Second edition. — Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, 2004. — 481 p. Tonia Aiken's text takes a user-friendly, practical approach, and provides all the features nursing educators and students rely on for comprehensive legal and ethical advice. It includes chapters on risk management and conflict management, critical-thinking features, an emphasis on ethical issues, and examines...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 170 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-88027-5 Physicians who care for patients with life-threatening illnesses face daunting communication challenges. Patients and family members can react to difficult news with sadness, distress, anger, or denial. This book defines the specific communication tasks involved in talking with patients with life-threatening...
New York University Press, 2012. — 224 p. Over the past hundred years, average life expectancy in America has nearly doubled, due largely to scientific and medical advances, but also as a consequence of safer working conditions, a heightened awareness of the importance of diet and health, and other factors. Yet while longevity is celebrated as an achievement in modern...
New York University Press, 2012. — 224 p. Over the past hundred years, average life expectancy in America has nearly doubled, due largely to scientific and medical advances, but also as a consequence of safer working conditions, a heightened awareness of the importance of diet and health, and other factors. Yet while longevity is celebrated as an achievement in modern...
Office of The Surgeon General United States Army Falls Church, Virginia Borden Institute Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington, DC Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, Maryland.2003. — 868 p. This volume was prepared for military medical educational use. The focus of the information is to foster discussion that may form the basis of doctrine and...
Office of The Surgeon General United States Army Falls Church, Virginia Borden Institute Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington, DC Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, Maryland.2003. — 868 p. This volume was prepared for military medical educational use. The focus of the information is to foster discussion that may form the basis of doctrine and...
Third edition. — Oxford University Press, 1992. — 265 p. Written by a nurse and a philosopher, Ethics in Nursing blends the concrete detail of recurring problems in nursing practice with the perspectives, methods, and resources of philosophical ethics. It stresses the aspects of the nurses role and relations withothers -- physicians, patients, administrators, other nurses --...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 192 p. T. A. Cavanaugh's Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession articulates the Oath as establishing the medical profession's unique internal medical ethic - in its most basic and least controvertible form, this ethic mandates that physicians help and not harm the sick. Relying on Greek myth, drama, and...
Royal College of General Practitioners, 2015. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0850844010. Compassion, Continuity and Caring in the National Health Service is a fascinating exploration of the importance of compassion in health care.
CRC Press, 2016. — 164 p. — ASIN: B01I1559IS. It has been claimed by fertility experts that embryos can be screened for 6,000 diseases, thereby the risk of x-linked diseases can be minimised by 'cherry-picking' male embryos that do not carry the abnormal gene. If medical scientists continue to strive for cures, genetic aberrance in human could be a phenomenon of the past...This...
Praeger, 2017. — 440 p. This book addresses key historical, scientific, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States as well as in other countries and cultures. History, Practice, and Law Physician-Assisted Dying and the Law in the United States: A Perspective on Three Prospective Futures The Assisted Dying Bill for England...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 518 p. — ISBN: 9780199571390. The relationship between spirituality and healthcare is historical, intellectual and practical, and it has now emerged as a significant field in health research, healthcare policy and clinical practice and training. Understanding health and wellbeing requires addressing spiritual and existential issues, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 373 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-19365-9. When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health - from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records - can we really differentiate between big data and health big data? Will health big data be used for good, such as to improve drug...
Status: Prepublication Available, 2012. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 0-309-22199-4, ISBN13: 978-0-309-22199-3. Description An estimated 48 percent of the population takes at least one prescription drug in a given month. Drugs provide great benefits to society by saving or improving lives. Many drugs are also associated with side effects or adverse events, some serious and some discovered...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 367 p. This book brings together an unusually broad range of experts from reproductive medicine, medical ethics and law to address the important ethical problems in maternal–fetal medicine which impact directly on clinical practice. The book is divided into parts by the stages of pregnancy, within which the authors cover four main areas: the...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 273 p. The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook is a practical, case-based introduction to medical ethics for anyone who is interested in finding out more about and reflecting on the ethical issues raised by modern medicine. It is designed to be flexible; suitable both to be read in its own right and also for use as a set text...
