Recent social developments, such as demographic change, skill shortages and new medical technologies, have necessitated a transition in the traditional roles of health-care professions.
Intended for students and general readers alike, this encyclopedia covers the history of human medical experimentation, for better and worse, from the time of Hippocrates to the present.
Written by clinical lecturers, Professional Transitions in Nursing provides a practical and accessible guide to the core knowledge and skills required by nurse graduates entering the Australian workforce for the first time.
Most books about ethics and health focus on issues arising from individual patients and their relationships with doctors and other health professionals.
This guide introduces applied antiracist developmental science and developmental frameworks that have been comprehensively integrated with antiracist principles.
Put relationship-centered communication at the forefront of careToday, physicians face a hypercompetitive marketplace in which they must meet unique and complex patient needs as efficiently as possible.
Exploring this interplay, Guy Metraux shows how the depiction of physiological processes gave statues and reliefs their animating force and how many medical and philosophical speculations about the body were derived from depictions in art.
The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series represents the results of this 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.
Bradford Dementia Group Good Practice GuidesThere are always difficult day to day decisions to be faced when caring for a person with dementia - from knowing how to deal with wandering to end of life decisions.
In the wake of the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases, a wide-ranging international conversation was started regarding alternative thresholds for intervention and the different balances that can be made in weighing up the rights and interests of the child, the parent's rights and responsibilities and the role of medical professionals and the courts.
This book examines the central structures in medicine-medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority-from the perspective of an ethics of care.
Clinical trials used to be conducted overwhelmingly in the US and Europe but for a range of economic, technical and ethical reasons, the number of multicentre studies recruiting subjects in different regions of the World has grown exponentially.
El paciente neurológico grave requiere para su manejo integral de un monitoreo estrecho y a profundidad que tiene como objetivo poder detectar de manera temprana y oportuna cualquier alteración fisiopatológica que comprometa aún más la función, la integridad y la estabilidad de un sistema nervioso central ya de por sí lesionado.
Making a Medic is a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know in order to succeed at medical school, including:how to study effectively (and still have time for fun!
Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and Young People A crucially important text, which brings together many different philosophical aspects and ethical issues in children s nursing practice.
This book provides practical strategies for dentists to effectively and confidently communicate with many dental insurance issues, as well as with their patients and members of their staff.
Since the first "e;test tube baby"e; was born over 40 years ago, In Vitro Fertilization and other Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have advanced in extraordinary ways, producing millions of babies.
An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.
Learn how to place communication and participation at the heart of evidence-based healthcare The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation in Health sits at the forefront of the challenging, changing 21st century landscape.