Medical ethics & professional conduct books

Suitable for health care professionals, this book provides a foundation in basic ethical theory, the terms and concepts...  Read More >>

All of us will need to trust the healthcare system as well as individual healthcare workers at some point. But why...  Read More >>

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This is a handy resource of common medilegal topics in everyday medical practice. It is suitable for medical students...  Read More >>

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The doctor-patient relationship is fraught with risk. Patients may be at risk from a doctor who misuses their position...  Read More >>

<p> Ethics, Aging and Society. ..is the first major work in ten years to critically address issues and methodologies...  Read More >>

The idea of preparing a new critical edition of Elisha Bartlett’s Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science was...  Read More >>

The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics treats a number of distinct moral questions and ?nds...  Read More >>

This book is about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly known as the D.S.M....  Read More >>

Ought fetuses to be given legal rights requiring pregnant women to submit to medical treatment without their consent?...  Read More >>

A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice (""internal morality"")...  Read More >>

To what extent should we use technological advances to try to make better human beings? Leading philosophers debate...  Read More >>

Group Work With Populations at Risk, Third Edition is a fundamental resource for practitioners in health and mental...  Read More >>

Bioethics therefore needs to develop an understanding of the impact those changes have on the conceptualization...  Read More >>

The book’s strength is its careful consideration, from a variety of perspectives within the Catholic tradition,...  Read More >>

In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical knowledge and practice...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume, directly and indirectly, present the points of controversy as they tease out the character...  Read More >>

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This short, smart analysis will engage scholars across academia.  Read More >>

Health is a value-laden concept. The state of being that it designates is a fundamental human goal. As a value,...  Read More >>

We catch sight of him 1 conversing with Pepys about teeth, arguing with Inigo Jones about the origin of 2 Stonehenge,...  Read More >>

Learning about ethics yesterday and thinking about ethics as it expresses itself in various cultures today can help...  Read More >>

Thus, although the aetiology of DVT may seem a narrow topic for a monograph – it implicitly excludes arterial thrombosis...  Read More >>

If you are a woman between the ages of 45 and 75 and are trying to decide whether to try, or stick with, hormone...  Read More >>