Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct

Transparency is a concept that is becoming increasingly lauded as a solution to a host of problems in the American health care system. Transparency...

Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technolog...

When the oral history of a medicinal plant as a genetic resource is used to develop a blockbuster drug, how is the contribution of indigenous peopl...

Healthcare providers are constantly confronted with illness and injury, and the challenges of healing. Yet this very work, the relief of suffering,...

This book argues against the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and/or physician-assisted suicide on the ground that, even if they were ethically...

The harm associated with health care is a questionable issue and several systemic global strategies to reduce it with a safer system are being deve...

The purpose of this book is to provide practical approaches to designing public reports that make health care performance information clear, meanin...

This book argues against the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and/or physician-assisted suicide on the ground that, even if they were ethically...

Mindfulness is a burgeoning field of study and practice within mental health care and medicine. Yet ethical codes, and the philosophy of the therap...

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified ab...

Justice is foundational to discussion, debate, and policy making surrounding biomedical research. Time-tested for more than 20 years, Beyond Consen...

Due to the complicated nature of using art and art materials in clinical practice, art therapists are often confronted with ethical considerations ...

Welfel's ETHICS IN COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY prepares you to deal effectively with the complex ethical and legal issues that you will confront i...

Countless public health agencies are trying to solve our most intractable public health problems -- among them, the obesity and opioid epidemics --...