International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine – serie
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Autonomy and Clinical Medicine
Renewing the Health Professional Relation with the Patient
Av J. Bergsma, David C. Thomasma
Inbunden, 2000
1095 kr
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This book arises from a two-fold conviction. The first is that autonomy, despite recent critiques about its importance in bioethics and philosophy of medicine, and the traditional resistance of medicine to its "intrusion" into the doctor-patient relation, is a fundamental building block of an …
AIDS Crisis and the Modern Self
Biographical Self-Construction in the Awareness of Finitude
Av S. Rinken
Inbunden, 2000
1095 kr
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In industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is now increasingly perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available, this pandemic was widely associated with premature or even imminent death. Receiving the diagnosis typically led to a dramatic biographical …
Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration
Av M.F. Verweij
Inbunden, 2001
1128 kr
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Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration is a study of ethical questions regarding mass screening, vaccination, and health policy programmes. These interventions aim to enhance public health but may also constrain personal autonomy and cause harm, and influence our moral views. So far, …
Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine
Hypothetical Case Studies
Av D. Vukadinovich, S. Krinsky
Inbunden, 2001
1128 kr
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Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine is a unique book that explores the field of medical ethics and health care decision-making through hypothetical case studies. The truly unique feature of this volume is that each chapter sets forth a hypothetical fact pattern which includes role assignments to …
Personhood and Health Care
Av David C. Thomasma, David N. Weisstub m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1966 kr
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PERSONHOOD AND HEALTH CARE This book arose as a result of a pre-conference devoted to the topic held June 28, 1999 in Paris, France. The pre-conference preceded the Annual Congress of the International Academy ofLaw and Mental Health. Other chapters were solicited after the conference in order to …
Bioethics in a European Perspective
Av Henk A. M. J. Ten Have, Bert Gordijn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2183 kr
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In this book, developed by a group of collaborating scholars in bioethics from different European countries, an overview is given of the most salient themes in present-day bioethics. The themes are discussed in order to enable the reader to have an in-depth overview of the state of the art in …
Mental Health
A Philosophical Analysis
Inbunden, 2001
1095 kr
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Mental health issues are a growing concern in our modern Western society. This is part of an increasing interest in questions about health, quality of life, personal development, and self-fulfilment. However, most of what has been written so far has had its focus on mental illness or disease, the …
Aging: Culture, Health, and Social Change
Av David N. Weisstub, David C. Thomasma m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1688 kr
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Demographic studies foreshadow a dramatic increase in the proportion of "older" members of our global population. The task of allocating public and private resources to accommodate present and future generations is a daunting challenge for all nations. Not surprisingly, planning for the health of …
Aging: Caring for Our Elders
Av David C. Thomasma, Serge Gauthier m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1688 kr
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Positive conceptions of "healthy aging" are rightly displacing negative ageist perceptions of older members of our society. Nevertheless, at some stage, most elderly citizens will require some form of assistance from other members of society. When, through the natural course of aging or due to …
Aging: Decisions at the End of Life
Av David N. Weisstub, David C. Thomasma m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1688 kr
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Decisions at the End of Life is the last volume in a trilogy on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines examine some of the most emotive topics in the study of aging: assessing quality of life, improving …
Aging: Culture, Health, and Social Change
Av David N. Weisstub, David C. Thomasma m. fl.
2001
2829 kr
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Culture, Health, and Social Change is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines contest some of the predominant paradigms on aging, and critically assess modern trends in social …
Determinants of Health: Theory, Understanding, Portrayal, Policy
Inbunden, 2002
1128 kr
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For decades, health professionals have asserted the importance of public participation in interventions for health. Medicine has pursued patient participation in clinical decision-making. In the public health realm, target groups have been asked to assist in the design and implementation of …
Is Death Ever Preferable to Life?
