Medical profession

Rated as one of the top 15 breakthroughs in medicine over the last 150 years, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become highly influential in medicine.

While the EU legitimacy crisis and the Great Recession prevail, certain European Union principles and policies have to be implemented in the member states.

For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves.

What is a just way of spending public resources for health and health care?

We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them.

Ideas about resilience and identity continue to be promoted, discussed and debated in nursing.

Los psiquiatras han sabido desde hace muchos años que existe una interdependencia entre la salud mental y la salud física de los individuos.

In this age of shortened office visits, doctors take care of their patients' immediate needs and often elide their own personal histories.

Law, Palliative Care and Dying critically examines the role of the legal framework in shaping the boundaries of palliative care practice.

This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals.

This concise book provides readers with practical guidance to help them to both avoid errors and develop robust processes to protect themselves and their patients, as well as dealing appropriately with complaints and litigation, when things do go wrong.

Organ transplantation has been one of the miracles of modern-day medicine but, in addition to presenting enormous technical and clinical challenges, it throws up major ethical and legal issues principally from the perspective of the donor.

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates, including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.

The panorama of bioethical problems is different today.

Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an essential part of end of life care in the UK and most developed countries.

Encoding Bioethics addresses important ethical concerns from the perspective of each of the stakeholders who will develop, deploy, and use artificial intelligence systems to support clinical decisions.

Over recent decades, tremendous advances in the prevention, medical treatment, and quality of life issues in children and adolescents surviving cancer have spawned a host of research on pediatric psychosocial oncology.

Este libro pretende integrar de forma clara la práctica de la microbiología y su aplicación en la unidad de cuidado intensivo, entrelazando dos disciplinas con un solo objetivo: la seguridad del paciente.

Can the ethical mission of health care survive among organizations competing for survival in the marketplace?

Anwendungen der Gendiagnostik und Reproduktionsmedizin erlauben es Wunscheltern, immer weiter auf das Erbgut ihrer Nachkommen Einfluss zu nehmen.

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness.

A rich new examination of the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon in Britain from 1860 to 1918.

Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics.

This book provides the first clinically comprehensive and practical approach to ethical challenges in perinatal medicine.

People should be cared for in a safe environment that is protected from internal and external harm.

No one misses the onslaught of claims about reforming modern medical care.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A PRACTICAL, ACCESSIBLE GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THE SECRET TO LASTING WEIGHT LOSS AND HOW YOU CAN GET IN SHAPE WITHOUT COUNTING CALORIES 'A compelling look at the science of appetite and metabolism' Vogue'Fascinating science' ITV _______________What we've been told about our diet has been all wrong.

This book addresses the response of law and quasi-legal bodies to human service failures.

This volume of original work comprises a modest challenge, sometimes direct, sometimes implicit, to the mainstream Anglo-American conception of the discipline of medical ethics.

This book highlights concepts of professionalism in medicine such as ethical issues and both clinical and non-clinical challenges in patient care.

This thought provoking and highly practical book is not just about caring for the dying within mental health, but also applying the quality care and practice of palliative care within mental health practice.

Matti Häyry asks if we should make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances allow it.

Modern medicine is one of humankind's greatest achievements.

Los trastornos funcionales digestivos, entre ellos el síndrome de intestino irritable, constituyen la primera causa de consulta al gastroenterólogo y una de las primeras al médico general.

PrólogoAunque pueda parecer utópico afirmar que la hipertensión arterial constituye uno de los grandes retos de la medicina moderna, la realidad de los grandes estudios epidemiológicos actuales sigue situando a la hipertensión como el factor de riesgo con mayor impacto en la mortalidad de los seres humanos.

This book arms both students and professionals with the knowledge to tackle situations of moral uncertainty in clinical practice.

This important book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding vaccine hesitancy, as well as the nuances of antivaccination claims.

Is it ethical for psychiatrists to call a president a narcissist?

Increasingly digital technologies are used in healthcare.

Band 2 der Enzyklopädieserie "Medizinischen Psychologie" stellt unter Anwendungsaspekten aktuelle Befunde aus der Psychologie, die in der Medizin und in der Gesundheitsversorgung von Relevanz sind, vor.

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness.

Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision.

Cancer has become the scourge of the twentieth century.

This book contrasts earlier textbooks on "e;evidence-based practices.

This anthology provides a collection of new essays on ethical and philosophical issues that concern the development, dispensing, and use of pharmaceuticals.

This book explores central aspects of genetic modification of animals for scientific purposes in the context technological possibilities, regulatory issues in different regions, animal welfare implications and wider ethical issues exemplified through current theories and frameworks.

La prevalencia de las cardiopatías congénitas es alrededor de 9 de cada 1000 neonatos en todo el mundo y varía significativamente dependiendo de la región geográfica.

Behind heart disease and cancer, medical error is now listed as one of the leading causes of death.