Medical ethics and professional conduct Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Wounded Planet
Book SynopsisExploring the interconnectedness of human health, biodiversity, and bioethics. We all depend on environmental biodiversity for clean air, safe water, adequate nutrition, effective drugs, and protection from infectious diseases. Today's healthcare experts and policymakers are keenly aware that biodiversity is one of the crucial determinants of healthnot only for individuals but also for the human population of the planet. Unfortunately, rapid globalization and ongoing environmental degradation mean that biodiversity is rapidly deteriorating, threatening planetary health on a mass scale. In Wounded Planet, Henk A.M.J. ten Have argues that the ethical debate about healthcare has become too narrow and individualized. We must, he writes, adopt a new bioethical discourseone that deals with issues of justice, equality, vulnerability, human rights, and solidarityin order to adequately reflect the serious threat that current loss of biodiversity poses to planetary health. Exploring modern eTable of ContentsPreface 1. Global Bioethics and the Environment2. Biodiversity 3. Health 4. Disease 5. Drugs 6. Food 7. Water 8. Global Bioethics in PracticeNotesIndex
£47.18
Johns Hopkins University Press Patient Safety Ethics
Book SynopsisDeveloping best practices and ethical systems to protect and enhance patient safety. Human errors occur all too frequently in medical practice settings. One sobering recent report claimed that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Hoping to reverse this disturbing trend but wondering why it is that things usually go well despite errors, John D. Banja's Patient Safety Ethics lays out a model that advocates vigilance, mindfulness, compliance, and humility as core ethical principles of patient safety. Arguing that the safe provision of healthcare is one of the most fundamental moral obligations of clinicians, Banja surveys the research literature on harm-causing medical errors to explore the ethical foundations of patient safety and to reduce the severity and frequency of medical error. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on quality improvement, risk management, and medical decision making, Banja also relies on a novel source of information to illustrTable of ContentsPrefacePart I. Patient Safety and Ethical Theory: The Significance of Vigilance, Mindfulness, Compliance, and HumilityChapter 1. Ethical Foundations of Patient SafetyChapter 2. VigilanceInterview with Richard CookChapter 3. MindfulnessInterview with Pat CroskerryChapter 4. ComplianceChapter 5. HumilityInterview with June Price TangneyPart II. Some Theoretical Musings on Harm and Risk, Medical Error, and Medical Malpractice Litigation as an Ethical ExerciseChapter 6. Some Theoretical Aspects of Vigilance and Risk AcceptabilityChapter 7. Fifty Shades of ErrorInterview with Fran CharneyChapter 8. The Standard of Care and Medical Malpractice Law as Ethical AchievementInterview with Tommy MaloneChapter 9. The Present and the FutureInterview with Bob WachterReferencesIndex
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press The Morehouse Model
Book SynopsisHow can the example of Morehouse School of Medicine help other health-oriented universities create ideal collaborations between faculty and community-based organizations?Among the 154 medical schools in the United States, Morehouse School of Medicine stands out for its formidable success in improving its surrounding communities. Over its history, Morehouse has become known as an institution committed to community engagement with an interest in closing the health equity gap between people of color and the white majority population. In The Morehouse Model, Ronald L. Braithwaite and his coauthors reveal the lessons learned over the decades since the school's foundinglessons that other medical schools and health systems will be eager to learn in the hope of replicating Morehouse's success. Describing the philosophical, cultural, and contextual grounding of the Morehouse Model, they give concrete examples of it in action before explaining how to foster the collaboration between community-baTable of ContentsDedicationForeword, by Valerie Montgomery Rice, MDPreface AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction to the Morehouse School of Medicine ModelChapter 2. Social Accountability, Medical Education, and Public Health Chapter 3. Community-Based Participatory Research Chapter 4. Evolution of the Morehouse Model for Community Engagement Chapter 5. Engaging Micropolitan and Rural Communities in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Chapter 6. Educational and Leadership Development—for Communities, by Communities: The Strategic Engagement of Community Health WorkersChapter 7. The Medical School of Tomorrow AfterwordAppendixesIndex
£31.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Feeding the World Well
Book SynopsisLeading experts reveal ways that the future of food production for the world's burgeoning population can (and must) be both sustainable and ethical. In the United States, food is abundant and cheap but loaded with hidden costs to the environment, human health, animal welfare, and the people who work in our food systems. The country's current food production systems lack diversity in crops and animals and are intensified but not sustainable, inhumane in the treatment of animals, and inconsiderate of labor. In order to feed the world's rapidly growing population with high-quality, ethically produced food, new food production systems are urgently needed. These new systems must be genetically diverse and environmentally sustainable, and they need to follow internationally recognized animal welfare and labor practices. Feeding the World Well examines these costs of cheap food while presenting a unique framework for ethical food systems: the Core Ethical Commitments, which are designed tTable of ContentsList of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Alan M. GoldbergPart I. The Big Picture1. Feeding the World (Well): The Moral ImperativeJessica Fanzo2. Malnutrition, Food Systems, and Climate ActionMartin W. BloemPart II. Food Systems in Context3. The Agriculture We DeserveEllen K. Silbergeld4. The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production in America: Lessons LearnedRobert Martin5. Agriculture in TransitionFrederick L. Kirschenmann6. Agricultural Exceptionalism and the US Regulatory Landscape Susan A. Schneider and Meredith Kaufman7. US Oversight of GM CropsJennifer Kuzma8. Conflicts of Interest in Food and Nutrition ResearchMarion Nestle9. Global Food Demand Projections: A ReviewMichiel van Dijk, Yashar Saghai, Marie Luise Rau, and Tom MorleyPart III. Contemporary Challenges and Complexities in Food Ethics Part III.A. Environment10. Food, Environment, and EthicsTara Garnett11. Water Utilization and FoodKees van Leeuwen12. The Impact and Opportunity of Wasted FoodJonathan Bloom13. Climate Change and Food Production: Big Worries, Uncertain ImpactsEvan FraserPart III.B. Producers and Laborers14. Primary Agricultural Production: Crops and FarmersPaul B. Thompson15. Ethics over Exploitation: Urgent Moral Issues Associated with Labor and Communities in the Food SystemNicole M. Civita16. Equitable Food InitiativePeter O'DriscollPart III.C. Public Health17. How Food Systems Support and Undermine Public Health, Nutrition, and Community Well-Being: Some Ethical Concerns and ControversiesAnne Barnhill18. Food SafetyHerman B. W. M. Koëter19. Antibiotic ResistanceLance B. Price20. Farm Animal Welfare and Human HealthAlan M. GoldbergPart III.D. Animal Welfare21. Animal WelfareBernard Rollin22. Biotechnology and Animal Well-BeingKevin Esvelt23. Certified HumaneAdele DouglassPart IV. Case Studies 24. Niman RanchPaul Willis25. Menus of ChangeAnne E. McBride26. Bon Appétit Management CompanyMaisie Ganzler27. WegmansGillian Kelleher28. US FoodsSylvia Wulf29. Water Recirculating Aquaculture Systems and the Future for Land-Based, Closed-Containment Salmon ProductionChristopher GoodPart V. The Core Ethical Commitments: A Framework for Ethical Food Systems30. The Ethical Basis for Choose FoodAnne Barnhill, Nicole M. Civita, and Ruth Faden31. The Core Ethical CommitmentsAnne Barnhill, Nicole M. Civita, Claire Davis, Shauna Downs, Ruth Faden, Sara Glass, Alan M. Goldberg, Herman B. W. M. Koëter, Bernard Rollin, Paul B. Thompson, Kees van Leeuwen, and Suzanne McMillanndex
£47.18
Johns Hopkins University Press Bodies in Doubt
Book SynopsisThis renowned history of intersex in America has been comprehensively updated to reflect recent shifts in attitudes, bioethics, and medical and legal practices. In Bodies in Doubt, Elizabeth Reis traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present. Arguing that medical practice must be understood within its broader cultural context, Reis demonstrates how deeply physicians have been influenced by social anxieties about marriage, heterosexuality, and same-sex desire throughout American history In this second edition, Reis adds two new chapters, a new preface, and a revised introduction to assess recent dramatic shifts in attitudes, bioethics, and medical and legal practices. Human rights organizations have declared early genital surgeries a form of torture and abuse, but doctors continue to offer surgical repair, and parents continue to seek it for their children. While many are hTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Note About Terminology and IllustrationsChapter 1. Hermaphrodites, Monstrous Births, and Same-Sex Intimacy in Early AmericaChapter 2. From Monsters to Deceivers in the Early Nineteenth CenturyChapter 3. The Conflation of Hermaphrodites and Sexual Perverts at the Turn of the CenturyChapter 4. Cutting the Gordian Knot: Gonads, Marriage, and Surgery in the 1920s and 1930sChapter 5. Psychology, John Money, and the Gender of Rearing in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960sChapter 6. Bioethics, Informed Consent, and Children's RightsChapter 7. Who Stands Under the Umbrella? The Politics of Naming and Categorizing IntersexNotesIndex
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People
Book SynopsisFor caregivers of deeply forgetful people: a book that combines new ethics guidelines with an innovative program on how to communicate and connect with people with Alzheimer's. How do we approach a deeply forgetful loved one so as to notice and affirm their continuing self-identity? For three decades, Stephen G. Post has worked around the world encouraging caregivers to become more aware ofand find renewed hope insurprising expressions of selfhood despite the challenges of cognitive decline. In this book, Post offers new perspectives on the worth and dignity of people with Alzheimer's and related disorders despite the negative influence of hypercognitive values that place an ethically unacceptable emphasis on human dignity as based on linear rationality and strength of memory. This bias, Post argues, is responsible for the abusive exclusion of this population from our shared humanity. With vignettes and narratives, he argues for a deeper dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional pTrade ReviewEssential reading for all caregivers, family, and healthcare providers for deeply forgetful people.—Library JournalTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter One. In Praise of Caregivers and DignityChapter Two. Hope in Caring for Deeply Forgetful People: Why It Matters and Where to Find ItChapter Three. Answers to Sixteen Questions Caregivers Ask from Diagnosis to DyingChapter Four. The Seventeenth Question: Preemptive Physician-Assisted Suicide (PPAS) for Alzheimer's Disease: A CautionChapter Five. A Caregiver's Ethical Purpose: Preserving Dignity, Ten Manifestations of Care, and Respect for the Whole Story of a Life Chapter Six. Respecting the Preferences of Deeply Forgetful People in Health Care and ResearchChapter Seven. "Is Grandma Still There?" The Mystery of Continuing Self-IdentityAn Epilogue. North WindA Caregiver Resilience Program: Meeting Alzheimer's: Learning to Communicate and Connectby Rev. Dr. Jade C. AngelicaReferencesAcknowledgmentsIndex
£45.90
Johns Hopkins University Press Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People
Book SynopsisFor caregivers of deeply forgetful people: a book that combines new ethics guidelines with an innovative program on how to communicate and connect with people with Alzheimer's. How do we approach a deeply forgetful loved one so as to notice and affirm their continuing self-identity? For three decades, Stephen G. Post has worked around the world encouraging caregivers to become more aware ofand find renewed hope insurprising expressions of selfhood despite the challenges of cognitive decline. In this book, Post offers new perspectives on the worth and dignity of people with Alzheimer's and related disorders despite the negative influence of hypercognitive values that place an ethically unacceptable emphasis on human dignity as based on linear rationality and strength of memory. This bias, Post argues, is responsible for the abusive exclusion of this population from our shared humanity. With vignettes and narratives, he argues for a deeper dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional pTrade ReviewEssential reading for all caregivers, family, and healthcare providers for deeply forgetful people.—Library JournalTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter One. In Praise of Caregivers and DignityChapter Two. Hope in Caring for Deeply Forgetful People: Why It Matters and Where to Find ItChapter Three. Answers to Sixteen Questions Caregivers Ask from Diagnosis to DyingChapter Four. The Seventeenth Question: Preemptive Physician-Assisted Suicide (PPAS) for Alzheimer's Disease: A CautionChapter Five. A Caregiver's Ethical Purpose: Preserving Dignity, Ten Manifestations of Care, and Respect for the Whole Story of a Life Chapter Six. Respecting the Preferences of Deeply Forgetful People in Health Care and ResearchChapter Seven. "Is Grandma Still There?" The Mystery of Continuing Self-IdentityAn Epilogue. North WindA Caregiver Resilience Program: Meeting Alzheimer's: Learning to Communicate and Connectby Rev. Dr. Jade C. AngelicaReferencesAcknowledgmentsIndex
