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  • New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

    Series Book 103 - The International Library of Bioethics
    This book provides novel perspectives on ethical justifiability of assisted dying in the revised edition of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Going significantly beyond traditional debates about the value of human life, the ethical significance of individual autonomy, the compatibility of assisted dying with the ethical obligations of medical professionals, and ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health

    Steps Towards a Philosophy of Medical Practice

    Series Book 97 - The International Library of Bioethics
    This is the first monograph to deal with medicine as a form of hermeneutics, now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, including a whole new chapter on medical ethics. The book offers a comprehensive philosophical argument why good medical practice cannot be curtailed to scientific investigations of the body but is a form of clinical hermeneutics performed by health-care professionals in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform

    Politics, Persuasion and Persistence

    Edited by Ben P. White, Lindy Willmott ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Much has been written about whether end-of-life law should change and what that law should be. However, the barriers and facilitators of such changes – law reform perspectives – have been virtually ignored. Why do so many attempts to change the law fail but others are successful? International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform aims to address this question by drawing on ten case studies of ... Read more

    $90.99 USD

  • How to Read and Critique Research

    A Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students

    Do you find research challenging to read? Do you struggle to get to grips with a research paper?Understanding, critiquing and using research is a key requirement of students studying nursing and healthcare. This bookwill equip you with the skills you need to understand research and use it in your practice and academic assignments.The approach used in this book is unique: each chapter focuses on a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • 伤寒杂病论(简体中文版)

    中华传世珍藏古典文库

    by 张仲景 ...
    《伤寒杂病论》是张仲景所著的一部中华传世珍藏的国学经典佳作,在海内外广为阅读和流传,值得细细品味。 本书为简体中文版,全本11回,由艺雅出版社精心制作。艺雅出版社还分别提供其繁体中文版与简繁体对照版,欢迎大家下载阅读。 我们的出版社致力于出版经典名著的数字化版本,每一本电子书都经过精心编辑制作,以便用户可以在所有类型的电子阅读器和设备上尽情享受阅读。 ... Read more

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  • Exploring the Gray Zone

    Case Discussions of Ethical Dilemmas for the Veterinary Technician

    Series series New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
    Veterinary technicians face difficult situations on a daily basis. They dedicate their lives to aiding in the treatment of animals and relieving suffering, serving as each patient's main advocate and caretaker. The veterinary technician holds a unique role in patient care. Acting as the intermediary between the veterinarian prescribing treatment and the patient, they play a large part in the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philosophy of Suffering

    Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity

    Suffering is a central component of our lives. We suffer pain. We fall ill. We fail and are failed. Our loved ones die. It is a commonplace to think that suffering is, always and everywhere, bad. But might suffering also be good? If so, in what ways might suffering have positive, as well as negative, value?This important volume examines these questions and is the first comprehensive examination of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Critical Discourses of Old Age and Telecare Technologies

    by Gizdem Akdur ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
    This book makes an enquiry into policies surrounding old age and telecare. It contextualises telecare within the wider history of health and social care in England to build the case that there are grand narratives of old age embedded in policies.Divided into four sections, the book covers:• Connecting old age with telecare• A general review of old age and telecare• A critical enquiry into ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism

    Edited by Kalle Grill, Jason Hanna ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics
    While paternalism has been a long-standing philosophical issue, it has recently received renewed attention among scholars and the general public. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising twenty-seven chapters by a team of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Future of Parenting: Raising Children in The Age of Elite Breeding

    by Fabian Starr ...
    The Future of Parenting: Raising Children in the Age of Elite Breeding is a book that raises important questions about the ethical implications of elite breeding. This controversial practice involves selecting and manipulating genes to create offspring with desirable traits, such as higher intelligence or athletic ability. While some see this as a way to create a better future, the potential ... Read more

    $7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Health Care Ethics through the Lens of Moral Distress

    Series Book 82 - The International Library of Bioethics
    This book provides a bridge between the theory to practice gap in contemporary health care ethics. It explores the messiness of everyday ethical issues and validates the potential impacts on health care professionals as wounded healers who regularly experience close proximity to suffering and pain. This book speaks to why ethics matters on a personal level and how moral distress experiences can be ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • LA CLONAZIONE UMANA. Sue implicazioni e visuale cristiana

    Il presente libro è stato scritto per cercare di affrontare la tematica attuale, del rapporto tra bioteconolgie in genere e le problematiche morali che solleva di conseguenza, oltre a valutare la complessità della stessa.Il caso specifico della clonazione umana, come caso concreto esaminato, è stato preso in considerazione, ma si puo estendere ai diversi ambiti , nel settore delle bioteconologie, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medical Tourism in Developing Countries

