Medical ethics and professional conduct Books

Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of biotechnological progress.The contributors examine moral and...

Travis Pickell explores the paradoxes of choice in modern dying and the ways Christian theology can aid in navigating the relationship between moral agency and dignity at the end of life.Burdened Agency addresses the problem of death and dying through...

Becoming a successful private practice lactation consultant is about so much more than your passion for helping families. You need a solid infrastructure, rock-solid practices, and confidence in your policies. This book will hold your hand from...

This book provides the reader with a theoretical and practical understanding of two health care delivery models: the patient/child centred care and family-centred care. Both are fundamental to caring for children in healthcare organizations. The authors...

This book puts the ethics, policy and politics of stem cells into context in a way that helps readers understand why past and current issues have developed the way they have and what the implications are for their work going...

Focusing on a matter of continuing contemporary significance, this book is the first work to offer an in-depth exploration of exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship. It provides a theoretical analysis of the concept of exploitation, setting out...

This book details how existing public health emergency responses have failed and still fail to address the multi-faceted needs of disabled people. It analyzes complications in the context of epidemic and pandemic disease and emphasize that...

This book examines the central structures in medicine-medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority-from the perspective of an ethics of care. The author analyzes each of these structures in detail before considering the...

This important text draws on decades of research, arguing that modern nursing germinated and grew an ethics from its own native soil, that is a rich, fulsome and philosophically informed; grounded in the tradition, and practice of nursing.

Comprehensive, practical and reflective of the current Australian and New Zealand legislative framework and regulations, this unique textbook addresses legal and ethical issues across a broad range of traditional and complementary practices. The...

This is the highly acclaimed book by Robin Marantz Henig about the early days of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the ethical and legal battles waged in the 1970s, as well as the scientific advances that eventually changed the public perception of "test...

The use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)--in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and gestational surrogacy--challenges contemporary notions of what it means to be parents or families. Camisha A. Russell argues that these technologies...

Hippocratis Prognosticum est opus Hippocratis, celeberrimi medici Graeci, quod anno MDXCVI editum est. In hoc libro, Hippocrates de prognosi morborum tractat, et omnes divini oraculi, quae in medicina utiles sunt, exponit. Opus est exquisitum, et in eo...

This book trains students of the caring professions, across health and social care, in the basic philosophical skills and knowledge needed to deal with the ethical aspects of their profession.It shows why ethical education is required, and teaches the...

Several presidents have created bioethics councils to advise their administrations on the importance, meaning and possible implementation or regulation of rapidly developing biomedical technologies. From 2001 to 2005, the President's Council on...

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...

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...

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...

This book provides an account of the ethics of chronic illness. Chronic illness differs from other illnesses in that it is often incurable, patients can live with it for many years, and its day-to-day management is typically carried out by the patient or...

This important book outlines how, despite varying levels of global socio-economic development, governments around the world can guarantee their citizens' fundamental right to basic healthcare.

Author of such major books as Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life, Allen Verhey has become one of today's most trusted Christian voices in contemporary ethics, including the moral challenges that new medical...

Ethics and the Clinical Encounter explores the moral dimensions of clinical medicine and the phenomenon of illness, to determine what ethics must be in order to be fully responsive to clinical encounters. Written in a lively and conversational style with...

First published in 2002. The doctor patient relationship starts with a story. Doctors' notes, a patient's chart, the recommendations of ethics committees and insurance justifications all hinge on written and verbal narrative interaction. The practice 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 States,...

Institutions De Medecine V2 (1740) est un livre �����crit par Herman Boerhaave. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage de m�����decine qui traite des diff�����rentes institutions m�����dicales de l'�����poque. Le livre est divis����� en plusieurs parties, chacune...

Animadversionum, Et Cautionum Medicarum Libri Novem est opus medicum a Settala, Ludovico scriptum, anno MDCL. In hoc libro, auctor multas observationes et cautiones medicas exhibet, quae ad praxim medendi pertinent. Libri Novem in varias partes...

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 States,...

This book proposes an innovative new model for transforming racial and cultural lines in health and social care through communication processes, and introduces listening partnerships as a cost-effective, sustainable intervention to improve communication...

Physicians and patients face important ethical conundrums in their joint pursuit of health. When there is no more medical evidence to gather, a physician's decision is more ethical than medical. How best to attain health is the result of an often complex...

Bernhard Schreiber was born in 1942 in Stuttgart after his father died in action as an officer of the Luftwaffe. His investigations into the Holocaust led him to discover that many of the guiding principles of the Nazis had global appeal, both before and...

It's become increasingly clear that healthcare workplaces are filled with non-inclusive behavior. People who are underrepresented because of their gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and identity, disabilities, and other factors regularly face...

The Machinations Of The American Medical Association: An Exposure And A Warning is a book written by Henry Rowland Strong and published in 1909. The book is a scathing critique of the American Medical Association (AMA) and its practices. Strong accuses...

This book provides an exploration of the ethics of cardiology practice. It provides a variety of frameworks for analyzing ethical issues that arise in cardiovascular medicine.Cardiovascular medicine-the diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired...

There are things that can be done and are done to life on earth (whether it be human, animal or plant life) which, even if they do not involve or produce any suffering, are still considered morally wrong by a large proportion of the public. Such things...

Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism. It is often done thoughtlessly. This book is an argument for giving procreating some serious thought, and a theory of how, when, and why procreation may be permissible.Rivka Weinberg...

Definition of Medical EthicsMedical ethics is a branch of ethics that examines the moral principles and values that guide healthcare professionals in making decisions and providing care to patients. It encompasses a set of principles and guidelines that...

""Del Procurato Aborto"" ����� un libro del 1894 scritto da Costanzo Calogero. Questo testo affronta il tema dell'aborto, in particolare dell'aborto procurato, analizzandone le cause, le conseguenze e le possibili soluzioni. L'autore si concentra sulla...

""Del Segreto Del Medico Circa I Vizi Redibitorii Del Matrimonio"" ����� un saggio scritto da Giovanni De Gioannis Gianquinto nel 1871. Il libro si concentra sugli aspetti medici e legali del matrimonio, esplorando i vizi redibitori che possono...