International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology.
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.
This important volume is the first to address the use of neuroimaging in civil and criminal forensic contexts and to include discussion of prior precedents and court decisions.
This ';comfortingthoughtful' (The Washington Post) guide to maintaining a high quality of lifefrom resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breathby the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven's Door is a ';roadmap to the end that combines medical, practical, and spiritual guidance' (The Boston Globe).
Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics.
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.
The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century.
This title was first published in 2000: Over the past decade the welfare state has come under sustained attack not only from quarters which never approved of its policies, but also from political theorists who used to support it.
Der vorliegende Band enthält eine Sammlung von Aufsätzen zum Thema Leihmutterschaft aus Blickrichtungen verschiedener Disziplinen, die allesamt jeweils an den aktuellen Forschungsstand anknüpfen.
El médico intensivista siempre ha tenido la preocupación de tratar de actuar de la mejor manera para con su paciente, ya sea en el aspecto técnico médico o en lo referente a los aspectos éticos y morales de la atención médica del enfermo grave; sin embargo, ante la avalancha de avances tecnológicos y de información médica, que se han acompañado de mayor sofisticación en la atención médica, también ha venido de la mano la despersonalización de la atención, en ocasiones brindando una atención médica un tanto deshumanizada y también carente de los valores éticos que debe tener el médico, por lo que en este milenio se ha recobrado con gran fuerza el intento de atender estos aspectos de la medicina que se han perdido por la sofisticación de la medicina aunada a una pobre formación ética durante la carrera de medicina y durante la especialización.
La presente edición abarca desde la preparación de las células fecundantes en la espermatogénesis y el ciclo menstrual; la fecundación e implantación; pasando por las primeras semanas del desarrollo, sumando el desarrollo placentario, los principios básicos de la fisiología fetal y la adaptación neonatal; hasta las generalidades de las anomalías congénitas y el diagnóstico prenatal.
Pharmacy Ethics: A Foundation for Professional Practice provides a model for examining and resolving ethical dilemmas, thereby helping student pharmacists understand the ethical decision-making process in professional practice.
This thoroughly updated third edition lays a solid foundation for understanding the intersection of law, ethics and the rights of the patient in the context of everyday nursing and health care practice.
Bridging memoir with key concepts in narratology, philosophy and history of medicine, and disability studies, this book identifies and names the phenomenon of metagnosis: the experience of learning in adulthood of a longstanding condition.
El vasto campo que tiene la medicina interna permite su interrelación con otras disciplinas y ser expandida tanto como la mente y el conocimiento deseen, o ser limitada por la capacidad y curiosidad del médico.
In bioethische Kontroversen geht es zumeist um den Umgang des Menschen mit sich selbst, genauer: den Umgang mit den biologischen Grundlagen seiner – der menschlichen – Existenz.
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.
Dieses Buches setzt sich, hauptsächlich aus medizinethischer Sicht, mit der Wortwahl innerhalb eines Patienten-Arzt-Gespräches an einem Beispiel der nicht-invasiven pränatalen Diagnostik (NIPD) auseinander.
While the American legal system has played an important role in shaping the field of bioethics, Law and Bioethics is the first book on the subject designed to be accessible to readers with little or no legal background.
In the last two decades, more thanever before dentists must determine how toproperly maintaintheir focus on ethics and professionalism in the face of powerfulcommercial pressures.
Dieses Buch wendet sich an Personen, die Menschen unterschiedlicher Glaubensrichtungen und Kulturen vor und während des Sterbens betreuen, sowie an Berufsgruppen, die mit dem Umgang mit Verstorbenen betraut sind.
2024 WINNER Autobiography/Memoir Best Book Awards2025 Nautilus Award Winner | Silver | Death & Dying / Grief & Loss2025 Foreword INDIES Award Winner | Bronze | Grief/Grieving (Adult Nonfiction)A wondrous, hopeful, heart-breaking witness to one of the darkest journeys imaginable This will be one of those rare books that people re-read, think about, and encourage others to read.
La Asociación Mexicana de Gastroenterología ha tenido un gran acierto al incluir en las Clínicas de Gastroenterología de México esta publicación, que enfatiza los conceptos del trabajo en equipo.