£20.25
Johns Hopkins University Press Ethically Challenged
Book SynopsisRevealing the dark truth about the impact of predatory private equity firms on American health care. Won Gold from the Axiom Book Award in the Category of Business Ethics, the Benjamin Franklin Awards by the Independent Book Publishers Association and the North American Book Award in the Catergory of Business Finance, Finalist of the American Book Fest Best Book Social Change and Current Events by the American Book FestPrivate equity (PE) firms pervade all aspects of our modern lives. Unlike other corporations, which generally manufacture products or provide services, they leverage considerable debt and other people's money to buy and sell businesses with the sole aim of earning supersized profits in the shortest time possible. With a voracious appetite and trillions of dollars at its disposal, the private equity industry is now buying everything from your opioid treatment center to that helicopter that helps swoop you up from a car crash site. It may even control how and when you caTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Hiding in Plain SightChapter 1. Who Even Are They? Private Equity from Soup to NutsChapter 2. The Emergence of the Alternative Asset ClassChapter 3. Consolidating Health CareChapter 4. It's between Me and My Doctor?Chapter 5. Drilling for Gold: Corralling DentistsChapter 6. Frail Elderly and Children: Homecare and HospiceChapter 7. Public Crisis, Private Gain: Substance Abuse and Eating DisordersChapter 8. Capitalizing on Children with Autism Spectrum DisordersChapter 9. Hijacking an Industry: Medical Ambulances and Emergency Air TransportConclusion. Infiltrating Our Health Care SystemAppendix. Selected Private Equity Firms Buying Health Care BusinessesAbbreviationsGlossaryNotesBibliography Index
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Bizarre Bioethics
Book SynopsisThe focus of bioethical debates on exceptional cases neglects the underlying valueslike justice and communitythat would lend to a broader, more well-rounded understanding of today's world. Discussions of ethical problems in health care too often concentrate on exceptional cases. Bioethical controversies triggered by experimental drugs, gene-edited babies, or life extension are understandably fascinating: they showcase the power of medical science and technology while addressing anxieties concerning health, disease, suffering, and death. However, the focus on rare individual cases in the media spotlight turns attention away from more pressing ethical issues that impact global populations, such as access to health care, safe food and water, and the prevention of emerging infectious diseases. In Bizarre Bioethics, Henk A.M.J. ten Have argues that this focus on bizarre cases leads to bizarre bioethics with a narrow agenda for ethical debate. In other words, although these extreme cases aTable of ContentsChapter 1. Questioning the Paradigm of BioethicsChapter 2. The Establishment of BioethicsChapter 3. GhostsChapter 4. MonstersChapter 5. PilgrimsChapter 6. ProphetsChapter 7. RelicsChapter 8. Critical BioethicsNotesBibliographyIndex
£70.55
Johns Hopkins University Press Bizarre Bioethics
Book SynopsisThe focus of bioethical debates on exceptional cases neglects the underlying valueslike justice and communitythat would lend to a broader, more well-rounded understanding of today's world. Discussions of ethical problems in health care too often concentrate on exceptional cases. Bioethical controversies triggered by experimental drugs, gene-edited babies, or life extension are understandably fascinating: they showcase the power of medical science and technology while addressing anxieties concerning health, disease, suffering, and death. However, the focus on rare individual cases in the media spotlight turns attention away from more pressing ethical issues that impact global populations, such as access to health care, safe food and water, and the prevention of emerging infectious diseases. In Bizarre Bioethics, Henk A.M.J. ten Have argues that this focus on bizarre cases leads to bizarre bioethics with a narrow agenda for ethical debate. In other words, although these extreme cases aTable of ContentsChapter 1. Questioning the Paradigm of BioethicsChapter 2. The Establishment of BioethicsChapter 3. GhostsChapter 4. MonstersChapter 5. PilgrimsChapter 6. ProphetsChapter 7. RelicsChapter 8. Critical BioethicsNotesBibliographyIndex
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Viruses and Reproductive Injustice
Book SynopsisBrazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines. Brazil's 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for many and the birth of several thousands of children with severe brain damage. Even though mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus affect people across society, these children were born almost exclusively to poor, and usually non-white, women. In Viruses and Reproductive Injustice, Ilana Löwy explores the complicated health disparities and reproductive injustice that led to these cases of congenital Zika syndrome. Löwy examines the history of the outbreak in Brazil and connects it to broader questions concerning reproductive rights, the medical science behind understanding new pathogens, and the role of international health organizations in battlingor ignoringpublic health crises. The explanation behind the strongly skewed distribution of cases among social classes was far from straightforward or oTable of ContentsContentsPreface: A Forgotten Virus and Expunged MemoriesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Framing an EpidemicChapter 1. Viruses and Mosquitoes: From Yellow Fever to ZikaChapter 2. Fetuses: Women, Doctors, and the LawChapter 3. Surprises: "I've never seen anything like this"Chapter 4. Zika in Brazil: Producing Partial KnowledgeChapter 5. Stratified Reproduction: Class, Ethnicity, and RiskChapter 6. Mães de Micro: Zika and Maternal CareChapter 7. After Zika: Open Questions, Complex LegacyConclusion. Embodied InequalityFurther ReadingNotesIndex
£42.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Doing Dignity
Book SynopsisExplores human dignity and care in the face of disease and disability. Complex contemporary experiences with disease, death, and disability in the United States have made the concept of human dignity seem outdated. In Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care, Christa Teston challenges conventional notions of dignity and, based on analyses of clinical observations, interviews, and focus groups, encourages a new understanding of care. This thought-provoking book presents a practice-based approach to human dignity through three compelling case studies: US health care professionals' COVID-19 caretaking experiences, legislative debates about medical aid in dying, and clinical interactions between wheelchair users and health care professionals. Teston demonstrates how dignity is not an abstract idea but rather is a set of practices embedded in the politics and complexities of care. Drawing from feminist care ethics, rhetorical theory, disability studies, and critical Black
£40.95
Johns Hopkins University Press The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
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£37.35
MX - APA Publishing Ethical Dilemmas in Psychotherapy Positive
Book SynopsisNew and experienced psychotherapists alike can find themselves overwhelmed by an ethical quandary where there doesn't seem to be an easy solution. This book presents positive ethics as a means to overcome such ethical challenges. The positive approach focuses on not just avoiding negative consequences, but reaching the best possible outcomes for both the psychotherapist and the client.Trade Review“This volume is a worthwhile addition to the bookshelves of psychologists wanting to expand their understanding of ethical dilemmas in psychotherapy.” —PsycCRITIQUES®Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Problem, Pitfalls, and PotentialsI. Three Models for Addressing Complex Ethical Situations What Makes Ethical Choices so Hard? The Ethical Decision-Making Model The Quality Enhancement Model The Ethics Acculturation Model II. Applications of the Three Models Professional Competence Boundary Issues Informed Consent General Beneficence With Dangerous Patients Social Justice AfterwordReferencesIndexAbout the Authors
£45.00
University of Toronto Press Public Health in the Age of Anxiety
Book SynopsisPublic Health in the Age of Anxiety enhances both the public and scholarly understanding of the motivations behind vaccine hesitancy in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction and Theory Introduction: Seeking a Better Conversation Paul Bramadat 1. Crises of Trust and Truth: Religion, Culture, and Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada Paul Bramadat 2. Vaccine Hesitancy: Ethical Considerations from Multiple Perspectives Kieran C. O'Doherty, Christine Smith, and C. Meghan McMurtry 3. The Role of Risk Perception in Vaccine Hesitancy and the Challenge of Communication Conrad G. Brunk HISTORY 4. Learning from Smallpox Inoculation Refusal: Early Scientific Debates and the Evolution of Vaccine Refusal Real Roy 5. Not Without Risk: The Complex History of Vaccine Resistance in Central Canada, 1885-1960 Heather MacDougall and Laurence Monnais Biomedicine, the State and Vaccine Hesitant/Rejecting Communities 6. A Portrait of Vaccine-hesitant Canadians Maryse Guay, Eve Dube, and Caroline Laberge 7. Vaccine Hesitancy and the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Eve Dube, Chantal Sauvageau, and Dominique Gagnon 8. Epidemiologic Trends in Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization in Canada Julie A. Bettinger and Shannon E. MacDonald 9. Canada's Vaccine Safety System Monika Naus, Barbara Law, and Aline Rifret vaccine politics IN Clinical, MEDIA, and community SETTINGS 10. "It's Your Body, Your Decision": An Anthropological Exploration of HPV Vaccine Hesitancy: Jennafer Roberts and Lisa M. Mitchell 11. Approaching Vaccine-hesitant Parents - The Clinician's Perspective Francois D. Boucher 12. The Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy Andre Picard 13. Public Health and Personal Heuristics Noni E. MacDonald CONCLUSION 14. Continuing the Conversation Paul Bramadat, Julie A. Bettinger, and Maryse Guay APPENDIX INDEX Contributors
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University of Toronto Press Organs for Sale
Book SynopsisOrgans for Sale is a study of the bioethical question of how to increase human organ supply. But it is also an inquiry into public moral deliberation and the relationship between economic worth and the value systems of a society. Looking closely at human organ procurement debates, the author offers a critique of neoliberalism in bioethics and asks what kind of society we truly want. While society has shown concern over debates surrounding organ procurement, a better understanding of the rhetoric of advocates and philosophical underpinnings of the debate might indeed improve our public moral deliberation in general and organ policy more specifically. Examining public arguments, this book uses a range of source material, from medical journals to congressional hearings to newspaper op-eds, to provide the most up-to-date and thorough analysis of the topic. Organs for Sale posits that deciding together on the limits of markets, and on what is and ought to be for saTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Section One: Morals, Markets, and Medicine 1. Organs for Sale? Normative Entanglements in the Public Sphere 2. Public Morality: Altruism, Rhetoric, and Bioethics Section Two: The Rhetorical Positions, Arguments, and Justifications in Human Organ Procurement 3. The Case for an Altruistic Supply System 4. The Case for a Market-Based Supply System Section Three: Morality, Neoliberalism, and the Prospects of Reasoning Together in a Democracy 5. The Neoliberal Graft: Medicine, Morality, and Markets in Liberal-Democratic Regimes 6. Good Reasons: Metanormativity and Categoricity 7. Weighing Reasons: Telic Orientation, Rhetorical Force, and Normative Force Section Four: Weighing Reasons in the Organ Debate 8. The Scope of the Market: Exploitation, Coercion, Paternalism, and Legal Consistency 9. What Money Cannot Buy and What Money Ought Not Buy: Dignity, Motives, and Markets Conclusion: What Kind of Policy for What Kind of Society? Notes Bibliography Index
£24.29
Cornell University Press Kidney to Share
