Medical ethics and professional conduct Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Planning for Uncertainty Living Wills and Other
Book SynopsisThis practical guide helps people navigate the important but often intimidating process of thinking about, and planning for, an uncertain future.Trade ReviewValuable resource. Columbia College Today 2007 A practical guide to help individuals make end-of-life decisions and communicate them to healthcare providers, family members, and other loved ones. UU World 2008 This practical guide helps people navigate the important but often intimidating process of thinking about, and planning for, an uncertain future. Exceptional Parent 2008 Doukas and Reichel achieve two things rarely seen in books geared toward the general public. First, they are uncommonly forthright... The second noteworthy achievement of Planning for Uncertainty is its compatibility with the family physician's worldview. -- David Satin, MD Family Medicine 2008 Planning for Uncertainty contacts much helpful information about advance directives and advance care planning. -- Ellen W. Bernal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2008Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What Every Person Needs to Know1. What the Patient Self-Determination Act Means to You2. When Is Treatment Beneficial and When Is It Not Beneficial?3. How Ethical Principles Affect Health Care Decisions4. The Value of Values5. How Advance Directives Work6. The Values History: Defining Your Health Care Values7. You, Your Family, and Health Care Decisions: Choosing a Proxy8. Signing Advance DirectivesAppendixLinks to Advance Directive Forms by StateOther Useful LinksMy Advance Directives for Future Medical TreatmentThe Values HistoryAdvance Directive in Brief CardIndex
£39.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Challenges of an Aging Society Ethical Dilemmas
Book Synopsis, Boston College.Trade ReviewAn excellent book... Will be exceedingly helpful to clinicians and nonclinicians who are involved in the development of public policy. JAMA 2008 Easily readable and well referenced... It is an excellent, well-thought-out resource for where the U.S. is on the issue of gerontology as it relates to ethics and public policy... Highly recommended. Choice 2008 A good survey of many aging society issues. Future Survey 2007 Some of the individual chapters are superb... contains some interesting original material as well as a useful synthesis of the literature... There is something in it for almost everyone. New England Journal of Medicine 2008 This book is well edited and presented, which makes reading it quite straightforward, even while taking on at times some complex issues. -- Karen Le Ball Age and Ageing 2008 This book... is unique in that it explores issues and challenges at hand with the current aging society through an 'ethical' lens, and brings together experts in a wide range of fields covering sociobiology, social work, economics, public policy, theology, public health, bioethics, nursing and neurology -- Erica Yoonkyung Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 2009 There is something for everyone in this collection -- John Bond Aging and Society 2008 It is a compilation of multiple thought-provoking analyses of the status of elderly and the aging, and includes current and future ramifications. -- Susan Wegener Inside GCM 2008Table of ContentsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Science and Ethics of Aging WellPart I: Autonomy and End-of-Life Decisions1. The Legal Aspects of End-Of-Life Decision Making2. Assessing Compentency to Make Medical Decisions at the End of Life: Clinician and Patient Issues3. The Ethics of Long-Term Care: Recasting the Policy Discourse4. Religiosity and Spirituality at the End of Life: Challenges and OpportunitiesPart II: The Future of Family Responsibility5. The Family and the Future: Challenges, Prospects, and Resilience6. Long-Term Care, Feminism, and an Ethics of Solidarity7. Aging, Generational Opposition, and the Future of the FamilyPart III: Policies and Politics of Genrational Responsibility8. Minority Elders in the United States: Implications for Public Policy9. Allocating Resources for Lifelong Learning for Older Adults10. Transforming Age-Based Policies to Meet Fluid Life-Course Needs11. The Political Paradoxes of Thinking outside the Life-Cycle Boxes12. Is Responsibility across Generations Politically Feasible?Part IV: Health and Wealth: Whose Responsibility?13. Social Security Reform and Responsibility across the Generations: Framing the Debate14. Setting the Agenda for Social Security Reform15. A Summary of Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach16. Assessing the Returns from the New Medicare Drug Benefit17. Prescription Drugs and Elders in the Twenty-first CenturyIndex
£46.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Hope and Suffering
Book SynopsisThis engaging study will be of interest to historians, medical practitioners and researchers, and people whose lives have been altered by cancer.Trade ReviewKrueger has written an important book. -- Barron Lerner Lancet 2008 Hope and Suffering is an apt title for this dense, encyclopedic, and riveting book. It includes narratives from patients and their family members that detail the hope, suffering, and despair of the first two decades of cancer therapy, followed by the optimism and successes of the present...Author Gretchen Krueger recounts these stories in considerable detail and references them exquisitely. New England Journal of Medicine 2009 It would be of value in any medical humanities course. -- Emm Barnes Medical History 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Glioma Babies," Families, and Cancer in Children in the 1930s2. "Cancer, The Child Killer": Jimmy and the Redefinition of a Dread Disease3. Death Be Not Proud: Children, Families, and Cancer in Postwar America4. "Against All Odds": Chemotherapy and the Medical Management of Acute Leukemia in the 1950s5. "Who's Afraid of Death on the Leukemia Ward?": Remission, Relapse, and Child Death in the 1960s and 1970s6. "The Truly Cured Child": Prolonged Survival and the Late Effects of CancerConclusionNotesIndex
£33.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Ethical Issues in Rural Health Care
Book SynopsisThis volume is a useful resource for bioethicists, members of rural bioethics committees and networks, policy makers, teachers of health care providers, and rural practitioners themselves.Trade ReviewOf obvious value for those active in rural health care. It may be even more useful, however, for nonrural practitioners, ethicists, and members of ethics committees. Reading the essays in this volume is like acquiring a new set of glasses. It made me better able to perceive differences in how ethics can be considered based on culture, population, geographic challenges, and personal connections... An even bigger service may be the tools it provides to look differently at problems commonly thought to be understood. -- Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD JAMA An excellent scholarly examination of what rural people face in the world of health care. Midwest Book Review A welcome addition to this oft-neglected area of ethics. The collection is broad-ranging and well-designed. -- Robert Macauley Journal of Bioethical Inquiry The common thread among the essays is a bioethical perspective. Their common goal is to raise awareness among rural practitioners and other interested parties about the particular challenges that the rural environment presents. Health AffairsTable of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Overview of Rurality and General Ethical IssuesChapter 1. Rural-Urban Differences in End-of-Life Care: Reflections on Social ContractsChapter 2. The Challenges of Rural Health CareChapter 3. Ethics, Errors, and Where We Go from HereChapter 4. The Ethics of Allocating Resources toward Rural Health and Health CarePart II: Practitioners' VoicesChapter 5. Reflections on Fifty Years in Rural Health CareChapter 6. Serving the Underserved: Personal, Social, and Medical ChallengesChapter 7. Ethical and Sociocultural Issues in Rural Mental Health CarePart III: Specific Ethical Issues and SolutionsChapter 8. Ethical Dimensions of the Quality of Rural Health CareChapter 9. Building Bioethics Networks in Rural States: Blessings and BarriersChapter 10. Structural Violence in the Rural Context: The Ethical implications of Welfare Reform for Rural HealthChapter 11. Rural Geristric Bioethics: A Texas PerspectiveChapter 12. Supporting the Rural Physician: Processes and ProgramsIndex
