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Rationing Sanity
Ethical Issues in Managed Mental Health Care
Inbunden, 2003
648 kr
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Mental illness is the poor, and somehow "damaged," cousin to physical ailments in the eyes of too many in our society. Compare the difference in how people would respond to someone who had fallen and broken their leg on the street, to how most react to those mentally ill among us, on those same …
What Price Mental Health?
The Ethics and Politics of Setting Priorities
Av Philip J. Boyle, Daniel Callahan
Häftad, 1995
821 kr
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Regardless of the fate of national health care reform, public policy makers will have to make difficult and tragic choices about which health services are more or less important. This volume, the first comprehensive examination of setting mental health services priorities, systematically explores …
Coerced Contraception?
Moral and Policy Challenges of Long Acting Birth Control
Av Ellen H. Moskowitz, Bruce Jennings
Häftad, 1996
821 kr
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Long-acting and reversible contraceptives, such as Norplant and Depo-Provera, have been praised as highly effective, moderately priced, and generally safe. Yet, as this book argues, the very qualities that make these contraceptives an important alternative for individual choice in family planning …
World Growing Old
The Coming Health Care Challenges
Häftad, 1996
429 kr
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For much of the developed world, health care for a surging elderly population looms as one of the most daunting problems of the coming decade. In this book, contributors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and countries discuss resource allocation for the elderly and debate plans for the years …
Life Choices
A Hastings Center Introduction to Bioethics
Av Joseph H. Howell, William Frederick Sale
Häftad, 2000
662 kr
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An authoritative introduction to bioethics, "Life Choices" examines a comprehensive range of ethical questions and brings together some of the most probing and instructive essays published in the field. Some of the articles are classics in the literature of bioethics, while others address current …
Enhancing Human Traits
Ethical and Social Implications
Av Erik Parens
Häftad, 2000
447 kr
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In this volume, scholars from philosophy, sociology, history, theology, women's studies, and law explore the looming ethical and social implications of new biotechnologies that are rapidly making it possible to enhance an individual's mental and physical attributes in ways previously only imagined. …
Getting Doctors to Listen
Ethics and Outcomes Data in Context
Häftad, 2000
1029 kr
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This book examines why physicians are often surprisingly reluctant to follow guidelines for treating patients based on research data. It assesses the merits of these concerns - which include worries about legal liability, financial incentives, the scientific validity of the data, and the …
Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights
Häftad, 2000
821 kr
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As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal care - it helps parents have healthy babies. But prenatal tests have been criticized by the disability rights community, which contends that advances in science …
Promoting Healthy Behavior
How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility?
Häftad, 2001
821 kr
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The government, the media, HMOs, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet obesity is up, exercise is down, teenagers continue to smoke, and sexually transmitted disease is rampant. Why? These intriguing essays examine the ethical and social problems …
Ethics of Hospital Trustees
Av Bruce Jennings, Bradford H. Gray m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
797 kr
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All manner of medical practitioners have had their scruples dissected ad infinitum. In spite of the attention paid to medical ethics and bioethics, little has been paid to the ethical roles and responsibilities of those who are ultimately in charge of hospital governance: hospital trustees. …
Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Accommodating Pluralism
Häftad, 2004
445 kr
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At the center of the debate over complementary and alternative medicine - from acupuncture and chiropractic treatments to homeopathy and nutritional supplements - is how to scientifically measure the effectiveness of a particular treatment. Fourteen scholars from the fields of medicine, philosophy, …
Accountability
Patient Safety and Policy Reform
Inbunden, 2004
821 kr
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According to a recent Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical error - a figure higher than deaths from automobile accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. That astounding number of fatalities does not include the number of those serious mistakes that …
Claiming Power Over Life
Religion and Biotechnology Policy
Inbunden, 2001
387 kr
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Developments in biotechnology, such as cloning and the decoding of the human genome, are generating questions and choices that traditionally have fallen within the realm of religion and philosophy: the definition of human life, human vs. divine control of nature, the relationship between human and …
