Medical profession books

From the moment medical students step into a hospital they must confront the moral implication of providing health...  Read More >>

Volume 1 discusses the problems inherent in allocating limited biomedical technologies: whose needs take precedence,...  Read More >>

Here, Dhooper reviews the contributions of the few social workers in this field and suggests ways of improving their...  Read More >>

Progress in biomedical science has called for an international discussion, addressed in this volume, of the medical,...  Read More >>

This book combines the expertise of practitioners and researchers to address the wide range of debates currently...  Read More >>

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Women and Health Research explores issues related to maintaining justice (in its ethical sense) in clinical studies....  Read More >>

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This is a memoir by a woman who survived terminal illness only to confront the tragedy of being deemed unacceptable...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on the ethical issues created by the AIDS crisis. It addresses controversial issues related...  Read More >>

It is possible to increase cost-effectiveness and lower the risk of lawsuits while improving patient care and office...  Read More >>

The ""Bioethics Yearbook"" series analyzes how such issues as abortion, consent and active euthanasia are discussed...  Read More >>

An advance medical directive (living will) is a device aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying...  Read More >>

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Enter the world of organ transplantation and develop a new understanding of processes and techniques for working...  Read More >>

Strikes at the root of the dominant conception of medical ethics. A criticism of utilitarianism with an argument...  Read More >>

Strikes at the root of the dominant conception of medical ethics. A criticism of utilitarianism with an argument...  Read More >>

The biological revolution, with its attendant technological powers to alter nature and human nature, demands fundamental...  Read More >>

This study of the issues raised by human biotechnology investigates how scientists and clinicians should balance...  Read More >>

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Drawing on literary works dealing with medical power, Brody argues that proposals to reduce or eliminate the power...  Read More >>

Aristotle's concept of eudaemonia, variously translated as happiness or well-being, describes the qualities of human...  Read More >>

Professionals with different kinds of practices and training from around the country talk candidly about their work,...  Read More >>