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  • The Fiction of Bioethics

    di Tod Chambers ...
    Serie series Reflective Bioethics
    Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics. The Fiction of Bioethics explores the medical case study and distills the idea that bioethicists study real-life cases, while philosophers contemplate fictional accounts. ... Altre info

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  • The Good Doctor

    A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics

    The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health careAs a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital’s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the mid-1990s, his father, an infectious diseases physician, told him a stunning story: he had physically placed ... Altre info

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  • The Good Doctor

    What Patients Want

    di Ron Paterson ...
    Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by lifting the veils of secrecy and better informing patients, by establishing more effective ways of ... Altre info

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  • Moral Leadership in Medicine

    Building Ethical Healthcare Organizations

    di Suzanne Shale ...
    What are the moral challenges that confront doctors as they manage healthcare institutions? How do we build trust in medical organisations? How do we conceptualize moral action? Based on accounts given by senior doctors from organisations throughout the UK, this book discusses the issues medical leaders find most troubling and identifies the moral tensions they face. Moral Leadership in Medicine ... Altre info

    78,41 €

  • Foundations of Healthcare Ethics

    Theory to Practice

    In order to provide the highest level of care to patients and clients, health professionals need a sound knowledge and understanding of healthcare ethics. Foundations of Healthcare Ethics: Theory to Practice focuses on the philosophical concepts underpinning contemporary ethical discourse for health professionals, and arms both students and professionals with the knowledge to tackle situations of ... Altre info

    77,47 €

  • Confucian Bioethics

    Rivisto da Ruiping Fan ...
    Serie series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explores Confucian views regarding the human body, health, virtue, suffering, suicide, euthanasia, `human drugs,' human experimentation, and justice in health care distribution. These views are rooted in Confucian metaphysical, cosmological, and moral convictions, which stand in contrast to modern Western liberal perspectives in a number of important ways. In the contemporary world, a ... Altre info

    131,03 €

  • Human Tissue in Transplantation and Research

    A Model Legal and Ethical Donation Framework

    di David Price ...
    Serie eBook 10 - Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics
    Deficiencies and shortfalls in the supply of human organs for transplantation and human tissue for research generate policy dilemmas across the world and have often given rise to major and deleterious controversies, such as those relating to organ and tissue retention practices following post-mortem examination. They also create an environment in which illegitimate commercial activities flourish. ... Altre info

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  • Global Bioethics: The Impact of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee

    Serie series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The UNESCO International Bioethics Committee is an international body that sets standards in the field of bioethics. This collection represents the contributions of the IBC to global bioethics. The IBC is a body of 36 independent experts that follows progress in the life sciences and its applications in order to ensure respect for human dignity and freedom. Currently, some of the topics of the IBC ... Altre info

    46,79 €

  • Mass Hysteria

    Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies

    di Rebecca Kukla ...
    Serie series Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
    In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. In the late-eighteenth century, the configuration of the maternal body underwent a radical transformation and the two maternal bodies that emerged out of this transformation still govern our imagination and rituals surrounding pregnancy and lactation. ... Altre info

    47,83 €

  • Perfecting Pregnancy

    Law, Disability, and the Future of Reproduction

    Serie series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    Prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies have offered unprecedented access to information about the genetic and congenital makeup of our prospective progeny. Future developments such as preconception testing, non-intrusive prenatal testing and more extensive preimplantation testing promise to increase that access further still. The result may be greater reproductive choice, but it also ... Altre info

    41,28 €

  • Ethical and Legal Issues in Neurology

    Serie eBook 118 - Handbook of Clinical Neurology
    Advances in our understanding of the brain and rapid advances in the medical practice of neurology are creating questions and concerns from an ethical and legal perspective. Ethical and Legal Issues in Neurology provides a detailed review of various general aspects of neuroethics, and contains chapters dealing with a vast array of specific issues such as the role of religion, the ethics of ... Altre info

    171,07 €

  • The Woman Who Decided to Die

    Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine

    di Ronald Munson ...
    Advances in medical technology force us to struggle with new and often gut-wrenching decisions. How do we know when someone is dead and not just in a coma? Should a convicted felon qualify for a new heart? In The Woman Who Decided to Die, novelist and medical ethicist Ronald Munson takes readers to the very edges of medicine, where treatments fail and where people must cope with helplessness, ... Altre info

    42,53 €