Medical ethics and professional conduct Books
Editorial Sntesis, S.A. Biofisica
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Ediciones Palabra, S.A. Biotica historia principios cuestiones
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£25.86
Ediciones Pennsula Diccionario de Botanica
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Pari Publishing The Way We Die: Brain Death, Vegetative State,
Book SynopsisRapid advances in modern medicine and diagnostic techniques have revolutionized the way we think about death and the processes of dying. Where once death was defined as the absence of respiration or heartbeat, today patients can be kept alive for months or even years hooked up to a respirator and feeding tube. Ivan and Melrose carefully explain the various medical processes involved in death and dying. In so doing they also face the many ethical, moral and legal dilemmas that confront doctors today, as well as the decisions that may have to be taken by relatives. What, they ask, is the meaning of "life" when large areas of a person's brain have suffered irreversible damage? And what of the economic quandary when valuable hospital beds are occupied by people in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery?Table of ContentsHistory of the definitions of death Coma Persistent vegetative state The "Do not resuscitate" order Brain death Harvesting and transplanting organs Dying with dignity and palliative care The living will The right to die Euthanasia and assisted suicide Near-death experiences Life after death? Body, Mind and Soul
£9.49
World Health Organization CD-Rom Case Book on Ethical Issues in
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Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers CM Francis Medical Ethics
Book SynopsisThe Medical Council of India (MCI) has introduced a new medical curriculum which includes a one-month foundation course at entry level to medical school. The MCI has laid emphasis on 'AETCOM' (Attitude, Ethics, and Communication) module which is a welcome step. Medical ethics will help medical students acquire knowledge of medicolegal, societal, ethical and humanitarian principles that enable them to grow in their profession and serve patients and society in a better way. Complete handbook on ethics in medicine. Includes the latest MCI Regulations on professional conduct, etiquettes and ethics. Follows the new Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2018. All the chapters have been updated and expanded. Invaluble for the teaching and learning of medical ethics. Enables healthcare professionals to serve their patients and the society in a better way. Table of ContentsSECTION 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Medical Ethics: Some Basic Issues 2. Teaching/Learning Medical Ethics 3. Codes of Conduct SECTION 2 BIOETHICS 4. Malpractice and Negligence 5. Confidentiality (Professional Secrecy) 6. Autonomy and Informed Consent 7. Rights of Patients SECTION 3 PROFESSIONAL AND PERSIONAL 8. Irrational Drug Therapy SECTION 4 BEGINNING OF LIFE 9. Right to Life 10. Sex Preselection and Female Feticide 11. Assisted Reproductive Technologies SECTION 5 END OF LIFE 12. Care of the Terminally Ill 13. Euthanasia SECTION 6 HEALTH POLICY AND HEALTH CARE 14. Health Policy 15. Distributive Justice in Health Care 16. Technology SECTION 7 EMERGING ISSUES 17. Alternate Medicine 18. Organ Transplantation 19. HIV/AIDS 20. Genetics SECTION 8 HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH 21. Human Experimentation 22. Clinical Trials Annexure: Indian Medical Council (Profession Conduct, Etiquettes and Ethics) Regulations, 2002 Index
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Springer The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical
Book SynopsisSince its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May 2013 of its fifth edition, the DSM-5, marked the latest milestone in the history of the DSM and of American psychiatry. In The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel, experts in the philosophy of psychiatry propose original essays that explore the main issues related to the DSM-5, such as the still weak validity and reliability of the classification, the scientific status of its revision process, the several cultural, gender and sexist biases that are apparent in the criteria, the comorbidity issue and the categorical vs. dimensional debate. For several decades the DSM has been nicknamed “The Psychiatric Bible.” This volume would like to suggest another biblical metaphor: the Tower of Babel. Altogether, the essays in this volume describe the DSM as an imperfect and unachievable monument – a monument that was originally built to celebrate the new unity of clinical psychiatric discourse, but that ended up creating, as a result of its hubris, ever more profound practical divisions and theoretical difficulties.Trade Review“The essays in Demazeux’s and Singy’s volume are all about the DSM-5, but they also address many distinct aspects of human life, from research design to moral values, to sexuality, to grief. … the volume–and the intensity of the criticisms it contains–eloquently demonstrates the importance of the DSM to modern life. This in turn proves the importance of the collection, which contributes to our understanding of both the DSM and ourselves.” (Brent M. Kious, Metascience, Vol. 25, 2016)“The present volume of philosophical commentary on this ambitious project offers a range of contributions to the debate about psychiatric nosology, a few of which are truly outstanding. … this volume is recommended reading for specialists and non-specialists alike interested in the problems inherent in constructing any useful taxonomy of mental conditions and particularly for insight into the science, history, and politics that have shaped the current DSM-5.” (Mark J. Sedler, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, August, 2015)“This is a collection of essays from different authors exploring the main problems of the DSM-5. … The purpose is to review and discuss the methodological and philosophical weaknesses, as well cultural bias, in the DSM-5. … one definitely worth checking out if you deal with the DSM at all.” (Brett C. Plyler, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2015)Table of ContentsIntroduction; Steeves Demazeux and Patrick Singy.