Medical profession

The concept of deviance is complex, given that norms vary considerably across groups, times, and places.

The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent, healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to technologies of human enhancement.

History taking and examination skills are vitally importantin everyday practice.

The pursuit of excellent compassionate care should be at the heart of all practice.

In this book Paul Carrick charts the ancient Greek and Roman foundations of Western medical ethics.

The ethics of sports medicine is an important emerging area within biomedical ethics.

Nach der Erststudie "Coolout in der Pflege" (ISBN: 978-3-940529-99-2) präsentiert dieser Band neue Studien zur beruflichen Situation der PflegepädagogInnen und PraxisanleiterInnen.

This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine.

Dosage: A Guiding Principle for Health Communicators uses ';dosage' as a metaphor to help all healthcare professionals apply basic communication principles to their work.

Through their scientific research and clinical practice, husband and wife team Gene D.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action theory.

It is well known that the numbers of organs that become available each year for transplantation fall far short of the numbers that are actually required.

This book deals with the research and use of embryonic stem cells to combat a number of diseases and the legal limitations, arising mostly from bioethical concerns regarding human life.

Originally published in 1990, this study of the moral problems bound up with transplant therapy addresses a finely balanced distinction between ethical issues relating to its experimental nature on the one hand and those which arise when transplantation is routine on the other.

Bioethicists, moral philosophers and social policy analysts have long debated about how we should decide who shall be saved with scarce, lifesaving resources when not all can be saved.

Practical overview of ethical issues arising in pediatric practice, with a case-based approach that grounds bioethical concepts in real-life situations.

Psychiatry and religion/spirituality (R/S) share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for community.

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Professional values in healthcare are in a state of constant and increasingly rapid change.

This book fills an important gap in existing health care ethics literature by describing an egalitarian conception of moral respect which applies to autonomous and non-autonomous patients alike.

On a sunny spring day, in an ordinary suburban kitchen, the phone rings.

Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public.

When is a human study ethical?

The relationship between spirituality and healthcare is historical, intellectual and practical, and it has now emerged as a significant field in health research, healthcare policy and clinical practice and training.

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

What does it mean to be a good doctor today?

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

The intellectual and moral imperatives that underscore public health have sustained the idea that its fundamental scope is the study of human health, illness and suffering, and that these are self-evidently attributable to individuals and groups of people.

The term "e;patient safety"e; rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community -- in particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities -- sought to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of deaths in the US attributed to medical errors each year.

Research involving human fetuses and fetal tissue has been a subject of national debate and rancor for more than two decades.

As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal careit helps parents have healthy babies.

Les presento la segunda edición de  Intoxicaciones en la Práctica Clínica , lograda gracias a un importante trabajo en equipo entre diferentes especialistas, residentes y estudiantes junto con el apoyo de la Editorial Distribuna, que creyó en este proyecto.

Trialog auf Augenhöhe: Therapeuten, Patienten und ihre AngehörigenTherapeutische Interventionen sind umso wirksamer, je besser sich die Patienten von den Behandlern verstanden fühlen – und je besser sie selbst ihr Krankheitsbild und ihre Behandlung verstehen.

International developments within the last twenty years have demonstrated controversial shifts in treatment for people with mental illnesses and the care of persons with intellectual disabilities.

This book,the second produced by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, is a collection of essays on the subject of law and the human body.

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.

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment.

A proposal for resolving tensions between professionals and society regarding tissue for transplants and research, while properly protecting donors'' interests.

La cuarta edición de "Fundamentos de Pediatría" que la Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas pone orgullosamente hoya 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.

Framed by the author's personal odyssey as a caregiver and richly informed by the inspiring and poignant tales of others, Caregiving explores medical and financial problems, all aspects of spirituality, and such issues as depression, stress, housing, home care, and end-of-life concerns.

Struggling to understand ethics?

This text examines the concepts which are fundamental to everyday nursing practice.

Advances in our understanding of the brain and rapid advances in the medical practice of neurology are creating questions and concerns from an ethical and legal perspective.