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This groundbreaking text is a key resource for nurses working in palliative care. Edited by renowned nursing experts and written by a dynamic team of internationally renowned authorities in the field of nursing,...

Adding African and African-American perspectives to update the 1989 edition, 43 readings (1803-1998) explore the medical ethics of major Western and Eastern religious, philosophical and legal traditions.

This book addresses some of the most debated questions in contemporary science about the beginning and end of life. This collection of essays addresses questions about the dawn of human life, including: Should we have children with three (or more) parents? Is it better to never ...

Michael Ryan (d. 1840) remains one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of medical ethics, despite being the only British doctor in the mid-19th century to write systematically about ethics. Michael Ryan's publications on medical ethics include.

Should a woman with brain death be artificially maintained for the sake of the foetus? Does a doctor have the right to give a life-saving transfusion despite the patient's religious beliefs? Can a family ask for a hysterectomy for their handicapped daughter? Doctors are increasingly...

Rosamond Rhodes argues that common descriptions of the morality of medical ethics are inadequate for the profession and inadequate to address the specific issues that arise in medical practice. Instead, Rhodes says that trust is the core and point of...

This volume presents a modest challenge, sometimes direct, sometimes implicit, to the mainstream Anglo-American conception of the discipline of medical ethics. It does so not by attempting to fill in the gaps with minority themes, but by re-examining some fundamental ...

This book is intended to serve as a practical introduction to ethical issues that doctors and other healthcare professionals may encounter in their practice. The book is divided into three sections on ethical foundations, clinical ethics and medicine and...

This book is a comprehensive resource designed to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the complex ethical, regulatory and legal issues that are relevant to clinicians in emergency medicine. This text reviews traditional and...

There is a diversity of 'ethical practice' in medicine as an institutionalised profession, as well as a need for ethical professionals both in practice and in institutionalised positions. This study provides a social perspective ...

This book is a practical introduction to ethical issues that doctors and other health professionals may encounter in their practice. It is of direct relevance to health professionals and health service users. The authors go out of ...

This book is divided into 23 chapters. The introductory chapters introduce the basic concepts of medical ethics, such as the relationship between the legal system and ethics, ethical documents, ethical theories and ethical analysis. Subsequent chapters address issues of...

Medical ethics is a specialised branch of applied ethics. It deals with ethical issues arising from the interactions between healthcare professionals and patients and how medical technology is used in the existing healthcare system. Many...

This short textbook on ethics and law is aimed at doctors in training and practice. Medical ethics and law are now firmly embedded in medical school curricula. The ability to make clinical decisions based on critical reasoning ...

The huge scale of medical ethics that now exists has benefited doctors and wider society. Andreas-Holger Maehle, Professor of the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University, Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease and...