Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct

This volume illustrates ongoing discussions in and about the medical humanities with studies on different approaches to the relationship between me...

Since the first test tube baby was born over 40 years ago, In Vitro Fertilization and other Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have advanced...

Advances in psychiatric research and clinical psychiatry in the last 30 years have given rise to a host of new questions that lie at the intersecti...

Now in its Seventh Edition and in vivid full-color, this groundbreaking book continues to champion the Have a Care approach, while also providi...

This casebook provides practical recommendations on a range of issues associated with electronic-based mental health care. From technologies as si...

This fully-updated third edition of Jon Bailey and Mary Burch''s bestselling Ethics for Behavior Analysts is an invaluable guide to understanding a...

On the part of the patient, healthcare demands unconditional trust inthe professional. But what is the nature of this trust, and to what extentis i...

Conscience in Reproductive Health Care responds to the growing worldwide trend of health care professionals conscientiously refusing to provide abo...

Health and social care decisions, and how they impact a family, are often viewed from the perspective of the individual family member making them--...

International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-tech...

On any given day in the emergency department, the chance of confronting a medical-legal dilemma is significant. Emergency medicine and critical car...

Will the future confront us with human GMOs? Greely provocatively declares yes, and, while clearly explaining the science, spells out the ethical, ...

Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what...

An essential book for all those who conduct animal-based research or are involved in education and training, as well as regulators, supporters, and...

Pharmacists constantly face ethical choices -- sometimes dramatic matters of life-and-death decisions, but more often subtle, less conspicuous choi...

The scandals of poor care and repeated cover-ups in the NHS in recent years have raised serious questions about the mistreatment of NHSwhistleblowe...

Well and Good presents a combination of classic and little-known cases in health care ethics. These cases, accompanied by information about the maj...

Transhumanists advocate for the development and distribution of technologies that will enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capa...

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance offers accessible coverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and health professional education...

Samuel J. Kerstein develops a new, broadly Kantian account of the ethical issues that arise when a person treats another merely as a means, that is...