Medical ethics & professional conduct books

A true story about a psychiatrist who discovers that an acne medicine, worth billions to a drug company, is driving...  Read More >>

Intracerebral interventions raise particular ethical issues. For instance, attempts at replacing lost or altered...  Read More >>

This volume offers a collection of writings on ethical issues regarding retarded persons. Of course, many people...  Read More >>

Any list of the most influential figures of the second half of the twentieth century would arguably have to begin...  Read More >>

Elsewhere the contemporary critique of autonomy appears in a variety of alternative ethical models like narrative...  Read More >>

Provides an analysis of both the concept of autonomy and the principle of respect for autonomy. This book focuses...  Read More >>

In this book, developed by a group of collaborating scholars in bioethics from different European countries, an...  Read More >>

Efforts to evaluate the clinical encounter in terms of autonomous agents governed by rationally justified moral...  Read More >>

Religious beliefs and attitudes have long been recognized as playing an important role in sexual functioning, but...  Read More >>

In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate. Its authors...  Read More >>

A major focus of the philosophy of medicine and, in general, of the philosophy of science has been the interplay...  Read More >>

A study of the medical ethics of John Gregory (1724-1773). It shows how Gregory invented professional medical ethics...  Read More >>

The Faustian bargain is perhaps best exemplified by the alliance between world-renowned human geneticists and the...  Read More >>

This collection of articles honors the work of Richard Zaner, a distinguished philosopher who has worked for over...  Read More >>

Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry analyzes the ethical issues affecting forensic psychiatric practice, especially...  Read More >>

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Jones compellingly narrates the biography of this frightfully hardy disease from the ancient world through the present...  Read More >>

His defence of ""hardy"" egalitarianism aims to show that random selection by lottery can affirm both a common humanity...  Read More >>

This is an original contribution to the much debated area of the value that we should place on human life. With...  Read More >>

For decades, health professionals have asserted the importance of public participation in interventions for health....  Read More >>

The book series on the ethics of science and technology assessment edited by the Europ?ische Akademie is devoted...  Read More >>

As health care is aimed at healing persons, it is important to realize how difficult it is to construct a theory...  Read More >>

Moreover, most debators share the idea that health is a holistic property, belonging to the person as a whole, whereas...  Read More >>

Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts...  Read More >>

An investigation that offers an impetus for various conceptions of person hood and human health. It works through...  Read More >>