Medical profession

This book presents original, critical and diverse perspectives on topics spanning the breadth of this emerging new field.

Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes analysieren in kritischer Weise die Breite und Tiefe des Diskurses zu Neuro-Enhancement, der sich aber nicht nur durch ethische Fragen auszeichnet.

A bioethic of obligations and responsibilities, based on the Jewish traditionThe Jewish tradition has important perspectives, history, and wisdom that can contribute significantly to crucial contemporary healthcare deliberations.

The ethical aspects of the operation of healthcare organizations (HCOs) are central to the delivery of health care.

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Auf Empfehlung des Wissenschaftsrats wurde der Querschnittsbereich Geschichte, Theorie, Ethik der Medizin als benotetes Pflichtfach für Medizinstudierende in der ärztlichen Approbationsordnung verankert.

This book examines the central structures in medicine-medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority-from the perspective of an ethics of care.

This practical, thought-provoking guide provides the unemotional, clear, and accurate advice necessary for communicating with patients in a palliative care setting - a pivotal aspect of being a palliative care expert that is so difficult to quantify and teach.

As noted in Volume 1, the Yearbook series alternates between a biennial volume tracing recent theological discussions on topics in bioethics and a biennial volume tracing recent regional discussions in bioethics.

This book reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, in various locations, and from various disciplinary perspectives.

Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it?

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.

The relationship between spirituality and healthcare is historical, intellectual and practical, and it has now emerged as a significant field in health research, healthcare policy and clinical practice and training.

The need for quality improvement and for cost saving are driving both individual choices and health system dynamics.

What is 'legal' about bioethics?

We live at a time when the human lifespan has increased like never before.

Is it possible that angels, saints, and even our departed ancestors support and inspire us throughout our lives?

'This book is a tribute to expert nursing.

In these essays, a diverse group of ethicists draw insights from both religious and feminist scholarship in order to propose creative new approaches to the ethics of medical care.

Prozac and its chemical cousins, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft, are some of the most profitable and most widely used drugs in America.

Medical Ethics, Law and Communication at a Glance presents a succinct overview of these key areas of the medical curriculum.

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

One of the first comprehensive summaries of the latest thinking and research in improving intensive care quality and patient safety.

What does it take to be a scientist?

El cáncer es el crecimiento de tumores malignos en diferentes órganos; es una enfermedad crónico–degenerativa que ha causado muchas defunciones, ya que su diagnóstico se hace en etapas avanzadas.

A unique, documented case against the legalisation of ''assisted dying'', based mainly on empirical and logical ''slippery slope'' concerns.

While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions.

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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.

Es gibt Behandlungsbereiche, da scheint Sprachlosigkeit zwischen den Professionellen und Patienten zu herrschen.

A practical, insightful guide to the moral and ethical standards of healthcare Succeeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription.

Communication and relationships have become an increasing focus of attention in debates about the future of health and social care.

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Theologians and theologically educated participants in discussions of bioethics have been placed on the defensive during recent years.

El concepto de terapia médica nutricional implica una necesidad más amplia de interesarse por el tema nutricional de los pacientes en general, implica darle el nivel que le corresponde como un tratamiento que ayuda a prevenir y sostener el estado metabólico de un paciente que se enfrenta a cualquier tipo de enfermedad, sumado al efecto del tratamiento respectivo para la enfermedad específica, sea quirúrgica o no.

If you are looking for an accessible introduction to the essential concepts that define the field of professional ethics, then this is the book for you.

Ethics, Culture, and Psychiatry: International Perspectives is a textbook that explores the best ways to promote the use of the Declaration of Madrid, which outlines ethical standards for psychiatric practice throughout the world.

This book connects medical liability to broader trends and goals in American health policy.

This text examines the dominant ways of looking at patient/clinician relationships in healthcare.

WHAT MAKES A MURDERER?

The ethic of care has developed to become a body of theory that has expanded from its roots in social psychology to many other disciplines in the social sciences as well as the humanities.

Fragen der medizinischen Ethik haben mit existentiell herausfordernden Situationen am Lebensanfang, in Krankheit und am Lebensende zu tun.

Presents critical and forcefully argued debate between two moral philosophers, setting out strong cases on both sides of the argument.

This handbook contextualises medical and health professions education concepts using contemporary best evidence available with the relevant theoretical underpinnings.