Book SynopsisIn Kidney to Share, Martha Gershun tells the story of her decision to donate a kidney to a stranger. She takes readers through the complex process by which such donors are vetted to ensure that they are physically and psychologically fit to take the risk of a major operation. John D. Lantos, a physician and bioethicist, places Gershun''s story in the larger context of the history of kidney transplantation and the ethical controversies that surround living donors. Together, they help readers understand the discoveries that made transplantation relatively safe and effective as well as the legal, ethical, and economic policies that make it feasible. Gershun and Lantos explore the steps involved in recovering and allocating organs. They analyze the differences that arise depending on whether the organ comes from a living donor or one who has died. They observe the expertiseand the shortcomingsof doctors, nurses, and other professionals and describe theTrade ReviewKidney to Share provides an account of organ donation that is both personal and analytical. The combination of perspectives leads to a profound and compelling exploration of a largely opaque practice. [The authors] pull back the curtain to offer readers a more transparent view of the fascinating world of organ donation. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why Not Me? 2. The Arcane Process of Screening Living Donors 3. Meeting "My" Recipient 4. Do I Own My Organs? 5. Evaluation at Mayo 6. Are "Stranger Donors" Irrational? 7. What Are the Risks? 8. Unnecessary Bureaucratic Barriers or Appropriate Patient Protection? 9. The Endgame 10. Paired Exchanges, Chain Donations, and Organ Markets 11. The Odyssey Continues 12. Complexities of Increasing Organ Supply 13. Going Public, Moving Forward 14. The Countdown Begins 15. Ethics, Organ Markets, and Dry Ice 16. Staying Healthy 17. First Attempt 18. Second Attempt 19. Follow-Up 20. Lessons Learned Epilogue
£19.94
Cornell University Press Enveloped Lives
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Enveloped Care Interlude 1: The Circulating Chocolate Box 1. From Bribes to Copayments: Transforming Health Care in Lithuania Interlude 2: The Surprise 2. Being Caught: Envelopes and Illness Interlude 3: Of Envelopes and Greedy Doctors 3. "I Am a Doctor": Caught in Ambivalence 4. Collective Care: Relations of Obligation Epilogue: From Litai to Euros
£97.20
Cornell University Press Enveloped Lives
Book SynopsisHanding envelopes containing money or gifts to doctors in public health care is often seen as a remnant of socialism that continues as an integral part of the Lithuanian health care system. Rima Praspaliauskiene uses the envelope to explore complex doctor-patient interactions that go beyond notions of the gift or the bribe. She reshapes our definition of corruption and encourages seeing these practices as emerging forms of care that impede the neoliberal health care reforms effected in the post-Soviet era. Enveloped Lives extends the analytical categories of gift, care, money, and transparency, shifting attention away from material transactions by prioritizing relations and practices that transcend economic rationality. At a time when health care reforms and the costs of care are being widely debated, this book is a contribution to the larger discussion about the ethics and future of health care around the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Enveloped Care Interlude 1: The Circulating Chocolate Box 1. From Bribes to Copayments: Transforming Health Care in Lithuania Interlude 2: The Surprise 2. Being Caught: Envelopes and Illness Interlude 3: Of Envelopes and Greedy Doctors 3. "I Am a Doctor": Caught in Ambivalence 4. Collective Care: Relations of Obligation Epilogue: From Litai to Euros
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Cognella, Inc How Doctors Care: The Science of Compassionate
Book SynopsisCompassion draws physicians into medicine, but then they believe they must jettison that compassion to survive. Paradoxically, science has now shown that losing that compassion not only harms the patient, it also harms the doctor. How Doctors Care: The Science of Compassionate and Balanced Caring in Medicine explains what physicians and other clinicians can do to provide balanced and compassionate caring for patients without becoming emotionally detached or overwhelmed.The text provides a research-informed and non-sentimental description of physician/clinician compassion. Bringing together cutting-edge scientific research for practicing physicians and those in training, How Doctors Care provides the first full articulation of what constitutes optimal compassionate mental performance in the practice of medicine. It argues how maintaining this internal state is the key to physician resilience and fulfillment in a dysfunctional healthcare system. Rather than blaming clinicians for burnout, How Doctors Care argues that healthcare organizations must provide organizational protection and support to clinicians so that they are able to maintain the compassionate internal state they desire so much and that benefits patients the most.
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Temple University Press,U.S. No Longer Patient – Feminist Ethics and Health
Book SynopsisMedical ethics and feminist ethics are both comparatively new disciplines. In this pioneering study, Susan Sherwin explores for the first time the relationship between them and suggests their implications for the structures of medical care delivery and the allocation of health care resources. "No Longer Patient" is certain to influence public policy makers and the public, as it examines such controversial subjects as abortion, new reproductive technologies, surrogate motherhood, and in vitro fertilization. Sherwin observes that "medicine has become one of our most powerful and significant institutions. Thus a feminist ethics of health care must examine health care practices as they relate to the entire power structure and the problems that may be invisible to those without a feminist perspective. Accordingly, Sherwin examines many issues central to bioethics today, maintaining that feminist ethics allows a deeper and broader analysis. Feminist ethics focuses on and analyzes these issues differently from the non-feminist literature and ultimately draws different conclusions from those indicated by traditional medical ethics. A leader in the fields of feminist theory and ethics, Sherwin demonstrates that an anti-woman bias is deeply rooted in the history of philosophy. Her careful building of positions, her unique approaches to analyzing problems, and her excellent insights make this an important work for feminists, those working in bioethics, and health care professionals. Author note: Susan Sherwin is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Dalhousie University.Trade Review"[Sherwin] seeks to educate her readers and to recruit them to join her efforts at reform. The result is an excellent introduction to applied feminism for anyone willing to entertain a fresh perspective on health care ethics." --The New England Journal of Medicine "A broad and solid account of the relevance of feminist ethics to health care ethics... Throughout, the emphasis is on the dominance relations that permeate the system of health care and constitute a major obstacle to fair and appropriate provision of care." --Choice "Susan Sherwin addresses the enormous gap between the field that has developed as 'bioethics' and the concern of feminist ethicists addressing these same issues... Sherwin shows where the women are missing, where traditional bioethics as a developing field has gone afield. In doing this, she makes an important statement." --Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology, Baruch College, CUNY "Sherwin evaluates feminist and non-feminist views about abortion, the new procreative technologies, the doctor/patient relationship, and other important subjects, always stressing the different meanings these experiences can have for different women... A must for anyone who wants to understand and think clearly about the ethical dimensions of contemporary biomedicine." --Ruth Hubbard, Professor of Biology Emerita, Harvard University "No other book gives a feminist analysis of the field of medical ethics. This book is ground-breaking and could become the classic source in an important new subfield." --Helen B. Holmes, Editor, Feminist Ethics & Medicine (special issue of Hypatia) "A strong contribution to the literature on feminist ethics and on bioethics." --Kathleen Okruhlik, University of Western OntarioTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Theoretical Beginnings 1. Understanding Feminism 2. Ethics, "Feminine" Ethics, and Feminist Ethics 3. Feminism and Moral Relativism 4. Toward a Feminist Ethics of Health Care Part II: Traditional Problems in Health Care Ethics 5. Abortion 6. New Reproductive Technologies 7. Paternalism 8. Research Part III: Feminist Expansions of the Bioethics Landscape 9. Ascriptions of Illness 10. Medical Constructions of Sexuality 11. Gender, Race, and Class in the Delivery of Health Care Notes References Index
£27.20
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Ludwik Hirszfeld: The Story of One Life
Book SynopsisAn annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with a focus on his contributions to international public health. Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), one of the most prominent serologists of the twentieth century, discovered the inheritance and established the nomenclature of blood groups and opened the field of human population genetics. He also carried out groundbreaking research in the genetics of disease and immunology. Following World War II, he founded Poland's first Institute of Immunology in Wroclaw, which now bears his name. His autobiographical memoir, The Story of One Life, first published in Poland in 1946, immediately became a bestseller and has been reedited several times since. It is an outstanding account of a Holocaust survivor and a writer capable of depicting the uniqueness and the tragedy of countless individuals caught up in the nightmare of 1939-45. He recollects his time as a physician in the Serbian army in 1915 and his satisfaction as a scientist who helped rebuild Poland after the Treaty ofVersailles; the contrast between the world before and the world after World War II could not be starker. Hirszfeld escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943; he hid the manuscript for this book and retrieved it only after the war. Drawing on unpublished documents, as well as interviews with Hirszfeld's former students and family, this translation is annotated and has an introduction written by two scholars with unique qualifications to understand both the immediate setting in which Hirszfeld lived his life, and the broader implications of his work to the history of medicine. Marta A. Balinska is a writer and an international consultant in public health. William H.Schneider is Professor of History at Indiana University.Trade ReviewBalinska and Schneider should be applauded. . . today's readers will find it an intriguing piece of cutting-edge experimental science, an example of the relation between political context and individual fate, while the contemporary story makes for a fascinating read. . . a major achievement. * COMPTES RENDUS *A thoughtful and highly historical read that belongs in any biography collection. * MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW *Fascinating on many accounts. . . The University of Rochester Press's Studies in Medical History series has just attained new heights. * FORWARD.COM *Table of ContentsForeword by Arthur E. Mourant Introduction by Marta A. Balinska and William H. Schneider Foreword by Ludwik Hirszfeld to the original 1946 edition University Years Assistantship in Heidelberg Sojourn in Zurich The Great War Armée d'Orient Home Again Life in Warsaw Life within the Institute Scientific Activities Scientific Meetings International Congress of Anthropologists in Amsterdam; Opening of Schools of Hygiene in Budapest and Zagreb The 1935 Blood Transfusion Congress in Rome The 1937 International Congress in Paris The 1937 International Cancer Congress in Brussels The 1939 General Pathology Congress in Rome Medical Academy in Paris; French Youth A Home in the Sun The Autumn Draws On Before the Storm The Siege of Warsaw Ousted The City of Death Lectures and Courses Typhus in the District The Health Council In the Shadow of the Church of All Saints Race or Tradition? The Beginning of the End Leap into the Unknown The Life of an Obscure Man My Evening Song My Greatest Defeat The Origins of This Book Extermination Camps The Last Upsurge of a Perishing Nation A Chased Animal The Turning Point for the Jewish Nation The Great Guilt Afterword Appendix: Biographical Annex of Frequently Cited Names
£38.28
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Hidden Narratives
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Communication in Surgical Practice
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a range of linguistic, sociological, and professional views on communication in surgical practice. It aims to provide an insight into the complexity of communication in surgery, covering the variety of communicative activities required in everyday surgical work.The selection of authors from a variety of interactive sociolinguistic disciplines in collaboration with clinicians explores a broad range of topics and the methodologies currently used to understand communication in surgical practice.The intended audience for this book includes surgeons, medical educators, communication researchers, linguists, sociologists, and others with an interest in surgical and medical communication.Trade ReviewThis volume has significant academic merit and fills a gap that currently exists in the academic literature - pulling together a variety of perspectives on communication in surgery. Marcy E. Rosenbaum, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and Chair of tEACH, the teaching committee for European Association for Communication in HealthcareTable of Contents1. Examining Communication in Surgical PracticeSarah J. White and John A. CartmillSection I2. The Referred ConsultationSarah J. White, Maria Stubbe, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Lindsay Macdonald, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Tony Dowell, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Kevin Dew, Victoria University of Wellington, and Rod Gardner, Griffith University3. Doing Patient-centred ConsultationsLynda Yates, Macquarie University, and Maria R. Dahm, Macquarie University4. Psychological Effects in Surgical Decision-making: Evidence, Ethics, and OutcomesY. Gavriel Ansara, National LGBTI Health Alliance, Australia5. Breaking Informed Consent: Some Challenges for International Medical GraduatesMaria R. Dahm and Israel Berger, Macquarie University6. Do Surgeons Want to Operate? Negotiating the Treatment Plan in Surgical ConsultationsMaria Stubbe, Sarah J. White, Lindsay Macdonald, Tony Dowell, Rod Gardner, and Kevin Dew7. Negotiating Treatment Recommendations in Orthopaedic Surgery RecommendationsShannon Clark, University of Canberra, and Pamela Hudak, Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario, Toronto, CanadaSection II8. Transactions between Matter and Meaning: Surgical Contexts and Symbolic ActionDavid G. Butt, Macquarie University, Alison R. Moore, University of Wollongong, and John A. Cartmill9. Operating Together: The Collective Achievement of Surgical ActionLorenza Mondada, University of Basel10. "Coming Up!": Why Verbal Acknowledgement Matters in the Operating TheatreTerhi Korkiakangas, Institute of Education, University College London, Sharon-Marie Weldon, Imperial College London, Jeff Bezemer, Institute of Education, University College London, and Roger Kneebone, Imperial College London11. Lovers, Wrestlers, Surgeons: A Contextually Motivated View of Interpersonal Engagement and Body Alignment in Surgical InteractionAlison R. Moore12. Who's Who?: Constructing Roles during Minor Awake SurgeriesIsrael Berger and Sarah J. White13. Toward a Language of Operative SurgeryDavid G. Butt and John A. CartmillSection III14. Interprofessional Clinical Handovers in Surgical PracticePeter Roger, Macquarie University, Maria R. Dahm, Lynda Yates and John A. Cartmill15. Open Disclosure in Surgical PracticeStewart Dunn, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney16. Clinical Communication Education for SurgeonsSuzanne Kurtz, Washington State University
