Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct

Part of the What Do I Do Now?: Emergency Medicine series, Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine uses a case-based approach to cover common...

Systemic racism profoundly affects the medical education work and learning environment, from the staff and faculty who are the backbone of every me...

This book will examine the role and the opportunity for EDI advancement as a requisite in healthcare, particularly in the context of the profession...

What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one...

What Was Your First Memory of Race?This opening question is the heart and soul of Room at the Table. The word equity is thrown around in multiple m...

A sharp exposé of the roots of the cost-exposure consensus in American health care that shows how the next wave of reform can secure real access an...

A leading bioethicist offers critical insights into the scientific, ethical, and political implications of human genome editing.Designer babies, on...

This insightful study examines the deeply personal and heart-wrenching tensions among financial considerations, emotional attachments, and moral ar...

Explores human dignity and care in the face of disease and disability.Complex contemporary experiences with disease, death, and disability in the U...

Giving Voice to Values as a Professional Physician provides students with the theoretical background and practical applications for acting on their...

A leading evolutionary historian offers a radical solution to racial health disparities in the United States.Constance B. Hilliard was living in Ja...

Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genet...

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failu...

The rationing of health care is universal and inevitable, taking place in both poor and affluent countries, in publicly funded and private health c...

This book examines the central structures in medicinemedical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authorityfrom the perspect...

Handbook of Nutrition and Diet in Palliative Care, Second Edition, is a comprehensive guide, providing exhaustive information on nutrition and diet...

Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The pheno...

Awarded second place in the 2023 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Professional Issues category!Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Pra...

This concise book provides readers with practical guidance to help them to both avoid errors and develop robust processes to protect themselves and...

The aging of the worlds population has brought with it a set of challenges. Baby boomers in the Western world, who have lived through several cycle...

We cannot be happy without insight into the limits of what is feasible. Modern medicine suggests omnipotence and an image of life as something that...

A case-based approach that provides the advice and skills medical practitioners need to help patients and overcome ethical challenges Now in its f...

The factions debating health care reform in the United States have gravitated toward one of two positions: that just health care is an individual r...

Several presidents have created bioethics councils to advise their administrations on the importance, meaning and possible implementation or regula...

Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people? To answer this question, Black Health dispels any notion that ...

Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people? To answer this question, Black Health dispels any notion that ...

Health is weird. Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that ...

Imagine: You are a hospital Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, medical or nursing director, patient safety specialist, quality impro...

Responding to the increased public interest in the moral aspects of medical practice, this collection of essays focuses on questions of justice and...

Originally published in 1999, this classic textbook includes twenty-six cases with commentary and bibliographic resources designed especially for m...

Originally published in 1999, this classic textbook includes twenty-six cases with commentary and bibliographic resources designed especially for m...

In the last two decades, more than ever before dentists must determine how to properly maintain their focus on ethics and professionalism in the fa...

Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, hist...

Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics, Second Edition, integrates theology, methodology, and practical application into a detailed and practical...

Although the history of organ transplant has its roots in ancient Christian mythology, it is only in the past fifty years that body parts from a de...

David M. Craig traveled across the United States to assess health care access, delivery and finance in this country. He interviewed religious hospi...

David M. Craig traveled across the United States to assess health care access, delivery and finance in this country. He interviewed religious hospi...

A bioethic of obligations and responsibilities, based on the Jewish tradition The Jewish tradition has important perspectives, history, and wisdom...