Prescribing Our Future: Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling
ISBN: 9780202304533 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Genetic counselors translate the findings of scientific investigation into meaningful accounts that enable individuals and families to make decisions about their lives. This collection of original papers explores the history, values, and norms of that process, with some focus on the value of nondirectiveness in counseling practice. The contributors; examination of genetic counseling issues serves as a foundation from which to address other ethical, legal, and policy considerations in the expanding universe of clinical genetics. Genetic counselors translate the findings of scientific investigation into meaningful accounts that enable individuals and families to make decisi... |
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148,34 zł |
Intensive Care: Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession
ISBN: 9780226996356 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In riveting case studies, Robert Zussman describes how medical decisions in ICUs are considered and reconsidered, made and remade, negotiated and renegotiated. He concentrates on the "practice" of medical ethics, on the ways in which right and wrong are interpreted and used in the ward how definitions of right and wrong emerge from the social situations of patients, families, doctors, and nurses and from the workings of hospitals and the courts.
His book is a portrait of the way careful planning is undermined by the unpredictability of illness and the persistence of self-interest, by high... In riveting case studies, Robert Zussman describes how medical decisions in ICUs are considered and reconsidered, made and remade, negotiated and rene...
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150,82 zł |
Nursing Ethics: A Virtue-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780230506886 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book proposes a 'strong' (action-guiding) account of a virtue-based approach to moral decision-making within contemporary nursing practice. Merits and criticisms of obligation and virtue-based approaches to morality are explored. The author argues that in order to deliver morally good care, it is necessary to examine one's moral character.
This book proposes a 'strong' (action-guiding) account of a virtue-based approach to moral decision-making within contemporary nursing practice. Merit...
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Medical Ethics, Ordinary Concepts and Ordinary Lives: Ordinary Concepts, Ordinary Lives
ISBN: 9780230506909 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mainstream discussions of ethics oftensearch for a problem-solving theory or explore ontological status. This book argues instead that the proper starting point should be the words and deeds of ordinary people in ordinary disagreements - the ethical concepts in play can only derive full meaning within the context of ordinary human lives."
Mainstream discussions of ethics oftensearch for a problem-solving theory or explore ontological status. This book argues instead that the proper star...
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AIDS and Ethics
ISBN: 9780231073592 / Angielski / Miękka / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should a physician with AIDS be required to inform his or her patients? Does a physician have an obligation to warn the partner who wants this fact kept secret? Should all newborns and pregnant women be screened for HIV? Should insurance companies be required to insure patients who test positive for the disease? Professionals and society at large are confronted by a wide range of complex ethical issues produced by the AIDS health crisis. AIDS and Ethics is the first major collection of essays on the complex ethical issues created by the AIDS crisis. The nation's leading bioethics...
Should a physician with AIDS be required to inform his or her patients? Does a physician have an obligation to warn the partner who wants this fact ke...
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172,37 zł |
By No Extraordinary Means, Expanded Edition: The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water
ISBN: 9780253205179 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". compelling.... This book might have been called 'No Easy Answers.' Each of the contributors writes with undisguised urgency.... W]e should face up to these issues now. By No Extraordinary Means will serve as an impetus and guide." -New York Times Book Review "This fine new book... thoughtfully written... well edited and cohesively integrated... will be valuable for physicians, nurses, nutritionists, attorneys, members of the clergy, policy makers, and members of the general public." -New England Journal of Medicine ..". compelling.... This book might have been called 'No Easy Answers.' Each of the contributors writes with undisguised urgency.... W]e should fa... |
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66,48 zł |
The Patient's Ordeal
ISBN: 9780253208705 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "an excellent contribution to medical ethics" --Ethics "wide-ranging, compassionate, and insightful" --Publishers Weekly "a sensitive and provocative approach to the study of ethical decision making" --Choice " This] sensitive and moving book... compels and merits the grateful, concentrated, and critical attention of all who know, who live with, and who seek to help those human beings to whom terrible things have happened." --BioLaw "The human contact embodied in The Patient's Ordeal puts the book light-years ahead of others in the field of medical ethics....... "an excellent contribution to medical ethics" --Ethics "wide-ranging, compassionate, and insightful" --Publishers Weekly "a sensitive... |
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56,24 zł |
Practical Reasoning in Bioethics
ISBN: 9780253332189 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many teachers of bioethics..." Journal of the American Medical Association "Childress book deserves careful study by all concerned with the ethical aspect of contemporary biomedical challenges." Science Books & Films "An ideal supplement for a graduate seminar on bioethics or for upper-division undergraduates needing more information in this area." Choice In these revised and updated essays, renowned ethicist James F. Childress... "This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many tea... |
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296,79 zł |
Early Warning: Cases and Ethical Guidance for Presymptomatic Testing in Genetic Diseases
ISBN: 9780253334015 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This timely, well-written book brings together the collective experience of experts from the fields of medicine, psychiatry, religious studies, bioethics, and molecular genetics in an effort to develop coherent guidelines for the counseling of potential sufferers from genetic diseases." --Journal of Religion and Health This book presents 29 case studies that identify the most important ethical issues that are likely to emerge from new technologies of genetic testing and develops a series of guidelines based on those case studies. By providing the clinical origins and rationale... "This timely, well-written book brings together the collective experience of experts from the fields of medicine, psychiatry, religious studies, bi... |
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153,47 zł |
When Doctors Say No: The Battleground of Medical Futility
