Medical profession

The need to reduce disability and premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasingly engaging international organisations and national and sub-national governments.

Reflective practice is a requirement for all healthcare professionals.

Reflective practice is a requirement for all healthcare professionals.

Ideal for quick reference in any ward or community environment, this pocket-sized guide puts all the crucial information on wound care at your fingertips.

Ideal for quick reference in any ward or community environment, this pocket-sized guide puts all the crucial information on wound care at your fingertips.

Delays in recognising deterioration or inappropriate management of people in acute care settings can result in late treatment, avoidable admissions to intensive care units and in some instances unnecessary deaths.

Delays in recognising deterioration or inappropriate management of people in acute care settings can result in late treatment, avoidable admissions to intensive care units and in some instances unnecessary deaths.

Following the Governments health reforms in 1991 rationing has been put firmly on the agenda.

Following the Governments health reforms in 1991 rationing has been put firmly on the agenda.

The Patient in the Family diagnoses the ways in which the worlds of home and hospital misunderstand each other.

The Patient in the Family diagnoses the ways in which the worlds of home and hospital misunderstand each other.

This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era.

This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era.

This fully updated third edition of Psychiatry in Medical Practice takes into account major changes in medical education since 1994.

This fully updated third edition of Psychiatry in Medical Practice takes into account major changes in medical education since 1994.

First published in 1999.

First published in 1999.

Here is an overview of many of the ethical challenges facing health care practitioners today.

Here is an overview of many of the ethical challenges facing health care practitioners today.

Development as a reflective practitioner has become an essential quality for practitioners in the fields of health, education and social care.

Development as a reflective practitioner has become an essential quality for practitioners in the fields of health, education and social care.

Narratives have always played a prominent role in both bioethics and medicine; the fields have attracted much storytelling, ranging from great literature to humbler stories of sickness and personal histories.

Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and novelists such as Walker Percy, Paul Auster and Graham Greene, APhilosophical Disease brings to the bioethical discussion larger philosophical questions about the sense and significance of human life.

Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and novelists such as Walker Percy, Paul Auster and Graham Greene, APhilosophical Disease brings to the bioethical discussion larger philosophical questions about the sense and significance of human life.

Narratives have always played a prominent role in both bioethics and medicine; the fields have attracted much storytelling, ranging from great literature to humbler stories of sickness and personal histories.

Increasingly, legislators at the state and federal levels of government are forced to evaluate and act upon the unique problems presented by an aging American public.

Increasingly, legislators at the state and federal levels of government are forced to evaluate and act upon the unique problems presented by an aging American public.

Understand the complex ethical, legal, medical, and psychological issues of the most common form of elder abuse!

Understand the complex ethical, legal, medical, and psychological issues of the most common form of elder abuse!

The death of a patient is every therapist's worst nightmare.

Stay up-to-date on the ethical and legal issues that affect your clinical and professional decisions!

Stay up-to-date on the ethical and legal issues that affect your clinical and professional decisions!

This definitive handbook assembles the most recent advances in knowledge about dementia, Alzheimer Disease, and related disorders as they affect persons with intellectual disabilities.

This definitive handbook assembles the most recent advances in knowledge about dementia, Alzheimer Disease, and related disorders as they affect persons with intellectual disabilities.

This book reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, in various locations, and from various disciplinary perspectives.

This book reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, in various locations, and from various disciplinary perspectives.

Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics.

Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics.

Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists.

Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists.

A passionate, proactive stance on the present state of psychotherapy, The Vulnerable Therapist: Practicing Psychotherapy in an Age of Anxiety picks the brains of contemporary mental health professionals and finds a common symptom--fear.

A passionate, proactive stance on the present state of psychotherapy, The Vulnerable Therapist: Practicing Psychotherapy in an Age of Anxiety picks the brains of contemporary mental health professionals and finds a common symptom--fear.

Ethics in Hospice Care: Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment explores the pressures and challenges facing hospice and aims to produce new studies and educational materials on hospice ethics to help professionals in the field.

Ethics in Hospice Care: Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment explores the pressures and challenges facing hospice and aims to produce new studies and educational materials on hospice ethics to help professionals in the field.

Reinforce the relationship between healthy bodies and healthy relationships in families!

Reinforce the relationship between healthy bodies and healthy relationships in families!

Here is an excellent "e;how-to"e; guide for initiating pet-facilitated therapy programs with the elderly.

Here is an excellent "e;how-to"e; guide for initiating pet-facilitated therapy programs with the elderly.

Explains how to start a hospice, discusses issues concerning their Administration, And Considers Staff Stress, Emotional Support For mourners, ethical problems, and legal concerns.

Explains how to start a hospice, discusses issues concerning their Administration, And Considers Staff Stress, Emotional Support For mourners, ethical problems, and legal concerns.