£72.25
CABI Publishing Global Health Research in an Unequal World:
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of fictionalised case studies of everyday ethical dilemmas and challenges, encountered in the process of conducting global health research in places where the effects of global, political and economic inequality are particularly evident. It is a training tool to fill the gap between research ethics guidelines, and their implementation 'on the ground'. The case studies, therefore, focus on 'relational' ethics: ethical actions and ideas that emerge through relations with others, rather than in regulations.Trade ReviewThis workbook is an essential tool for those committed to the hard work of scientific collaboration across steep global inequalities, and an inspirational example of engaged anthropology. --Johanna Crane, University of Washington, author of 'Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science'"
£26.08
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Distributive Justice and the New Medicine
Book SynopsisIs the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development of biomedical technologies - known as the 'New Medicine' - desirable? George P. Smith asks this fundamental question while also confronting the distribution of these scarce medical resources. Law, economics, medical science, philosophy and ethics all coalesce in this discussion of how to structure normative standards of conduct that will improve the quality of human life. The author begins by examining various economic constructs as aids for achieving a fair and equitable delivery of health care services. He then assesses their level of practical application and evaluates the costs and benefits to society of pursuing the development and use of the 'New Medicine'. The book ends with a case study of organ and tissue transplantation that illustrates the implementation of distributive justice. The author concludes that as long as clinical medicine maintains its focus on healing and alleviating suffering among patients, a point of equilibrium will be reached that advances the common good. This timely and compelling exploration will be a must-read for scholars, researchers, policymakers and all those interested in advances in medical technology and the issues surrounding access to health care.Trade Review'Smith has packed an incredible amount of information into this relatively short and clearly written book. His erudition is unquestionable, and his knowledge of current trends in medical technology and the ethical issues surrounding them is obvious on every page.' -- P. Jenkins, Choice'George P. Smith is one of the world's leading experts on the legal and ethical issues raised by modern medicine. His book is a wide-ranging and deeply informed and considered analysis of those issues, with particular emphasis on the inequality with which the benefits of modern medicine are bestowed on the sick. Knowledgeable as well about the technical aspects of the biomedical revolution, Smith writes with insight and authority, and offers a perspective that will influence the policy debates.' -- Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and University of Chicago Law School, US'While much has been written about the various issues addressed in this book - genetics, cloning, informed consent, organ donation - Smith's book moves beyond traditional legal analysis, tying these issues together by examining them through the lens of distributive justice. He thus provides the reader with a unique and valuable perspective on this important area. Distributive Justice and the New Medicine will be of interest to all those interested in health law and bioethics and in particular for those interested in distributive justice.' -- Belinda Bennett, Journal of Law, Social Justice and Global Development'Professor George P. Smith's Distributive Justice and the New Medicine is a major new work by one of the world's leading medical lawyers. This book brings important new insights into the complex area of rationing health care resources and should be read by anyone interested in seeking to create a just society.' -- Jonathan Herring, Exeter College, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Normative Standards and Health Care Resource Management 3. The New Medicine and Scientific Research 4. Human Experimentation: Conflicts and Confluences 5. Organ and Tissue Transplantation: A Case Study in Distributive Justice Index
£96.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Distributive Justice and the New Medicine
Book SynopsisIs the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development of biomedical technologies - known as the 'New Medicine' - desirable? George P. Smith asks this fundamental question while also confronting the distribution of these scarce medical resources. Law, economics, medical science, philosophy and ethics all coalesce in this discussion of how to structure normative standards of conduct that will improve the quality of human life. The author begins by examining various economic constructs as aids for achieving a fair and equitable delivery of health care services. He then assesses their level of practical application and evaluates the costs and benefits to society of pursuing the development and use of the 'New Medicine'. The book ends with a case study of organ and tissue transplantation that illustrates the implementation of distributive justice. The author concludes that as long as clinical medicine maintains its focus on healing and alleviating suffering among patients, a point of equilibrium will be reached that advances the common good. This timely and compelling exploration will be a must-read for scholars, researchers, policymakers and all those interested in advances in medical technology and the issues surrounding access to health care.Trade Review'Smith has packed an incredible amount of information into this relatively short and clearly written book. His erudition is unquestionable, and his knowledge of current trends in medical technology and the ethical issues surrounding them is obvious on every page.' -- P. Jenkins, Choice'George P. Smith is one of the world's leading experts on the legal and ethical issues raised by modern medicine. His book is a wide-ranging and deeply informed and considered analysis of those issues, with particular emphasis on the inequality with which the benefits of modern medicine are bestowed on the sick. Knowledgeable as well about the technical aspects of the biomedical revolution, Smith writes with insight and authority, and offers a perspective that will influence the policy debates.' -- Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and University of Chicago Law School, US'While much has been written about the various issues addressed in this book - genetics, cloning, informed consent, organ donation - Smith's book moves beyond traditional legal analysis, tying these issues together by examining them through the lens of distributive justice. He thus provides the reader with a unique and valuable perspective on this important area. Distributive Justice and the New Medicine will be of interest to all those interested in health law and bioethics and in particular for those interested in distributive justice.' -- Belinda Bennett, Journal of Law, Social Justice and Global Development'Professor George P. Smith's Distributive Justice and the New Medicine is a major new work by one of the world's leading medical lawyers. This book brings important new insights into the complex area of rationing health care resources and should be read by anyone interested in seeking to create a just society.' -- Jonathan Herring, Exeter College, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Normative Standards and Health Care Resource Management 3. The New Medicine and Scientific Research 4. Human Experimentation: Conflicts and Confluences 5. Organ and Tissue Transplantation: A Case Study in Distributive Justice Index
£29.95
Policy Press Ethics: Contemporary challenges in health and
Book SynopsisWhile ethics has been addressed in the health care literature, relatively little attention has been paid to the subject in the field of social care. This book redresses the balance by examining theory, research, policy and practice in both fields. The analysis is set within the context of contemporary challenges facing health and social care, not only in Britain but internationally. Contributors from the UK, US and Australia consider ethical issues in health and social care research and governance; interprofessional and user perspectives; ethics in relation to human rights, the law, finance, management and provision; key issues of relevance to vulnerable groups such as children and young people, those with complex disabilities, older people and those with mental health problems and lifecourse issues - ethical perspectives on a range of challenging areas from new technologies of reproduction to euthanasia. This book is intended for academics, students and researchers in health and social care who need an up-to-date analysis of contemporary issues and debates. It will also be useful to practitioners in the public, private and voluntary sectors, including social workers, community workers, those working in the fields of disability and mental health and with older people.Trade Review"A compilation of essays written by a mix of academics and practitioners, the volume addresses the issue of ethics in both health and social care sectors. The editors argue that while debates on ethics have been addressed in healthcare publications, the field of social care has received scant attention. The aim of the book is to redress the balance. In this, it largely succeeds." Guardian Public"This book is an important contribution to the field of applied ethics ... The particular stength is its use of specialists to discuss particular areas of debate, offering useful guidlines to complex issues. It will undoubtedly be useful for students and workers across a range of professions related to health and social care." Health and Social Care in the Community Journal"This text is to be commended, with strong chapters relating to ethical dilemmas commonly addressed in the media and regularly confronted in health and social care. A stimulating read and one which will be of considerable use to students and practitioners." Susan Balloch, Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Brighton, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction ~ Susan McLaren and Audrey Leathard (editors); Section one: Ethics: Research and provision in health and social care: Ethics and contemporary challenges in health and social care ~ Louise Terry; Ethical issues in health and social care research ~ Robert Stanley and Susan McLaren; Ethics: research governance for health and social care ~ Elaine Pierce; Ethics and primary health care ~ Charles Campion-Smith; Ethics and social care: political, organisational and inter-agency dimensions ~ Colin Whittington and Margaret Whittington; Ethics and interprofessional care ~ Audrey Leathard; Service users and ethics ~ Martin Stevens and Jill Manthorpe; Section two: Law, management and ethics in health and social care: Ethical and legal perspectives on human rights ~ Louise Terry; Multidisciplinary team practice in law and ethics: an Australian perspective ~ Robert Irvine and John McPhee; Ethics and the management of health and social care ~ Jeff Girling; Ethics and the social responsibility of institutions regarding resource allocation in health and social care: a US perspective ~ Mary Dombeck and Tobie Hittle Olsan; Ethics and charging for care ~ Bridget Penhale; Section three: Ethics: From the start of life to the end: Ethical challenges and the new technologies of reproduction ~ Brenda Almond: Ethics: caring for children and young people ~ David Hodgson; Ethical dilemmas in caring for people with complex disabilities ~ Keith Andrews; Mental health: safe, sound and supportive? ~ Jon Glasby, Helen Lester and Emily McKie; Ethics and older people ~ Anthea Tinker; Ethics and euthanasia ~ Clive Seale; Conclusion ~ Susan McLaren and Audrey Leathard.
