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A case-based approach that provides the advice and skills doctors need to help patients and useful in overcoming ethical challenges. This book offers both trainees and practitioners a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to...

Hailed as an 'outstanding achievement' and a 'must-read for any serious student of bioethics', this book is the first systematic examination of the methods and analysis of a wide variety of disciplines - such as economic anthropology, epidemiology, health research, law,...

Surgery is an important palliative treatment for patients with advanced cancer. In addition to concerns about clinical decision-making, various moral challenges are encountered in palliative surgery. Some of these relate to the patients and their illness, others...

This book covers the basic legal principles, key cases and laws governing medical law, as well as the key debates and ethical dilemmas that exist in this field. Carefully structured it highlights these debates, showing European viewpoints,...

Palliative sedation (sedation causing unconsciousness) as an option of last resort for intractable end-of-life suffering has been the subject of ongoing discussion and debate, as well as policy formulation. A particularly controversial...

This book explores how traditional and new issues in clinical medicine, research, public health and health policy may look different in infectious diseases. The authors argue that both practice and policy must recognise that the patient with...

2018 Colleen M.Marty, Brian S.Carter The perinatal world is unique in its conscientious consideration of two patients in decision-making and clinical management - the fetus and the pregnant woman. The potential of the fetal-newborn is intertwined with the absolute...

K. Danner Clouser is one of the most important figures in establishing and shaping the fields of medical ethics, bioethics and philosophy of education in the second half of the 20th century. Clouser challenged many established approaches to moral theory and proposed innovative...

This book provides students with the theoretical basis and practical applications for acting on their values in situations of ethical conflict. It is the first book on medical ethics to use the Giving Voice to Values methodology to...

Palliative care is required for incurable advanced-stage cancer and other incurable chronic diseases. Various aspects of palliative care, such as pain and symptom control, psychosocial care and end-of-life issues,...

This textbook is a challenging and engaging introduction to more advanced work in medical law and ethics, the main aim of which is to enable students to 'get under the skin' of the subject and begin to develop critical thinking skills and...

Letting Go shows how to start thinking about the final stage of life before you get there, how to formulate a will that helps people make decisions on our behalf and how we can maintain our dignity and independence for as long as possible. Drawing on...

This collection of essays explores a fundamental concept that is central to today's discourse in law and ethics in general, and bioethics in particular. In this volume, scholars in philosophy, medicine and medical ethics, law, political science and social policy...

This book describes what dying looks like from the perspective of nine terminally ill people and their carers. Documenting a unique study of end-of-life experiences, which included detailed interviews in a residential care setting, the book focuses on how...

Huge advances in medical science over several years have prompted consideration of the use of the right to life in medical practice. It has been recognised that the moral rights enshrined in the Hippocratic Oath serve ethical dilemmas in public life. The concept of the 'right to life' in...