Medical profession

Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, this fascinating book highlights the challenges and contradictions faced by neophyte paramedics as they transition from a classroom setting into day-to-day clinical work placements.

Helping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of effective palliative care.

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.

Contemporary debates over issues as wide-ranging as the protection of wildernesses and endangered species, the spread of genetically modified organisms, the emergence of synthetic biology, and the advance of human enhancement, all of which seem to spin into deeper and more baffling questions with every change in the news cycle, often circle back to the same fundamental question: should there be limits to the human alteration of the natural world?

This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response.

Esta tercera publicación de la serie El ABC de la Medicina Interna es el ejemplo más claro de la importancia que en el Centro Médico ABC se le brinda a la enseñanza, entendida en esta particular obra como una forma de divulgar el conocimiento.

Norman Bethune (1890-1939) was a man who had everything, and yet had nothing.

Struggling to understand ethics?

Improving patient experience is a global priority for health policy-makers and care providers.

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) emerged in response to the longstanding tradition of "e;top-down"e; research-studies in which social scientists observe social phenomena and community problems as outsiders, separate from the participants' daily lives.

Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case.

Medical ethics changed dramatically in the past 30 years because physicians and humanists actively engaged each other in discussions that sometimes led to confrontation and controversy, but usually have improved the quality of medical decision-making.

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We who live in this post-modern late twentieth century culture are still children of dualism.

Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, this enhanced introduction to bioethics first provides balanced, philosophically based coverage of moral reasoning, moral theories, and the law.

This book proposes ways to use the notion of solidarity fruitfully so as to inform policy and practice in biomedicine.

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Confused and stressed by the latest round of Foundation Programme recruitment?

Dying and Death in Canada provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective.

This book equips the reader with a sound understanding of the treatment of neglected and vulnerable patients in the dental office.

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice.

While the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's most famous clone, triggered an enormous amount of discussion about human cloning, in Dolly Mixtures the anthropologist Sarah Franklin looks beyond that much-rehearsed controversy to some of the other reasons why the iconic animal's birth and death were significant.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of health privacy law, this important volume offers insightful reflection on issues such as confidentiality, privacy, and data protection, as well as analysis in how a range of jurisdictions-including the US, the UK, Europe, South Africa, and Australia-navigate a rapidly developing biomedical environment.

This book provides a clear approach to establishing a user involvement system in a healthcare organisation and its potential impact on cancer services.

There is no end in sight to the frequency with which physicians, nursing professionals and other healthcare providers will become lawsuit targets in our litigious society.

This book is a machine-generated literature overview of the legal and ethical debates over privacy and data protection measures in the last three decades, showcasing the expectations vis-à-vis realities of their presence and application in different sectors.

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

This comprehensive and much-needed resource helps health care ethicists to meet the demand of challenges such as managed care, medical technology, and patient activism.

This introduction to the philosophy of medicine surveys the landscape of western philosophy as it pertains to healthcare in an accessible way.

Es un placer compartir con todos los miembros de la Asociación Mexicana de Gastroenterología que se publicarán de manera mensual durante el año 2023 con el fin de actualizar los últimos desarrollos en el conocimiento para cada uno de los tópicos en la gastroenterología, la cual está formada por un total de 11 obras que son:- Enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal.

Originally published in 1999, this classic textbook includes twenty-six cases with commentary and bibliographic resources designed especially for medical students and the training of ethics consultants.

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Explains the ethical imperative to take seriously the potential impacts on our identities of encountering bioinformation about ourselves.

This handbook provides an up-to-date reference point for ethnography in healthcare research.

Erkennen und Lösen von Barrieren und Herausforderungen Deutschland ist ein zentrales Einwanderungsland Europas und eines der wichtigsten weltweit.

After reviewing related theories on stigmatisation of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), this book applies social exclusion theory, actor theory and stigma theory to the study of social mechanisms of stigmatisation of PLWHA in China to show the influence and mechanism of stigmatisation on them, and tries to construct the policy framework to tackle stigmatisation from the perspective of welfare pluralism.

This title was first published in 2003: As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implications of research involving human participants are being called into question as never before.

This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels.

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was the first woman awarded the MD degree in the United States.

When Tanya Ward Goodman came home to New Mexico to visit her dad at the end of 1996, he was fifty-five years old and just beginning to show symptoms of the Alzheimer's disease that would kill him six years later.

Approaches to Behavior provides information and simple tools that healthcare professionals can use to help patients move beyond feelings that prevent them from benefiting fully from any learning opportunity.

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Take the intimidation out of medical terminology Every job in the medical field needs some background in medical terminology.

Religious faith is a powerful source of comfort and support for individuals and families facing dementia.

Matti Häyry asks if we should make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances allow it.

This book provides extensive and critical engagement with some of the most recent and compelling arguments favoring abortion choice.

Parents who care for children with special needs, particularly those whose children have multiple disabilities or intellectual delays, are pioneers in home health care and caregiving, yet their experience and expertise are rarely recognized.