Ethics

This book, edited by a team of leading European bioethicists, is in all respects an innovative publication. As part of the core materials project of the European Ethics Network, this book collects European perspectives on health care ethics reflecting...

In "Beyond a Western Bioethics", physicians Angeles Tan Alora and Josephine M. Lumitao join eight other contributors to provide a comprehensive exploration of bioethical issues outside of the dominant American and western European model. Using the...

Heated debates are not unusual when confronting tough medical issues where it seems that moral and religious perspectives often erupt in conflict with philosophical or political positions. In "The Sanctity of Human Life", Jewish theologian David Novak...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780863584039Author Professor Sheila A. M. McLeanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rivers Oram Press/Pandora ListPublisher Rivers Oram Press

Too often, patients in American hospitals are subjected to painful, expensive, and futile treatments because of a physician's notion of medical duty or a family's demands. Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker renew their call for common sense and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544519067Author Jonnie Ramsey BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 694g

This volume brings together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on a topic of central importance, but which has otherwise tended to be approached from within just one or another disciplinary framework. Most of the essays contained here incorporate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788897328377Author Fulvio Di BlasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint PhronesisPublisher PhronesisWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665748322Author Richard George BoudreauFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 499g

"This timely, well-written book brings together the collective experience of experts from the fields of medicine, psychiatry, religious studies, bioethics, and molecular genetics in an effort to develop coherent guidelines for the counseling of potential...

When Dr. David Cundiff called me with a proposal to help research and write The Right Medicine I was intrigued but skep- tical. His ideas for reform of the US health care system were visionary, radical, and highly original-but would they work? As a Wall...

Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral right to privacy. However, at the present time there is no settled opin ion in the United States regarding how these rights should relate to medical information. On the one hand, virtually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839193408Author Andreas-Holger MaehleFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Ockham PublishingPublisher Ockham PublishingWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In...

This collection of essays, commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics, explores a fundamental concept crucial to today's discourse in law and ethics in general and in bioethics in particular. Since its formation in 2001, the council has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543741032Author J M AlbareeqFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Partridge SingaporePublisher Partridge SingaporeWeight(grams) 290g

Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum, the nature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789533072708Author Abraham RudnickFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint In TechPublisher In TechWeight(grams) 472g

This book delves into the controversial subject of late-term abortions, particularly those occurring after 24 weeks of gestation. It emphasizes that the abortion debate is multifaceted, involving ethical, legal, medical, and philosophical aspects...

This book will examine the role and the opportunity for EDI advancement as a requisite in mental healthcare, particularly in the context of the professional landscape as this directly affects care delivery.Book InformationISBN 9781804410349Author Mariam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789533072609Author Josef Ku and #345;eFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint In TechPublisher In Tech

What makes healers become killers? Inspired by the life of Dr. Leo Alexander, a principal author of the Nuremberg Code, The Eye Begins to See delivers a compelling story of historical insight and psychological intrigue. In 1946 Leo Alexander, Viennese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765120309Author Frances R. Frankenburg MDFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839694660Author Peter a ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint IntechopenPublisher IntechopenWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804411766Author Elliott MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Ethics International Press LtdPublisher Ethics International Press Ltd

The aging of the world’s population has brought with it a set of challenges. Baby boomers in the Western world, who have lived through several cycles of change, are about to experience another transformation — the automation of in-home geriatric care...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991201942Author Chris JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Sun PressPublisher Sun PressWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782981985705Author Martine BeaudoinFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Anne Marie Beaudoin Perron-Voces y Ecos del CorazonPublisher Anne Marie Beaudoin...

Arthur L. Caplan It is commonly said, especially when the subject is assisted reproduction, that medical technology has out- stripped our morality. Yet, as the essays in this volume make clear, that is not an accurate assessment of the situ- ation...

This important work takes as its subject one of medicine's most pressing arenas of ethical debate. There has been a consistent interest in ethical issues arising in the context of HIV research. Ongoing international and multi-site studies and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665705684Author Richard George BoudreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925501469Author Michael CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Connor Court PublishingPublisher Connor Court Publishing

Physician-Assisted Death is the eleventh volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews. We, the editors, are pleased with the response to the series over the years and, as a result, are happy to continue into a second decade with the same general purpose and zeal...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has historically been concerned with the protection of human subjects. In July 1977, the NIA sponsored a meeting to update and supplement guide- lines for protecting those participating in Federal research pro- jects...

This volume initiates a much-needed conversation about the ethical and policy concerns facing health care providers in the rural United States. Although 21 percent of the population lives in rural areas, only 11 percent of physicians practice there. What...

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book is the first to develop explicit methods for evaluating evidence of mechanisms in the field of medicine. It explains why it can be important to make this evidence explicit, and describes how to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909188846Author Jan DeckersFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Ubiquity Press LtdPublisher Ubiquity Press LtdWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934297407Author Charles TandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Ria University PressPublisher Ria University PressWeight(grams) 490g

On May 13-15, 1982, some 50 scientists and scholars - physicians, philos ophers and social scientists - convened at Hasselby Castle in Stockholm for the first Nordic Symposium on the Philosophy of Medicine. The topics for the symposium included (1) the...

On May 13-15, 1982, some 50 scientists and scholars - physicians, philos ophers and social scientists - convened at Hasselby Castle in Stockholm for the first Nordic Symposium on the Philosophy of Medicine. The topics for the symposium included (1) the...