£25.64
John Wiley & Sons Inc Diabetes for Nurses
Book SynopsisThis is the second edition of the comprehensive guide to diabetes for nurses and is updated to take account of changes in dietary advice, legislation and terminology. The text addresses diabetes as both a biochemical disease and a psychosocial problem. It provides research-based information with suggestions for problem solving and planning. The book is divided into three sections. The first introduces diabetes and examines the altered physiology, the diagnosis, the treatments available and the complications of diabetes. The second section addresses the practice of patient education and the clinical management of diabetes. The third section puts diabetes in care into context. It examines the broader issues involved in diabetes care, including the psychological and ethical aspects of diabetes.Trade Review'...this is a very good book that provides a range of problem-solving strategies.' Professional NurseTable of ContentsDiagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus. The Treatment of diabetes. Complications of Diabetes. Education of The Person With Diabetes. Commonly Occurring Situations Which Make Diabetes More Difficult to Control. Care of Diabetes in Special Groups of People. Psychological Care. Diabetes care in The Community
£60.75
John Wiley & Sons Inc Assisted Human Reproduction: Psychological and
Book SynopsisWith contributions from: Eric Blyth, Ken Daniels, Julia Feast, Robert Lee, Nina Martin, Alexina McWhinnie, Derek Morgan, Clare Murray, Sharon Pettle, Claire Potter, Jim Richards and Francoise Shenfield The separation of procreation from conception has broadened notions of parenthood and created novel dilemmas. A woman may carry a foetus derived from gametes neither or only one of which came from her or her partner; or she may carry a foetus created using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) with the purpose of handing it to two other parents one, neither or both of whom may be genetically related to the prospective child. Parents may consist of single-sex couples, only one of them genetically related to the child; the prospective mother may be past her menopause; and genetic parenthood after death is now achievable. In a world increasingly reliant on medical science, how can the argument that equates traditional with natural and novel with unnatural/unethical be justified? Should there be legislation, which is notoriously slow to change, in a field driven by dazzling new possibilities at ever faster rate; particularly when restrictions differ from country to country, so that those who can afford it travel elsewhere for their treatment of choice? Whose rights are paramount - the adults hoping to build a family or the prospective child(ren)s future well being? On what basis can apparently competing rights be regulated or adjudicated and how and to what extent can these be enforced in practice?Table of ContentsContributors. Foreword (Professor Susan Golombok). Introduction. Chapter 1: Assisted human reproduction: contemporary policy and practice in the UK (Eric Blyth, Nina Martin and Claire Potter). Chapter 2: Issues of gamete donation and sex selection: a clinician's view (Francoise Shenfield). Chapter 3: Ethical issues - the major faiths: a personal view (Jim Richards). Chapter 4: Human reproduction and human rights (Derek Morgan and Robert G. Lee). Chapter 5: Donor-assisted conception: what can we learn from adoption? (Julia Feast). Chapter 6: Children raised in assisted human reproduction families: the evidence (Clare Murray). Chapter 7: Disclosure and development: 'taking the bady home was just the beginning' (Alexina M. McWhinnie). Chapter 8: Psychological therapy and counselling with individuals and families afrter donor conception (Sharon A. Pettle). Chapter 9: Policy development in third party reproduction: an international perspective (Ken Daniels). Appendix: Resources. Index.
£56.95
Mac Keith Press Ethics in Child Health: Principles and Cases in
Book SynopsisHave you ever Wondered how to deal with a family that repeatedly fails to keep clinic appointments? Disagreed with colleagues over a proposed course of treatment for a child? Considered ways to 'bump' a child on a waiting to speed up their assessment? These are a few of the scenarios faced by clinicians in neurodisability on a daily basis. Ethics in Child Health explores the ethical dimensions of these issues that have either been ignored or not recognised. Each chapter is built around a scenario familiar to clinicians and is discussed with respect to how ethical principles can be utilised to inform decision-making. Useful "Themes for Discussion" are provided at the end of each chapter to help professionals and students develop practical ethical thinking. Ethics in Child Health offers a set of principles that clinicians, social workers and policy-makers can utilise in their respective spheres of influence.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 SECTION A: SETTING THE STAGE: ATTUNING MORAL AND ETHICAL THINKING 1 A parent’s perspective on everyday ethics 7 Jennifer Johannesen 2 Present-day health and neurodevelopmental disability 17Peter L. Rosenbaum and Gabriel M. Ronen with contributions by Barbara J. Cunningham 6 The importance of beliefs and relationships in the decision-making process 75 Howard Needelman and David Sweeney 7 Humanism in the practice of neurodevelopmental disability: examples of challenges and opportunities 85Garey Noritz 8 Truth with hope: ethical challenges in disclosing ‘bad’ diagnostic, prognostic and intervention information 97Iona Novak, Marelle Thornton, Cathy Morgan, Petra Karlsson, Hayley Smithers-Sheedy and Nadia Badawi SECTION C: ETHICAL ISSUES IN ADDRESSING FAMILIES’ PRIORITIES 9 Different perspectives, different priorities: using a strengths-based approach to gain trust and find common ground 111Dinah S. Reddihough and Jane Tracy 3 Can moral problems of everyday clinical practice ever be resolved? A proposal for integrative pragmatist approaches 33Eric Racine SECTION B: EARLY DAYS, THE START OF THE DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENTAL JOURNEY 4 Prenatal consultation: ethical challenges and proposed solutions 49Jennifer Cobelli Kett, Hannah M. Tully and Dan Doherty 5 Evidence-based neonatal neurology: decision-making in conditions of medical uncertainty 61Isabelle Chouinard, Eric Racine and Pia Wintermark 10 The importance of patients’ and families’ narratives: developing a philosophy of care to support patient/family goals 123Jean C. Kunz Stansbury and Scott Schwantes SECTION D: RESPECTING SOCIAL AND CULTURAL VALUES 14 Terminology in neurodevelopmental disability: is using stigmatizing language harmful? 161Lisa Samson-Fang 15 Everyday ethics in Rwanda: perspectives on hope, fatigue, death and regrowth 169Emily Esmaili and Christian Ntizimira 16 When expectations diverge: addressing our cultural differences differently 177Laura S. Funkhouser with contributions by Suzanne Linett 17 Service provision for hard-to-reach families: what are our responsibilities? 193Michelle Phoenix 18 The obligation to report child abuse/neglect is more complex than it seems 203Lucyna M. Lach and Rachel Birnbaum 11 The ethics of patient advocacy: bending the rules on behalf of patients 133Raymond Tervo and Paul J. Wojda 12 Responding to requests for novel/unproven alternative and complementary treatments 143Edward A. Hurvitz and Garey Noritz 13 A miracle cure for neurological disability: balancing hype and hope for parents and patients in the absence of evidence-based recommendations 153Paul C. Mann, Russell P. Saneto and Sidney M. Gospe Jr. 19 The dilemmas for siblings of children with disabilities: personal reflections on ethical challenges 215Peter Blasco 20 Paying attention to parental mental health: is this our responsibility? 223Dinah S. Reddihough and Elise Davis SECTION E: THERAPIES, REHABILITATION AND INTERVENTIONS 21 Tensions regarding the processes associated with decision-making about intervention 233Lora Woo, Eunice Shen and Elizabeth Russel 22 Can’t you just do therapy? When there is disagreement about discharge from therapy 249Janey McGeary Farber and Harriet Fain-Tvedt 23 Concurrent therapy in pediatric neurorehabilitation 259Marilyn Wright, Sandra Gaik and Kathleen Dekker 24 Ethical considerations regarding surgical treatment of severe scoliosis in children with cerebral palsy 271M. Wade Shrader SECTION F: ETHICAL ISSUES IN SPECIFIC CONDITIONS AND CONTEXTS 25 Considering best interest, quality of life, autonomy and personhood in the intensive care unit 279Michael A. Clarke 26 How much is too much care? Interventions and life support in children with profound impairments and life-threatening conditions 291Christopher J. Newman and Eric B. Zurbrugg 27 Discussing sudden unexpected death in newly diagnosed epilepsy 303James J. Reese Jr. and Phillip L. Pearl 28 Ethical challenges of diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: when diagnosis has sociopolitical consequences 311Ilona Autti-Rämö SECTION G: EMERGING INDEPENDENCE AND PREPARING FOR ADULTHOOD 29 Growth and pubertal manipulation in children with neurodisabilities: what are the ethical implications? 323M. Constantine Samaan 30 Independence in adulthood: ethical challenges in providing transitional care for young people with neurodevelopmental impairments 335Jan Willem Gorter and Barbara E. Gibson 31 Conservatorship in emerging adults: ethical and legal considerations 349Henry G. Chambers Epilogue: Looking back to the future 353Bernard Dan
£37.95
Health Professions Press,U.S. Ethics in Health Services Management
Book SynopsisThe ethical dimensions of managing healthcare services are often daunting, but the sixth edition of this highly regarded text provides the principles to educate students and guide practitioners as they strive to make the “right” decisions.From historical to contemporary examples, readers learn essential steps to effectively identify and solve ethical problems. More than 75 case studies and vignettes allow opportunities to analyze and apply ethical decision making across a range of care delivery settings and topics, including patient autonomy, end-of-life decisions, consent for treatment, resource allocation, whistle-blowing, confidentiality, and more. An extensive index helps readers locate and explore specific topics.Building upon the core principles of respect for persons, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice, as supplemented by virtue ethics, readers learn:•how to understand and shape an organization’s value system•how to develop an apply personal and professional codes of ethics and address conflicts of interest•the manager’s duties to and relationships with patients, staff, community, and profession•means and methods for resolving administrative and biomedical ethical issues•considerations of emerging ethics issues influenced by managed care, resource allocation, and social responsibility•special challenges in end-of-life decisions, including advance medical directives (AMDs), physician-assisted suicide (PAS), euthanasia, and allow natural death (AND)The most comprehensive book on health services ethics, this text is indispensable for education in health services organization and management, strategic planning, finance, marketing, and nursing administration.NEW to the Sixth Edition:•More than a dozen new cases and vignettes reflecting contemporary ethical issues•Enhanced and updated tables, figures, and problem-solving model•Greater focus on health policy and issues of rationing, regulation, and unintended consequences of policy decisions•Instructive new examples of mission and vision statements and their connection to HRM•Enhanced attention to administrative and clinical conflicts of interest•Updated and expanded bibliography
