Ethics

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...

This volume is the result of a conference sponsored by the Medical Alumni Association of the University of California, Davis and held in Sacramento, California, in January, 2000, The purpose of this conference was to examine the impact ofvarious health...

Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The...

In the past decade the body of literature in the area of biomedical ethics has expanded at an astounding rate. Indeed, on every major topic, the literature in this area has mUltiplied, and continues to do so, so rapidly that one can easily fall behind...

TERMINAL SEDATION DURING THE 1990s During the 1990s a discussion took place in scholarly journals concerning a measure within palliative care that had earlier attracted little attention, to wit, the sedation of dying patients. There seem to have been two...

Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1992 is the tenth volume in a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today. Two topics are discussed in the present volume: (1) Bioethics and the Military, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632421302Author James FillisFormat HardbackImprint Foster AcademicsPublisher Foster AcademicsWeight(grams) 390g

There is the world of ideas and the world of practice; the French are often for sup- pressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed. -Matthew Arnold The Function of Criticism at the Present Time From its inception, bioethics...

As DNA forensic profiling and databasing become established as key technologies in the toolbox of the forensic sciences, their expanding use raises important issues that promise to touch everyone's lives. In an authoritative global investigation of a...

This volume proposes a move away from the universalized and general modern ethical method, as it is currently practiced in biomedical ethics, while aiming toward a decision making process rooted in an ontology of relationality. Moyse uses the theological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789048140398Author B. A. BrodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 450g

In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable, esophagus. His parents refused to consent to surgery or intravenous feeding. The hospital unsuccessfully sought a court order...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921421914Author Nicholas Tonti-FilippiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Connor Court PublishingPublisher Connor Court PublishingWeight(grams)...

This anthology is the culmination of some 20 years of interest in the field of bioethics. I began my studies in the philosophy of science while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. My interest then, as now, continues to be the complex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386141460Author Dr. Tripti SharanFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt Ltd

This book is a part of the ongoing enterprise to understand the nature of human health and illness. This enterprise has expanded dramatically during the last decades. A great number of articles, as weIl as a fair number of monographs, on this topic have...

The encounter between patient and physician may be characterized as the focus of medicine. As such, the patient-physician relationship, or more accurately the conduct of patients and physicians, has been the subject of considerable comment, inquiry, and...

This volume addresses some of the most prominent questions in contemporary bioethics and philosophy of medicine: 'liberal' eugenics, enhancement, the normal and the pathological, the classification of mental illness, the relation between genetics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581120202Author Glenn Edwards McGeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Dissertation.comPublisher Dissertation.comWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

When confronted by the concerns of human sexual function or dys function, American medicine finds itself well impaled on the horns of a dilemma. Currently it is acceptable medical practice to treat sexual dysfunctions, disorders, or dissatisfactions that...

This is the second volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews, a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today. Five topics are dis- cussed in the present volume. Section I, Public Policy andRe-...

When confronted by the concerns of human sexual function or dys function, American medicine finds itself well impaled on the horns of a dilemma. Currently it is acceptable medical practice to treat sexual dysfunctions, disorders, or dissatisfactions that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800648500Author Kristien HensFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 685g

The growth of knowledge and its effects on the practice of medicine have been issues of philosophical and ethical interest for several decades and will remain so for many years to come. The outline of the present volume was conceived nearly three years...

Recent advances in techniques and understanding in the fields of genetics, embryology and reproductive biology have opened up new ways to treat a wide range of medical problems. They range from new options for infertility treatment and pre-implantation...

This fifth edition of Where Medicine Fails, like previous editions, argues for a broader definition of society's responsibilities to the ill than is commonly perceived to be the case. The authors examine the moral and economic implications of medical...

This Festschrift is presented to Professor Hans Jonas on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, as affirmation of the contributors' respect and admiration. As a volume in the series 'Philosophy and Medicine' the contributions not only reflect...

In this book, Dr. Richard Allen Williams has assembled the very best scholars on healthcare disparities to raise the public consciousness of this issue. Arranged into discrete categories, this volume contains comprehensive coverage, both historical and...

In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum discuss the issue of care. The book covers both philosophical and therapeutic studies and contains a three-pronged approach to discussing the concepts of care: vulnerability, otherness, and...

This open access book offers insights in short- and long-term experiences from families with bone marrow transplantations between minor siblings. It is based on the first extended qualitative study with 17 families about experiences with recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780398532Author President's Council on BioethicsFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Books Express PublishingPublisher Books Express...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632421319Author James FillisFormat HardbackImprint Foster AcademicsPublisher Foster AcademicsWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768265838Author Errol WalrondFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Margaret HopePublisher Margaret HopeWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake for people who work in settings...

The concept 'health' is ambiguous [18,9, 11]. The concept 'mental health' is even more so. 'Health' compasses senses of well-being, wholeness, and sound ness that mean more than the simple freedom from illness - a fact appreci ated in the World Health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581124156Author Travis K SvenssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Brown Walker PressPublisher Brown Walker PressWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925959277Author Pete SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Moshpit PublishingPublisher Moshpit PublishingWeight(grams) 172g

Reframing Disease Contextually will be of particular interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers. It may also be of value to medical professionals, historians of western medicine, and health policy makers who take interest in the...

The expense of critical care and emergency medicine, along with widespread expectations for good care when the need arises, pose hard moral and political problems. How should we spend our tax d'ollars, and who should get help? The purpose of this volume...

The meaning and application of the principle of beneficence to issues in health care is rarely clear or certain. Although the principle is frequently employed to justify a variety of actions and inactions, very little has been done from a conceptual...