Medical profession

Presents new models for describing and analysing language in degenerative (Alzheimer''s) and developmental (autism spectrum) disorders.

An interdisciplinary exploration of important developments in neuroscience, and the philosophical, ethical, and social issues that such advancements generate.

This book provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death.

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

This book highlights concepts of professionalism in medicine such as ethical issues and both clinical and non-clinical challenges in patient care.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

An examination of legal measures which might be used to solve the problem of fragmentation of patents in genetics.

El médico intensivista siempre ha tenido la preocupación de tratar de actuar de la mejor manera para con su paciente, ya sea en el aspecto técnico médico o en lo referente a los aspectos éticos y morales de la atención médica del enfermo grave; sin embargo, ante la avalancha de avances tecnológicos y de información médica, que se han acompañado de mayor sofisticación en la atención médica, también ha venido de la mano la despersonalización de la atención, en ocasiones brindando una atención médica un tanto deshumanizada y también carente de los valores éticos que debe tener el médico, por lo que en este milenio se ha recobrado con gran fuerza el intento de atender estos aspectos de la medicina que se han perdido por la sofisticación de la medicina aunada a una pobre formación ética durante la carrera de medicina y durante la especialización.

This book is an essential text for practitioners of clinical forensic medicine and for those who take them through judicial proceedings.

Alasdair Maclean examines the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment and offers proposals for reform.

This book guides the physician through the daunting communication challenges of explaining life-threatening illness to patients and families.

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

Naturalized Bioethics shows bioethicists and health care professionals a new way to address the ethical issues surrounding health care.

This book provides a framework for addressing important philosophical issues in psychiatry and psychopharmacology.

Focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy.

Documents experiences throughout the entire research process - from conceptualization, ethics approval, field-work, analysis, and publication.

28 detailed cases explore the ethical reasoning, professional issues, and the emotional aspects of difficult consultations.

The legal status of posthumous interests is analysed in three areas of medico-legal context.

Prado addresses the question of whether it is rational to end one''s life in order to escape devastating terminal illness.

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

Leading international specialists evaluate the ethical and social implications of developments in reporting surgeon performance.

An ethical and philosophical examination of our understanding of human powers and nature.

Mason explores aspects of pregnancy which involve medico-legal intervention, including unwanted or undesired pregnancies.

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

A coherent, wide-ranging and practical account of the role of consent in biomedicine, first published in 2007.

This book is a wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue.

A one-stop reference for all medical professionals who encounter ethicolegal problems during their management of patients.

Discusses the pros and cons of laws against human reproductive cloning.

The ethical issues encountered in the clinical management of extremely premature neonates.

This book connects medical liability to broader trends and goals in American health policy.

Argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies.

This book examines the ethical controversies that have surrounded the design and conduct of international medical research carried out in developing countries.

This book provides a unique and in-depth coverage of ethical and moral issues in medicine and their legal implications.

This book addresses the limits of medicine by examining two mirror-image debates in tandem.

How can Christian ethics make a significant contribution to health care ethics in today''s Western, pluralistic society?

These papers by doctors, scholars, industry executives, and NGO representatives debate ethics in the pharmaceutical industry.

Celia Deane-Drummond examines ethical issues in genetics from a Christian virtue ethics perspective.

This book surveys the main methods of analysing ethical problems in modern medicine.

This collection of cases and commentaries highlights ethical dilemmas arising during high-tech hospital care of seriously ill children.

Explores how new techniques in genetic testing have changed the relationship between ethics and medicine.

This book addresses the ethical problems in maternal-fetal medicine which impact directly on clinical practice.

In this influential book, George Agich abandons comfortable abstractions to reveal the concrete threats to personal autonomy in long-term care.

Considers problems associated with genetic information in an age of declining welfare provision, and offers direction for future policy.

This book covers comprehensively and practically the ethical issues involved in prevention of intellectual disability.

Reviews the conceptual basis of evidence-based medicine and the ethical issues it gives rise to.

A survey of the medical, ethical and legal issues that surround this controversial topic.

This book examines the three main approaches to moral decision-making.

The right to genetic information is considered here from the standpoint of individuals, their relatives, insurers and the state.

A unique Jewish legal history of abortion from earliest biblical references to the present day.

With implications that go to the core of what it means to be human, the issues raised by genetic manipulation-especially cloning-have sparked a passionate debate among governmental, religious, and scientific quarters, as well as the media and the general public.