Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct

When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell...

Taking a unique approach that emphasizes careful reasoning, this cutting-edge reader is structured around twenty-seven landmark arguments that have...

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the pote...

A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and...

A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and...

Acupuncture is a nuanced vocation that requires practitioners to manage complex ethical scenarios. This much-needed international textbook is the f...

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...