This book is a handbook that explores the best ways to promote the application of the Madrid Declaration, which defines ethical standards in psychiatric practice worldwide. The book is written with two questions in mind, both easy to ask,...
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Bioethics. An Introduction to the History Method & Practice
The second edition of Bioethics: Introduction to History, Methods and Practice provides readers with a sophisticated introduction to bioethics. It is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who are planning a career in ethics and care...
Bioethics and Secular Humanism
Bioethics is extremely important in our time because it is a critical expression of interest in the appropriate use of medical science in the provision of health care. Secular humanism is important because it is central to the construction of a common...
The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape
Stem cell research. The influence of a pharmaceutical company. Miscarriage. Prevention of pregnancy. Long-term and end-of-life care. Human participant research. Informed consent. The list of ethical issues in science, medicine and public health is long and...
Taking Advance Directives Seriously: Prospective Autonomy and Decisions Near the End of Life 2004
In the quarter century since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, the ethical, legal and social consensus supporting patients' rights to refuse life-sustaining treatment has become a cornerstone of bioethics. Patients can now legally write preliminary 200 guidelines,...
A Short History of Medical Ethics Reprint Edition
A doctor states: "I have an ethical duty never to cause the death of a patient", while another replies: "It is my ethical duty to relieve pain even if the patient dies". The current dispute over the role of doctors in helping patients to die continually refers to...
What it Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
One of the Wall Street Journal's top ten books of the year A leading expert on public bioethics argues for a new conception of human identity in American law and politics. The natural limitations of the human body make us vulnerable and by ...
Who Says You're Dead: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned
Drawing on the author's experience in two decades of teaching medical ethics in America at top universities and medical schools and his work as a practising psychiatrist, this innovative book confronts readers with the complex, troubling...
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America
This book is an insightful examination of bioethics and American healthcare and their profound impact on American culture over the past sixty years by two distinguished scholars. An eye-opening look at the inevitable choices ...
Principles of Biomedical Ethics
Principles of Biomedical Ethics is a highly original, practical and insightful guide to morality in the health professions. Acclaimed authors Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress thoroughly develop and advocate the four principles that underlie...
Strangers At The Bedside: A History Of How Law And Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making
David Rothman presents us with a brilliant, finely etched study of the practice of medicine today. Since the mid-1960s, the practice of medicine in the United States has undergone a remarkable - and utterly controversial - transformation. The discretion that ...
The Birth of Bioethics
This book is the first comprehensive history of the emerging field of bioethics. It covers the period 1947-1987 and examines the origins and evolution of debates about human experimentation, genetic engineering, organ transplantation, the end of life-sustaining treatment,...
Surrogacy in India: Bioethics, Human Rights and Agency
The author of the book interviewed 45 surrogate mothers (SMs) who had completed 63 births and delivered 90 children from 2007 to 2017. All of the surrogate mothers had completed surrogacy when they were interviewed. This research indicates that they continue to ...
American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries
Bioethics was 'born in the USA' and the values that American bioethics holds are based on American law, including freedom and justice. This book crosses the boundaries between bioethics and the law, but goes beyond the national law / bioethics struggle for...
Bioethical Decision Making and Argumentation
This book clarifies the meaning of the most important and ubiquitous concepts and tools in bioethical argumentation (principles, values, dignity, rights, duties, forethought, prudence) and assesses the methodological relevance of the main methods of clinical decision-making and...