- Part I. General issues.- Chapter 1. The Ideal of Scientific Progress and the DSM; Steeves Demazeux.- Chapter 2. DSM-5 and Research Concerning Mental Illness; Jeffrey Poland.- Chapter 3. DSM-5 and Psychiatry’s Second Revolution: Descriptive vs. Theoretical Approaches to Psychiatric Classification; Jonathan Tsou.- Chapter 4. DSM-5: The Delayed Demise of Descriptive Diagnosis; Stuart A. Kirk, David Cohen, Tomi Gomory.- Chapter 5. Must Disorders Cause Harm? The Changing Stance of the DSM; Rachel Cooper.- Chapter 6.‘Deviant Deviance’: Cultural Diversity in DSM-5; Dominic Murphy.- Part II. Specific issues.- Chapter 7. Danger and Difference: The Stakes of Hebephilia; Patrick Singy.- Chapter 8. Sexual Dysfunctions and Asexuality in DSM-5; Andrew Hinderliter.- Chapter 9. The Crippling Legacy of Monomanias in DSM-5; John Z. Sadler.- Chapter 10. The Loss of Grief: Science and Pseudoscience in the Debate Over DSM-5’s Elimination of the Bereavement Exclusion; Jerome Wakefield.- Chapter 11. Against Hyponarrating Grief: Incompatible Research and Treatment Interests in the DSM-5; Şerife Tekin.- Chapter 12. RDoC: Thinking Outside the DSM Box without Falling into a Reductionist Trap; Luc Faucher and Simon Goyer.- Chapter 13. DSM-5 and the Reconceptualization of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Anthropological Perspective from the Neuroscience Laboratory; Baptiste Moutaud.
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City University of Hong Kong Press Healthcare Law and Ethics: Principles & Practices
Book SynopsisWith the increasing number of complaints and court cases relating to healthcare disputes, healthcare practitioners (HCPs) are now facing more challenges and dilemmas in their daily practices. This book is unique in that most chapters are written jointly by two authors: one with legal training and one with a healthcare background. The balanced view offered thus allows readers to gain a thorough understanding of the concepts presented. Although most of the examples and scenarios are specific to medical doctors, the basic principles and ethical considerations as well as the enforcement of laws and regulations are, with some modifications, equally applicable to other HCPs, such as dentists, nurses, midwives, etc. Readers interested in healthcare law and ethics from numerous fields and stages of training, including legal and healthcare practitioners, trainees, postgraduate researchers and undergraduate students, will find this book both informative and practical as an aid to their work and studies.
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Sunway University Press Expect the Unexpected: A Compilation of Common
Book SynopsisExpect the Unexpected: A Compilation of Common Cases Posing as Diagnostic Dilemmas details 50 patients seen and managed over the years by Professor Datin Dr. Chia Yook Chin. These patient cases present readers with a variety of atypical and unusual diagnoses. Each case forms the basis for a fascinating look at how doctors can improve their approach to each diagnostic dilemma. Budding medical students and housemen, and even family medicine trainees will benefit greatly from learning about these curious real-life cases within this compilation.
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Margaret Hope A Question of Ethics: Case Conferences in
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Dark Side Of Healthcare, The: Issues, Cases, And
Book SynopsisThe Dark Side of Healthcare draws uncomfortable lessons from over 300 case studies of events that occurred in the healthcare sector. Health services have many skilled and dedicated professionals but there is a dark side that cannot be ignored. The unthinkable has happened and might have been prevented.The case studies from many countries include serial killers with a health background, drugs and medical devices that proved to be dangerous, negligent and poor clinical practices, as well as incompetent and weak management that led to failing hospitals and harm to patients. There are also corruption cases, accidents at work, and cases involving the sexual exploitation of children. Politicians' early responses to COVID-19 and the subsequent missteps are also scrutinised. Many of the errors and omissions that led to patient harm have been repeated.This book is not an attack on health services or health professionals. Instead, it is a search for ways of making health delivery safer for patients and staff who deliver care often in challenging circumstances. Its focus is learning rather than blame.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Spiritual Competence For Mental Health
Book SynopsisSpiritual Competence for Mental Health Professionals takes a holistic developmental approach toward spirituality in psychotherapy and counseling. This means that it considers an understanding of spiritual development to be as germane to mental health practice as an understanding of physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development and that it views spirituality as shaped by developmental processes. Common spiritual issues at each stage in the individual and family life course are discussed. Tools for understanding one's own and one's clients' spiritual orientations and goals along with interventions and practices that foster spiritual growth in the client and the practitioner are presented. Reflection and discussion topics are provided at the end of each chapter. Ultimately, this book aims to help mental health practitioners, educators and students to change their approach from 'meet the client where they are spiritually' to 'meet the client where they are spiritually and help them develop further.'