    A contemporary approach

    This book provides a detailed insight into the amalgamation of the healthcare and hospitality sector, which brought forward the concept of healthcare tourism or medical tourism. There have not been comprehensive resources in this particular area. The available quality resources focus on the Western world. Countries like India are an upcoming and one of the most favored destinations for medical ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Bioethics Mediation

    A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, Revised and Expanded Edition

    Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death. It provides guidance for those charged with supporting the patient's traditional and religious commitments and personal wishes. Today's medical system, without intervention, privileges those within shared cultures of communication and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medizinethische Überlegungen zur prädiktiven und pränatalen genetischen Diagnostik und Beratung

    Dieses Buches setzt sich, hauptsächlich aus medizinethischer Sicht, mit der Wortwahl innerhalb eines Patienten-Arzt-Gespräches an einem Beispiel der nicht-invasiven pränatalen Diagnostik (NIPD) auseinander.Obwohl das Gendiagnostikgesetz an keiner Stelle von Gendefekt, Risiko oder Gentest spricht, sind diese Begriffe in den allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch eingegangen, ohne eventuell moralische ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Handboek klinische hematologie (E-boek)

    Het basiswerk hematologie, complete update Dit volledig vernieuwde handboek is bedoeld als inleiding tot de klinische hematologie. Op basis van de richtlijnen van 'evidence based medicine' bundelt dit boek de ontwikkelingen in de hematologie van de afgelopen decennia. Tegelijk licht het een tip van de sluier van meer experimentele benaderingen en mogelijke toekomstscenario's in het onderzoek. Alle ... Read more

    $23.19 USD

  • Reframing Disease Contextually

    Series Book 81 - Philosophy and Medicine
    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 conceptual foundations of medicine.This book:- provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Pandemics

    An Analysis from the EU Perspective

    This book proposes an ethical and legal framework to improve the responses to social issues related not only to the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, but also to future pandemics. Its contents cover the issues that are likely to be most controversial in any public health crisis. It starts by discussing non-pharmacological measures, such as the appropriateness of confinement, how to control compliance ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Responsible Genetics

    The Moral Responsibility of Geneticists for the Consequences of Human Genetics Research

    by A. Nordgren ...
    Series Book 70 - Philosophy and Medicine
    MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT The Human Genome Project (HGP) is now almost completed. A draft of the full DNA sequence of the human genome has recently been published (lnt. Hum. Gen. Seq. Cons., 2001; Venter et al., 2001). The project started in 1990 and was planned to be completed fifteen years later. lt is now clearly ahead of schedule. But even when the project is completed ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Concepts and Measurement of Quality of Life in Health Care

    Edited by L.Y Nordenfelt ...
    Series Book 47 - Philosophy and Medicine
    Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years. To a great extent this discussion mirrors the international develop ment in the area. Several methods for the assessment and measurement of quality of life have been ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Philosophical Dimensions of the Neuro-Medical Sciences

    Proceedings of the Second Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Farmington, Connecticut, May 15–17, 1975

    Series Book 2 - Philosophy and Medicine
    Although the investigation and regulation of the faculties of the human mind appear to be the proper and sole concern of philosophers, you see that they are in some part nevertheless so little foreign to the medical forum that while someone may deny that they are proper to the physician he cannot deny that physicians have the obliga tion to philosophize. Jerome Gaub, De regimine mentis, IV, 10 ([ ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Philosophical Issues in Pharmaceutics

    Development, Dispensing, and Use

    Edited by Dien Ho ...
    Series Book 122 - Philosophy and Medicine
    This anthology provides a collection of new essays on ethical and philosophical issues that concern the development, dispensing, and use of pharmaceuticals. It brings together critical ethical issues in pharmaceutics that have not been included in any collection (e.g., the ethics of patients as researchers). In addition, it includes philosophical issues that are not within the traditional domain ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and their Cure

    Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Vol. 1: Foundations

    by Josef Seifert ...
    Series Book 82 - Philosophy and Medicine
    At all times physicians were bound to pursue not only medical tasks, but to reflect also on the many anthropological and metaphysical aspects of their discipline, such as on the nature of life and death, of health and sickness, and above all on the vital ethical dimensions of their practice. For centuries, almost for two millennia, how ever, those who practiced medicine lived in a relatively ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Critical Choices and Critical Care

    Catholic Perspectives on Allocating Resources in Intensive Care Medicine

    Edited by Kevin Wm. Wildes ...
    Series Book 51 - Philosophy and Medicine
    Critical Choices and Critical Care brings together the traditional reflections on ordinary and extraordinary means with Catholic social thought. It examines the difficult questions on the allocation of high technology resources used in intensive care medicine. The book also provides relevant background information (e.g. statements by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Congregation for ... Read more

    $89.99 USD