£65.60
American Nurses Association, Nursing Knowledge Center Code of Ethics for Nurses
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£36.00
Rutgers University Press Healthcare and Human Dignity: Law Matters
Book SynopsisThe individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, equality, and autonomy emerge as the dominant values at stake in encounters with doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drug companies. Although the public is aware of legal battles over autonomy and dignity in the context of death, the everyday patient’s need for dignity has received scant attention. Thus, in Healthcare, law professor Frank McClellan’s collection of cases and individual experiences bring these stories to life and establish beyond doubt that human dignity is of utmost priority in the everyday process of healthcare decision making.Trade Review"This is an excellent book. The stories are terrific, the analysis pitched just right, and the underlying themes of fair treatment, dignity, and inequality of treatment based on race are well-developed." -- Barry R. Furrow * Director, the Health Law Program, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University *"Engaging, conversational, thought-provoking...McClellan's writing blends ethical arguments, a lay person's understandings of dignity, and legal frameworks very well. I felt as I was reading that someone was clearly and carefully walking me through stories about human dignity, medicine, and the law. His is a very humanistic legal gaze." -- Nora L. Jones * Director of Bioethics Education, Center for Bioethics, Urban Health and Policy, Temple University *"McClellan...maintains that violation of the trust between physician and patient may result from conscious or unconscious bias against a specific group of people. Such violations repeat themselves in part due to the short memory of the public. Within this context, McClellan also stresses that the rule of law is central to protecting human dignity when patients are seeking health care. The negative influence on human dignity of racism, limited access, high cost, and power relationships in health care is at the heart of McClellan's argument. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPART ONE: FIGHTING FOR ACCESS TO CARE Introduction: Human Dignity as a Lived Experience 1 Healthcare and Law: Appreciating the Need to Protect Human Dignity: Law Matters: Law Matters: Introduction to the Powers and Limitations of American Law 2 Philosophical and Legal Conceptions of Dignity: Trusting Your Doctor: Defining Dignity: Law Matters. 3 Emergency Care in America: Law, Morality and Ethics “I’m nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too?”: Economic vs. Moral Decision-Making: Seeking Help From Strangers: A Pregnant Woman: Reflections on Law, Morality and Ethics: The Wallet Biopsy: Patient Dumping PART TWO: POWER AND TRUST 4 Professional Bias, Class Bias, and Power: Emotional Distress: Abuse of Power, Intentional Torts and Dignitary Harms: Tort Law and Patient Autonomy 5 The Love Doctor: Sex and Gender Bias; Breach of Trust and Abuse of Power: Medical Ethics and Professional Power: Law matters 6 Innovative Therapy and Medical Experimentation: The Maverick Surgeon: Medical Experimentation on Children?: Law Matters: Legal Cases: Lessons Learned: Legal Regulation of Professional Medical Care: Trying a New Approach with a New Device: The Legal Rules Governing Medical Malpractice Claims: Medical Research, Ethics and Law: Lessons Learned PART THREE: RACISM IN HEALTHCARE: PRACITCE, POLICY AND LAW 7 Introduction: Perspectives on Racism: “Black People Just Don’t Understand”– the Botched Hysterectomy: Race, Healthcare, and Human Dignity 8 Healthcare Disparities as a Lived Experience: One Family’s Story: Unequal Community Access 9 Catastrophic Injuries: Protecting and Restoring Human Dignity: The Lawsuit That Lasted Ten Years: Life After A Catastrophic Injury: Reflections on Healthcare, Law and Catastrophic Injuries 10 Orthopedic Health Disparities: Grappling with Socioeconomic Factors that Affect Health and Healthcare: Being Human: Joint and Bone Health: Informed Consent and Shared Decision-Making: Toward Patient-Centered Care: Revisiting Kathy Jones 11 Paying for Healthcare Costs: Lessons From a 50-Year-Old Government Program Called Medicare: Sustainability Issue: Payment Models and Human Dignity: A Personal Story: Lessons from Managed Care: Setting Limits: Medicare for All?: The Fight Over Obamacare: 12 Health Care and Human Dignity in a Diverse and Changing World the Critical Role of Empathy, Compassion and Humility: Humility: Empathy: Conclusion
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Rutgers University Press Healthcare and Human Dignity: Law Matters
Book SynopsisThe individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, equality, and autonomy emerge as the dominant values at stake in encounters with doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drug companies. Although the public is aware of legal battles over autonomy and dignity in the context of death, the everyday patient’s need for dignity has received scant attention. Thus, in Healthcare, law professor Frank McClellan’s collection of cases and individual experiences bring these stories to life and establish beyond doubt that human dignity is of utmost priority in the everyday process of healthcare decision making.Trade Review"This is an excellent book. The stories are terrific, the analysis pitched just right, and the underlying themes of fair treatment, dignity, and inequality of treatment based on race are well-developed." -- Barry R. Furrow * Director, the Health Law Program, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University *"Engaging, conversational, thought-provoking...McClellan's writing blends ethical arguments, a lay person's understandings of dignity, and legal frameworks very well. I felt as I was reading that someone was clearly and carefully walking me through stories about human dignity, medicine, and the law. His is a very humanistic legal gaze." -- Nora L. Jones * Director of Bioethics Education, Center for Bioethics, Urban Health and Policy, Temple University *"McClellan...maintains that violation of the trust between physician and patient may result from conscious or unconscious bias against a specific group of people. Such violations repeat themselves in part due to the short memory of the public. Within this context, McClellan also stresses that the rule of law is central to protecting human dignity when patients are seeking health care. The negative influence on human dignity of racism, limited access, high cost, and power relationships in health care is at the heart of McClellan's argument. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPART ONE: FIGHTING FOR ACCESS TO CARE Introduction: Human Dignity as a Lived Experience 1 Healthcare and Law: Appreciating the Need to Protect Human Dignity: Law Matters: Law Matters: Introduction to the Powers and Limitations of American Law 2 Philosophical and Legal Conceptions of Dignity: Trusting Your Doctor: Defining Dignity: Law Matters. 3 Emergency Care in America: Law, Morality and Ethics “I’m nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too?”: Economic vs. Moral Decision-Making: Seeking Help From Strangers: A Pregnant Woman: Reflections on Law, Morality and Ethics: The Wallet Biopsy: Patient Dumping PART TWO: POWER AND TRUST 4 Professional Bias, Class Bias, and Power: Emotional Distress: Abuse of Power, Intentional Torts and Dignitary Harms: Tort Law and Patient Autonomy 5 The Love Doctor: Sex and Gender Bias; Breach of Trust and Abuse of Power: Medical Ethics and Professional Power: Law matters 6 Innovative Therapy and Medical Experimentation: The Maverick Surgeon: Medical Experimentation on Children?: Law Matters: Legal Cases: Lessons Learned: Legal Regulation of Professional Medical Care: Trying a New Approach with a New Device: The Legal Rules Governing Medical Malpractice Claims: Medical Research, Ethics and Law: Lessons Learned PART THREE: RACISM IN HEALTHCARE: PRACITCE, POLICY AND LAW 7 Introduction: Perspectives on Racism: “Black People Just Don’t Understand”– the Botched Hysterectomy: Race, Healthcare, and Human Dignity 8 Healthcare Disparities as a Lived Experience: One Family’s Story: Unequal Community Access 9 Catastrophic Injuries: Protecting and Restoring Human Dignity: The Lawsuit That Lasted Ten Years: Life After A Catastrophic Injury: Reflections on Healthcare, Law and Catastrophic Injuries 10 Orthopedic Health Disparities: Grappling with Socioeconomic Factors that Affect Health and Healthcare: Being Human: Joint and Bone Health: Informed Consent and Shared Decision-Making: Toward Patient-Centered Care: Revisiting Kathy Jones 11 Paying for Healthcare Costs: Lessons From a 50-Year-Old Government Program Called Medicare: Sustainability Issue: Payment Models and Human Dignity: A Personal Story: Lessons from Managed Care: Setting Limits: Medicare for All?: The Fight Over Obamacare: 12 Health Care and Human Dignity in a Diverse and Changing World the Critical Role of Empathy, Compassion and Humility: Humility: Empathy: Conclusion
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Nurses and COVID-19: Ethical Considerations in
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the many ethical issues and extraordinary risks that nurses and others are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, which creates physical, emotional, and economic burdens, affecting nurses' overall health and well-being. Nurses are essential front-line clinicians across all health care settings and in every nation. The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel SARs-CoV-2 virus has affected children, adults, and communities within and across all societies. Nurses, too, have contracted the virus and died from the disease. They have also seen their colleagues, family members, and friends hospitalized or in intensive care units struggling to survive. Nursing’s professionalism and disciplinary resolve to care for patients and families amidst confusion, misinformation, and shifting guidelines has been called “heroic” by the public. How much risk should nurses be expected to accept during a pandemic? How do nurses help patients and families find comfort and dignity at the end-of-life? How do we help nurses who are suffering from moral distress and mental health concerns from what they have seen, been asked to do, or are unable to provide? And, how does society move forward from a pandemic that has challenged our basic ethical principles of justice and what is “fair, good and right” in caring for those who need care, including the most vulnerable and nurses themselves? This book addresses these and other ethical concerns that nurses are facing in their day-to-day clinical practice; experiences shared with patients, families, and colleagues. Although this book was written while the pandemic was still raging across the United States and globally, the events needed to be told as they were unfolding. This book helps us to learn from both the successes and failures that are affecting so many across the globe, including those on whom the public relies on to provide quality, compassionate, and expert care when they are sick: nurses. Table of ContentsChapter 1. IntroductionChristine Grady and Connie UlrichChapter 