Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and f...

Triage decision-making during a pandemic is linked to complex ethical, medical, and legal dilemmas, which in the past have been discussed mainly ba...

Designer Drugs 2017 features 25,114 mass spectra and 19,665 unique compounds predominantly classified as novel psychoactive substances (NPS). The r...

Over recent decades, the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science appear as a marked shift of societal attitudes towar...

These are some of the urgent questions posed by this stimulating and wide-ranging new colloquy. Bringing together a wealth of wisdom and experience...

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of ...

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of ...

This open access book explores epistemic justice in mental healthcare, bringing together perspectives from psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophe...

Applied ethics is an essential part of practical knowledge in pluralistic and democratic societies. Its fundamental characteristic does not consist...

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

Learn how to think beyond the theoretical in any environment. Ethics & Issues in Contemporary Nursing, 2nd Edition examines the latest trends, ...

Medicines, Ethics and Practice: The professional guide for pharmacists is the Royal Pharmaceutical Society''s established professional guide for ph...

This book provides an overview of how the intricacies of the Trolley Problem shed light on various aspects of medical ethics. It shows how trolley ...

Human embryo research touches upon strongly felt moral convictions, and it raises such deep questions about the promise and perils of scientific pr...

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientist...

Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Lehrende im Pflegestudium und in der generalistischen Ausbildung und stellt einen Zusammenhang der Pflegegeschichte...

Transformed States offers a timely history of the politics, ethics, medical applications, and cultural representations of the biotechnological revo...

It has traditionally been accepted that one cannot derive how the world ought to be from the way the world is. The discipline of bioethics endeavor...

Voluntariness is a necessary condition of valid consent. But determining whether a person consented voluntarily can be difficult, especially when p...

In the Name of Progress: The Dark Side of Medical Research is a comprehensive exploration of the dark side of medical progress, examining a series ...

Delve into the intriguing world of medical ethics in this unique guidebook, where each ethical dilemma is introduced through a gripping moral myste...

This edited volume comprises twenty original essays in nursing ethics by an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars, researchers, and cl...

On February 26, 2020, the Board on Health Sciences Policy of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a 1-day public wo...

This textbook untangles the complicated ethical dilemmas that arise during the day-to-day work of healthcare chaplaincy, and offers a sturdy but fl...

Clinical dilemmas in dementia contexts are often not because the clinical facts are in doubt, but because the ethical and legal underpinnings are u...