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Reflective Bioethics Serie de eBooks

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  • Physician Assisted Suicide

    Expanding the Debate

    de Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, Anita Silvers ...
    Series series Reflective Bioethics
    Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

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  • Choosing Children

    Genes, Disability, and Design

    de Jonathan Glover ...
    Series series Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
    Progress in genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't have. Should we welcome this power, or should we fear its implications? There is no ethical question more urgent than this: we may be at a turning-point in the history of humanity. The renowned moral philosopher and best-selling author Jonathan Glover shows us how we ... Leer más

    $25.69 USD

  • Rights Come to Mind

    Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness

    de Joseph J. Fins ...
    Through the sobering story of Maggie Worthen and her mother, Nancy, this book tells of one family's struggle with severe brain injury and how developments in neuroscience call for a reconsideration of what society owes patients at the edge of consciousness. Drawing upon over fifty in-depth family interviews, the history of severe brain injury from Quinlan to Schiavo, and his participation in ... Leer más

    $36.09 USD

  • Should A Doctor Tell?

    The Evolution of Medical Confidentiality in Britain

    de Angus H. Ferguson ...
    Medical confidentiality has long been recognised as a core element of medical ethics, but its boundaries are under constant negotiation. Areas of debate in twenty-first century medicine include the use of patient-identifiable data in research, information sharing across public services, and the implications of advances in genetics. This book provides important historical insight into the modern ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • When Doctors Become Patients

    de Robert Klitzman ...
    For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awareness-- not only in their sense of their selves, which is invariably bound up with the "invincible doctor" role, but in the way that they view their patients and the doctor-patient relationship. While some books have been written from first-person ... Leer más

    $27.59 USD

  • Death House

    The True Story of an American Community Hospital and Its Physicians Who Murder for Money

    de Larry R. Leichter ...
    There is an excellent chance this book will save your life. You will see doctors, the practice of medicine, and community hospitals as you have never seen them before. You will learn about things you never could have believed existed before. For what is written in this book has never been told before in its entirety, anywhere and by anyone.Doctors with respectable credentials and good reputations ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Chronicles Of A Gynaecologist

    de Dr. Tripti Sharan ...
    India has a high maternal mortality rate, a staggering 174 per 100,000 live births (2015).'Women are not dying because of diseases we cannot treat. They are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving.'-Mahmoud Fathalla, past president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics.Pregnancy is not only an altered physiology, but also has ... Leer más

    $12.49 USD

  • Classification, Disease and Evidence

    New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine

    Edición de Philippe Huneman, Gérard Lambert, Marc Silberstein ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e. define classes of diseases and recognize that an instance X of disease belongs to a given class B? ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Fixing the Poor

    Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century

    de Molly Ladd-Taylor ...
    How state welfare politics—not just concerns with "race improvement"—led to eugenic sterilization practices.Honorable Mention, 2018 Outstanding Book Award, The Disability History AssociationShortlist, 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationBetween 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd ... Leer más

    $27.09 USD

  • Are Workarounds Ethical?

    Managing Moral Problems in Health Care Systems

    de Nancy Berlinger ...
    How work gets done in complex health care systems is ethically important. When health care professionals and other staff are pressured to improvise, fix structural problems, or comply with competing policies, the uncertainty and distress they experience have potential consequences for patients, families, colleagues, and the system itself. This book presents a new theory of health care ethics that ... Leer más

    $36.89 USD

  • Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics

    Edición de Alberto Garcia, Gonzalo Miranda, Joseph Tham ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves. The International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO working group has for the last several years dedicated to deepen this principle of human vulnerability and personal integrity. This book serves to supplement this effort with a religious perspective given a great number ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Brain, Body, and Mind

    Neuroethics with a Human Face

    de Walter Glannon ...
    This book is a discussion of the most timely and contentious issues in the two branches of neuroethics: the neuroscience of ethics; and the ethics of neuroscience. Drawing upon recent work in psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery, it develops a phenomenologically inspired theory of neuroscience to explain the brain-mind relation. The idea that the mind is shaped not just by the brain but also by ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD