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Clinical research ethics consultation has emerged in the last 15 years as a service to those involved in the conduct of clinical research who face challenging issues for which more than one course of action may be justified.

In this book, first published in 2007, bioethics scholars examine the ethical, legal and social questions raised by human genetic databases.

Conscience in Reproductive Health Care responds to the growing worldwide trend of health care professionals conscientiously refusing to provide abortions and similar reproductive health services in countries where these services are legal and professionally accepted.

"e;The book lets us see the human side of physicians-the humorous, the heartwarming-the tradition of health care in Kentucky.

Reproductive health care professionals in fields such as Obstetrics and Gynecology, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics face difficult ethical issues because they work at the crossroads of patient decision-making, scientific advancement, political controversy, legal regulation, and profound moral considerations.

A comprehensive reference providing an approach to problems of biomedical ethics in the clinical setting.

All persons, while different from one another, have the same value: this is the author's relatively uncontroversial starting point.

This volume provides a theoretical and practical overview of the ethics of pediatric medicine.

A thoroughly researched, empirically-based explanation of the failures of end-of-life communication & decision-making in the United States.

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This book explores the experiences and emotional expression of 30 people Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) using qualitative research methods such as "e;illness narratives,"e; and analyzes the dilemmas of "e;sicknesses of the society"e; including "e;Acquired Needs Deficiency"e; Syndrome, "e;Acquired Expectation Insufficiency"e; Syndrome, and "e;Acquired Punishment"e; Syndrome at the micro, meso and macro levels, so as to investigate higher-intensity negative emotions.

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

First published in 1992, Quality and Regulation in Health Care employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to examine the methods used to influence the quality of health care in the US, UK, and Western Europe.

For several weeks a year, over three decades, he worked as a consulting cardiologist in the Canadian North, a first-hand witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among the Inuit as a Western lifestyle became more prevalent.

Deprescribing practice in hospice medicine has expanded exponentially in recent years.

To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings?

Autonomy is a vital principle in medical law and ethics.

Biobanks are promising instruments of biomedical research and of transnational medicine in particular.

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Coherent Judaism begins by excavating the theologies within the Torah and tracing their careers through the Jewish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.

Across a broad range of disciplines - in medicine, social science, and the humanities - researchers, scholars, teachers, and administrators increasingly are looking for new ways to approach ethical issues in research with human subjects.

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.

Civil Dialogue on Abortion provides a cutting-edge discussion between two philosophy scholars on each side of the abortion debate.

The last time you went to your doctor, you might have emerged feeling dissatisfied and disoriented.

Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care examines the conflicting normative claims of partiality and impartiality in nursing care, looking in depth at how to reconcile reasonable concerns for one particular patient with equally important concerns for the maximisation of health-related welfare for all with relevant nursing-care needs, in a resource-limited setting.

A wide-ranging discussion of the morality and legality of medically assisted death.

This book is a machine-generated literature overview of the legal and ethical debates over privacy and data protection measures in the last three decades, showcasing the expectations vis-à-vis realities of their presence and application in different sectors.

Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application.

Long before it cured disease, medicine aimed to relieve suffering-but despite that precedence, the relief of suffering often takes a back seat in today's biomedical research and treatment.

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data.

Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision.

This text addresses the host of ethical questions that has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies.

When is a human study ethical?

As one of the 'learned' professions requiring advanced learning and high principles, law enjoys a special standing in society.

Bis wohin stellen neue biomedizinische Technologien willkommene Wege zur Therapie von Krankheiten oder zur Minderung von Leiden dar und wo beginnt das Streben nach einer "Verbesserung" des Menschen?

Hospice care is one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.

When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap.

The lack of trust in our healthcare system brings ominous results, from decreasing health outcomes to increasing costs, from organization inefficiencies to a pervasive pattern of litigation.

The current opioid epidemic in the United States began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of a new drug, OxyContin, viewed as a safer and more effective opiate for chronic pain management.

Religious freedom has become increasingly important across the global spectrum over the past decades but has remained a contested concept.

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.

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Encouraging a broad, compassionate, humanistic approach to spirituality, this book shows how patients' spiritual needs can be communicated well within interdisciplinary teams, leading to better patient wellbeing.

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The field of bioethics was deeply influenced by religious thinkers as it emerged in the 1960s and early 1970s.