Av Ian Olver
Inbunden, 2002
1095 kr
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This is a contribution to the much-debated area of the value that we should place on human life. With the euthanasia issue highlighted in the public arena this book argues for a non-absolutist highest value on life ethic and explores how that fits with society's emphasis on individual autonomy. Not …
New Era of AIDS
HIV and Medicine in Times of Transition
Av C. Kopp
Inbunden, 2003
1128 kr
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In the mid-1990s, new treatment options opened a new era of AIDS. This book is a study of the shaping of this new era. Well informed by ethnographic as well as statistical data it reveals the complex and ambiguous processes of change in the field of HIV/AIDS and beyond. The main trail of the …
Six Lives in Jerusalem
End-of-Life Decisions in Jerusalem — Cultural, Medical, Ethical and Legal Considerations
Inbunden, 2004
568 kr
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whether the patient is suffering? Should the ability to think and reason be considered as the most important factor? For instance, should a patient with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who is mentally alert yet unable to move from the neck down be allowed to refuse medical treatment; and, if …
Public Health Policy and Ethics
Inbunden, 2004
1688 kr
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Public Health Policy and Ethics brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced. What is the basis that justifies public health in the first place? Why should individuals be disadvantaged for the sake of the …
Public Health Policy and Ethics
Häftad, 2005
1688 kr
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Public Health Policy and Ethics brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced. What is the basis that justifies public health in the first place? Why should individuals be disadvantaged for the sake of the …
Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment
A Philosophical Discussion
Inbunden, 2004
1095 kr
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The morality of capital punishment has been debated for a long time. This however has 1 not resulted in the settlement of the question either way. Philosophers are still divided. In this work I am not addressing the morality of capital punishment per se. My question is different but related. It is …
Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective
Av Dorothy C. Wertz, John C. Fletcher
Inbunden, 2004
1688 kr
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Dorothy Wertz and John Fletcher pioneered the first international study of ethical and social issues in genetics in 18 nations. This book reports and discusses their second and more representative study in 36 nations. The survey focused on actual situations that occur in the practice of medical …
Public Health Policy and Ethics
2005
2563 kr
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Public Health Policy and Ethics brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced. What is the basis that justifies public health in the first place? Why should individuals be disadvantaged for the sake of the …
Euthanasia in the Netherlands
The Policy and Practice of Mercy Killing
Inbunden, 2004
1008 kr
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The Dutch experience has influenced the debate on euthanasia and death with dignity around the globe, especially with regard to whether physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia should be legitimized or legalized. A review of the literature reveals complex and often contradictory views about the …
Variables of Moral Capacity
Av David C. Thomasma, David N. Weisstub
Inbunden, 2004
1639 kr
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Moral capacity is an important feature of what it means to be human. In this volume, the contributors have taken on the daunting task of trying to distinguish between legal and moral capacity. This distinction is difficult at times for clinicians, philosophers and legal scholars alike. Part of the …
Conscious in a Vegetative State? A Critique of the PVS Concept
Inbunden, 2004
1688 kr
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Having been originally introduced as a term to facilitate discussion of a specific group of patients regarded as entering a state of unawareness following coma, the ‘Persistent Vegetative State’ (PVS) has established itself as an apparently discrete medical condition with clear-cut implications for …
When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View
Av Lola Romanucci-Ross, Laurence R. Tancredi
Inbunden, 2005
1508 kr
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What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court? This work deals with the structure and the premises of two diverse discourse models; the approach is anthropological.Several chapters are preponderantly based on legal research, addressing cases requiring …
Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective
Av Dorothy C. Wertz, John C. Fletcher
Häftad, 2004
1639 kr
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Dorothy Wertz and John Fletcher pioneered the first international study of ethical and social issues in genetics in 18 nations. This book reports and discusses their second and more representative study in 36 nations. The survey focused on actual situations that occur in the practice of medical …
Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery
An Egalitarian Approach to Patient Selection
Inbunden, 2005
1128 kr
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Bioethicists, moral philosophers and social policy analysts have long debated about how we should decide who shall be saved with scarce, lifesaving resources when not all can be saved. It is often claimed that it is fairer to save younger persons and that age is an ethically relevant consideration …
Christian Religion and Biotechnology
A Search for Principled Decision-making
Inbunden, 2005
1095 kr
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Religion is a dominant force in the lives of many Americans. It animates, challenges, directs and shapes, as well, the legal, political, and scientific agendas of the new Age of Biotechnology. In a very real way, religion, biomedical technology and law are - epistemologically - different. Yet, they …
Clinical Bioethics
A Search for the Foundations
Av C. Viafora
Inbunden, 2005
1912 kr
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A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ("internal morality") and the larger social concerns and processes ("external morality")Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical …
Globalization and Health
Challenges for health law and bioethics
Av Belinda Bennett, George F. Tomossy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1095 kr
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Within contemporary society, globalization has emerged as a key concern at the centre of ethical, legal and policy debates relating to health care. Conflicts between public interests and individual rights, the challenge of regulating health professionals and access to health services, and the …
Bioethics in Cultural Contexts
Reflections on Methods and Finitude
Av Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Marcus Düwell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
2183 kr
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CHRISTOPH REHMANN-SUTTER, MARCUS DÜWELL, DIETMAR MIETH When we placed “finitude”, “limits of human existence” as a motto over a round of discussion on biomedicine and bioethics (which led to this collection of essays) we did not know how far this would lead us into methodological quandaries. …