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World Scientific Publishing Company In The Name Of Progress The Dark Side Of Medical
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Introduction To Medical Ethics: Patient's
Book SynopsisThroughout history, men have repeatedly made judgments regarding their own conduct and that of their fellow men. Some acts have been judged to be right or good, while other acts have been denounced as wrong or evil. Ethical judgment in medicine, as in other areas of life, is an attempt to distinguish between good and bad conduct.This book is based on three lectures given by the author as the Medical Director of Eye Clinic Singapura International. The first lecture was an address delivered to medical undergraduates at the National University of Singapore in 1975. The second was a Commonwealth Medical Association lecture delivered a decade ago. The third was a Singapore Medical Association lecture delivered in 1981. This volume, emphasizing the principles of medical ethics, has been kept simple and brief, and it is hoped that it will make interesting reading for both medical professionals and the general public.
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Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd Commercializing Nanomedicine: Industrial
Book SynopsisThe authors of this book address all individuals approaching the study of nanomedicine for the first time ever, as well as those already profitably working in the field either as scientists, doctors, lawyers, or entrepreneurs. Teeming with accurate, up-to-date, and enjoyable content, the book describes some enlightening facts and figures pertaining to the growing field of nanomedicine. Open problems and potentialities are identified and discussed, offering a series of forecasts regarding its global impact on healthcare systems in the coming two decades. This introduction is followed by three different sections: (a) one purely scientific, which delves deep into areas as diverse as proteomics or delivery systems for nanodrugs, demonstrating how nanotechnology is reshaping the way diagnosis and treatment of diseases are made; (b) one focused on the ethical challenges that governments and companies are facing or will have to face in order to protect patients’ rights; and (c) one entirely dedicated to the legal and entrepreneurial issues that are driving this entire medical revolution. In the pages of this lucidly written book, scientists and managers will certainly find the need-to-have tool on their desk to thrive and succeed in the commercialization of nanomedicine.Table of ContentsSection I Nanomedicine. Section II Nanoethics. Section III IP and Commercialization.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Stem Cells: New Frontiers In Science And Ethics
Book SynopsisFast-moving and ever-changing, stem cell science and research presents ongoing ethical and legal challenges in many countries. Each development and innovation throws up new challenges. This is the case even where new developments initially seem to solve old dilemmas. Sometimes it becomes evident that new science does not in fact solve old problems and, for that reason, the ethical issues remain. In recognition of this, this book presents innovative and creative analyses of a range of ethical and legal challenges raised by stem cell research and its potential and actual application.The editors of this collection have brought together experts from ethics and law to bring fresh perspectives on the use of and research on stem cells. The chapters in this collection range across a number of different issues in the debate on stem cells, from the ethical dilemmas of conducting stem cell research to those of the clinical application of stem cell technology. Each chapter gives an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the ethical or legal issues at stake. The early chapters give engaging new expositions on the permissibility of using embryos in stem cell research, in particular challenging our views about how we view and ‘construct’ the embryo in debates regarding stem cells. Later chapters move on to actual and potential clinical uses of stem cells and present novel arguments about these.Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Frontiers in Stem Cell Science and Ethics: Current Technology & Future Challenges (Muireann Quigley, Sarah Chan & John Harris); Situating the Embryo in the Stem Cell Debate: The Monopoly of Moral Status in Debate on Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Sorcha Ui Chonnachtaigh); The Construction of the Embryo and Implications for Law (Sheelagh Mcguinness); Legal Issues In Stem Cell Research & Technology: Legal Regulation of Human Stem Cell Technology (Loane Skene); Human Embryos in Stem Cell Research: Property and Recompense (Sarah Devaney); Dissecting the Ethics of Stem Cells: Against The Discarded-Created Distinction in Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Katrien Devolder); Stem Cell Therapies & Benefiting From The Fruits Of Banned Research (Muireann Quigley); Who Do You Call a Hypocrite? Stem Cells & Comparative Hypocritology (Soren Holm); New Science, New Ethical Frontiers?: Stem Cell Research And Same Sex Reproduction (Thomas Douglas, Catherine Harding, Hannah Bourne & Julian Savulescu); The Permissibility of Recruiting Patients with Spinal Cord Injury for Clinical Stem Cell Trials (Anna Pacholczyk & John Harris).
