Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct

A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today In their seemingly relentless pursuit of life, do contemporary U.S. biocultur...

Travis Pickell explores the paradoxes of choice in modern dying and the ways Christian theology can aid in navigating the relationship between mora...

Bioethics after God explores the relationship between morality and medicine in a society that has denied the existence of God. Medicine and bioethi...

In the mental health field, ethical guidelines are strictly enforced to ensure healthy, appropriate, effective, and productive counselor-client rel...

Experts are constantly trying to understand the complex relationships between humans and evolving technologies. Cognitive ergonomics, the science b...

This practical guide aims to inspire ethically-aware practitioners to become ethically-aware researchers, evaluators and participants. Conducting a...

On a daily basis, healthcare professionals are faced with many ethical situations along with legal implications. Applied Law and Ethics for Health ...

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to profession...

The practice of medicine is immersed in issues of life, death, and suffering in relation to the mortal body. Because of this, the medical professio...

The practice of medicine is immersed in issues of life, death, and suffering in relation to the mortal body. Because of this, the medical professio...

Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it more...

Fully updated, revised, and expanded, the new edition of Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing reflects current and emerging influences of the law, l...

In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, ...

Penned by a seasoned physician with 30 years of experience, this book is an essay that conducts a profound analysis of the doctor-patient relations...

In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past ...

Few subjects provoke as much controversy or debate as that of medical care, and the law that governs such an emotive area finds itself with the nea...

For courses in medical law or ethics in programs for nurses, medical assistants, and other allied health care professionals.A plain-language guide ...

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics. It also presents provocative, philosophically informed argumen...

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...