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Values-Based Practice eBook Series

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  • Debates in Values-Based Practice

    Arguments For and Against

    Edited by Michael Loughlin ...
    Series series Values-Based Practice
    Demands on healthcare systems are increasingly complex and diverse. Consumerism, multiculturalism and regulation challenge practitioners and policymakers. This has led to urgent debate about the value and purpose of healthcare as people seek to make serious, well-thought through decisions. This book helps readers to make rational decisions about healthcare provision in the context of complex and ... Read more

    R1 738,90

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  • Ethics, Aging, and Society

    The Critical Turn

    by Martha B. Holstein, PhD, Mark Waymack, PhD, Jennifer A. Parks, PhD ...
    "Ethics, Aging and Society...is the first major work in ten years to critically address issues and methodologies in aging and ethics...This well-organized volume begins theoretically and offers new ways of thinking about ethics that can handle the complexities and realities of aging in particular social contexts."--Choice"This new research-based book, by experts in the field of ethics, is ... Read more

    R1 052,01

  • Beyond Price

    Essays on Birth and Death

    by J. David Velleman ...
    In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, ... Read more

    R79,26 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Methods in Medical Ethics

    Second Edition

    by Jeremy Sugarman, Daniel P. Sulmasy, Ruth Faden, Alison Boyce, David DeGrazia, Tom L. Beauchamp, Diego Gracia, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Edmund D. Pellegrino0, Albert R. Jonsen1, Mark A. Hall2, Nancy M.P. King3, Susan E. Lederer4, Tod Chambers5, Raymond DeVries6, Holly A. Taylor7, Sara Chandros Hull8, Nancy E. Kass9, Patricia A. Marshall0, Barbara A. Koenig1, Robert A. Pearlman2, Helene E. Starks3, Marion Danis4, Laura Hanson5, Joanne M. Garrett6, David A. Asch7 ...
    Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.In this influential book, outstanding scholars in medical ethics bring these many methods together in one place to be systematically described, critiqued, and challenged. Newly ... Read more

    R627,66

  • Practical Autonomy and Bioethics

    by James Stacey Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    This is the first volume in which an account of personal autonomy is developed that both captures the contours of this concept as it is used in social philosophy and bioethics, and is theoretically grounded in, and a part of, contemporary autonomy theory. James Stacey Taylor’s account is unique as it is explicitly a political one, recognizing that the attribution of autonomy to agents is dependent ... Read more

    R1 271,24

  • Professionalism in Mental Healthcare

    Experts, Expertise and Expectations

    Edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Amit Malik ...
    In mental health, as in other medical disciplines, the role of the professional is changing. The availability of information, enhanced roles of other healthcare professionals and changes in training have altered the doctor-patient relationship and left professionals accountable to the needs of clients, politicians, policy makers and funding agencies. This book seeks to redefine the professional ... Read more

    R853,98

  • Babies for Sale?

    Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction

    Edited by Miranda Davies ...
    Transnational surrogacy – the creation of babies across borders – has become big business. Globalization, reproductive technologies, new family formations and rising infertility are combining to produce a 'quiet revolution' in social and medical ethics and the nature of parenthood. Whereas much of the current scholarship has focused on the US and India, this groundbreaking anthology offers a far ... Read more

    R459,64

  • Mental Health in South Asia: Ethics, Resources, Programs and Legislation

    Edited by Jitendra Kumar Trivedi, Adarsh Tripathi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Asia is by far the largest continent in the world in terms of area with population exceeding 3.5 billion and has dozens of cultures, religions, languages and ethnic groups. As a result of its highly varied political systems, Asia also spawns a wide variety of health care systems including mental health care systems, often based on historical roots and at times colonial heritages. The people who ... Read more

    R1 562,49

  • Doing Clinical Ethics

    A Hands-on Guide for Clinicians and Others

    by Daniel K. Sokol ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In this Brief, Daniel Sokol interprets ‘doing medical ethics’ broadly to capture the application of ethical knowledge to a concrete situation, rather than just resolving a moral dilemma contained within a case. It instructs clinicians on how to identify and analyse a clinical ethics case, and guides the reader in publishing in general medical, specialist medical, and medical ethics journals, and ... Read more

    R868,01

  • Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health

    Issues and Implications

    Edited by Élodie Giroux ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of ‘biological function’, a concept of ‘reference class’ and the notion of ‘statistical normality’. His theory has profoundly shaped the philosophical debates on the concepts of health and disease. It could even be said that the numerous criticisms of his ... Read more

    R1 562,49

  • Ownership of the Human Body

    Philosophical Considerations on the Use of the Human Body and its Parts in Healthcare

    Edited by H.A. Ten Have, J.W. Welie ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This is the first book in healthcare ethics addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body. Modern medicine increasingly transforms the body and makes use of body parts for diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive purposes. The book analyzes the concept of body ownership. It also reviews the ownership issues arising in clinical care (for example, donation policies, autopsy) and ... Read more

    R2 256,98

  • The Ethics of Screening in Health Care and Medicine

    Serving Society or Serving the Patient?

    by Niklas Juth, Christian Munthe ...
    Series Book 51 - International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
    Medical or health-oriented screening programs are amongst the most debated aspects of health care and public health practices in health care and public health ethics, as well as health policy discussions. In spite of this, most treatments of screening in the research literature restrict themselves to isolated scientific aspects, sometimes complemented by economic analyses or loose speculations ... Read more

    R2 430,63