£47.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in
Book SynopsisBased on sound, proven strategies and peppered throughout with illustrative examples, Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in Medicine provides the tools and knowledge necessary to start and sustain a genuine conversation at a moment when the first thought is I have no idea what to say now.Trade ReviewBuckman offers the tools and knowledge base to help a medical practitioner start and maintain a professional conversation during extremely sensitive times and circumstances... Highly recommended. Choice 2011 Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations aims to ground its ideas firmly within the real world of clinical medicine. All of the examples are set in real situations and this is the book's main strength. Readers will recognise, immediately, the areas that do cause problems, and will be able to imagine themselves within each scenario. Times Educational Supplement 2011Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Prescribing the Doctor as Part of the Treatment1. Some "Can't Go Wrong" Tips2. Breaking Bad News: The SPIKES Protocol3. Disclosing Error: The CONES Protocol4. Managing Conflict and Escalation: The HARD Protocol5. Giving Information Effectively: The SAFER Protocol6. Some Particularly Difficult ConversationsConclusion: Putting It All Together and Making a Difference in CommunicationAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Notes to Accompany the Scenarios on DVDNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Wrong Medicine
Book SynopsisBased on the latest empirical research, Wrong Medicine continues to guide a broad range of health care professionals through the challenges of providing humane end-of-life care.Trade Review"A thoughtful discussion of a difficult and pervasive bioethical problem - one made all the more critical by current concerns about limited resources. This book brings common sense to bear on one of the more intractable issues facing medical ethicists today. A useful and timely contribution." (New England Journal of Medicine) "A lucid and important contribution to the field that moves us toward both a more scientific and a more humane approach to making treatment decisions at the end of life." (Health Affairs)"Table of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgments1. Are Doctors Supposed to Be Doing This?2. Why It Is Hard to Say No3. Why We Must Say No4. Families Who Say, "Do Everything!"5. Futility and Rationing6. Medical Futility in a Litigious Society7. Ethical Implications of Medical Futility8. The Way It Is Now / The Way It Ought to Be: For Patients9. The Way It Is Now / The Way It Ought to Be: For Health Professionals10. The High Points: Medical Futility11. Medical Futility: Where Do We Stand Now?NotesIndex
£54.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Wrong Medicine Doctors Patients and Futile
Book SynopsisBased on the latest empirical research, Wrong Medicine continues to guide a broad range of health care professionals through the challenges of providing humane end-of-life care.Trade Review"A thoughtful discussion of a difficult and pervasive bioethical problem - one made all the more critical by current concerns about limited resources. This book brings common sense to bear on one of the more intractable issues facing medical ethicists today. A useful and timely contribution." (New England Journal of Medicine) "A lucid and important contribution to the field that moves us toward both a more scientific and a more humane approach to making treatment decisions at the end of life." (Health Affairs)"Table of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgments1. Are Doctors Supposed to Be Doing This?2. Why It Is Hard to Say No3. Why We Must Say No4. Families Who Say, "Do Everything!"5. Futility and Rationing6. Medical Futility in a Litigious Society7. Ethical Implications of Medical Futility8. The Way It Is Now / The Way It Ought to Be: For Patients9. The Way It Is Now / The Way It Ought to Be: For Health Professionals10. The High Points: Medical Futility11. Medical Futility: Where Do We Stand Now?NotesIndex
£27.55
The Catholic University of America Press Vital Conflicts in Medical Ethics
Book SynopsisConsiders some of the difficult and disputed questions in Catholic moral theology. This work addresses classic dilemmas including the morality of the procedure known as craniotomy, and of various treatments for tubal pregnancy.
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Georgetown University Press Brain Policy How the New Neuroscience Will Change
Book SynopsisAs treatments emerge for disorders of the brain, concerns are arising along with them. Examining the implications of the full range of revolutionary interventions that is possible in the human brain, this book warns that while these techniques may promise medical wonders, they also raise profound political questions.Trade ReviewAmericans, Blank argues convincingly, don't yet appreciate the enormous potential of neuroscience - or its likely social and political impacts ... But, as the author makes clear, brain modification - even more than genetic engineering - will profoundly influence our lives in the decades to come. Wilson Quarterly Has some real strengths ... The opening chapters ... provide a first-rate introduction to neuroscience for the lay person. Blank condenses remarkably complex material into concepts that are easily grasped, but avoids gross oversimplification ... presents a nuanced discussion of the difficult ethical issues surrounding imposed treatment of psychiatric disorders ... Clearly the book is aimed at a general audience, but scientists not conversant with neuroscience would find it an informative, easy read. Nature An important endeavor ... a thorough overview of the most intriguing new developments in the neurosciences ... The text is highly informative yet still easy to read ... This is a well written work. Doody's Review ServiceTable of Contents1. Introduction: Intervention in the Brain 2. The Brain: Structure, Development, and Death 3. The Brain, the Mind, and Consciousness 4. Genetics and the Brain 5. The Brain and Behavior 6. Brain Intervention Techniques 7. Neural Grafting 8. Neurotoxicity 9. Conclusions: The Emergence of Brain Policy
£48.00
Georgetown University Press Ethical Issues in Managed Health Care
Book SynopsisA review of the ethical problems that confront many professionals and decision makers in managed care systems.
