Medical profession

Making healthcare decisions is hard, but making the right choices has never mattered more.

AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 'Start the Week' : 'very moving - brilliant and profound'"e;Brilliant - a grimly humorous yet humane account of the realities of growing old in the modern age.

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.

Thinking critically is an essential skill, both for students and for the modern, evidence-based, healthcare practitioner.

Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision.

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A revised, abridged version of the seminal work, Laboratory Medicine in Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Clinical Laboratory Medicine for Mental Health Professionals more directly address the needs of general psychiatrists and their mental health colleagues in clinical practice.

Caring for elders outside of institutions is the fastest growing sector of US health care.

Hospice chaplains have traditionally played a unique part in palliative care, providing human compassion and support to help ease life's final chapter.

How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.

How to Succeed at the Medical Interview provides candidates with a competitive edge.

Countless public health agencies are trying to solve our most intractable public health problems -- among them, the obesity and opioid epidemics -- by partnering with corporations responsible for creating or exacerbating those problems.

What does it mean to be a good doctor today?

This updated third edition is an essential overview for teachers and students in medical and biological sciences, and for those who conduct animal-based research.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Der 1-Minuten-Arzt: Sicher und besser kommunizieren, für weniger Sand und mehr Öl im Getriebe.

The definitive book on ethics for chemical dependency treatment professionals.

The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics.

This book fills an important gap in existing health care ethics literature by describing an egalitarian conception of moral respect which applies to autonomous and non-autonomous patients alike.

Modern medicine is one of humankind's greatest achievements.

This text addresses the how, why, and when of utilizing force against citizens in a democracy.

The 2nd Edition of Who Owns You, David Koepsell s widely acclaimed exploration of the philosophical and legal problems of patenting human genes, is updated to reflect the most recent changes to the cultural and legal climate relating to the practice of gene patenting.

This textbook examines the ways in which arguments may be used and abused in medicine and health.

This important book offers an introduction to the theory and the varying types of assessment for health care professionals.

Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness.

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.

This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine.

Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did.

This title was first published in 2002: This book is an analysis of the ways in which mental states ground attributions of responsibility to persons.

In these uncertain times, how much can you trust health news?

Raimund Pousset gives in this essential a concise account of senicide, the modern form of cultural killing of the elderly.

In dem vorliegenden Buch wird die Zulässigkeit einer ärztlichen Mitwirkung an verbotenen Kinderwunschbehandlungen im Ausland analysiert.

The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here.

This book is an evaluation of the effectiveness of housing enforcement and tenant protection in England's private rented sector using policy analysis to evaluate regulatory provisions and local authority guidance to identify the advantages and limitations of existing policies.

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The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("e;Collaborative"e;) is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care.

Examines how the framing of disability has serious implications for legal, medical, and policy treatments of disability.

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment.

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Advances in our understanding of the brain and rapid advances in the medical practice of neurology are creating questions and concerns from an ethical and legal perspective.

This book explains what inalienable rights are and how they restrict the behavior of their possessors.

This book investigates how a study of Shakespeare's plays may enhance empathy in doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.

How can one describe the pluralisation of the religious realm, which is of such significance for processes of social change?