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  • Moral Acquaintances and Moral Decisions

    Resolving Moral Conflicts in Medical Ethics

    by Stephen S. Hanson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The potential of modern medicine in a pluralistic world leads to the potential for moral conflict. The most prevalent bioethical theories often either overestimate or underestimate the amount of shared moral belief that can be used to address those conflicts. This work presents a means for taking seriously the pluralism in the modern world while recognizing the likelihood of moral “acquaintance” ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Medical Ethics For Dummies

    by Jane Runzheimer, Linda Johnson Larsen ...
    A practical, insightful guide to the moral and ethical standards of healthcareSucceeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, while knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices, and so much ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • Letting Go

    how to plan for a good death

    by Charlie Corke ...
    ‘Too frequently, we leave it too late to start to think — but a crisis is never the best time for careful thought.’As Australia's population ages, many individuals are faced with making complex medical decisions, for themselves and for others, in times of great stress. How far should doctors go when trying to prolong life? How can we decide what is ‘too far’ and ‘not far enough’ for our loved ones ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Debating Procreation

    Is It Wrong to Reproduce?

    by David Benatar, David Wasserman ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Benatar and David Wasserman take opposing views on this important question. David Benatar argues for the anti-natalist view that it is always wrong to bring new people into existence. He argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm and that ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Professionalism in Medicine

    A Case-Based Guide for Medical Students

    Edited by John Spandorfer, MD, Charles A. Pohl, MD, Susan L. Rattner, Thomas J. Nasca, MD ...
    Learning medical professionalism is a challenging, evolving, and life-long endeavor. Professionalism in Medicine: A Case-Based Guide for Medical Students helps begin this process by engaging students and their teachers in reflection on cases that resonate with the experiences of life in medicine. Through the book's seventy-two cases, commentaries, videos, and literature-based reviews, students ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Global Health and Global Health Ethics

    Edited by Solomon Benatar, Gillian Brock ...
    What can be done about the poor state of global health? How are global health challenges intimately linked to the global political economy and to issues of social justice? What are our responsibilities and how can we improve global health? Global Health and Global Health Ethics addresses these questions from the perspective of a range of disciplines, including medicine, philosophy and the social ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics

    Edited by Joseph Boyle, Leonard Sumner ...
    Series series Toronto Studies in Philosophy
    How should we attempt to resolve concrete bioethical problems? How are we to understand the role of bioethics in the health care system, government, and academe? This collection of original essays raises these and other questions about the nature of bioethics as a discipline. The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine

    by Nathaniel Comfort ...
    Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a century ago eugenicists were making the same promises. The Science of Human Perfection traces the history of the promises of medical genetics and of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Psychiatry and Philosophy

    by Erwin W. Straus, Maurice Natanson, Henri Ey ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The three essays reprinted in this book were first published in 1963 as individual chapters of a psychiatric treatise entitled Psychiatrie der Gegen wart (Psychiatry of the Present Day). The editors, W. H. GRUHLE (Bonn), R. JUNG (Freiburg/Br. ), W. MAYER-GROSS (Birmingham, England), M. MUL LER (Bern, Switzerland), had not planned an encyclopedic presentation; they did not intend to present a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Talking with Doctors

    by David Newman ...
    Without any warning, in September 1999, David Newman was told he had a rare and life-threatening tumor in the base of his skull. In the compressed space of five weeks, he consulted with leading physicians and surgeons at four major medical centers. The doctors offered drastically differing opinions; several pronounced the tumor inoperable and voiced skepticism about the effectiveness of any ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Global Bioethics

    Issues of Conscience for the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Ronald M. Green, Aine Donovan, Steven A. Jauss ...
    Series series Issues in Biomedical Ethics
    Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global. Ethical questions that once arose only in the narrow context of the physician-patient relationship in relatively prosperous societies are now being raised across societies, cultures, and continents. For example, what should be the "standard of care" for clinical trials of medical innovations in poorer countries? Are researchers ... Read more

    $128.99 USD

  • Public Health Ethics

    Theory, Policy, and Practice

    Edited by Ronald Bayer, Lawrence O. Gostin, Bruce Jennings, Bonnie Steinbock ...
    Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism. This volume brings together twenty-five articles by leading thinkers in the field, writing on topics that concern both classic and novel problems. They open ... Read more

    $71.99 USD