£14.73
Georgetown University Press The Goals of Medicine The Forgotten Issues in
Book SynopsisAsks basic questions about the purposes and ends of medicine and shows that the answers have practical implications for health care delivery, medical research, and the education of medical students. This book touches on a range of diverse issues such as genetic technology, Chinese medicine, care of the elderly, and prevention and public health.Trade ReviewThis is quite simply a splendid book. It enhances the reputation of those who wrote it, of Daniel Callahan who conceived it, and the already high reputation of the Hastings Center ... Well-produced and attractive to read, this book is one that thinking people will love ... This fine book should be on every medical bookshelf. Bioethics
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Georgetown University Press Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction The
Book SynopsisFor those who undergo it, infertility treatment is costly, time-consuming, invasive, and emotionally and physically arduous, yet technology remains the focus of most public discussion of the topic. This title analyzes the economic, ethical, theological, and political dimensions of assisted reproduction.Trade ReviewAn excellent book that makes significant contributions to the diverse fields of ethical theory and public policy analysis. Ryan displays a sophisticated understanding of feminist theory, medical ethics, and Catholic social teaching on economic justice... Well worth the attention of ethicists, medical practitioners, lawyers, and clergy engaged in formulating responses to involuntary human infertility. Medical Humanities Review Ryan (Christian ethics, U. of Notre Dame) questions the current reality of assisted reproductive technologies in the context of a consumerist society. She argues that the ethics of reproductive technologies needs to take into account both feminist criticisms of control over women's bodies and Catholic calls for a greater social good. Arguing that assisted reproduction should be seen as a social need rather than individualist consumption, she looks at the technologies as it is situated in the health care system as a whole and attempts to articulate an ethics that takes into account spiritual faith. Book News, Inc. Ryan (Christian ethics, Univ. of Notre Dame) discusses reproductive technology within the context of the common good, social justice, and ethical reasoning. She draws from a background of Catholic moral theology, medical ethics, feminism, and personal experience with infertility. Several well-written books are available regarding the ethics of assisted reproduction and reproductive technology; Ryan adds a dimension to the debate-how ethics and economics of assisted reproduction intersect. She begins by exploring the myths and realities of the economics of infertility including whether reproduction and its costs are truly private issues. Chapter 2 reviews the ethical issues surrounding assisted reproduction; chapter 3 focuses on the goals of medicine as it relates to infertility and the relief of suffering. The fourth chapter rethinks the limits of procreative liberty within a framework of the common good, and chapter 5 returns to the concept of justice and access to reproductive services and proposes a framework for determining equitable access given limited resources. The final chapter reflects on infertility as a spiritual crisis. Well documented and indexed. Graduate students through professionals. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Economics of Infertility Myths and Realities in the Economics of InfertilityIntersection: Ethics and EconomicsDistributive Justice and Assisted Reproduction 2. The Ethics of Assisted Reproduction The Ethics of Assisted ReproductionWhat about Adoption?Reproduction and the Common Good 3. Assisted Reproduction and the Goals of Medicine Infertility, Suffering, and the Goals of MedicineLiving with InfertilityInside/Outside: The Medical Construction of InfertilitySome Preliminary ConclusionsReflecting on the Goals of Medicine 4. Reconceiving Procreative Liberty John Robertson and the Meaning of Procreative LibertyRights Talk and the Critique of Procreative Liberty, American-StyleBorder TensionsProcreative Liberty and Catholic Social TeachingConclusion 5. Assisted Reproduction and Access to Health Care Human Dignity and Access to Health CareA Decent MinimumSufficiencyInvestments in ReproducingEquity and AccessAt the BoundariesSetting Limits Conclusion6. Faith and Infertility Mixed Messages and Missed OpportunitiesCreating a ContextFrom Spiritual Crisis to Spiritual QuestConclusions and the Work Yet to Be Done Conclusion Index
£48.00
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre Prenatal Diagnosis Confronting the Ethical Issues
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The National Catholic Bioethics Center Life is a Blessing A Biography of Jerome
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£16.13
St Martin's Press Dark Archives
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McGraw Hill Education India Looseleaf for Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine
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£140.40
McGraw-Hill Companies Law Ethics for Health Professions
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£152.46
McGraw-Hill Companies Loose Leaf for Law Ethics for the Health
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£106.20
WW Norton & Co Control The Dark History and Troubling Present
Book SynopsisHow did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Trade Review"A remarkable combination of intelligence, knowledge, insight and admirable political passion, on a serious moral problem in contemporary society." -- Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics"A short, sharp, illuminating overview of the science, politics, uses and abuses of human gene editing" -- Tim Adams - Observer"Weighty and serious but accessible and perfectly pitched. The scholarship is astounding." -- Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors"A clear-sighted look at the past and present dangers of eugenics. Rutherford tells [the story] with great concision and with clarity, both scientific and moral. [He] condenses tricky concepts into smart and often witty prose, combining erudition with humility.… Honest, informed and humane." -- Philip Ball - Financial Times"Rutherford’s swift, well-written account of these fascinating scientific and moral issues is well worth a read." -- Emma Duncan - The Times"Control is persuasive, sensible and ultimately reassuring, but it is not complacent.… To know history is ‘to inoculate ourselves against its being repeated,’ Rutherford argues. From that perspective, this book is a shot worth having." -- Katy Guest - Guardian"[Rutherford’s] scientific demolition of the eugenic project is brilliantly illuminating and compelling. His book will be indispensable for anyone who wants to assess the wild claims and counter-claims surrounding new genetic technologies." -- John Gray - New Statesman"[A] stimulating critique of one of science’s most disgraceful chapters." -- Publishers Weekly
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Johns Hopkins University Press Palliative Care for Infants Children and
