Medical profession

Aging is a public health priority that is becoming increasingly important in both developed and less developed nations, with individual health care providers and law-makers each facing difficult ethical and policy dilemmas.

Conveys all the core topics emphasising the interplay between medical law and medical ethics in a unique chapter structure.

Wie erleben junge Menschen die Begegnung mit sterbenden Menschen?

Mental health is the one area of health care where people are often treated against their will, with the justification that it is in their own interest.

Neuroethics is concerned with the wide array of ethical, legal and social issues that are raised in research and practice.

Everything you need to know about the psychology, rhetoric and tactics of writing grant proposals and articles in biomedical sciences.

Justice, Crime, and Ethics, a leading textbook in criminal justice programs, examines ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the field.

Clinicians must practice medicine in conformity with regulatory requirements.

Ethics and the Good Doctor brings together existing literature and an analysis of empirical research conducted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues to examine the ethical nature of medical practice and explore medicine as a virtuous profession.

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

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In light of the potential novel applications of neurotechnologies in psychiatry and the current debate on moral bioenhancement, this book outlines the reasons why more conceptual work is needed to inform the scientific and medical community, and society at large, about the implications of moral bioenhancement before a possible, highly hypothetical at this point, broad acceptance, and potential implementation in areas such as psychiatry (e.

The Life of a Medical Officer in WW1 documents the experiences of Captain Harry Gordon Parker and provides a rare insight into the conflict that engulfed Europe from 1914-1918.

La cuarta edición de "Fundamentos de Pediatría" que la Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas pone orgullosamente hoya su disposición, es el resultado de un arduo trabajo académico y editorial en el que han participado muchas personas, con el fin de reunir los conocimientos más relevantes y actualizados alrededor de la Pediatría como especialidad, para compartirlos con quienes en el ejercicio de su profesión se ocupan de la salud infantil.

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To derive benefit from medical care, a patient must be able to trust the physician.

Issues in bioethics often turn, at least in part, on the law and regulatory requirements.

To what extent can we have truly universal, comprehensive and timely health services, equally available to all?

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

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the experience of health and investigates how this experience is shaped by recent developments in medicine and public health.

'How to be Good?

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.

In Let Me Heal, prize-winning author Kenneth M.

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.

Written by experienced authorities from around the world giving a wider international perspective on palliative nursing, this substantially expanded new edition has been specifically adapted to reflect working practices within the NHS.

Each year, neonatal Intensive care units (NICUs) in the U.

This book offers a comprehensive ethical analysis of conscientious objection in three representative health care professions: medicine, nursing and pharmacy.

This book discusses the development of key issues in research ethics relevant for clinical sociologists, concerning client rights to confidentiality, privacy, and informed consent.

Communicating with patients about genetic concepts is fraught with complications.

As part of a continuing effort to tackle issues of major social concern, this 280th conference of internationally recognized experts from the fields of molecular biology, medicine, philosophy, theology, and the law looks into the scientific, legal, ethical, social, and economic issues confronting man and his ability to map and sequence the human genome.

An ethical and philosophical examination of our understanding of human powers and nature.

Spiritual Care beinhaltet eine existenzielle Auseinandersetzung, die jenseits von Schmerztherapie und Symptomkontrolle Sinn und Bedeutung des Todes für das menschliche Leben thematisiert.

This book is a concise introduction to the fundamental issues and debates in health care ethics.

For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal.

Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child.

The true story of one doctor's fascinating journey, a patient's courageous struggle, and the faith they both shared.

Patient-centered care for chronic illness is founded upon the informed and activated patient, but we are not clear what this means.

Regulating the End of Life: Death Rights is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field.

Since the 90's, issues of scarcity, priority setting, and rationing lie at the centre of most current debates on health care.

Reconstructing Medical Practice examines how doctors see health care and their place in it, why they remain in medicine and why they are limited in their ability to lead change in the current system.

What limits the genetic choices parents make for their children?

From the top experts on healthcare workforce engagement comes a vital road map to reduce the alarmingly high-and fast-growing-rate of staff burnout and to transform care.

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The pursuit of excellent compassionate care should be at the heart of all practice.

What happens when two intelligent American college students with different attitudes about guns launch into a careful exploration of the ethics of gun policy?