2. Understanding Acceptable Risks in Healthcare? [Occupational risks/limits/PPE/obligations]a. This chapter will focus on how we define an “acceptable risk” in healthcare. We will discuss the many risks that nurses encounter in their day-to-day patient care activities during COVID-19 both within hospital systems and other types of care facilities, including working without protective equipment and the general risks to patients and families. (adding statistics on risks for CPR, risks to ICU providers and others; risks with use of PPEChristine Grady and Connie UlrichChapter 3. Finding Compassion: Helping Patients Die and Sometimes Alone a. This chapter will discuss the role of nurses and others (palliative care) in helping patients die, often alone, within intensive care environments or other settings. We will share some of the innovative ways in which nurses and others met their foundational moral obligations to patients at the end-of-life, honoring the dignity of patients, and helping families through this stressful time. Christine Grady and Connie UlrichChapter 4. Preparing to Make Difficult Choices: Triage Decision and Crisis Standards of Care a. This chapter will speak to the different models of triage decision-making and the ethics of priority setting and allocation of scarce resources.Christine MitchellChapter 5. The Emotional and Moral Remnants of COVID-19: Burnout, Moral Distress, and Mental Health Concerns a. The pandemic has focused our attention to the mental health concerns of front-line nurses, including their moral distress, burnout, depression, and emotional scars from a sense of exhaustion, tragic choices, and overwhelming circumstances. Christine Grady and Connie UlrichChapter 6. Unintended Consequences: Lack of Essential and Nonessential Patient Care, Furloughs of HCP, and Institutional Financial Lossesa. The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to unintended consequences of what is considered essential and nonessential patient care. Patients, for example, were delayed in seeking surgical services or other types of specialty care (e.g., cancer care). With the focus on COVID-19 patients, nurses have also been furloughed, affecting their economic livelihood. This chapter will highlight and discuss these concerns. Dr. Peter Buerhaus and colleaguesChapter 7. Lingering and Glaring Health Disparities amidst COVID-19 a. The COVID-19 related illnesses and deaths in minority and socially disadvantaged communities warrants our attention. This chapter will discuss these inequities and the social justice implications for quality and equitable care outcomes. Dr. Nneka SederstromChapter 8. School nurses/pediatric concernsAuthor TBCChapter 9. Global Health Ethics: Nursing Voices from China and Brazil a. This chapter will highlight the voices of nurses in two of the countries most significantly affected by COVID-19: China and Brazil. It is important to learn from both countries and to discuss the similarities and differences in caring for their populations and the role of nurses in these countries. Drs. Ulrich and Grady will provide pre and post comment to the essaysChapter 10. Moving Forward: What Have We Learned? Where do we go from here? [Conclusion] (Opportunities to move forward). Small “words of wisdom” from several nurse leaders (President of ICN, President of Sigma Theta Tau International, Liz Stokes-ANA and others). We ask several national and international nurse leaders to provide us with “words of wisdom” to help us move forward from the pandemic. Drs. Ulrich and Grady will provide commentary on these segments and conclude with their own “words of wisdom” to For each of the chapters, we will ask the authors to include a section on how the lessons learned from COVID-19 might have emerged from prior pandemics and might apply to future pandemics
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Clinical Approaches to Hospital Medicine:
Book SynopsisThis book provides an update on recent clinical practice and an in-depth view of selected topics relevant to hospital medicine. It is divided into four sections that explore clinical, administrative, systems and ethical issues. Each section places an emphasis on the opportunities, challenges and potential directions of this bourgeoning subspecialty. This new edition expands on topics covered in the previous edition, including the COVID-19 pandemic, racial disparities in healthcare delivery and providers, and pediatric hospital medicine. Other chapters explore worldwide practice patterns and practical application of philosophical tools in daily practice. This up-to-date resource provides hospitalists, advanced nurse practitioners, medical students and administrators with the latest research, trends and issues in hospital medicine. Table of ContentsClinical approaches to the Covid -19 pandemic Management of Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseUpdates in Nephrology for the HospitalistHeart Failure Management for the Inpatient ProviderAdvances in the Evaluation and Treatment of Sepsis and ShockCurrent Trends in Stroke ManagementCo-Management of Orthopedic PatientsPediatric Hospital MedicineManagement of Psychiatric Disorders in the HospitalOpioids: History, Pathophysiology, and Stewardship for HospitalistsOVERVIEW, UPDATES, AND NEW TOPICS IN PERIOPERATIVE CAREVirtual Hospital MedicinePalliative Care for HospitalistsBarriers to Advance Care Planning (ACP) in the Hospital: A Review and Case StudyValue Based Care in the HospitalWellness in Physicians in the Era of the COVID-19 PandemicLGBTQ Health Care IssuesRacial Disparities in HealthcareGender and Racial Disparities in Career Advancement in the United StatesResearch in MedicineSustainability and Healthcare: Expanding the Scope of “Do no harm” Models of SuccessThe Evolution of International Health: Lessons to be Learned Update in Hospital Medicine Trends in Compensation, COVID-19, Workplace Environment, and Malpractice
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Springer International Publishing AG Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Lure of
Book SynopsisThis book explores how the continental philosophical tradition in the 20th century attempted to understand madness as madness. It traces the paradoxical endeavour of reason attempting to understand madness without dissolving the inherent strangeness and otherness of madness. It provides a comprehensive overview of the contributions of phenomenology, critical theory, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and anti-psychiatry to continental philosophy and psychiatry. The book outlines an intellectual tradition of psychiatry that is both fascinated by and withdraws from madness. Madness is a lure for philosophy in two senses; as both trap and provocation. It is a trap because this philosophical tradition constructs an otherness of madness so profound, that it condemns madness to silence. However, the idea of madness as another world is also a fertile provocation because it respects the non-identity of madness to reason. The book concludes with some critical reflections on the role of madness in contemporary philosophical thought.Trade Review“In tracing the continental philosophy of psychiatry tradition, Morgan does indeed succeed in rescuing it from obscurity, in ways that will benefit many. For researchers, the book opens many exegetical and conceptual questions, or returns to old questions from a fresh perspective. For clinicians, a rich and pluralistic understanding of madness emerges, holding space for its difference while recognising the contexts of violence and contradiction that produce it. … As such, there are many who stand to gain from engaging with this important book.” (Robert Chapman, Psychiatrie Filosofie, psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl, June, 2023)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Three Inclusive ExclusionsChapter 2: “A subtle, pervasive and strangely uncertain light”: Jaspers on understanding madnessChapter 3: “As strange to me as the birds in the garden”: Bleuler, Jung and the creation of schizophreniaChapter 4: A distance from all that is human: Freud and Psychosis.- Part II: Through a glass darklyChapter 5: Vital ContactChapter 6: IpseityChapter 7: The Body.- Chapter 8: Being-in-the-worldPart III: It’s a Mad worldChapter 9: “The world cannot acknowledge its own madness”: alienation and the destruction of experienceChapter 10: Reification and Schizophrenia – a socio-pathological parallelismChapter 11: Beware, Marcuse!Chapter 12: “O my body. . .”: Fanon and the pathologies of recognitionPart IV: “A certain madness must watch over thinking”Chapter 13: “In the distance of madness”: Foucault and the History of MadnessChapter 14: The lure of madnessChapter 15: Lacan: the shadow of madnessChapter 16: The ineffable and limit-experiencePart V: Anti -Psychiatry and madnessChapter 17: Capitalism and schizophreniaChapter 18: A germinal anti-psychiatry: R.D. Laing’s wild empathyChapter 19: “It all began with a ‘no’”: The Institution negatedChapter 20: Epilogue – The end of madness?
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Springer International Publishing AG Conceptual and Ethical Challenges of Evolutionary
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the concept of disease, as defined in the context of evolutionary medicine. Upon introducing the reader to evolutionary medicine in its current form and describing its approach to disease instances, the book leverages thoughts and instruments of knowledge of epistemology, social sciences, and ethics to answer the question: “How can we build a timely and appropriate concept of disease?” At first, it looks at the social concerns of medicalization, for example focusing on the suffering of people who have not been diagnosed, or whose suffering is not caused by certain elements that falls under the definitions of disease. In turn, it merges different, both conceptual and empirical considerations in one comprehensive analysis, with the aim of fostering a multidisciplinary understanding of the phenomenon of disease. This book also highlights certain kinds of epistemic injustices that are taking place in the healthcare system, as this is currently conceived in post-industrial societies, thus offering a timely contribution to the current debate around social justice in healthcare.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Finding Value in Concepts.- Meaning as Definition and Meaning as Use.- Locating the Conceptual Change in Scientific Research.- The Concept of Disease in the Traditional Debates.- Evolution and Evolutionary Medicine in Disease.- New Developments in Evolutionary Theory and Evolutionary Medicine, New Frontiers for Evolutionary Medicine.- Conclusion.
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De Gruyter Medicine & Philosophy: A Twenty-First Century
Book SynopsisThis textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, and medical ethics are overlapping disciplines. It claims that the philosophical lessons to learn from the twentieth century are not that nature is a ‘social construction’ and that ‘anything goes’ with respect to methodological and moral rules. Instead, it claims that there is scientific knowledge, but that it is never completely secure; that there are norms, but that they are situation-bound; and that, therefore, it makes good sense to search for scientific truths and try to act in a morally decent way. Using philosophical catchwords, the authors advocate ‘fallibilism’ and ‘particularism’; a combination that might be called ‘pragmatic realism’.