Book SynopsisWith contributions from an international group of expert educators, clinicians, and parents, this book takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to pediatric palliative care, presenting best practices, clear instruction, and the latest information and research for anyone involved in pediatric palliative and end-of-life care.Trade Review"An inspiring and accessible look at what end-of-life care for children should be - it is a text that should grace the shelf of every clinician facing the death of young patients." (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)"Table of ContentsList of Contributors Preface Part I: Societal and Institutional IssuesChapter 1. Epidemiology and Health Services Research Chapter 2. Goals, Values, and Confl ict Resolution Chapter 3. Barriers to Integrating Palliative Care and Potential Solutions Chapter 4. Educational Initiatives Chapter 5. The Art of Advocacy Part II: The Cycle of CareChapter 6. Decision Making Chapter 7. Communication Skills and Relational Abilities Chapter 8. Psychosocial Needs of the Child and Family Chapter 9. Spiritual Dimensions Chapter 10. Holistic Management of Symptoms Chapter 11. Bereavement Chapter 12. The Other Side of Caring: Caregiver Suffering Part III: Special Care Environments and Patient PopulationsChapter 13. Palliative Care in the Neonatal-Perinatal Period Chapter 14. Palliative Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Setting Chapter 15. Palliative Care in the Home, School, and Community Chapter 16. Palliative Care for the Child Who Has a Genetic ConditionChapter 17. Integrating Palliative Care with HIV Care and TreatmentChapter 18. Integrating Palliative Care with Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Index
£38.09
Johns Hopkins University Press Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society
Book SynopsisThere is a wisdom or perennial philosophy based on compassionate love that, Fricchione stresses, the medical community must take advantage of in designing future health care-and society must appreciate as it faces its separation challenges.Trade Review"The finest statement yet on the evolution of compassionate care and why it is so essential to the well-being of patients." (Stephen G. Post, Stony Brook University)"Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Introduction: Knowledge, Meaning, and Healing, and the Consilience of Medicine1. The Medical Mission and Evolution2. Two Realms of Knowledge—Or One?3. Knowledge, Meaning, and HealingPart II: The Biological Foundations of the Evolutionary Need for Attachment Solutions4. Evolution of the Protocell5. Cellular Evolution6. Animal EvolutionPart III: The Foundations in Brain Evolution of Knowledge, Meaning, and Healing7. Evolution of the Brain8. Structuring the Brain to Know and Act9. Memory and Motivation10. Meaning, Healing, and the BrainPart IV: The Neurobehavioral and Cultural Foundations of the Need for Attachment Solutions11. Separation, Attachment, and Human Development12. Separation, Attachment, and the Life Cycle13. The Social Neuroscience of Separation and Attachment14. Consciousness, Language, and Their Origins15. Evolutionary Consciousness16. Implications for Society, Culture, and EthicsPart V: The Theoretical Foundations of the Need for Attachment Solutions17. An Evolutionary True Cause?18. Investigating the Separation Challenge–Attachment Solution Hypothesis19. A Testable Hypothesis20. Analogies and AnalysisPart VI: The Implications of the Separation Challenge-Attachment Solution Hypothesis21. Implications for the Mission of Modern Medicine22. Implications for Medicine at the End of LifePostscript: A Commentary on Human EvolutionReferencesIndex
£58.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Speaking Honestly with Sick and Dying Children
Book SynopsisNiethammer's compelling personal experiences combined with the latest research make this a compassionate and invaluable resource for physicians, nurses, social workers, teachers, parents-for all who care for sick and dying children and adolescents.Trade ReviewA valuable and enlightening educational experience. Niethammer writes with authority and insight. -- Andrew R. Barnosky JAMATable of ContentsForeword, by Christoph Schmeling-KludasForeword, by Ruprecht NitschkePrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Children, Sickness, and Death3. Children in the Hospital4. Children and Doctors5. Death and Dying in the Everyday Lives of Children6. Physician Paternalism versus Patient Autonomy7. The "Precociously Mature" Child8. Healthy Children's Concepts of Death9. Sick Children's Concepts of Death10. Should We Tell Sick Children the Truth?11. Decisions at the End of LifeReferencesName Index
£53.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Speaking Honestly with Sick and Dying Children
Book SynopsisNiethammer's compelling personal experiences combined with the latest research make this a compassionate and invaluable resource for physicians, nurses, social workers, teachers, parents-for all who care for sick and dying children and adolescents.Trade ReviewA valuable and enlightening educational experience. Niethammer writes with authority and insight. -- Andrew R. Barnosky JAMATable of ContentsForeword, by Christoph Schmeling-KludasForeword, by Ruprecht NitschkePrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Children, Sickness, and Death3. Children in the Hospital4. Children and Doctors5. Death and Dying in the Everyday Lives of Children6. Physician Paternalism versus Patient Autonomy7. The "Precociously Mature" Child8. Healthy Children's Concepts of Death9. Sick Children's Concepts of Death10. Should We Tell Sick Children the Truth?11. Decisions at the End of LifeReferencesName Index
£28.72
Johns Hopkins University Press Disorders of Sex Development
Book SynopsisThis resource gives parents and families access to the authors' expertise so they can reach a meaningful understanding of their child's DSD and make informed decisions about their child's health.Trade ReviewThis is essential reading for any family that has a child with DSD. Nursing TimesTable of ContentsPreface1. An Introduction to DSDWhat is DSD?How are children with DSD identified?Did I cause my child to have DSD?Is my child a boy or a girl?Will my child grow up to be healthy and happy?2. What Type of DSD Does My Child Have?What is 46,XX DSD?What is 46,XY DSD?What other types of DSD are there?3. How Will My Newborn Baby Be Evaluated?How are different types of DSD identified?What testing is used to establish a diagnosis?How are these tests done?What will these tests tell me about my baby's condition?4. Gender Development in DSDWhat is gender?What is known about long-term gender development in people with DSD?5. Understanding and Weighing the Treatment OptionsWhat medical treatments are available for infants and children with DSD?What surgical treatments are available for infants and children with DSD?What are the pros and cons associated with these treatments?6. Educating Children about DSDIs my child healthy?Why does my child need all these doctors?Will my child grow up to look like other people?Will my child grow up to behave like other people?7. Long-term Health of People with DSDIs life expectancy different for people with DSD?Is my child at risk for other medical conditions because of DSD?How will hormone replacement affect long-term health?8. Challenges and Special CircumstancesShould I get a second opinion?What if I want to change doctors?What if I think my baby was assigned the wrong gender?What if my child thinks he or she was assigned the wrong gender?Should my child participate in a research study?9. Peer SupportWhat can peer-support groups offer?How do I find these groups?How can I start my own peer-support group?ReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Vaccine