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Medical Philosophy: Conceptual Issues In Medicine
Book SynopsisThis is the first book that analyzes and systematizes all the general ideas of medicine, in particular the philosophical ones, which are usually tacit. Instead of focusing on one or two points — typically disease and clinical trial — this book examines all the salient aspects of biomedical research and practice: the nature of disease; the logic of diagnosis; the discovery and design of drugs; the design of lab and clinical trials; the crafting of therapies and design of protocols; the moral duties and rights of physicians and patients; the distinctive features of scientific medicine and of medical quackery; the unique combination of basic and translational research; the place of physicians and nurses in society; the task of medical sociology; and the need for universal medical coverage. Health care workers, medicine buffs, and philosophers will find this thought-provoking book highly useful in their line of work and research.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Traditional Medicines; Modern Medicine; Disease; Diagnosis; Drug; Trial; Treatment; Prevention; Iatroethics; Science, Technology, or Art?.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Ethics In Tissue Establishments
Book SynopsisAt present, the international community cannot be assured that the quality and, in particular the safety of tissues for transplants, is properly guaranteed in all countries and regions. Shortcomings of international and regional ethical rules and standards in the field of tissue banking, the lack of national ethical rules and standards in force in several countries, the lack of proper regulatory oversight and overall lack of harmonisation of existing ethical rules and standards, contribute to the problem.This book addresses the issues by promoting the adoption of an ethical policy and the use of a model code of ethics and a model code of practice as a reference for the tissue banking community, government agencies and policy-makers worldwide. This will facilitate the use of tissue processed in one country in any other country that needs it with the additional assurance of quality and safety that is lacking presently.Table of ContentsGeneral Overview; The Importance of Ethics in the Field of Human Tissue Banking; A Model Code of Ethics for Tissue Establishment; The Importance of a Code of Practice for Tissue Establishment; A Model Code of Ethics for Tissue Establishment; The Role of Governments, the World Health Organisation, The International Atomic Energy Agency and Regional Professional Associations in the Promotion of Ethics and Best Practice in Tissue Banking; Conclusion;
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Quintessence of Basic and Clinical Research
Book SynopsisThe book, intended for biomedical researchers, attempts to foster a comprehensive understanding of the elements that impact scientific research, such as clinical trial design, communication, and publication methods. It introduces the process of idea generation and creative/critical thinking, leading to the development of key concepts that coalesce into theoretical constructs and working hypotheses. The book systematically delineates research phases associated with a bench-to-bedside translational approach, providing the full depth and breadth of drug discovery and development: design, synthesis, and optimization of drug candidates interacting with targets linked to diseases, as well as clinical trial design to acquire substantial evidence of efficacy and safety for candidate drugs in the target patient population. New and evolving topics such as artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning, drug repurposing approaches, and bioinformatics, are incorporated into the text as these features are becoming integrated into drug research and development. Additionally, it covers publication strategies, including literature search, manuscript preparation, data presentation, relevant discussion, editorial processes, elements of peer review, and bibliometrics. Finally, the book addresses grantsmanship, key strategies for building effective networks, mentorships, maintaining research integrity, and forging career advancement opportunities, including entrepreneurship.Table of ContentsPlease refer to the attachments tab.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Skills and Ethics of Professional Touch: From
Book SynopsisThis book introduces readers to the ethical and goal-oriented functions of touch in professional practice. Touch is both an increasingly visible topic today and a core skill in many professions, especially in health, education and social work. This book combines helpful theoretical discussions and practical information, offering a balanced and culturally-informed introduction to an issue that both students and professionals often find difficult to navigate. Chapters discuss the various functions of touch and its uses, giving readers a deeper understanding of the potential of tactile work practices. The authors offer clear legal and ethical guidance to empower learners. They discuss key issues such as harmful touch and the increasing digitisation of patient work. Activities, case studies and further readings promote learning and help readers reflect on their own relationship to touch. This book is an invaluable resource for students in undergraduate and graduate courses in healthcare, nursing, education and social work, and to practitioners looking for guidance on this topic.Table of Contents
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Kite Group Ltd Bioethics and Clinical Ethics: From theory to
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Ballantyne Books TRUTH vs. DECEPTION - Liberty vs. Tyranny:
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Anatomy of a Wrongful Death Lawsuit
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Advantage Media Group, Inc. Inspiring Integrity
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