Medical profession

Today's nurses find themselves in the position of having to redefine their identity.

This volume draws together essays from leading scholars on the challenges that arise for health, law, policy and ethics at the intersections of health, rights and globalization.

A Firsthand Account from a CDC Insider on the Link between Vaccines and AutismVaccine Whistleblower is a gripping account of four legally recorded phone conversations between Dr.

The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust.

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

This book examines the role of law and policy in addressing the public health crisis of COVID-19 and offers reforms that could improve pandemic preparedness for future outbreaks.

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.

Now fully revised and in a second edition, The Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals suggests solutions to the simple and complex ethical questions mental health professionals must deal with on a daily basis.

Written by experienced authorities from around the world giving a wider international perspective on palliative nursing, this substantially expanded new edition has been specifically adapted to reflect working practices within the NHS.

Surgical ethics is the application of ethics to issues specific to surgery.

Health systems need to set priorities fairly.

A survey of the medical, ethical and legal issues that surround this controversial topic.

Dieses bereits in zweiter Auflage erscheinende Buch ist eine interdisziplinäre, praxisorientierte Einführung in die Tätigkeitsfelder Klinischer Ethikberatung und spiegelt die Erfahrungen der Autoren aus eigener Unterrichts- bzw.

The aim of this book is to introduce and discuss bioethics in a three-synergistic way: from the foundations to the current debates in relation to healthcare and social bioethics, and thereafter the possible future challenges.

A concise guide for clinicians and nurses offering real-life replicable strategies to ensure the success of quality improvement projects.

As more and more people survive into old age, the burden of caring for them becomes greater and greater.

This book presents principal controversies over the determination of death by neurologic criteria ("e;brain death"e;).

Offers a frank conversation about altruism in the global body market and critiques the vulnerability of altruism to corruption, coercion, pressure, and other negative externalities.

This book examines the role of law and policy in addressing the public health crisis of COVID-19 and offers reforms that could improve pandemic preparedness for future outbreaks.

This volume provides a theoretical and practical overview of the ethics of pediatric medicine.

Die erste Auflage der "DGUV Empfehlungen für arbeitsmedizinische Beratungen und Untersuchungen" ersetzt das bisherige Standardwerk "DGUV Grundsätze für arbeitsmedizinische Untersuchungen".

This book arises from a two-fold conviction.

Take the intimidation out of medical terminology Every job in the medical field needs some background in medical terminology.

Las enfermedades del hígado, en especial la cirrosis, son un problema de salud pública; representan una de las primeras causas de muerte en el mundo y en México; por lo tanto, el tratamiento de elección en una etapa avanzada de la cirrosis es el trasplante hepático.

Hopes are high that stem cell (SC) research will lead to treatments and cures for some of the most serious diseases affecting humankind today.

Responding to public health challenges at the global and local levels can give rise to an array of tensions.

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.

In the 1850s, "e;Drapetomania"e; was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States.

Fachspezifische Entwicklung und Anwendung digitaler Gesundheitstechnologien - ein Fachbuch für alle Health professionals in Therapie und Pflege!

This book fulfils the need of doctors, medical students, and all healthcare personnel for information that addresses fundamental patient safety concepts that are not usually covered in conventional medical curricula.

Pain research is still dominated by biomedical perspectives and the need to articulate pain in ways other than those offered by evidence based medical models is pressing.

Duties to Care is the first empirically grounded, conceptually nuanced, socio-legal examination of caring for a person with dementia.

The meaning and application of the principle of beneficence to issues in health care is rarely clear or certain.

'I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.

La cuarta edición de "Fundamentos de Pediatría" que la Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas pone orgullosamente hoy a su disposición, es el resultado de un arduo trabajo académico y editorial en el que han participado muchas personas, con el fin de reunir los conocimientos más relevantes y actualizados alrededor de la Pediatría como especialidad, para compartirlos con quienes en el ejercicio de su profesión se ocupan de la salud infantil.

Thinking critically is an essential skill, both for students and for the modern, evidence-based, healthcare practitioner.

In By the Bedside of the Patient, Nortin Hadler places current efforts to reform medical education - from the undergraduate level through residency programs and on to continuing medical education - in historical context.

The doctors and nurses at a small hospital in an African town are fighting an uphill battle against the Aids pandemic, made worse by the interventions of Holmes, the budget-conscious superintendent, and his bungling sidekick, Thunderbird.

This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry.

*** Awarded first place in the 2024 AJN Book of the Year Award in History and Public Policy ***This important text draws on decades of research, arguing that modern nursing germinated and grew an ethics from its own native soil, which is rich, fulsome, and philosophically informed, grounded in the tradition and practice of nursing.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

There is growing acceptance that the progress delivered under the Millennium Development Goal target for drinking water and sanitation has been inequitable.

Charles Bonnet began his career as a naturalist, from an early age establishing a reputation as a careful observer.

Seit 1974 hat diese herausragende Serie kontinuierlich an Popularität gewonnen und ist mittlerweile der meistgelesene Arztroman im deutschen Sprachraum.

Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways.

This major new work updates and significantly expands The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying.

Behavioral-developmental pediatrician Lawrence Diller continues his investigation into the widespread use of psychiatric drugs for children in America, an investigation that began with his first book, Running on Ritalin.