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  • Assisted Dying

    Reflections on the Need for Law Reform

    by Sheila McLean ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Assisted Dying explores the law relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide, tracing its development from prohibition through to the laissez faire attitude adopted in a number of countries in the 21st Century. This book provides an in-depth critique of the arguments surrounding legislative control of such practices and particularly looks into the regulatory role of the state. In the classical ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Impairment and Disability

    Law and Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life

    by Sheila McLean, Laura Williamson ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    This book explores legislation intended to protect the interests of people with disabilities or impairments. Considering a broad range of ethical and legal concerns which arise in issues of life, death and disability, it covers the social and legal responses to the equality rights of disabled people, focusing on those responses to:the right to lifethe end of lifeassisted suicide.This work engages ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Anxiety Disorders in Adults

    An Evidence-Based Approach to Psychological Treatment

    by Peter D. McLean, Sheila R. Woody ...
    Series series Guidebooks in Clinical Psychology
    Recently developed psychosocial treatments for anxiety disorders reflect the systematic influence of scientifically generated knowledge, and these new treatments yield strong results. Research in such areas as information processing, cognition, behavioral avoidance, and the physiological components of anxious arousal has increased our knowledge of mediators that cause and maintain anxiety ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Xenotransplantation

    Law and Ethics

    by Sheila A. M. McLean ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 2005. One of the leading causes of death is organ failure, that is, when one or other of the organs that run the machine we call the body gives out. However, whereas with a machine spare parts can usually replace faulty parts, in the case of humans the supply of these is limited as it is dependent on organs being obtained from living or dead donors. Due to the limitations ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Autonomy, Consent and the Law

    by Sheila A.M. McLean ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law. Respect for autonomy is said to underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own values and for their own reasons. The notion that consent underpins beneficent and lawful medical intervention is deeply ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Medical Law and Ethics

    Edited by Sheila McLean ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002.The wide range of essays contained within this volume present contemporary thinking on the legal and ethical implications surrounding modern medical practice. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Genetics and Gene Therapy

    Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean ...
    Series series The International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law
    Genetics and Gene Therapy shows the wide range of the debate and the very real significance that genetics and its associated developments have for human beings, individually and collectively. Few areas of science and medicine have resulted in the volume of academic and popular literature as has genetics. The so-called revolution in understanding of the causes of disease states, and even ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Regulating Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis

    A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis

    Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean, Sarah Elliston ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990. The technology is often used for patients who are at substantial risk of conceiving a pregnancy affected by a known genetic disorder, however from this technology other more controversial uses have arisen such as HLA typing to save the life of a sibling, gender selection ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • First Do No Harm

    Law, Ethics and Healthcare

    Edited by Sheila A. M. McLean ...
    Series series Applied Legal Philosophy
    This collection brings together essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics which address the key issues currently challenging scholars in the field. It has also been compiled as a lasting testimony to the work of one of the most eminent scholars in the area, Professor Ken Mason. The collection marks the academic crowning of a career which has laid one of the foundation ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • What Makes Health Public?

    A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health

    by John Coggon ...
    Series Book 15 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in the fields of public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' He offers a conceptual and analytic scrutiny of the salient issues raised by this question, outlines the concepts entailed in, or denoted by, the term 'public health' and argues why and how normative analyses in public health are inquiries in political theory. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Ethics and Health Care

    An Introduction

    by John C. Moskop ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who should have access to assisted reproductive technologies? Which one of many seriously ill patients should be offered the next available transplant organ? When may a surrogate decision maker decide to withdraw life-prolonging measures from an unconscious patient? Questions like these feature prominently in the field of health care ethics and in the education of health care professionals. This ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics

    Edited by Peter A. Singer, A. M. Viens ...
    Medicine and health care generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic, professional and public interest. This comprehensive resource is designed as a succinct yet authoritative text and reference for clinicians, bioethicists, and advanced students seeking a better understanding of ethics problems in the clinical setting. Each chapter illustrates an ethical problem that ... Read more

    $125.49 USD