Medical Ethics – serie
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18 produkter
By No Extraordinary Means, Expanded Edition
The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water
Av Joanne Lynn
Häftad, 1989
168 kr
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" . . . compelling. . . . This book might have been called 'No Easy Answers.' Each of the contributors writes with undisguised urgency. . . . [W]e should face up to these issues now. By No Extraordinary Means will serve as an impetus and guide." —New York Times Book Review"This fine new book . . . …
If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas?
And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care
Häftad, 1992
206 kr
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"An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." —Health and Canadian Society"Insightful and thought-provoking. . . . As Caplan has demonstrated so clearly . . . we would all be better off if the ethicists spoke first and not last." —The Washington Post"Caplan's views are …
Patient's Ordeal
Av William May
Häftad, 1991
157 kr
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"an excellent contribution to medical ethics" —Ethics "wide-ranging, compassionate, and insightful" —Publishers Weekly "a sensitive and provocative approach to the study of ethical decision making" —Choice "[This] sensitive and moving book . . . compels and merits the grateful, concentrated, and …
Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity
Inbunden, 1993
348 kr
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"[Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references." —The New England Journal of Medicine"Cantor develops a careful and accessible ethic of autonomy and dignity regarding forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment . . . " —Ethics"A thoughtful, informative and sensitive …
Confronting Death
Inbunden, 1988
358 kr
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"Well organized, well argued, and well written . . . " —Choice"It is a lively document, with vigorous arguments leading to opinions that are controversial but strongly held." —Joseph M. Foley, Medical Humanities Review" . . . Momeyer's book has much to recommend it . . . The book would surely be a …
Surrogate Motherhood
Politics and Privacy
Inbunden, 1990
291 kr
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" . . . glimpses of intriguing changes in social arrangements and cultural understandings in relation to surrogacy. Disturbing motherhood indeed." —New Scientist"Larry Gostin has put together the definitive collection of essays on one of the most perplexing and titillating topics in contemporary …
New Ways of Making Babies
The Case of Egg Donation
Inbunden, 1996
490 kr
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". . . extremely valuable. [This book] addresses exactly the right questions in a balanced, nuanced way." —Journal of the American Medical Association"Cohen's book is a major contribution to the literature of the inevitable." —Medical Humanities Review"This book provides readers with an insightful …
Limits
The Role of the Law in Bioethical Decision Making
Inbunden, 1996
417 kr
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"An excellent resource for entry-level courses on bioethics for health care practitioners, law students, and physicians." —Choice"Dworkin's provocative arguments . . . will challenge readers who have come to accept the law's intrusion as a necessary response to biomedical advances." —New England …
Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care
Av Thomas H. Murray, Mark A. Rothstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
431 kr
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"The volume deserves our serious attention. The authors have provided us an invaluable primer about the HGP and its implications for the future of American health care." —Jurimetrics"This book does make a real contribution . . . in explaining why the genetics revolution holds so much promise and …
Practical Reasoning in Bioethics
Inbunden, 1997
768 kr
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"This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many teachers of bioethics . . ." —Journal of the American Medical Association"Childress' book deserves careful study by all concerned with the ethical aspect …
Early Warning
Cases and Ethical Guidance for Presymptomatic Testing in Genetic Diseases
Av David H. Smith, Kimberly A. Quaid m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
417 kr
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"This timely, well-written book brings together the collective experience of experts from the fields of medicine, psychiatry, religious studies, bioethics, and molecular genetics in an effort to develop coherent guidelines for the counseling of potential sufferers from genetic diseases." —Journal …
When Doctors Say No
The Battleground of Medical Futility
Inbunden, 1998
305 kr
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"The book is a fine addition to the world of academic medical ethics . . . Readers . . . will come away with some of the tools for further debate." —Publishers Weekly"Susan B. Rubin's splendid new book . . . offers positive, humane solutions to the frustrations that have given rise to the futility …
Business Ethics in Healthcare
Beyond Compliance
Inbunden, 2001
431 kr
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Healthcare ethics is not just about decisions made at the bedside. It is also about decisions made in executive offices and in boardrooms. Business Ethics in Healthcare offers perspectives that can assist healthcare managers achieve the highest ethical standards as they face their roles as …
Ethics of Managed Care
A Pragmatic Approach
Inbunden, 2001
534 kr
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Discussions of managed care frequently begin and end with an opposition between the Hippocratic ethic of dedication to patient welfare and a business ethic of self-interest in the service of efficiency. Mary R. Anderlik approaches managed care as a problem of organizations. Rejecting a simple …
Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine
Inbunden, 2003
417 kr
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"Because the discipline of medical ethics has developed with autonomy as its foundation, the field has ignored pediatric ethics. The book is resoundingly successful in its effort to rectify this problem. . . . [A] pleasure to read." —Eric D. Kodish, M.D., Director, Rainbow Center for Pediatric …
Wondergenes
Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Society
Inbunden, 2003
373 kr
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Wondergenes not only imagines a future world in which genetic enhancement is the norm, but asserts that this future has already begun. Genetically engineered substances are already in use by athletes, in vitro fertilization already provides the primitive means by which parents can "select" an …
Patient-Physician Relation
The Patient As Partner, Part 2
Inbunden, 1991
358 kr
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"Throughout the past two decades, when medical ethics has had a renaissance, Robert Veatch has been a leading contributor to its dialogue and advance. This collection of his work shows the breadth and the cogency of his thinking. . . . it is a book worth having." —Journal of the American Medical …
Medical Ethics
A Clinical Textbook and Reference for Health Care Professionals
Av Natalie Abrams, Michael Buckner
Häftad, 1983
1230 kr
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