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In medical school, no one teaches how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She decided to specialise in critical care - to become an ICU doctor - and imagined herself stepping in to save patients from...

Meet Adam. He is twenty-seven years old, eloquent and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? In The Inevitable , award-winning journalist Katie Engelhart explores one of our most enduring taboos: assisted dying. From Avril,...

This book answers two fundamental questions: what are the things that allow patients' relationships with medical staff to become therapeutic? What can it teach us about healthcare ethics? The authors provide detailed descriptions and analyses of 55 interviews with 58...

Written with sensitivity, grace and impartial authority, this book provides a clearly reasoned assessment of the arguments both for and against the legalisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia. Drawing on the experiences of the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and the US, it...

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, changing the dangers of childbirth, injury and disease from unmanageable to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of ageing and death, what medicine can do is often...

This book presents a bold new vision for humanising healthcare. The healthcare and life sciences industries have dimaterally changed over the past few decades - and not always for the better. In addition to rising costs and difficulties of access, the current...

Throughout his career, Dr Mark Siegler has written on topics ranging from teaching clinical medical ethics to end-of-life decision-making and the ethics of technological advances. With more than 200 journal publications and 60 book chapters published in this...

In this unique study, Jean-Pierre Clero analyses medical ethics from a philosophical point of view. Drawing on the reflections of great philosophers, he develops a theory of medical ethics, focusing on the values of intimacy.

Inspiring, perfectly observed memoirs find hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable adversity as an idealistic young neurosurgeon tries to answer the question: what makes life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing ...

The most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of its kind, Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics: Decision-Making, Principles and Cases, Second Edition, explores fundamental ethical issues arising from real-life situations faced by healthcare professionals,...

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...