Medical profession books

The principle of respecting the free and informed consent of the person is clearly stressed. The issue of interventions...  Read More >>

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At all times physicians were bound to pursue not only medical tasks, but to reflect also on the many anthropological...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume, while exploring bioethical issues bearing on death and dying, the use of scarce resources,...  Read More >>

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This volume has emerged from papers delivered at a conference on the History of Medical Ethics, held at the Wellcome...  Read More >>

Most notoriously, managed care organizations maintained veto authority over the provision of complex and expensive...  Read More >>

Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political...  Read More >>

Mental health issues are a growing concern in our modern Western society. However, most of what has been written...  Read More >>

The contributions to this volume grew out of papers presented at an international conference Individual, Community...  Read More >>

Addresses thorny bioethical issues from comprehensive Asian perspectives and different from the western paradigm...  Read More >>

Papers presented at a symposium on philosophy and medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University...  Read More >>

Medicine's crucial concern with health is perennial, but its reflection, concepts, means change with the advance...  Read More >>

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT The Human Genome Project (HGP) is now almost completed. But even...  Read More >>

Presents the results of a temporary interdisciplinary project, ranging from a discussion of the theoretical and...  Read More >>

This volume introduces a new subseries of Philosophy and Medicine, Classics of Medical Ethics. Each volume will...  Read More >>

This is the first book in healthcare ethics addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body....  Read More >>

In the first half of the 20th century, tuberculosis was perceived as the greatest threat to people's health. During...  Read More >>

Plastic surgery, a 1950s curiosity, today is an obsession. How was it transformed? Who triggered its mania? Can...  Read More >>

Succeeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare...  Read More >>

Economics as Moral Science investigates the problem of the ethical neutrality of ""mainstream"" economic theory...  Read More >>

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

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Professional practice is the foundation of every interaction between nurse and patient; it both governs and guides...  Read More >>