Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct

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...

Brilliant essays from the renowned Nation columnistaka the Mad Law Professortackling questions of identity, bioethics, race, surveillance, and more...

Nursing Law and Ethics explores a variety of key legal and ethical issues in nursing practice using a thought-provoking and holistic approach.  It ...

The second edition of Medical Ethics deals accessibly with a broad range of significant issues in bioethics, and presents the reader with the lates...

The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics provides a critical overview of the ethics of human subjects research within multiple disciplines and fields...

Suffering is an unavoidable reality in healthcare. Not only are patients and families suffering, but more and more the clinicians who care for them...

This is a book about the human experience of conducting global health research, linked to operational responses to the control and prevention of di...

A bold, inspiring, and multi-disciplinary exploration of cutting-edge human knowledge and capabilities-and how to harness their awesome, but terrif...

Ectogenesis refers to the artificial gestation of a fetus outside the womb. Despite certain advantages for women's reproductive liberty, feminist g...

American medicine defies simple characterization. Its history is filled with as much triumph as controversy, which may explain why the delivery of ...