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Thieme Publishing Group Essays in Medical Ethics: Plea for a Medicine of
Book Synopsis"We cannot be happy without insight into the limits of what is feasible." Modern medicine suggests omnipotence and an image of life as something that can be perfected at any time. Yet our view of things changes when disease throws us into an existential crisis. Then we seek human answers and feel misunderstood and abandoned in the system of modern medicine. Professor Giovanni Maio, the eloquent advocate of a new culture of medicine, poses fundamental questions in this book that no one can really avoid: Where are the promises of reproductive and transplantation medicine leading us? To what extent can health be made, and to what extent is it a gift? Does "prettier, better, stronger" promise us greater happiness? Why is the question of organ donation more difficult than is suggested to us? Does being old have its own intrinsic value? How can we acquire an attitude towards dying that does not leave us feeling powerless? Giovanni Maio's profound plea for an ethics of prudence opens up hitherto unknown perspectives. In this way we could free ourselves from the belief in perfection and find our way to a new serenity as a condition for a good life.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Meeting in the Petri Dish? Chapter 2. Screen, Test, Weed Out? Chapter 3. Prettier, Better, Stronger? Chapter 4. Is Health A Duty? Chapter 5. The Crisis of Confidence in Organ Donation Chapter 6. On the Value of Age, Beyond the Fitness Imperative Chapter 7. Living Wills - Are Forms Replacing Dialogue? Chapter 8. Being Able to Let Go. For a New Culture of Dying Epilogue: Happiness Lies in Our Attitude Toward the World
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Ethikberatung in der Medizin
Book SynopsisIn den letzten Jahren hat sich eine Vielfalt unterschiedlicher Gremien zur Ethikberatung entwickelt: vom Konsil mit einem einzelnen Berater bis zum Ethikkomitee. In dem Band werden die Ethikberatung, ihre Entwicklung und Anwendung, sowie die Gründung von Gremien in Krankenhäusern, Pflegeeinrichtungen, Hospizen und von niedergelassenen Ärzten anhand von Fallbeispielen erläutert. Dabei schlagen die Autoren eine Brücke zwischen traditioneller philosophischer Ethik und anwendungsbezogener klinischer Ethik. Auch rechtliche Fragen werden erörtert.Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: “… einem detaillierten Stichwortverzeichnis machen vor allem die klare Gliederung, ein unprätentiöser Stil und ein gelungenes Layout das Werk ...“ Table of ContentsVorwort.- Inhaltsverzeichnis.- Autorenverzeichnis.- Abkürzungsverzeichnis.- 1. Ethikberatung im Gesundheitswesen – zur Einführung.- I Grundlagen von Ethikberatung und Klinischer Ethik.- 2. Klinische Ethik und Ethikberatung.- 3. Ethikberatung und Ethikkomitees in Deutschland.- 4. Philosophische Ethik und Klinische Ethik.- 5. Ethische Fallbesprechung und Supervision.- 6. Professionalisierung und Standardisierung der Ethikberatung.- II Modelle und Beispiele der Implementierung von Ethikberatung.- 7. Medizinethik an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.- 8. Klinisches Ethikkomitee Düsseldorf-Gerresheim.- 9. Implementierung eines Klinischen Ethikkomitees.- 10. Die Einrichtung der Klinischen Ethikberatung am Universitätsklinikum Ulm.- III. Neue Anwendungsfelder und Herausforderungen der Zukunft.- 11. Ethikberatung für Hausärzte bei Patienten am Lebensende.- 12. Ethikberatung in der Altenhilfe.- 13. Ethikberatung im Hospiz.- 14. Rechtliche Fragen der Medizinethik und klinischer Beratung am Lebensende.- 15. Ethikberatung und Recht.- Anhang.- Nützliche Internetadressen.- Stichwortverzeichnis.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Handbuch Ethik und Recht der Forschung am
Book SynopsisDas vorliegende Handbuch liefert einen konzisen Überblick und eine verlässliche Orientierungshilfe bei ethischen und rechtlichen Entscheidungsprozessen in der Forschung am Menschen. Es dient dabei einerseits als eine Dokumentation des Status quo, andererseits aber auch als Diskussionsgrundlage für zukünftige Entwicklungen. An dem Handbuch haben Praktiker aus Forschung und medizinischer Behandlung, Ethiker und Philosophen, Medizinhistoriker, Rechtswissenschaftler, Pharmakologen, Strahlentherapeuten, Pädiater, Chirurgen und Psychiater mitgearbeitet, die für eine hohe Detailkenntnis und Praxisrelevanz der gesammelten Beiträge bürgen. Das Buch gibt Ethikkommissionsmitgliedern, Forschern und Antragstellern bei Ethikkommissionen einen Einblick in Kriterien und Entscheidungsmechanismen der Forschungsethik und macht Entscheidungen und Beurteilungen von Ethikkommissionen besser verständlich. Darüber hinaus liefert es einen Beitrag zu einer Harmonisierung der bestehenden Praxis.Trade Review“... eine gelungene Mischung zwischen eher theoretisch und eher praktisch ausgerichteten Beiträgen aus. ... Insgesamt lässt sich feststellen, dass das Handbuch einen hervorragenden Überblick über nahezu alle mit Humanexperimenten verbundenen ethischen, rechtlichen und praktischen Themenfelder vermittelt … Zweifelsohne handelt es sich bei dem Handbuch um ein Vademekum im besten Sinne des Wortes – ein Wegbegleiter, der in die Handbibliothek eines jeden gehört, der sich theoretisch oder praktisch mit der Forschung am Menschen befasst.” (Ulrich M. Gassner, in: MedR Medizinrecht, Jg. 33, Heft 5, Mai 2015)“... Der lexikalische Charakter macht das Handbuch zu einer seriösen Quelle der rechtlichen und ethischen Normen in der medizinischen Forschung. Das Buch verdeutlich, wie intensiv man sich in Deutschland mit rechtlichen Bestimmungen, Verfahrensregeln und moralischen Standards um eine Bewertung und Regelung in diesem Bereich bemüht.” (in: EB Erwachsenenbildung, Heft 1, Januar 2015)Table of ContentsTeil I: Art der Studie.- Teil II: Zentrale ethische und rechtliche Themen.- Teil III: Patientengruppen.- Teil IV: Forschungsbereiche.- Teil V: Dokumente und Institutionen.- Teil VI: Fachbegriffe zur Studiendurchführung.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Ethik der Biogerontologie
Book SynopsisDer Biogerontologie oder biologischen Alternsforschung ist es gelungen, den Alternsprozess von Labororganismen zu manipulieren. Biogerontologische Forscher glauben diese Erkenntnisse auch auf den Menschen übertragen zu können. Hier sollte zeitnah eine ethische Reflexion einsetzen, bevor Forschungserfolge die zukünftige Entwicklung in eine unerwünschte Richtung führen. Der Kontext für diese Reflexion besteht im demographischen Wandel und in veränderten Altersbildern. Einerseits gibt es daher Hoffnungen, dass erfolgreiche, neue Interventionen in Alternsprozesse negative Folgen des demographischen Wandels abschwächen oder gar ganz verhindern könnten. Andererseits könnten Eingriffe in Alternsprozesse auch ethische Probleme hervorbringen. Das vorliegende Buch stellt zunächst knapp biogerontologische Theorien, Konzeptionen und Methoden dar und untersucht systematisch, die sich im Anschluss daran die einschlägigen ethischen Fragen. Um diese Fragen zu beantworten werden umfangreiche interdisziplinäre Forschungsergebnisse aus Biogerontologie, Medizinethik, Philosophie und Sozialgerontologie berücksichtigt. Die Untersuchung kommt zum Ergebnis, dass es zwar einige berechtigte ethische Bedenken gegen die biogerontologische Forschung und ihre mögliche Anwendung in der Medizin gibt, aber keine berechtigten, prinzipiellen Einwände.Table of ContentsEntbehrliche Körper. Die Biogerontologie als neue theoretische Grundlage für das Verständnis des körperlichen Alter(n)s.- Biogerontologische Interventionen in Alternsprozesse.- Biologisches Altern und Krankheit.- Ziele der Biogerontologie – auch Ziele für die Medizin?.- Eine unzulässige Biomedikalisierung des Alterns?.- Altern als Übel.- Gesellschaftliche Folgen von Eingriffen in Altern.- Die Ethik der Biogerontologie und die Zukunft des Alterns.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Die Leistungssteigerung des menschlichen Gehirns:
Book SynopsisDie Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes analysieren in kritischer Weise die Breite und Tiefe des Diskurses zu Neuro-Enhancement, der sich aber nicht nur durch ethische Fragen auszeichnet. Sie zeigen, dass es darüber hinaus grundlegende philosophische, anthropologische und gesellschaftstheoretische Aspekte sind, die im Steigerungsbedürfnis spätmoderner Leistungs(steigerungs)gesellschaften zu Tage treten. So scheint eine neue Wunschwelt vor der Tür zu stehen: Doping fürs Gehirn! Der rasante Fortschritt der Neurowissenschaften hat das menschliche Gehirn erreicht. Die Möglichkeiten der Leistungssteigerung könnten bald auch das „Innerste“ des Menschen essentiell betreffen: sein Denken und Fühlen, Entscheiden und Handeln.Die Herausgeber Prof. Dr. Nicola Erny ist Professorin für Philosophie an der Hochschule Darmstadt. Dr. Matthias Herrgen lehrte am Philosophischen Seminar der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. Prof. Dr. Jan Cornelius Schmidt unterrichtet Philosophie, Ethik und Technikfolgenabschätzung an der Hochschule Darmstadt.Table of ContentsEnhancement / Neuro-Enhancement.- Doping und Hirndoping.- Ethik und Konzepte der Ethik.- Technikfolgenabschätzung (TA).
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Was heißt: In Würde sterben?: Wider die
Book SynopsisAktuell werden Themen wie die gesetzliche Regelung der ärztlichen Suizidbeihilfe oder die Euthanasie immer wieder ins Zentrum gesellschaftlicher Debatten gerückt. Unterschiedliche Medien greifen die Frage der Suizidbeihilfe auf und diskutieren, wie ein „selbstbestimmtes Sterben“ aussehen kann. Welche medizinischen, rechtlichen, ethischen, philosophischen und theologischen Aspekte gilt es zu berücksichtigen? Dieses Buch macht die Frage der ärztlichen Suizidassistenz zum Thema. Experten unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen beleuchten kritisch die in der Sterbehilfe-Debatte vorgebrachten Argumente und beantworten die Frage, wie ein würdiges Sterben aussehen könnte.Mit Beiträgen von Benedict Maria Mülder, Susanne Kummer, Axel W. Bauer, Günther Pöltner, Markus Rothhaar, Christian Hillgruber, Marcus Schlemmer, Andreas S. Lübbe, Christian Spaemann, Ulrich Eibach, Manfred Spieker, Marcus Knaup, Thomas Sören Hoffmann.Trade Review“… wichtige Orientierungshilfen, die zur eigenen Rollenbestimmung und Positionierung in der uns weiterhin beschäftigenden Debatte um Beihilfe zur Selbsttötung und Tötung auf Verlangen beitragen.” (H. Christof Müller-Busch, in: Zeitschrift für Palliativmedizin, Heft 1, 2016)Table of ContentsVorwortBenedict Maria Mülder: Zum GeleitPolitik und RechtSusanne Kummer: Ex in the CityAxel W. Bauer: Notausgang assistierter Suizid?Günther Pöltner: Das Problem einer gesetzlichen Regelung von ExtremfällenMarkus Rothhaar: Autonomie und Menschenwürde am LebensendeChristian Hillgruber: Die Bedeutung der staatlichen Schutzpflicht für das menschliche Leben und der Garantie der Menschenwürde für eine gesetzliche Regelung zur SuizidbeihilfeMedizin und PsychotherapieMarcus Schlemmer: Assistierter Suizid durch Ärzte? Die Sicht eines PalliativmedizinersAndreas S. Lübbe: Palliativmedizin als Angebot gegen eine Normalisierung des TötensChristian Spaemann: Patientenautonomie und unerträgliches LeidTheologische und philosophische GrundlagenfragenUlrich Eibach: Von der Beihilfe zum Suizid zur Tötung auf Verlangen?Manfred Spieker: Sterbehilfe?Marcus Knaup: Wie wollen wir sterben?Thomas Sören Hoffmann: Das gute Sterben und der Primat des LebensDokumentationsteilAutorenverzeichnis
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Social Freezing: Die Möglichkeiten der modernen
Book SynopsisIn diesem Band werden sowohl die medizinischen Chancen und Risiken der modernen Reproduktionsmedizin erläutert, als auch ihre gesellschaftspolitischen und ethischen Dimensionen in den Blick genommen. Expertenstatements aus den an der Debatte beteiligten Disziplinen eröffnen einen mehrperspektivischen Einblick in die Thematik.Table of ContentsDie moderne Fortpflanzungsmedizin: Reproduktionsmedizinische Rahmenbedingungen und Risikofaktor maternales Alter.- Die gesellschaftlich-politische Perspektive: Der Wandel von Familien- und Lebensmodellen, die Bedeutung der medizinischen und psychosozialen Beratung und die Rolle der schulischen Aufklärungsarbeit.- Die ethische Debatte: Eingriff in die Menschenwürde oder Selbstbestimmung der Frau?.
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Springer vs Senizid Und Altentötung: Ein Überfälliger Diskurs
Book Synopsis
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