Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct

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 ...

The adult critical care setting requires complex clinical decisions to be made that have a dramatic impact on the lives of patients and their famil...

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the ...

Authored by the two primary organizations in the field, Legal Medicine: Health Care Law and Medical Ethics, 8th Edition, remains the premier treati...

This second edition offers updates, new topics, and new short case studies, based on real stories from the health care arena, ensuring that each ch...

This Open Access book on Complications in Neurosurgery contains the proceedings of the 2nd ICCN conference held in Mumbai in 2019. The work illustr...

Arguably among the worst of all medical afflictions, the dementias slowly destroy one's personality, take a tremendous emotional, physical, and fin...

Contemporary medicine is Janus-faced. Evidence-based medicine is one face, emphasizing evidence, statistics, and method. Patient-centered care is t...

A timely collection of essays on the pressing possibilities and risks of gene-editing technology.Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming incr...

Patients today are more empowered and knowledgeable than they have ever been. By law, they must be told about the risks and benefits of proposed tr...

A reporter uncovers the secrets behind the scientific scam of the century. The news breaks first as a tale of fear and pity. Doctors at a London ...

For many years bioethicist Carl Elliott fought to expose a psychiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulnerable patie...