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  • Bioethics Reenvisioned

    A Path toward Health Justice

    by Nancy M. P. King, Gail E. Henderson, Larry R. Churchill ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision. Born in the ferment of the 1970s, the field responded to rapid developments in biomedical technology and injustices in clinical care and research. Since then, bioethics has predominantly focused on respect for autonomy, beneficence and nonmaleficence, and the zero-sum “lifeboat” ethics of distributive justice, applying these principles almost exclusively ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Beyond Regulations

    Ethics in Human Subjects Research

    Edited by Nancy M. P. King, Gail E. Henderson, Jane Stein ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    Across a broad range of disciplines — in medicine, social science, and the humanities — researchers, scholars, teachers, and administrators increasingly are looking for new ways to approach ethical issues in research with human subjects. Questions about how relationships between funders and researchers should affect research design, for example, or whether the potential benefits of research can ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Ethics in Community-Based Elder Care

    Edited by Phyllis B. Mitzen, ACSW, LCSW, Martha B. Holstein, PhD ...
    Series series Springer Series on Ethics, Law, and Aging
    Caring for elders outside of institutions is the fastest growing sector of US health care. Building on their research study at the Park Ridge Center, editors Holstein and Mitzen, together with a team of experts, examine the complexities involved in developing an ethics for community-based long-term care. They also challenge policymakers to make home care a more viable option for older people in ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Health, Healing and the Church's Mission

    Biblical Perspectives and Moral Priorities

    by Willard M. Swartley ...
    Does the Christian community have the resources to develop a coherent response to health care challenges today?Accounting for biblical, theological and church-historical streams, Willard Swartley divulges a long tradition of healing and health care inherited by Christians today. Beginning with in-depth studies of Old and New Testament understandings of healing, the book surveys three millennia of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toward Scientific Medicine

    by O.S. Miettinen ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Scientific medicine in Miettinen’s conception of it is very different from the two ideas about it that come to eminence in the 20th century. To him, medicine is scientific to the extent that it has a rational theoretical framework and a knowledge-base from medical science. He delineates the nature of that theoretical framework and of the research to develop the requisite knowledge for application ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Violence As My Only Option

    by Vincent Diaz ...
    This is a book that is a cry for help from the author to be removed from this corrupt terroristic torture society and given a place in communism to prosper. It tells of the torture he has been put through and his military training the society is trying to bring out he does not want to use. ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Technicians of Human Dignity

    Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth

    by Gaymon Bennett ...
    Series series Just Ideas
    Technicians of Human Dignity traces the extraordinary rise of human dignity as a defining concern of religious, political, and bioethical institutions over the last half century and offers original insight into how human dignity has become threatened by its own success. The global expansion of dignitarian politics has left dignity without a stable set of meanings or referents, unsettling ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of COPD®, 2nd edition

    by Antonio Anzueto, MD, Fernando J. Martinez, MD, MS ...
    More than 16 million Americans are estimated to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a condition that interferes with normal breathing and has become the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. This practice-based reference by two leading pulmonary experts provides clinicians with the latest, clinically relevant information about pathology and pathophysiology, management, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Critical Choices and Critical Care

    Catholic Perspectives on Allocating Resources in Intensive Care Medicine

    Edited by Kevin Wm. Wildes ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Critical Choices and Critical Care brings together the traditional reflections on ordinary and extraordinary means with Catholic social thought. It examines the difficult questions on the allocation of high technology resources used in intensive care medicine. The book also provides relevant background information (e.g. statements by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Congregation for ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ending Life

    Ethics and the Way We Die

    by Margaret Pabst Battin ...
    Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands to furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

    A Relational Challenge

    by Alasdair Maclean ...
    Series Book 8 - Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics
    Alasdair Maclean analyses the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment, providing both an extensive reconsideration of the ethical issues and a detailed examination of English law. Importantly, the analysis is given a context by situating consent at the centre of the healthcare professional-patient relationship. This allows the development of a relational model that balances the agency of ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Caring Autonomy

    European Human Rights Law and the Challenge of Individualism

    by Katri Lõhmus ...
    Despite its absence in the written text of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights now regularly uses the concept of autonomy when deciding cases concerning assisted dying, sexuality and reproductive rights, self-determination, fulfilment of choices and control over body and mind. But is the concept of autonomy as expressed in the ECtHR reasoning an appropriate ... Read more

    $118.89 USD