Medical ethics & professional conduct books

Following the remarkable growth of interest in the ethical dimension of economic affairs, the contributors provide...  Read More >>

Free and informed consent is one of the most widespread and morally important practices of modern health care; competence...  Read More >>

An accessible, balanced, and non-polemical approach to the abortion controversy. The book focuses on fetal development...  Read More >>

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This text views psychotherapy as a collaborative endeavour jointly undertaken by two informed and intelligent adults....  Read More >>

This volume contains a selection of essays which focus on issues involving the inviolability of the human body and...  Read More >>

This anthology aims to offer incisive analysis of the plethora of issues raised by advances in reproductive medicine,...  Read More >>

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Prenatal testing for genetic abnormalities has transformed pregnancy and motherhood. Using sociological research,...  Read More >>

Mainstream medical ethicists engaged in impartial ethics traditions often overlook the gross disparities in health...  Read More >>

Mainstream medical ethicists engaged in impartial ethics traditions often overlook the gross disparities in health...  Read More >>

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The primary objective of The Health Care Ethics Con­ sultant is to focus attention on an immediate practical problem:...  Read More >>

This book takes nursing ethics beyond the stock 'moral concepts' to a critical examination of the fundamental assumptions...  Read More >>

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In riveting case studies, Robert Zussman describes how medical decisions in ICUs are considered and reconsidered,...  Read More >>

Focusing on the concept of consensus, this text reflects on the difficulties and complexity of moral decision-making,...  Read More >>

Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious communities, professional caregiving traditions,...  Read More >>

Analyzing the right to die as a controversial social and political issue, this text examines its development in...  Read More >>

Transsexualism questions what gender is, how to challenge it, and what reinforces gender stereotyping in a role-defined...  Read More >>

The book offers an introduction to the moral concepts and value of health care. It is written by a moral philosopher,...  Read More >>

This volume examines the social and ethical issues raised in genetic counselling, testing and screening. With equal...  Read More >>

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This volume examines the social and ethical issues raised in genetic counselling, testing and screening. With equal...  Read More >>