This updated third edition is an essential overview for teachers and students in medical and biological sciences, and for those who conduct animal-based research.
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 term bioethics was first used in the early 1970s by biologists who were concerned about ethical implications of genetic and ecological interventions, but was soon applied to all aspects of biomedical ethics, including health care delivery, research, and public policy.
Professional palliative care not only involves providing demanding medical and nursing care for clients, but is also emotionally burdensome for everyone involved.
Interpretando a diferentes autores y enfocándolos en el concepto de medicina asertiva — propuesta que se hace para combatir la medicina defensiva— en un esfuerzo de síntesis, se trata de mantener ante los pacientes un comportamiento asertivo, considerando que el mensaje básico de la aserción es: "esto es lo que yo pienso; esto es lo que yo siento; así es como yo veo la situación", sin afectar o degradar la otredad, en actitud siempre conciliadora y abierta a la negociación.
Anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or knows someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer recognizes that cancer raises a host of questions concerning its nature and how we treat it.
Revolutionary advances in biomedical research and information systems technology pose new and difficult issues for American health care policy, especially in the context of managed care.
Everyday Medical Ethics and Law is based on the core chapters of Medical Ethics Today, focussing on the practical issues and dilemmas common to all doctors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Die erste Auflage der "DGUV Empfehlungen für arbeitsmedizinische Beratungen und Untersuchungen" ersetzt das bisherige Standardwerk "DGUV Grundsätze für arbeitsmedizinische Untersuchungen".
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.
