Medical profession

Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of biotechnological progress.

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.

The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature.

In den letzten 30 bis 40 Jahren hat sich die Lebenserwartung der Menschen deutlich erhöht und im Gegensatz zu den Jahrzehnten davor ist dies auf Entwicklungen im höheren Lebensalter zurückzuführen.

This book-first published a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted-is the first authored volume on ethical issues in infectious disease, "e;monumental"e; for its competence and comprehensiveness.

On the part of the patient, healthcare demands unconditional trust in the professional.

This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects of managing pain and other symptoms, as well as ethical and societal issues that affect the standards of care received.

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public LanguageAlthough Roe v.

Medical law and ethics are frequently referred to in conjunction, and appear together in many textbooks.

Human population genetic research (HPGR) seeks to identify the diversity and variation of the human genome and how human group and individual genetic diversity has developed.

This collection of stories from two practising GPs describes the reality of working within a failing and highly bureaucratic system, where there is a balancing act: regulation versus relationships; autonomy versus standard practice; algorithm versus individual attention.

Patient organizations and social health movements offer one of the most important and illuminating examples of civil society engagement and participation in scientific research and research politics.

Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.

La enfermedad por reflujo gastroesofágico (ERGE) se define como "la condición que aparece cuando el reflujo del contenido del estómago hacia el esófago produce síntomas y alteraciones estructurales.

Este libro de la especialidad de otorrinolaringología abarca diferentes áreas de interés de la especialidad: otología, rinología, laringología, patología de cabeza y cuello, otorrinolaringología pediátrica y otoneurología, de las que los colaboradores de cada uno de los capítulos son expertos y consultores en la materia.

This practical and positive guide shows how good, effective reflection can help people to stay on track, as well as understand what is working well and what might be improved - essential skills for leaders at all levels of practice from newly qualified staff to senior managers.

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Examines the legislative oversight in the regulation of prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies across a number of jurisdictions.

This book explores, in rich and rigorous ways, the possibilities and limitations of "e;thick"e; (concepts of) autonomy in light of contemporary debates in philosophy, ethics, and bioethics.

Argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies.

Llega a ustedes a través de un esfuerzo intelectual extraordinario del equipo docente de la Psiquiatría de Córdoba e invitados de Buenos Aires, este MANUAL de CATEDRA.

In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum discuss the issue of care.

The 14 chapters in Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments, all published here for the first time, focus on recent thinking in this important area, helping initiate issues and lines of argument that have not been explored previously.

The story of an innovative program of treatment for AIDS in Africa that succeeded in the face of international development agencies' "e;afro pessimism"e;Until this century, Western governments and foundations framing policies for AIDS relief in Africa maintained that prevention alone was a preferable alternative to prevention-plus-treatment, which would be costly and impractical in Africa, or would benefit only the prosperous and well-connected.

Helping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of effective palliative care.

In 1927 in the field of health care an unusual event occurred.

Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body.

The context for this interdisciplinary work by a philosopher and a clinician is the psychiatric care provided to those with severe mental disorders.

This is the first monograph to deal with medicine as a form of hermeneutics, now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, including a whole new chapter on medical ethics.

The Ethics of Private Practice helps mental health professionals understand the essential ethical issues related to the many challenges of being in independent practice.

Mental health is the one area of health care where people are often treated against their will, with the justification that it is in their own interest.

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics.

This title was first published in 2002.

The personal interface between clinician and patient is a misunderstood subject which can impact all areas of health care.

This book offers a philosophically-based, yet clinically-oriented perspective on current medical reasoning aiming at 1) identifying important forms of uncertainty permeating current clinical reasoning and practice 2) promoting the application of an abductive methodology in the health context in order to deal with those clinical uncertainties 3) bridging the gap between biomedical knowledge, clinical practice, and research and values in both clinical and philosophical literature.

Each year, almost twenty million people worldwide receive the grim diagnosis of cancer, yet few are prepared for the difficult emotional journey ahead.

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

This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India.

Mental health nurses need to work within the law to ensure good, legal care for their patients, while at the same time being guided by appropriate values.

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Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a natural law philosophical perspective.

The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990.

Global health is at a crossroads.

This volume is the first to present a framework of general principles for animal research ethics together with an analysis of the principles' meaning and moral requirements.

This book is a critical examination of the philosophical and moral issues in relation to human enhancement and the various related medical developments that are now rapidly moving from the laboratory into the clinical realm.

Der Klassiker für die Praxisassistenz, Medizinische Fachangestellte und vergleichbare Gesundheitsberufe - jetzt in der 15.

​Mit Hilfe prädiktiv-gendiagnostischer Untersuchungsverfahren gelingt die Identifizierung genetischer Risikofaktoren weit vor Sichtbarwerdung erster Erkrankungssymptome.