Medical profession

Bringing together an international range of case studies and interviews with individuals who have had genital re/construction, Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries explores the socio-cultural meanings of clitoral re/construction following female genital cutting (FGC), hymen reconstruction, trans and intersex bodily interventions; and cosmetic surgery.

This book addresses the many ethical issues and extraordinary risks that nurses and others are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, which creates physical, emotional, and economic burdens, affecting nurses' overall health and well-being.

La generación del conocimiento de manera universal ha sido desde la Edad Antigua Clásica una manifestación humana derivada de la necesidad de explicar el origen del ser humano, su objetivo y el propósito de su presencia en el universo.

Through the twentieth century, the nature of medical practice has changed more quickly, more dramatically, and far more publicly than that of any other profession in Canada.

This book explores and elaborates three theories of public reason, drawn from Rawlsian political liberalism, natural law theory, and Confucianism.

Dieses Schulungsbuch wendet sich an Zielgruppen, welche in ihrer Arbeit mit Alkoholkranken-Menschen direkt und indirekt in Berührung kommen und sich mit dem Thema Alkoholismus aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beschäftigen wollen.

The Emmy Award-winning broadcaster shares a New York Times-bestselling, unvarnished personal account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Advances in medical technology force us to struggle with new and often gut-wrenching decisions.

A practical resource that provides keys to improved patientprovider communication in healthcare"e;Engages its readers not only on an intellectual level but also on an emotional one.

Privacy is an unwieldy concept that has eluded an essentialised definition despite its centrality and importance in the body of bioethics.

Explains and illustrates the principles of effective medical presentation for a general medical audience.

Medical healing implies knowledge of the assumptions that underlie our understanding of "e;health,"e; and, concomitantly, how we define well being and its opposites, illness and disease.

Hark, Hark!

This book applies a discussion of the nature of human life to resolving bioethical issues.

Preparing for Professional Practice in Health and Social Care is the ultimate companion for students and newly qualified practitioners in occupational therapy, physiotherapy and other allied health professions.

Providing a bridge between research in healthcare and spirituality and practitioner perspectives, these essays on chaplaincy in healthcare continue dialogue around constructing, negotiating and researching spiritual care and discuss the critical issues in chaplaincy work, including assisted suicide and care in children's hospices.

Es un libro realizado con gran esfuerzo por parte de sus editoresEsta nueva edición, la tercera, cuenta con 48 capítulos revisados por diferentes autores reconocidos en nuestro medio, los cuales han consignado los nuevos conceptos que en este momento prevalecen en nuestra ciencia médica, la cual se encuentra en cambio constante.

Im medizinischen Alltag sind solche Situationen wohl vertraut: verkrampfte erwachsene Patienten, weinende oder sich vollkommen verweigernde kranke Kinder, nervöse Angehörige.

On May 13-15, 1982, some 50 scientists and scholars - physicians, philos- ophers and social scientists - convened at Hasselby Castle in Stockholm for the first Nordic Symposium on the Philosophy of Medicine.

In 2004, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act was passed by the Parliament of Canada.

The ability to anticipate, avoid, and resolve ethical conflicts in neuropsychology is a dynamic process that must be developed and maintained over time.

The Nazi Viewpoint on the Position and Responsibilities of the Physician in the German National Socialist Society.

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.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

The field of global health is expanding rapidly.

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.

This concise and instructive guide outlines the specific challenges faced by the Latinx population in US health care, including language barriers, unfamiliarity with the medical system, lack of insurance, access issues, monetary factors, and most importantly the fears surrounding undocumented immigrants.

Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies.

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

Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds, such as health care, philosophy, law, the social sciences, and religious studies.

Wie können Ärzte Gesprächssituationen mit Kindern, Jugendlichen und deren Familien meistern?

In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate.

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation.

Where should physicians get their ethics?

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or worse, in the opening century of the third millennium.

Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In der Biografie jedes Menschen spielt die Bildung eine zentrale Rolle, denn sie hat erhebliche Auswirkungen auf seine Perspektiven.

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics.

A critical evaluation of the law''s engagement with the process of healthcare decision-making, and how the relationship might be enhanced.

This volume captures the recent changes and evolution in ethics in research involving humans and provides future directions to achieve alternative drug development strategies for equitable global health.

This book explores and elaborates three theories of public reason, drawn from Rawlsian political liberalism, natural law theory, and Confucianism.

The field of global health is expanding rapidly.

Widely varying patient needs, a wide provider mix, significant power differentials, and a heightened emotional state all contribute to barriers in communication in the medical field and all of these elements are magnified in an emergency department.

This book provides the first systematic study on three types of incentives for organ donation.

In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of 'biological function', a concept of 'reference class' and the notion of 'statistical normality'.