Medical profession books

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

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

This book is an invaluable guide for doctors which covers all non-medical skills that they will need to succeed...  Read More >>

In an ""extraordinary"" (Newsday) book of ""Tolstoyan power"" (Washington Post Book World), a doctor shares stories...  Read More >>

Based on research into Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison in the 1950s and 1970s, where inmates were used as guinea...  Read More >>

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Die Medizin zieht heute aus zweierlei Gründen eine gesteigerte Aufmerksamkeit des Rechts und der Ethik auf sich:...  Read More >>

This is a concise guidebook to the assessment of patients' capacities to consent to treatment. The authors show...  Read More >>

Deals with the medical, surgical, legal, and ethical aspects of establishing and maintaining an office-based egg...  Read More >>

After a heart and lung transplant operation, dancer Claire Sylvia discovered that new organs were not the only thing...  Read More >>

These are the stories that catapulted James Herriot to literary fame. When this book was first published, it was...  Read More >>

Anderson Ruffin Abbott, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for...  Read More >>

Leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal...  Read More >>

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A collection of readings on topics such as abortion, organ transplantation, and HIV. Valuable for practitioners,...  Read More >>

Contains discussions of some of the pressing issues in medical ethics including, doctor-assisted suicide, gene therapy,...  Read More >>

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Non-heart-beating donors could potentially be of importance in reducing the gap between the demand for and available...  Read More >>

Cases in Bioethics contains 59 cases from the United States, each of which presents a question that regularly confronts...  Read More >>

The story of Dr. Denis Burkitt, who was renowned in medical circles for discovering a grotesque cancer in children...  Read More >>

Lublin focuses on the core principles of feminist theory and offers a new framework for creating public policy and...  Read More >>

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In contemporary ethical discussion widespread concern about the potential risks of genetic engineering is raising...  Read More >>

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