating the End of Life: Death Rights is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field.

In a single convenient resource, this revised and updated edition of a classic text organizes and presents clearly the documents of the Catholic Church pertaining to medical ethics.

Am Lebensende gut versorgt - das ist das was wir uns und auch für Angehörige wünschen.

Currently, humans lack the cognitive and moral capacities to prevent the widespread suffering associated with collective risks, like pandemics, climate change, or even asteroids.

This book examines the question of what parental obligations procreators incur by bringing children into being.

Cancer is a deadly disease that puts not only physical and financial pressure on the patient but also even more psychological pressure.

Essential Primary Care aims to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive overview of the clinical problems encountered in primary care.

Samuel J.

This important book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding vaccine hesitancy, as well as the nuances of antivaccination claims.

Law and Ethics in Children's Nursing is an important and practical guide on the legal and ethical spects of child healthcare that enables nurses to understand the legal and ethical principles that underpin everyday nursing practice.

This book provides an overview of how the intricacies of the Trolley Problem shed light on various aspects of medical ethics.

The human microbiome is the bacteria, viruses, and fungi that cover our skin, line our intestines, and flourish in our body cavities.