Patients who are facing illness and uncertainty often find themselves reflecting on the bigger questions in life, and the core beliefs or principles they live by.
Im Gegensatz zum Idealbild des "mündigen Patienten" zeichnen sich viele Patienten gerade dadurch aus, dass sie die Fähigkeit zur Autonomieausübung vorübergehend oder dauerhaft verloren oder aber gar nicht erst erworben haben.
The Paranormal, the new ebook series from F+W Media International Ltd, resurrecting rare titles, classic publications and out-of-print texts, as well as new ebook titles on the supernatural - other-worldly books for the digital age.
Adding to a growing body of knowledge about how the social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene affect human health, this collection presents strategies that both address core challenges, including climate change, stagnating economic growth, and rising socio-political instability, and offers novel frameworks for living well on a finite planet.
The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series represents the results of this EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries.
Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Medical Law is all about, Beginning Medical Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.
Most mental health professionals and behavioral scientists enter the field with a strong desire to help others, but clinical practice and research endeavors often involve decision-making in the context of ethical ambiguity.
This Second Edition of The Psychiatry of Palliative Medicine remains a practical and pragmatic distillation of the psychiatry relevant to the terminally ill.
This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand nursing as a profession and as a culture.
The one-stop, comprehensive resource for students considering a career in medicineIn recent years, applying to and getting accepted to medical school in the U.
Students often think of science as disconnected pieces of information rather than a narrative that challenges their thinking, requires them to develop evidence-based explanations for the phenomena under investigation, and communicate their ideas in discipline-specific language as to why certain solutions to a problem work.
At all times physicians were bound to pursue not only medical tasks, but to reflect also on the many anthropological and metaphysical aspects of their discipline, such as on the nature of life and death, of health and sickness, and above all on the vital ethical dimensions of their practice.
This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities that have chosen to speak truth to power by reforming dysfunctional health care systems or creating new ones outside the box.
The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.
Correctional registered nurses provide healthcare and related services, including advocacy, health education, preventive care, research, and clinical care.
First published in 1997, this title is a sequel to Dr Noel Curran's first book The Logical Universe: The Real Universe (published by Ashgate under the Avebury imprint, 1994).
Mit ihrer qualitativen Studie hat Sara Marquard differenziert und empirisch belastbar untersucht, wie Frauen mit einer fortgeschrittenen Brustkrebserkrankung ihre körperlichen Beeinträchtigungen erleben.
Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or motor neurone disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that can cause profound suffering for both the patient and their family.
This book deals with the research and use of embryonic stem cells to combat a number of diseases and the legal limitations, arising mostly from bioethical concerns regarding human life.
The book provides a detailed introduction to a major debate in bioethics, as well as a rigorous account of the role of conscience in professional decision-making.
Das Buch untersucht die Bestimmungsrechte am menschlichen Körper und seiner Teile in den verschiedenen Phasen der körperlichen Existenz aus grundrechtlicher, insbesondere eigentumsrechtlicher Perspektive.
This book argues that a conscientiously objecting medical professional should receive an exemption only if the grounds of an objector's refusal are reasonable.
Aimed at supporting their emancipatory project, this book explores strategies for resisting dominance and enhancing agency within the caring professions.
As the use of human body parts has become increasingly commercialized, a need has arisen for new approaches to regulation that moves beyond the paradigm of altruism.
Wenn Helfer Hilfe brauchen- Wichtig und hochaktuell: Lebensqualität für ÄrztInnen und TherapeutInnen steigern- Grundlagen: Welche Erkrankungen sind die häufigsten und wie sie sich auf die Berufsausübung auswirken- Praxisnah: Mit konkreten Anweisungen für Prävention und InterventionDer Berufsalltag von Ärztinnen und Ärzten, genauso wie der von Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten, kann sehr stressig sein.
The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health care system.
