Medical ethics & professional conduct books

Uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. While Wittgenstein produced little...  Read More >>

Uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. While Wittgenstein produced little...  Read More >>

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the cognitive and ethical role of emotion, particularly empathy, in medical...  Read More >>

Presents a study that analyzes both pragmatic and theoretical perspectives of ethical deliberation, as well as the...  Read More >>

This study discusses human relationships that accentuate the situatedness of problems and solutions. The author...  Read More >>

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A comprehensive resource that helps health care ethicists meet the demand of challenges, such as managed care, medical...  Read More >>

The government, the media, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet...  Read More >>

Criticises and rejects dominant approaches to the ethics of resource allocation in healthcare and provides detailed...  Read More >>

Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology,...  Read More >>

Explores how the withdrawal of active medical treatment is managed in intensive care units, placing this in the...  Read More >>

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Framed with a substantial introduction by the editor, this new book brings together the key articles written on...  Read More >>

Explores the impact of various health-care structures on the ability of health-care professionals to practice in...  Read More >>

Die angesehenen Wissenschaftler Erwin Baur, Eugen Fischer und Fritz Lenz veröffentlichten im Jahre 1921 gemeinsam...  Read More >>

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The Human Embryo Research Panel was charged with developing guidelines for all federally funded research on the...  Read More >>

Biomedical research today has a high public profile, largely because of patient advocacy. Following in the footsteps...  Read More >>

Charts the ancient Greek and Roman foundations of Western medical ethics. Surveying 1500 years of pre-Christian...  Read More >>

Offers a medical-scenario-specific Advance Care Plan, which gives us the opportunity to execute life-and-death decisions...  Read More >>

In 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the year 2000 as the ""due date"" for world health.  Read More >>

This makes health insurance a virtual necessity for adequate medical care, and people worry that they will be denied...  Read More >>

This book provides an introduction to a new and emerging area of nursing scholarship, that of philosophy of nursing....  Read More >>

""Ethics of Organ Transplantation"".  Read More >>

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