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In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum discuss the issue of care.

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Health and healthcare are vitally important to all of us, and academic interest in the law regulating health has, over the last 50 years, become an important field of academic study.

Highly Commended at the British Medical Association Book Awards 2016Clinical Communication in Medicine brings together the theories, models and evidence that underpin effective healthcare communication in one accessible volume.

This book offers a philosophical perspective on contemporary Tourette Syndrome scholarship, a field which has exploded over the last thirty years.

Health Promotion Ethics: A Framework for Social Justice critically considers the ethical dimensions of promoting health with individuals and communities, encouraging a nuanced understanding of health promotion in the context of fairness, empowerment and social justice.

Guidance for addiction counselors in understanding and applying ethical standards Filled with proven strategies to help you examine your current practice for ethical snags and refresh your ethical thinking, Ethics for Addiction Professionals leads you in examining, building, and rebuilding aspects of your ethical practice with the goal of helping you become the strongest clinician possible ethically speaking.

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance offers accessible coverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and health professional education.

This book explores medicine, ethics and the challenge of moral diversity in health care.

This practice-based textbook explores the ethical, legal and professional issues that characterise the field of healthcare.

In der gesellschaftlichen Gesundheitswahrnehmung sind zahnärztliche Vorgänge von besonderer Bedeutung, da die Mundgesundheit einen hohen Stellenwert bei der Bevölkerung besitzt.

The global financial crisis (GFC) that began in 2007 concentrated attention on the morality of banking and financial activities.

Both communitarianism and casuistry have sought to restore ethics as a practical sciencethe former by incorporating various traditions into a shared definition of the common good, the latter by considering the circumstances of each situation through critical reasoning.

In this age of shortened office visits, doctors take care of their patients' immediate needs and often elide their own personal histories.

En las últimas décadas se ha visto un incremento de los problemas éticos, condicionado por una disminución de los valores humanos en la población en general y por el rápido incremento del desarrollo de la ciencia, en especial con logros tan importantes como la ingeniería genética, la biología molecular, la superación de las técnicas de producción, las pruebas de diagnóstico molecular, la creación de unidades coronarias, las investigaciones en el campo de la genética, el incremento en la esperanza de vida, etc.

The concept of deviance is complex, given that norms vary considerably across groups, times, and places.

What happens when two intelligent and highly informed fictional college students, one strongly pro-choice and the other vigorously pro-life, are asked to put together a presentation on abortion?

The second edition of this highly successful text has been greatly expanded and updated, and is now available in two companion volumes.

This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals.

An informative guide to all key aspects of employability for graduating students, educators, managers, and qualified healthcare professionals.

In den letzten 30 bis 40 Jahren hat sich die Lebenserwartung der Menschen deutlich erhöht und im Gegensatz zu den Jahrzehnten davor ist dies auf Entwicklungen im höheren Lebensalter zurückzuführen.

This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis.

Practical, concise, and easy to read, Medicine Morning Report: Beyond the Pearls covers essential material you'll find on USMLE and shelf exams and sharpens your clinical decision-making skills.

Child sexual abuse is a major public policy challenge.

John Coggon analyses important ethical, legal and political claims related to public health and health regulation.

At the onset of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic enhancement, for wholesale redesign.

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

This text examines the concepts which are fundamental to everyday nursing practice.

Health Promotion Ethics: A Framework for Social Justice critically considers the ethical dimensions of promoting health with individuals and communities, encouraging a nuanced understanding of health promotion in the context of fairness, empowerment and social justice.

Mit der steigenden Komplexität unserer Lebenswelt und den damit verbundenen Problemen wachsen die Anforderungen an moralisch vertretbare Lösungen.

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This handy reference will help medical school department chairs and other Academic Health Center (AHC) leaders navigate the important, challenging and complex responsibilities and opportunities of their positions, whether they are new, experienced or future leaders.

Alongside globalization, the sense of vulnerability among people and populations has increased.

Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage?

What's in the Syringe?

Discusses values from the perspective of different health care professionals and why teams and collaborations may succeed or fail.

Numerous important issues arise in relation to the health of, and healthcare for (and by), migrants.

Internationally, marginalized populations, including indigenous people, refugees fleeing both war and the effects of climate change and people-of-color, have borne a disproportionate share of serious COVID 19 illnesses and deaths.

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

Un código de ética profesional hace explícitos los objetivos, valores y obligaciones principales de una profesión dada.

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Published in 2004, this collection will encourage and foster informed discussion of key issues as society comes to grips with the implications of genetic engineering, the mapping and sequencing of the human genome, and the advent of the post-genomic era.

A wide variety of ambitions and measures to slow, stop, and reverse phenomena associated with aging have been part of human culture since early civilization.

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 new edition provides the essential clinical guidance both for those embarking upon a career in palliative medicine and for those already established in the field.

In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce.

Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape curates the current state of untested sexual assault kit research and highlights emerging best practices by exploring the past, the present, and the future of our collective response to rape.