FIGO committee for the Study of Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women’s Health. — London: FIGO, 2009. — 121 p. The FIGO Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women’s Health considers the ethical aspects of issues that impact the discipline of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health. The following documents represent the result of that carefully...
Springer, 2019. — 313 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-05963-7 This book encompasses the theoretical and practical aspects of surgical ethics, with a focus on the application of ethical standards to everyday surgical practice and the resolution of ethical conflicts in the surgical arena. It provides surgeons (both prospective and practicing) in the different surgical fields with deep,...
Springer, 2019. — 1168 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-05964-4 This book encompasses the theoretical and practical aspects of surgical ethics, with a focus on the application of ethical standards to everyday surgical practice and the resolution of ethical conflicts in the surgical arena. It provides surgeons (both prospective and practicing) in the different surgical fields with deep,...
3rd edition. — McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2016. — 199 p. — ISBN: 978-1259641213 Ethics questions are included in Steps 1 and 3 of the USMLE, as well as on the American Board of Internal Medicine Examination and other specialty board certification exams. Practical and approachable, Medical Ethics for the Boards provides a concise yet comprehensive review of topics students...
5th edition. — Delmar, Cengage Learning, 2011. — 370 p. — ISBN: 9781428359413 Designed to provide a foundation of law and ethics, Law, Liability, and Ethics for Medical Office Personnel applies these concepts to real-life situations in the health care environment. Case studies from actual legal procedures illustrate key points of law as well as ethical dilemmas faced in the...
JHU Press, 2002. — 371 p. Few issues are as volatile or misunderstood as physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. In The Case against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care, Drs. Foley and Hendin unravel why such principles as patient autonomy, compassion, and rationality, which are often invoked by supporters of legalization, fail to address the actual...
Ithaca: ILR Press, 2017. — 247 p. Even the most capable individuals are challenged when confronted with the complexity of the modern hospital experience.The Informed Patientis a guide and a workbook, divided into topical, focused sections with step-by-step instructions, insights, and tips to illustrate what patients and their families can expect during a hospital stay. Anyone...
4th edition. — Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2011. — 506 p. As the healthcare professional in closest contact with both the patient and the physician, nurses face biomedical ethical problems in unique ways. Accordingly, Case Studies in Nursing Ethics presents basic ethical principles and specific guidance for applying these principles in nursing practice, through analysis of over...
Bern: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2015. — 439 p. This book analyses the subject of medical communication from a range of innovative perspectives, covering a broad spectrum of approaches and procedures that are particularly significant in this field. In this volume, medical communication is analyzed from various viewpoints: not only from a merely...
3rd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2014. — 190 p. The third edition of is a practical guide to analyzing and resolving the ethical dilemmas medical practitioners face on a day-to-day basis. Drawing extensively on real-life scenarios, this book takes a case-based approach to provide students and practitioners with the advice and skills they need to help their patients and...
Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2014. — 212 p. Since its inception in 1968, the brain-death criterion for human death has enjoyed the status of one of the few relatively well-settled issues in bioethics. However, over the last fifteen years or so, a growing number of experts in medicine, philosophy, and religion have come to regard brain death as an untenable criterion for the...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 170 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Medical ethics is an area that has particular interest for the general public as well as for the medical practitioner, and issues concerning medical ethics seem to be constantly in the headlines. This short and accessible introduction provides an invaluable tool with which to think about the ethical values...
London; New York: Routledge, 2005. — 250 p. This book examines major ethical issues in nursing practice. It eschews the abstract approaches of bioethics and medical ethics, and takes as its point of departure the difficulties nurses experience practicing within the confines of a biomedical model and a hierarchical health care system. It breaks out of the rigid categories of...
NY: Pantheon Books, 1976. — 201 p. In "Medical Nemesis", first published in 1975, also known as "Limits to Medicine", Illich subjected contemporary Western medicine to detailed attack. He argued that the medicalization in recent decades of so many of life's vicissitudes — birth and death, for example — frequently caused more harm than good and rendered many people in effect...