Book SynopsisThis book disentangles competing claims, opens the controversy for critical reflection, and provides recommendations for moving forward.Trade ReviewAny health collection catering to parents, health professional or the general public needs this fine survey of the history and contentions of the vaccine debate. Midwest Book Review This is an important book in the context of the current vaccine wars. Every pediatrician and pediatric specialist should not only read this book but also take to heart its message. -- Roger A. Brumback Journal of Child Neurology This book provides a fantastic overview of both sides of the vaccine debate... This knowledge and understanding could improve [physician's] success in alleviating concerns for parents with anxiety toward vaccinatino of their children. -- Sarah S. Nyp Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Largent's fluid prose makes this 222-page book an easy read. It will interest vaccine proponents and detractors alike, along with parents and policymakers who have questions about the long list of mandated vaccines, and health professionals who must explain benefits and risks to anxious parents. Life Sciences In an era of polarized debate over vaccines-as over so much else- Vaccine can potentially lead us toward a promised land of dialogue and substantially greater mutual understanding. -- Robert D. Johnston Isis An important overview of scientific research on the safety and side effects of vaccination. Largent also incorporates his own decisions about his daughter's vaccinations as an example of how one parent has navigated the competing claims about vaccines... Parents need to educate themselves and make well-informed decisions about their children's vaccinations. -- Andrea Rusnock Nature Medicine Largent's reasoned, evidence based exploration is a worthy and important contribution to a public debate too often built upon flimsy claims and perpetuated by hyperbole. -- Sarah Glassford Canadian Bulletin of Medical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Risk and Reward2. Sources of Doubt3. Thimerosal and Autism4. MMR and Autism5. Science and the Celebrity6. Getting to the Source of AnxietyConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ethical Imperialism
Book SynopsisThis short, smart analysis will engage scholars across academia.Trade ReviewEthical Imperialism is a remarkable accomplishment and a must-read for researchers and policy makers. It persuasively weaves together the scholarly, disciplinary, regulatory, and bureaucratic strands that account for today's 'omnipresent threat' to social research. Canadian Journal of Sociology This book ought to be required reading for those concerned about the political forces that make our work possible, and sometimes not possible at all. -- Susan B. Reverby American Historical Review [A]n impressive assessment of IRBs, from their tenuous beginnings in the early 1960s as a practical response to a perceived threat to the public from medical research to [their] present status as a threat to academic freedom in the social sciences... [A] significant contribution to those oral historians and related practitioners who would seek to challenge IRB's right and ability to adequately evaluate their research projects, particularly before the research has been conducted. Oral History Review A valuable contribution to the history of federal science policy and a useful critique of a system ill-suited to the uses to which it is being put. Journal of American History The book is a powerful indictment of the IRB regime. Law and Politics Book Review Exhaustively researched, drawing on... a wide array of sources. -- Donald N. Bersoff PsycCRITIQUES Thoroughly researched story of how IRBs came to be, how they came to adopt rules designed for medical, biological, and psychological researchers and then to apply them to the social sciences, how those rules became institutionalized, and how the rules protect universities rather than the people who serve as subjects and informants in social science research. Contemporary Sociology I highly recommended this book for its contribution to the discussion of academic freedom, social science research, and the regulation of research ethics. -- Ellen Marakowitz AAUP: Regulated ResearchTable of ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Ethics and Committees2. The Spread of Institutional Review3. The National Commission4. The Belmont Report5. The Battle for Social Science6. Détente and Crackdown7. The Second Battle for Social Science8. Accommodation or Resistance?ConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement
Book SynopsisHelping human research protection program professionals create, implement, and evaluate quality assurance/quality improvement programs. Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement Handbook for Human Research is the first comprehensively designed instructional manual aimed at teaching human research protection program (HRPP) professionals how to create, implement, evaluate, and improve QA/QI programs. Geared toward institutions and individuals responsible for establishing new QA/QI programs or functions, the book offers several organizational models for consideration. It also provides practical information for improving and strengthening established programs, both big and small. Written in a conversational style, the book's step-by-step instructions make it easily accessible to those who may not be well versed in QA/QI concepts and fundamentals. Developed by the QA/QI Subcommittee of the Harvard Catalyst Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law Program, which is committed to designing Table of ContentsContributors Foreword Preface AcknowledgmentsNote to Readers Chapter 1. Introduction to Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement ProgramsHila Bernstein, Jennifer A. Graf, and Jennifer HutchinsonChapter 2. Types of QA/QI Programs: A Review of Three ModelsJennifer A. Graf and Jennifer HutchinsonChapter 3. Policies and ProceduresBarbara E. Bierer and Eunice NewbertChapter 4. Investigator Site ReviewSusan Corl, Alyssa Gateman, Nareg D. Grigorian, and Sarah A. WhiteChapter 5. Evaluating IRB ComplianceJennifer A. Graf, Leslie M. Howes, Cynthia Monahan, Eunice Newbert, and Sarah A. WhiteChapter 6. Metrics and Communicating Observations of NoncomplianceLeslie M. Howes and Sarah A. WhiteChapter 7. Educational ProgrammingElizabeth Bowie and Leslie M. HowesAppendix A. Abbreviations and Acronyms Appendix B. Resources
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Science of Weed
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American Nurses Publishing Code of Ethics for Nurses: With Interpretive
Book SynopsisThe definitive framework for ethical analysis and decision-making for RNs across all practice levels, roles and settings. Revisions were made in this new edition in response to the complexities of modern nursing, to simplify and more clearly articulate the content, to anticipate advances in health care, and to incorporate aids that would make it richer, more accessible, and easier to use.Consisting of nine provisions and the accompanying interpretive statements, it: Provides a succinct statement of the ethical values, obligations, and duties of every individual who enters the nursing profession. Serves as the profession’s nonnegotiable ethical standard. Expresses nursing’s own understanding of its commitment to society. The code is particularly useful to in today’s health care environment because it reiterates the fundamental values and commitments of the nurse (Provisions 1–3), identifies the boundaries of duty and loyalty (Provisions 4–6), and describes the duties of the nurse that extend beyond individual patient encounters (Provisions 7–9). This revision retains interpretive statements for each provision that provide more specific guidance for practice. The statements are responsive to the contemporary context of nursing and recognize the larger scope of nursing’s concern in relation to health. It also includes another innovation: links to foundational and supplemental documents, which will be available later in 2015.ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses is the promise that nurses are doing their best to provide care for their patients and their communities and are supporting each other in the process so that all nurses can fulfill their ethical and professional obligations. It is important tool that can be used now as leverage to a better future for nurses, patients and health care. This Code is a reflection of the proud ethical heritage of nursing, a guide for all nurses now and into the future.Table of Contents Preface Introduction Provision 1 1.1 Respect For Human Dignity 1.2 Relationships with Patients 1.3 The Nature of Health 1.4 The Right to Self-Determination 1.5 Relationships with Colleagues and Others Provision 2 2.1 Primacy of the Patient's Interests 2.2 Conflict of Interest for Nurses 2.3 Collaboration 2.4 Professional Boundaries Provision 3 3.1 Protection of the Rights of Privacy and Confidentiality 3.2 Protection of Human Participants in Research 3.3 Performance Standards and Review Mechanisms 3.4 Professional Responsibility in Promoting a Culture of Safety 3.5 Protection of Patient Health and Safety by Acting on Questionable Practice 3.6 Patient Protection and Impaired Practice Provision 4 4.1 Authority, Accountability, and Responsibility 4.2 Accountability for Nursing Judgments, Decisions, and Actions 4.3 Responsibility for Nursing Judgments, Decisions, and Actions 4.4 Assignment and Delegation of Nursing Activities or Tasks Provision 5 5.1 Duties to Self and Others 5.2 Promotion of Personal Health, Safety, and Well-Being 5.3 Preservation of Wholeness of Character 5.4 Preservation of Integrity 5.5 Maintenance of Competence and Continuation of Professional Growth 5.6 Continuation of Personal Growth Provision 6 6.1 The Environment and Moral Virtue 6.2 The Environment and Ethical Obligation 6.3 Responsibility for the Healthcare Environment Provision 7 7.1 Contributions through Research and Scholarly Inquiry 7.2 Contributions through Developing, Maintaining, and Implementing Professional Practice Standards 7.3 Contributions through Nursing and Health Policy Development Provision 8 8.1 Health Is a Universal Right 8.2 Collaboration for Health, Human Rights, and Health Diplomacy 8.3 Obligation to Advance Health and Human Rights and Reduce Disparities 8.4 Collaboration for Human Rights in Complex, Extreme, or Extraordinary Practice Settings Provision 9 9.1 Articulation and Assertion of Values 9.2 Integrity of the Profession 9.3 Integrating Social Justice 9.4 Social Justice in Nursing and Health Policy Afterword Glossary Timeline: The Evolution of Nursing’s Code of Ethics
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American Nurses Publishing Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses:
Book SynopsisThis is an essential resource for nursing classrooms, in-service training, workshops and conferences, self-study, and wherever nursing professionals use ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements in their daily practice. Each chapter of this comprehensively revised text is devoted to a single Code provision, including: Key ethical concepts. Theories and models of ethical decision-making. Historical, professional and societal issues, trends and other influences. Each interpretive statement’s contribution to interpreting and applying the provision examples and illustrative cases, based on real situations, to facilitate study and discussion. Bibliographic Web links to key national and international documents. For convenience of reference, the text of ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements is included as an appendix. This book will challenge each nurse to achieve deeper professional and personal understanding, and will provide a foundation for professional pride. From the classroom to professional practice, nurses in all roles or settings will find this book to be a powerful tool for learning how to examine and apply the values, duties, ideals and commitments of their living ethical tradition to their practice. Table of Contents Introduction. Provisions, Decisions, and Cases: Getting to What Is Right and Good The Nursing Process, Models of Ethical Decision-Making, and Using the Cases Suggested Questions for Case Discussions Concluding Remarks Provision 1. Affirming Health through Relationships of Dignity and Respect Introduction 1.1 Respect For Human Dignity 1.2 Relationships with Patients 1.3 The Nature of Health 1.4 The Right to Self-Determination 1.5 Relationships with Colleagues and Others Provision 2. The Patient as Nursing’s Foundational Commitment 2.1 Primacy of the Patient's Interests 2.2 Conflict of Interest for Nurses 2.3 Collaboration 2.4 Professional Boundaries Provision 3. Advocacy’s Geography 3.1 Protection of the Rights of Privacy and Confidentiality 3.2 Protection of Human Participants in Research 3.3 Performance Standards and Review Mechanisms 3.4 Professional Responsibility in Promoting a Culture of Safety 3.5 Protection of Patient Health and Safety by Acting on Questionable Practice 3.6 Patient Protection and Impaired Practice Provision 4. The Expectations of Expertise 4.1 Authority, Accountability, and Responsibility 4.2 Accountability for Nursing Judgments, Decisions, and Actions 4.3 Responsibility for Nursing Judgments, Decisions, and Actions 4.4 Assignment and Delegation of Nursing Activities or Tasks Provision 5. The Nurse as Person of Dignity and Worth 5.1 Duties to Self and Others 5.2 Promotion of Personal Health, Safety, and Well-Being 5.3 Preservation of Wholeness of Character 5.4 Preservation of Integrity 5.5 Maintenance of Competence and Continuation of Professional Growth 5.6 Continuation of Personal Growth Provision 6. The Moral Milieu of Nursing Practice 6.1 The Environment and Moral Virtue 6.2 The Environment and Ethical Obligation 6.3 Responsibility for the Healthcare Environment Provision 7. Diverse Contributions to the Profession 7.1 Contributions through Research and Scholarly Inquiry 7.2 Contributions through Developing, Maintaining, and Implementing Professional Practice Standards 7.3 Contributions through Nursing and Health Policy Development Provision 8. Collaboration to Reach for Greater Ends 8.1 Health Is a Universal Right 8.2 Collaboration for Health, Human Rights, and Health Diplomacy 8.3 Obligation to Advance Health and Human Rights and Reduce Disparities 8.4 Collaboration for Human Rights in Complex, Extreme, or Extraordinary Practice Settings Provision 9. Social Justice: Reaching Out to a World in Need of Nursing 9.1 Articulation and Assertion of Values 9.2 Integrity of the Profession 9.3 Integrating Social Justice 9.4 Social Justice in Nursing and Health Policy Appendix A. Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (2015)
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Hatherleigh Press,U.S. Managed Care Ethics: Essays on the Impact of
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Georgetown University Press Taking Advance Directives Seriously: Prospective
