Medical profession

Practicing as a radiologist is about more than image interpretation.

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The Psychology of Eating is the essential multidisciplinary introduction to the psychology of eating, looking at the biological, genetic, developmental, and social determinants of how humans find and assimilate food.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A PRACTICAL, ACCESSIBLE GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THE SECRET TO LASTING WEIGHT LOSS AND HOW YOU CAN GET IN SHAPE WITHOUT COUNTING CALORIES 'A compelling look at the science of appetite and metabolism' Vogue'Fascinating science' ITV _______________What we've been told about our diet has been all wrong.

A hospice chaplain's lessons on the meaning of life, from those who are leaving itWhat are the top regrets of the dying?

In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues.

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

Medical confidentiality is an essential cornerstone of effective public health systems, and for centuries societies have struggled to maintain the illusion of absolute privacy.

Research physicians face intractable dilemmas when they consider introducing new medical procedures.

Contemporary health care often lacks generosity of spirit, even when treatment is most efficient.

Intuition is central to discussions about the nature of scientific and philosophical reasoning and what it means to be human.

Intuition is central to discussions about the nature of scientific and philosophical reasoning and what it means to be human.

Part of the Oxford American Neurology Library, Parkinson's Disease: Improving Patient Care is a clinically-focused text for healthcare professionals involved in the everyday management of Parkinson's disease patients.

We have provided the reader with a resource for applied ethical decision-making for use in clinical, educational, and research settings.

Justice is foundational to discussion, debate, and policy making surrounding biomedical research.

Health systems need to set priorities fairly.

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.

The Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Medicine Second Edition covers all areas of internal medicine and surgery, offering up-to-date advice on examination, diagnostic testing, common procedures, and in-patient care.

Intimate and medicalized, natural and technological, reproduction poses some of the most challenging ethical dilemmas of our time.

Communicating with patients about genetic concepts is fraught with complications.

The Ethics of Private Practice helps mental health professionals understand the essential ethical issues related to the many challenges of being in independent practice.

The Ethics of Private Practice helps mental health professionals understand the essential ethical issues related to the many challenges of being in independent practice.

This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States.

This major new work updates and significantly expands The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying.

The ethics of creating -- or declining to create -- human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and embryo research; literature on "e;self-creation"e;; and discussions of procreative rights and responsibilities, genetic engineering, and future generations.

Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.

Childhood obesity has become a central concern in many countries and a range of policies have been implemented or proposed to address it.

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.

Hospice care is one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.

Of every thousand children born in Iceland, two will die before their first birthday, but in Mozambique the death rate is sixty times higher.

Interesting and important ethical questions confront researchers, regulators, institutional review boards, support personnel, and research participants committed to the ethical conduct of human subjects research at all stages of research.

In this groundbreaking book, Dr.

Long before it cured disease, medicine aimed to relieve suffering-but despite that precedence, the relief of suffering often takes a back seat in today's biomedical research and treatment.

Adopting a broadly compatibilist approach, this volume's authors argue that the behavioral and mind sciences do not threaten the moral foundations of legal responsibility.

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While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B.

Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care.

Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human?

In this groundbreaking volume, David Schenck and Larry Churchill present the results of fifty interviews with practitioners identified by their peers as "e;healers,"e; exploring in depth the things that the best clinicians do.

In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics.

This book explores implicit choices made by researchers, policy makers, and funders regarding who benefits from society's investment in health research.

For patients and family caregivers the journey through illness and transitions of care is characterized by a series of progressive physical and emotional losses.

This book is a discussion of the most timely and contentious issues in the two branches of neuroethics: the neuroscience of ethics; and the ethics of neuroscience.

In this pioneering work, Abdulaziz Sachedina - a scholar with life-long academic training in Islamic law - relates classic Muslim religious values to the new ethical challenges that arise from medical research and practice.

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.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience.

Observing Bioethics examines the history of bioethics as a discipline related not only to modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the core values and beliefs of American society and its courts, legislatures, and media.

What does it take to be a scientist?

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

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