Medical profession

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.

This book explores, in rich and rigorous ways, the possibilities and limitations of "e;thick"e; (concepts of) autonomy in light of contemporary debates in philosophy, ethics, and bioethics.

In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum discuss the issue of care.

Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "e;Loss"e; explores the many ways in which literature and film have engaged with the subject of amputation.

This book offers a multidisciplinary look at the much-debated concept of "e;personalized medicine"e;.

This book reveals how economic restrictions and limited healthcare resources, combined with growing care demands due to advanced technology and more care options, have to a great extent contributed to increased workloads for healthcare professionals and put them under pressure to prioritize their work.

Con el desarrollo de la humanidad y los grandes avances en la tecnología ha mejorado la expectativa de vida del ser humano; en los mexicanos hemos observado la reducción de la mortalidad por enfermedades infectocontagiosas y la mortalidad maternoinfantil, que décadas atrás eran las causas más importantes de mortalidad en nuestro país.

This volume addresses gaps in the existing literature of global mental health by focusing on the ethical considerations that are implicit in discussions of health policy.

This book questions the notions of person, personality, dignity, and other connected notions such as (informed) consent, and discusses new perspectives on categories that allow ethical debates in medicine to overcome morals and ordinary religious schemes.

This book explores a new way of applying clinical ethics.

This book presents a comprehensive theory of the ethics and political philosophy of public health surveillance based on reciprocal obligations among surveillers, those under surveillance, and others potentially affected by surveillance practices.

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

This is the first book to explore the epistemology and ethics of advanced imaging tests, in order to improve the critical understanding of the nature of knowledge they provide and the practical consequences of their utilization in healthcare.

This book offers a philosophically-based, yet clinically-oriented perspective on current medical reasoning aiming at 1) identifying important forms of uncertainty permeating current clinical reasoning and practice 2) promoting the application of an abductive methodology in the health context in order to deal with those clinical uncertainties 3) bridging the gap between biomedical knowledge, clinical practice, and research and values in both clinical and philosophical literature.

This book provides a bridge between the theory to practice gap in contemporary health care ethics.

This edited volume aims to better understand the multifaceted phenomenon we call health.

This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts.

The aim of this book is to show how feminist perspectives can extend and advance the field of nursing ethics.

This book explores, through case studies, the interplay between religion, culture, government, and politics in diverse societies on questions arising in the domain of bioethics.

In this book, the author argues that no current philosophical theory of evidence in clinical medical science is adequate.

This volume - for pharmacologists, systems biologists, philosophers and historians of medicine - points to investigate new avenues in pharmacology research, by providing a full assessment of the premises underlying a radical shift in the pharmacology paradigm.

This volume covers a wide range of topics concerning methodological, epistemological, and regulatory-ethical issues around pharmacology.

This interdisciplinary volume gathers selected, refereed contributions on various aspects of public health from several disciplines and research fields, including the philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics.

This textbook examines the ways in which arguments may be used and abused in medicine and health.

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

This book provides an up-to-date description of cross-cultural aspects of end-of-life decision-making.

This book focuses on justice and its demands in the way of providing people with medical care.

This book provides a condensed but comprehensive up-to-date overview of spirituality and its application to health care.

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.

Examining Georges Canguilhem's enduring attention to the problem of error, from his early writings to Michel Foucault's first major responses to his work, this pathbreaking book shows that the historian of science was also a centrally important philosopher in postwar France.

Un patient atteint d’une maladie incurable terminale demande à mourir dans la dignité.

Vous êtes psychologue, travailleur social, médecin, thérapeute, professionnel de la santé mentale et physique, travailleur humanitaire, ou premier répondant.

Nous cherchons souvent le remède miracle à nos maux, la pilule qui permettrait d'enrayer rapidement nos symptômes.

Afin d’aider les professionnels de la santé à prendre des décisions éthiques éclairées, cet ouvrage fournit des outils théoriques et pratiques.

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Le temoignage interpellant d'un medecin de campagne qui, apres plus de quarante annees au service de ses malades, a effraye par ses travaux et ses prises de position le microcosme parisien ordinal, ce qui lui a valu d'etre interdit d'exercer.

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"e;Children's palliative care is an evolving specialty and as such our knowledge base cannot remain static.

Un código de ética profesional hace explícitos los objetivos, valores y obligaciones principales de una profesión dada.

Un código de ética profesional hace explícitos los objetivos, valores y obligaciones principales de una profesión dada.

In his exceptionally thought-provoking and moving memoir, neurosurgeon Joseph D.

You are about enter the wild and wonderful world of one of San Antonio's most respected and beloved board-certified plastic surgeons.

People in general are concerned about the health of themselves and their families, but they lack reliable access to health knowledge.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and NOT the original book.

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El trastorno bipolar afecta a gran número de personas, independientes del sexo y la edad.