Book SynopsisIn the quarter century since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, an ethical, legal, and societal consensus supporting patients' rights to refuse life-sustaining treatment has become a cornerstone of bioethics. Patients now legally can write advance directives to govern their treatment decisions at a time of future incapacity, yet in clinical practice their wishes often are ignored. Examining the tension between incompetent patients' prior wishes and their current best interests as well as other challenges to advance directives, Robert S. Olick offers a comprehensive argument for favoring advance instructions during the dying process. He clarifies widespread confusion about the moral and legal weight of advance directives, and he prescribes changes in law, policy, and practice that would not only ensure that directives count in the care of the dying but also would define narrow instances when directives should not be followed. Olick also presents and develops an original theory of prospective autonomy that recasts and strengthens patient and family control. While focusing largely on philosophical issues the book devotes substantial attention to legal and policy questions and includes case studies throughout. An important resource for medical ethicists, lawyers, physicians, nurses, health care professionals, and patients' rights advocates, it champions the practical, ethical, and humane duty of taking advance directives seriously where it matters most-at the bedside of dying patients.Trade ReviewThis book will be an important resource for physicians, medical ethicists, and other health care professionals as they deal with the rights and prerogatives of the dying and the legal and policy questions surrounding the choices to be made in the conduct of their care. New Jersey Medicine Disquieted that the wishes of dying patients do not direct care at the end of life even when their intentions and plans have been put to writing in an advance directive, Olick rethinks and reinvigorates the case for patient and family control in the face of significant challenges to the nature, scope, and importance of autonomy in the care of incompetent dying patients. Book News, Inc. I recommend this book highly to all health care professionals. It is clearly written, and beautifully argued. It was a pleasure to read such lucid prose reflecting clear thinking. It certainly gave a me a different perspective from which to argue for the rights of patients to die in a dignified manner, a topic that is important to all of us, health care professional or not. Nursing Ethics The book is simultaneously a model of scholarship and a work of advocacy that if heeded would dramatically change the way many patients die. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students and faculty, and essential reading for professionals and practitioners. Choice An important resource for health-care professionals, medical ethicists, and legal scholars who are involved in the legal rights and policy issues surrounding end-of-life decisions. Medical Humanities ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Place of Prospective Autonomy in Deciding for Incompetent Patients 2. The Ethical Foundations of Prospective Autonomy 3. Prospective Decisional Autonomy 4. The Problem of Personal Identity 5. Respecting Advance Directives: Putting Theory into Practice Conclusion Index
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Georgetown University Press Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine,
Book SynopsisWhat, exactly, does it mean to be human? It is an age-old question, one for which theology, philosophy, science, and medicine have all provided different answers. But though a unified response to the question can no longer be taken for granted, how we answer it frames the wide range of different norms, principles, values, and intuitions that characterize today's bioethical discussions. If we don't know what it means to be human, how can we judge whether biomedical sciences threaten or enhance our humanity? This fundamental question, however, receives little attention in the study of bioethics. In a field consumed with the promises and perils of new medical discoveries, emerging technologies, and unprecedented social change, current conversations about bioethics focus primarily on questions of harm and benefit, patient autonomy, and equality of health care distribution. Prevailing models of medical ethics emphasize human capacity for self-control and self-determination, rarely considering such inescapable dimensions of the human condition as disability, loss, and suffering, community and dignity, all of which make it difficult for us to be truly independent. In "Health and Human Flourishing", contributors from a wide range of disciplines mine the intersection of the secular and the religious, the medical and the moral, to unearth the ethical and clinical implications of these facets of human existence. Their aim is a richer bioethics, one that takes into account the roles of vulnerability, dignity, integrity, and relationality in human affliction as well as human thriving. Including an examination of how a theological anthropology - a theological understanding of what it means to be a human being - can help us better understand health care, social policy, and science, this thought-provoking anthology will inspire much-needed conversation among philosophers, theologians, and health care professionals.Trade ReviewHealth and Human Flourishing represents a positive contribution towards validating voices of faith expressed through rational argumentation in the sphere of bioethics. Health Progress The contributors' ability to see the healing professions not only in terms of positive outcomes, but also in the context of our interdependence and mutual frailty suggests that the field of medical ethics is indeed reaching into its full human maturity. America This book is to be praised and indeed read and discussed for its daring attempt to address the anthropological quandry, thereby moving the bioethical debate beyond its usual focus on rights, decision making, and (meta-)ethical theories. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Undoubtably relevant beyond the US Catholic milieu. The collection will be helpful, not only to those engaged in medicine or bioethics, but to anyone reflecting on the meaning of human vulnerability, integrity, relationality and flourishing in the light of experiences of illness and healing. The WayTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: Roberto Dell'Oro Part 1: QUESTIONING AT THE BOUNDARY 1: Theological Anthropology and BioethicsRoberto Dell'Oro 2: Vulnerability, Agency, and Human FlourishingAlisa L. Carse 3: Pluralism, Truthfulness and the Patience of BeingWilliam Desmond Part 2: DIGNITY AND INTEGRITY4: Dignity and the Human as a Natural KindDaniel P. Sulmasy, OFM 5: On Being True to FormMargaret E. Mohrmann 6: The Integrity Conundrum Suzanne Holland Part 3: VULNERABILITY7: Vulnerability and the Meaning of Illness: Reflections on Lived Experience S. Kay Toombs 8: A Meditation on Vulnerability and PowerRichard M. Zaner 9: Vulnerability within the Body of Christ: Anointing of the Sick and Theological AnthropologyM. Therese Lysaught Part 4: RELATIONALITY10: Gender and Human RelationalityChristine E. Gudorf 11: Bioethics, Relationships, and Participation in the Common GoodLisa Sowle Cahill Part 5: THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND PRAXIS 12: Health Care and a Theological AnthropologyCarol Taylor, CSFN 13: Health Policy and a Theological AnthropologyRon Hamel 14: Science and a Theological AnthropologyKevin T. FitzGerald, SJ Toward a Richer Bioethics: A ConclusionEdmund D. Pellegrino ContributorsIndex
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Georgetown University Press Medieval Islamic Medicine
Book SynopsisThe medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650-1500) has, like few others, influenced the fates and fortunes of countless human beings. This title tells the story of contact and cultural exchange across countries and creeds, affecting many people from kings to the common crowd.
