Medical ethics and professional conduct Books

A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure is a profound memoir by vascular surgeon Dr. Sherman A. Katz, chronicling his fifty-year journey in the rapidly evolving field of medicine and surgery. With gripping candor, surgical precision, and heartfelt wisdom, Dr...

This book critiques the archetype of the "passive patient" entrenched in both medicine and law in India-an image that undermines agency, diminishes self-respect, and sustains a culture of disrespect.

Doctors and Rules is a unique and immensely scholarly book. It draws on material which has informed our civilization, including many of the social sciences-history, sociology, and psychology, as well as law. The author accesses the current importance of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Sport governance no longer stirs public opinion only when scandals surface; it has become a persistent concern for a number of stakeholders, such as the media, sport followers, and corporates that produce and sponsor sport. Contemporary sport governance...

<i>Medical Dominance</i>, now in a revised edition, provides a fascinating account of the medical profession's successful domination of a wide range of health care services. Evan Willis delves into the past to explain the existing division of...

In Hay 1970, the Fogarty International Center held a conference on "Early Diagnosis of Human Genetic Defects", under the chairman­ ship of Dr. Robert Morison.* This conference dealt primarily with the technical aspects of...

It would come as no surprise that many readers may be shocked and intrigued by the title of our book. Some (especially our medical colleagues) may wonder why it is even worthwhile to raise the issue of killing by doctors...

1 Historical Introduction INTRODUCTION This chapter is mainly about the history of medicine and its ethics. As usually c- ceived, history is retrograde: It is what happened yesterday, and, much as we may try, it is what...

Patient autonomy is a much discussed and debated subject in medical ethics, as well as in healthcare practice, medical law, and healthcare policy. This book provides a detailed and nuanced analysis of both the concept of...

The intense fervor of a Mississippi Methodist preacher, the meticulous reasoning of an Oxford logician, the dogged persistence of a head longshoreman, the unflagging humor of a Rabelaisian satirist. To have met Paul Ramsey at a...

Beyond Brain Death offers a provocative challenge to one of the most widely accepted conclusions of contemporary bioethics: the position that brain death marks the death of the human person. Eleven chapters by physicians,...

Despite the modem recovery of virtue theory in ethics, conceptions of temperance remain largely unexamined. In this study I offer an examination ofcertain interpretive threads oftemperance as a virtue beginning in classical...

Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine is a unique book that explores the field of medical ethics and health care decision-making through hypothetical case studies. The truly unique feature of this volume is that each chapter sets...

""Die Geschichte der Medizin: Nach ihrer objektiven und subjektiven Seite"" ist ein Buch von Johann Michael Leupoldt, das im Jahr 1863 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Geschichte der Medizin und betrachtet sie aus...

Das Buch ""Die Castration in rechtlicher, sozialer und vitaler Hinsicht betrachtet"" wurde im Jahr 1900 von Conrad Rieger verfasst. Es behandelt das Thema der Kastration von M�����nnern aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. Der Autor betrachtet die rechtlichen...

De L'Existence De Dieu, Et De L'Immortalite De L'Ame Et Euthanasie Ou Mes Deniers Entretiens Avec Elle (1815) est un livre �����crit par Auguste Hilarion De Keratry. Ce livre traite de la question de l'existence de Dieu, de l'immortalit����� de l'�����me...

Le livre ""Congr�����s M�����dical de Toutes les Nations: Deuxi�����me Session de 1869 ������ Florence (1870)"" de l'International Medical Congress est un compte rendu d�����taill����� de la deuxi�����me session de ce congr�����s international qui s'est...

The Right of the Child to be Well Born is a book written by George Ellsworth Dawson in 1912. The book is a comprehensive study of the rights of children and their well-being. Dawson argues that children have a right to be born healthy and strong, and...

The Physician, His Relation To The Law: And The Legal Rules Governing The Collection Of His Fees (1894) is a book written by Harry G. Blaine. The book provides a detailed discussion of the relationship between physicians and the law, as well as the legal...

The Conclave of Physicians, Part 1-2: Detecting Their Intrigues, Frauds, and Plots Against Their Patients is a book written by Gideon Harvey in 1686. The book is an expos����� of the practices of physicians during the 17th century and their treatment of...

Drawing on a critical analysis of responses to the pandemic from the government, regulatory bodies, the NHS, and the media, along with primary research with nurses and therapists who worked through the pandemic, this book is a vital contribution for all...

This book rethinks procreative responsibility considering the continuous development of assisted reproductive technologies. It presents a person-affecting moral argument, highlighting that the potential availability of future assisted reproductive...

Controversy about the morality of euthanasia and assisted suicide has been running for over a generation. The servise this book performs is making a careful examination of the opposing fronts and drawing ecumenically on both theological and philosophical...

Currently, humans lack the cognitive and moral capacities to prevent the widespread suffering associated with collective risks, like pandemics, climate change, or even asteroids. In Moral Enhancement and the Public Good, Parker Crutchfield argues for the...

Medical confidentiality has long been recognised as a core element of medical ethics, but its boundaries are under constant negotiation. Areas of debate in twenty-first century medicine include the use of patient-identifiable data in research,...

Universal Predator is the incredible inside story of Esther Rockett's campaign to expose Serge Benhayon, the multimillionaire leader of Universal Medicine - a female-focused 'esoteric healing' enterprise marketing dubious services like Esoteric Breast...

Because the discipline of medical ethics has developed with autonomy as its foundation, the field has ignored pediatric ethics. The book is resoundingly successful in its effort to rectify this problem.... [A] pleasure to read." -Eric D. Kodish, M.D.,...

The book is a fine addition to the world of academic medical ethics... Readers... will come away with some of the tools for further debate." -Publishers WeeklySusan B. Rubin's splendid new book... offers positive, humane solutions to the frustrations...

... compelling.... This book might have been called 'No Easy Answers.' Each of the contributors writes with undisguised urgency.... [W]e should face up to these issues now. By No Extraordinary Means will serve as an impetus and guide." -New York Times...

Das S�����ndenregister der Medizinheilkunde ist ein Buch aus dem Jahr 1851, das von einem Arzt geschrieben wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit den Fehlern und S�����nden, die in der Medizinheilkunde begangen werden k������nnen. Es geht dabei um...

Silas Weir Mitchell's Two Lectures on the Conduct of the Medical Life is a fascinating exploration of the ethical and moral obligations of physicians. Mitchell, a renowned American physician and writer, argues that medical professionals have a...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has historically been concerned with the protection of human subjects. In July 1977, the NIA sponsored a meeting to update and supplement guide­ lines for protecting those participating in...

Despite extensive study of the Galileo affair in recent years, there are still some important documents relating to the case which have received little attention in the English-speaking world. In his translation of Thomas Campanella's Apologia pro...

Kemdi Chino Opara was born in Nigeria, in West Africa. As a native of Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. Opara graduated from Government Secondary School in Owerri. To further his education, Opara came to the United States in 1979 and...

Today's world is one in which science and technology play an essential role in almost every aspect of life. Almost all of the changes that are taking place are due to advances in science and technology, as can be seen in the emergence of the Internet,...

A significant benefit of the move towards electronic creation and storage of personally identifiable health information is the opportunity for secondary use of this data. Ethical Issues and Security Monitoring Trends in Global Healthcare: Technological...

Das Buch ""�����rztliche Kunst und Medizinische Wissenschaft: Eine Untersuchung �����ber die Ursachen der �����rztlichen Misere"" wurde im Jahr 1894 von Martin Mendelsohn ver������ffentlicht. Es behandelt die Probleme und Ursachen der medizinischen...