Springer, 2015. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-15948-5. Ethical Issues in Anesthesiology and Surgery uniquely brings anesthesiologists, surgeons, and clinical ethicists together to address the challenging ethical issues both anesthesiologists and surgeons encounter in their academic and daily clinical practice. Ethical topics arising in pediatrics, research, anesthesiology, and...
Springer International Publishing, 2015. — 238 p. Each chapter includes an ethical challenge presented as a clinical case scenario that readers may relate to in their daily practice of anesthesiology and surgery. The ethical issues surrounding each chapter’s content are examined in an easily understandable manner for the specific target audience to improve the understanding and...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996. — 318 p. How to conduct clinical trials in an ethical and scientifically responsible manner. This book presents a methodology for clinical trials that produces improved health outcomes for patients while obtaining sound and unambiguous scientific data. It centers around a real-world test case-involving a treatment for hypertension after open heart...
Georgetown University Press, 2006. — 192 p. For over thirty years, David F. Kelly has worked with medical practitioners, students, families, and the sick and dying to confront the difficult and often painful issues that concern medical treatment at the end of life. In this short and practical book, Kelly shares his vast experience, providing a rich resource for thinking about...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. — 409 p. The Law and Ethics of Medicine: Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life explains the principle of the inviolability of human life and its continuing relevance to English law governing aspects of medical practice at the beginning and end of life. The book shows that the principle, though widely recognized as an historic and...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 340 p. Whether the law should permit voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is one of the most vital questions facing all modern societies. Internationally, the main obstacle to legalisation has proved to be the objection that, even if they were morally acceptable in certain hard cases, voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted...
Springer, 2006. — 311 p. What constitutes "informed consent"? What can I do if the patient lacks the capacity to make decisions? How should I respond to a patient who requests my help in dying? What is the rationale for giving a patient medication (chemical restraints) against his or her will? What exactly are "patient's rights" and how does one advocate for one's patients?...
3rd ed. — American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. 2009. Introduction: Writing and Career by Stephen R. Latham Choosing a Journal by Howard Brody The Process of Editorial Review by Robert F. Weir Writing Ethics Articles for Nursing Journals: Helpful Hints by Judith A. Erlen When You Get That Rejection Letter by Thomas H. Murray Writing a Medical Ethics Case by Albert R....
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 293 p. Naturalized Bioethics represents a revolutionary change in how health care ethics is practiced. It calls for bioethicists to give up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, socially inquisitive, politically critical, and inclusive ethics. Wary of idealizations that...
5th edition. — Wolters Kluwer, 2013. — 371 p. — ISBN: 978-1451176407 Now in its Fifth Edition, this respected reference helps readers tackle the common and often challenging ethical issues that affect patient care. The book begins with a concise discussion of clinical ethics that provides the background information essential to understanding key ethical issues. Readers then...
3rd edition. — William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2012. — 1988 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8028-6601-1 In print for more than two decades, On Moral Medicine remains the definitive anthology for Christian theological reflection on medical ethics. This third edition updates and expands the earlier award-winning volumes, providing classrooms and individuals alike with one of the finest...
MWV Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2015. — 406 S. Die Fortschritte in der modernen Medizin wie auch die steigende Komplexität der Struktur und Abläufe im Gesundheitswesen stellen das Gesundheitspersonal zunehmend vor ethische Herausforderungen und Entscheidungs-Dilemmata. Praxistaugliche Ansätze zur Einordnung und Lösung schwieriger Situationen sind oft...
New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. — 370 p. Medical ethics is the disciplined study of medical morality, with two goals: critically appraising current medical morality and identifying how it should be improved. Medical morality has three components. Physicians, patients, communities, and policy makers have beliefs about what is good and bad character, and right and wrong...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 274 p. — ISBN: 978-1-316-63149-2 A comprehensive, accessible approach to the everyday ethical challenges faced in obstetric and gynecological practice. Offering practical guidance for practitioners at all levels, the text also provides a sustained exploration of professional ethics in the intersection of obstetrics and gynecology with...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 556 p. This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals,...