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Georgetown University Press African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and
Book SynopsisDo people of differing ethnicities, cultures, and races view medicine and bioethics differently? And, if they do, should they? Are doctors and researchers taking environmental perspectives into account when dealing with patients? If so, is it done effectively and properly? In African American Bioethics, Lawrence J. Prograis Jr. and Edmund D. Pellegrino bring together medical practitioners, researchers, and theorists to assess one fundamental question: Is there a distinctive African American bioethics? The book's contributors resoundingly answer yes—yet their responses vary. They discuss the continuing African American experience with bioethics in the context of religion and tradition, work, health, and U.S. society at large—finding enough commonality to craft a deep and compelling case for locating a black bioethical framework within the broader practice, yet recognizing profound nuances within that framework. As a more recent addition to the study of bioethics, cultural considerations have been playing catch-up for nearly two decades. African American Bioethics does much to advance the field by exploring how medicine and ethics accommodate differing cultural and racial norms, suggesting profound implications for growing minority groups in the United States.Trade ReviewThe contributors provide a compelling case for locating an African-American framework for bioethics. Practitioners, researchers, and theorists will find this book worth reading. There is no compendium on the subject like it. * New England Journal of Medicine *African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity represents an excellent contribution to the field of bioethics. It has implications for those who want to study further the social effects of health care and bioethics on other racial and ethnic non-dominant groups living in the United States and seek to access its health care delivery system. * Health Progress *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Culture and Bioethics: Where Ethics and Mores MeetEdmund D. Pellegrino Chapter 1. Revisiting African American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: Distinctiveness and Other QuestionsJorge L. A. Garcia Chapter 2. The Moral Weight of Culture in EthicsSegun GbadegesinChapter 3. Whitewashing Black Health: Lies, Deceptions, Assumptions and Assertions—And the Disparities ContinueAnnette Dula Chapter 4. Race, Equity, Health Policy, and the African American CommunityPatricia A. King Chapter 5. Religion and Ethical Decision Making in the African American Community: Bioterrorism and the Black Postal WorkersCheryl J. Sanders Chapter 6. Personal Narrative and an African American Perspective on Medical EthicsEzra E. H. Griffith Chapter 7. Does an African American Perspective Alter Clinical Ethical Decision Making at the Bedside?Reginald L. Peniston Chapter 8. Race, Genetics, and EthicsKevin FitzGerald and Charmaine Royal Afterword: An African American's Internal Perspective on Biomedical EthicsLawrence J. Prograis, Jr. Contributors Index
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Marian Press Blessed Hanna Chrzanowska, RN: A Nurse of Mercy
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University Press of New England Ethics for International Medicine A Practical
Book SynopsisA handy guide to identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues that arise in international medicine
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Michigan State University Press The Origins of Bioethics: Remembering When
Book SynopsisThe Origins of Bioethics argues that what we remember from the history of medicine and how we remember it are consequential for the identities of doctors, researchers, and patients in the present day. Remembering when medicine went wrong calls people to account for the injustices inflicted on vulnerable communities across the twentieth century in the name of medicine, but the very groups empowered to create memorials to these events often have a vested interest in minimizing their culpability for them. Sometimes these groups bury this past and forget events when medical research harmed those it was supposed to help.call to bioethical memory then conflicts with a desire for “minimal remembrance” on the part of institutions and governments. The Origins of Bioethics charts this tension between bioethical memory and minimal remembrance across three cases - the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study, and the Cincinnati Whole Body Radiation Study - that highlight the shift from robust bioethical memory to minimal remembrance to forgetting.
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University of Akron Press International Journal of Ethical Leadership
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Sourcebooks The Day I Die
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Baraka Books Stolen Motherhood: Surrogacy and Made-to-Order
Book SynopsisContracting surrogate mothers is no longer marginal. Nor is it secret. Surrogacy is growing rapidly even though no informed debate on the social impacts of its normalization has been conducted. It is even regarded as socially progressive, while those who question it are considered to be opposed to progress. The 'surrogacy process' - commissioning a woman to bear and give birth to a child and then surrender it - is vitiated by its contractual nature, be it in its so-called altruistic form (i.e., no exchange of money) or the straight-forward commercial form. It is an attack on the human dignity and equal gender rights of surrogate mothers, but also a denial of the rights of the contracted child to come, who is so often forgotten in the 'process.' Current inconsistent or contradictory legislation has led to a fait accompli approach to the question. It's being done, so let's just regulate it, say its defenders. Other countries that have followed that logic have seen an increase in both demand for surrogates and recourse to shrewd international brokers. In many cases, international simply means the surrogate mother is from a poor country with lax legislation, the commissioning parents, from rich countries. By examining the 'surrogacy process' and all its implications, Maria De Koninck reaches the conclusion that the best way forward is an international ban on surrogacy.
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Spinifex Press Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies & the
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SIGMA Theta Tau International Nurse's Law: Legal Questions & Answers for the
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SIGMA Theta Tau International Nursing Ethics in Everyday Practice
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The University of Akron Press Teaching Ethics in Organ Transplantation
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Les Belles Lettres Medecine, Sante Et Sciences Humaines: Manuel
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Textes Cles de Philosophie Du Soin: Sante,
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