Ethics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544313Author Abigail GosselinFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

George Annas, America's leading proponent of patient rights, spells them out for you in this revised, up-to-date edition of his groundbreaking classic. Thorough, comprehensive, and easy to follow-using a question-and-answer format in much of the text-The...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every human being on the planet and forced us all to reflect on the bioethical issues it raises. In this timely book, Gregory Pence examines a number of relevant issues, including the fair allocation of scarce medical...

Life Before Birth provides a coherent framework for addressing bioethical issues in which the moral status of embryos and fetuses is relevant. It is based on the "interest view" which ascribes moral standing to beings with interests, and connects the...

Budgets of governments and private insurances are limited. Not all drugs and services that appear beneficial to patients or physicians can be covered. Is there a core set of benefits that everyone should be entitled to? If so, how should this set be...

An essential book for all those who conduct animal-based research or are involved in education and training, as well as regulators, supporters, and opponents alike. This fully updated third edition includes discussion of genetically altered animals and...

For every story of optimism about the growth of medical tourism to India, there are multiple others about medical neglect. Scratch the surface and you find a thick layer of corruption in this life-sustaining sector. This hard-hitting volume shows a...

This thoroughly and substantially revised second edition explores the full scope and content of secular bioethics. Abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, genetic engineering, informed consent, advance directives, triage decisions, health care reform, and...

This book examines the central structures in medicine-medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority-from the perspective of an ethics of care. The author analyzes each of these structures in detail before considering the...

The idea for an anthology on personhood grew out of two things, viz. , the work I did with Martin Benjamin during the Summer of 1982 at Michigan State University on the question, What is a person?, and the amount of time, effort, and expense required for...

David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the practice of medicine in the United States underwent a most remarkable--and thoroughly controversial--transformation. The discretion that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546249Author Chris KaposyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

This books gives guidance for doctors and other health professionals who are involved in providing health care for children and young people. The books sets out best practice guidance, and explains that children and young people should be allowed to...

This interdisciplinary text is the first to address the many questions and controversies surrounding the use of children as research subjects. Experts in the field of biomedical and behavioural research with children consider the issues in terms of...

The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind. However, these advances have forced us to confront head-on some significant ethical issues regarding our application of this information in the real world-...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947522438Author Ronald W JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 478g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935603061Author Silke SchicktanzFormat HardbackPage Count 85Imprint The University of Akron PressPublisher The University of Akron PressWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667801728Author Linda BriggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645647218Author Lois RitterFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Goodheart-Wilcox PublisherPublisher Goodheart-Wilcox PublisherWeight(grams)...

This book provides an overview of conducting ethical and rigorous research with an emphasis on key topics, including informed consent, confidentiality, and conflicts of interest. Not only do the chapters cover various forms of academic misconduct, but...

What is so special about human life? What is the relationship between flesh and blood and the human soul? Is there a kind of life that is worse than death? Can a person die and yet the human organism remain in some real sense alive? Can souls become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879756772Author Jack KevorkianFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Prometheus Books UKPublisher Prometheus Books UK

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust...

Clinical ethics consultants navigate some of the most challenging cases in patient care, public health, and healthcare policy. The second volume richly details haunting cases pertaining to perinatal, pediatric, and end-of-life issues; neurodiversity;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554813575Author Joseph P. DeMarcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 622gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826517722Author Nancy Neveloff DublerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826517210Format PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams) 965gDimensions(mm) 264mm *...

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"We cannot be happy without insight into the limits of what is feasible." Modern medicine suggests omnipotence and an image of life as something that can be perfected at any time. Yet our view of things changes when disease throws us into an existential...

Understanding the Dynamics of Health develops a comprehensive framework for understanding health and its impairments, drawing on the work of Bernard Lonergan. By integrating perspectives from common sense, theory, practice, and finitude , this book...

The Hackett Introduction to Medical Ethics addresses key debates and analyzes prominent ethical perspectives on clinical medicine, healthcare policy, and human experimentation. Using numerous examples and case studies, Altman and Coe apply value theory...

Stem cell research. Drug company influence. Abortion. Contraception. Long-term and end-of-life care. Human participants research. Informed consent. The list of ethical issues in science, medicine, and public health is long and continually growing. These...

Featuring a uniquely philosophical approach, Ethics of Care and Wellness: An Inquiry for Professionals, Caregivers, and Patients places medical professionals' obligations and practices, as well as patients' expectations, within the context of an ethos...

Stem cell research is headline news. Researchers are eager to move forward, state governments and private foundations are rushing to support it, and the sick and afflicted are desperate for its benefits. Yet powerful forces in our society — led by...

In this new, startlingly original book, John D. Lantos weaves a compelling story that captures the dilemmas of modern medical practice. The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care begins with a fictional malpractice case-an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665713702Author Richard George BoudreauFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665705660Author Richard George BoudreauFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480890596Author Richard George BoudreauFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 499g

This book is the first major work that addresses a core question in biomedical research: the question of acceptable risk. The acceptable level of risks is regulated by the requirement of proportionality in biomedical research law, which state that the...