Oxford University Press, 2006. - 258 p. Introduction: Rationality in an Uncertain Practice. Medicine as a Practice. Clinical Judgment and the Idea of Cause. The Formation of Clinical Judgment. Clinical Judgment and the Nature of Medicine.
8th edition. — McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2017. — 459 p. — ISBN: 978-1-259-90794-4 Medical Ethics: Accounts of Groundbreaking Cases provides an in-depth study of Bioethics authored by a pioneer in the field. This program covers some of the most well-known bioethics cases and the ethical issues those cases present. It also gives an overview of current issues in the medical...
5th edition. — Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2019. — 464 p. — ISBN: 9781284144185 Written to assist in the transition from the classroom to the workplace, Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, Fifth Edition provides readers with a clearer understanding of the issues they will face as health professionals, as well as, how law and ethics are so often intertwined....
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 225 p. In this book, C. G. Prado addresses the difficult question of when and whether it is rational to end one’s life in order to escape devastating terminal illness. He specifically considers this question in light of the impact of multiculturalism on perceptions and judgments about what is right and wrong, permissible and impermissible....
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 272 p. The philosopher Henry Richardson's short book is a defense of a position on a neglected topic in medical research ethics. Clinical research ethics has been a longstanding area of study, dating back to the aftermath of the Nazi death-camp doctors and the Tuskegee syphilis study. Most ethical regulations and institutions (such as...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 424 p. — ISBN10: 331953873X. Clinical medical ethics is a new medical field, developed and named in the 1970s, that helps patients, families, physicians, and other health professionals reach good clinical decisions by taking into account both the specific clinical situation and the patient’s values and preferences. The field of...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 411 p. Marc A. Rodwin draws on his own experience as a health lawyer--and his research in health ethics, law, and policy--to reveal how financial conflicts of interest can and do negatively affect the quality of patient care. He shows that the problem has become worse over the last century and provides many actual examples of how doctors'...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 315 p. Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative disorders have ignored the warnings of...
New York: Routledge, 2010. — XI, 179 p. — ISBN: 0-203-87491-9 «World Religions for Healthcare Professionals» provides healthcare professionals with a basic knowledge of health beliefs and practices in world religions such as American Indian Religions, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and Taoism as well as selected new religious movements....
Studer Group, 2019. — 375 p. — ISBN: 978-1622181063. A 34-year-old man fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit is on an artificial respirator for over a month. Could it be that his chance of getting off the respirator is not how much his nurses know, but rather how much they care? A 75-year-old woman is heroically saved by a major trauma center only to be discharged...
Springer, 2015. — 371 p. The essays in this book, written by researchers from both humanities and science, describe various theoretical and experimental approaches to adding medical ethics to a machine, what design features are necessary in order to achieve this, philosophical and practical questions concerning justice, rights, decision-making and responsibility in medical...
Georgetown University Press, 2016. — 176 p. New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This creates confusion and disagreement not only among medical, legal, and...
Springer, 2014. — 159 p. Professionalism and Ethics in Medicine: A Study Guide for Physicians and Physicians-in-Training is a unique self-study guide for practitioners and trainees covering the core competency areas of professionalism, ethics, and cultural sensitivity. This novel title presents real-world dilemmas encountered across the specialties of medicine, offering...
Springer International Publishing, 2013. — 262 p. This book both presents a succinct history of medical ethics and discusses a wide range of important ethical dilemmas in the provision of modern health care. A synopsis is provided of ethics through the ages and the role of ethics in the evolution of medicine. Principles and sources of medical ethics, as well as different...
ExLi4EvA, 2016. — 116 p. — ISBN: 9535126644; 9535126652 This work is intended as a brief but focused compilation to assist with diagnosis and management of the most common serious medical problems in the rapidly growing geriatric population. The geriatric population recently expanded by the fact that the baby boomers have reached the milestone of 65 years of age in the past 5...
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