Clinical Medical Ethics series – serie
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9 produkter
Competence to Consent
Häftad, 1994
429 kr
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Free and informed consent is one of the most widespread and morally important practices of modern health care; competence to consent is its cornerstone. In this book, Becky Cox White provides a concise introduction to the key practical, philosophical, and moral issues involved in competence to …
Making Sense of Advance Directives
revised edition
Häftad, 1996
629 kr
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Advance directives - such as living wills and health care proxies - are documents intended to declare and preserve the health care choices of patients if they become unable to make their own decisions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of advance directives and clear, practical directions …
Informed Consent
Patient Autonomy and Clinician Beneficence within Health Care
Av Stephen Wear
Häftad, 1998
429 kr
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Wear develops an efficient and flexible model of informed consent that accommodates both clinical realities and legal and ethical imperatives. In this second edition, he has expanded his examination of the larger process within which informed consent takes place and his discussion of the …
Patient Self-Determination Act
Meeting the Challenges in Patient Care
Häftad, 2001
477 kr
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The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 required medical facilities to provide patients with written notification of their right to refuse or consent to medical treatment. Using this Act as an important vehicle for improving the health care decisionmaking process, Lawrence P. Ulrich explains the …
Medical Ethics in the Ancient World
Häftad, 2001
370 kr
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In this book, Paul Carrick charts the ancient Greek and Roman foundations of Western medical ethics. Surveying 1500 years of pre-Christian medical moral history, Carrick applies insights from ancient medical ethics to developments in contemporary medicine such as advance directives, gene therapy, …
Beyond a Western Bioethics
Voices from the Developing World
Av Angeles Tan Alora, Josephine M. Lumitao
Inbunden, 2001
1022 kr
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In "Beyond a Western Bioethics", physicians Angeles Tan Alora and Josephine M. Lumitao join eight other contributors to provide a comprehensive exploration of bioethical issues outside of the dominant American and western European model. Using the Philippines as a case study, they address how a …
Balancing Act
The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics
Häftad, 1995
689 kr
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Medicine's changing economics have already fundamentally, permanently altered the relationship between physician and patient, E. Haavi Morreim argues. Physicians must weigh a patient's interests against the legitimate, competing claims of other patients, of payers, of society as a whole, and …
Preventing Prenatal Harm
Should the State Intervene?
Häftad, 1995
290 kr
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Arguing that the state must meet strict conditions to justify interfering in at-risk pregnancies, Deborah Mathieu examines the legal and ethical concerns that arise when governments mandate the behavior of pregnant women. She explores both the pregnant woman's right to decide what happens to her …
Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
Roman Catholic Perspectives
Av H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., Mark J. Cherry
Häftad, 2002
675 kr
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Roman Catholic moral theology is the point of departure for this multifaceted exploration of the challenge of allocating scarce medical resources. This volume begins its exploration of discerning moral limits to modern high-technology medicine with a consensus statement born of the conversations …