ISBN: 9780253334633 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -The book is a fine addition to the world of academic medical ethics... Readers... will come away with some of the tools for further debate.- -Publishers Weekly -Susan B. Rubin's splendid new book... offers positive, humane solutions to the frustrations that have given rise to the futility debate.- -Carl Elliott, Medical Humanities Review -Rubin offers a thorough and thought-provoking exploration of the concept of futility as a basis for medical decisions.- -Choice -... the] brilliant analysis found in Rubin's book] couldn't be more timely.... When Doctors Say No is the... -The book is a fine addition to the world of academic medical ethics... Readers... will come away with some of the tools for further debate.- -Publ... |
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112,53 zł |
Business Ethics in Healthcare: Beyond Compliance
ISBN: 9780253338402 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Healthcare ethics is not just about decisions made at the bedside. It is also about decisions made in executive offices and in boardrooms. Business Ethics in Healthcare offers perspectives that can assist healthcare managers achieve the highest ethical standards as they face their roles as healthcare providers, employers, and community service organizations. Weber suggests guidelines and criteria based on the understanding that the healthcare organization is committed to patients' rights, to careful stewardship of resources, to just working conditions for employees, and to service to the... Healthcare ethics is not just about decisions made at the bedside. It is also about decisions made in executive offices and in boardrooms. Business... |
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158,63 zł |
The Ethics of Managed Care: A Pragmatic Approach
ISBN: 9780253338488 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discussions of managed care frequently begin and end with an opposition between the Hippocratic ethic of dedication to patient welfare and a business ethic of self-interest in the service of efficiency. Mary R. Anderlik approaches managed care as a problem of organizations. Rejecting a simple "medicine vs. business" analysis, she directs attention to management as manipulation, the neglect of such personal goods as satisfaction in professional accomplishment, and organizational moral myopia. In this account, "pragmatic" suggests practical idealism, not the jettisoning of principle in... Discussions of managed care frequently begin and end with an opposition between the Hippocratic ethic of dedication to patient welfare and a busine... |
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204,69 zł |
Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine
ISBN: 9780253342225 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Because the discipline of medical ethics has developed with autonomy as its foundation, the field has ignored pediatric ethics. The book is resoundingly successful in its effort to rectify this problem.... A] pleasure to read." --Eric D. Kodish, M.D., Director, Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics, Case Western Reserve University Using a form of medical ethnography to investigate a variety of pediatric contexts, Richard B. Miller tests the fit of different ethical approaches in various medical settings to arrive at a new paradigm for how best to care for children. Miller contends... "Because the discipline of medical ethics has developed with autonomy as its foundation, the field has ignored pediatric ethics. The book is resoun... |
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Suffering Presence: Theological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped, and the Church
ISBN: 9780268017224 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Stanley Hauerwas challenges the dominant paradigms of contemporary ethics and views the moral crisis in medicine in this excellent collection of essays. He provides fresh insights into such diverse issues as whether the goal of medicine is to forestall death, how moral relations in a family may be redefined in response to novel reproductive techniques, and whether there are limits to the duties of parents of children who are disabled." --Cynthia B. Cohen, Ph.D., J.D., The Hastings Center
"A well-formed theological perspective that illuminates the moral life, particularly medical care... "Stanley Hauerwas challenges the dominant paradigms of contemporary ethics and views the moral crisis in medicine in this excellent collection of essa...
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Body, Soul, and Bioethics
ISBN: 9780268021535 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines how bioethics has developed over the last 25 years and reconsiders some of its central concepts and arguments. The author seeks to redirect bioethical discussion away from its current focus on public policy, back toward questions of metaphysical and religious significance.
This text examines how bioethics has developed over the last 25 years and reconsiders some of its central concepts and arguments. The author seeks to ...
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86,94 zł |
Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-Assisted Suicide Debates
ISBN: 9780268032678 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debate surrounding the 1994 Oregon Death with Dignity Act, the first law to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in America, revealed some surprising contradictions. Most prominently, egalitarian liberal philosophers Ronald Dworkin and John Rawls backed a constitutional right to PAS in direct opposition to many groups of disadvantaged citizens they theoretically supported. These groups argued that legalized PAS in the absence of universal access to health care would potentially coerce the disadvantaged to end their lives prematurely because of inadequate financial resources. In...
Debate surrounding the 1994 Oregon Death with Dignity Act, the first law to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in America, revealed some surpri...
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132,99 zł |
Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics
ISBN: 9780268034528 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of this text argues that the methodological issues in bioethics mirrors the experience of moral pluralism in a secular society. The different methods that have been used in the field reflect the different moral views found in a pluralistic society.
The author of this text argues that the methodological issues in bioethics mirrors the experience of moral pluralism in a secular society. The differe...
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Medicine the Marketplace: The Moral Dimensions of Managed Care
ISBN: 9780268034559 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is an engaging and important volume. Wong takes seriously medical ethics and business ethics by exploring how organizational norms can be appropriately applied to managed care. The book recognizes the extent to which managed care for better or worse marks a moral watershed in the identity of the health professions: it offers reasons why a reformulated business model may do better than a traditional medical model in candidly indicating the balance between legitimate self-interests and caring for the patient. This is a book that no one in bioethics or health care policy should fail to...
"This is an engaging and important volume. Wong takes seriously medical ethics and business ethics by exploring how organizational norms can be approp...
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184,22 zł |
Human Values in Critical Care Medicine
ISBN: 9780275922641 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ethics of Withdrawal of Life-Support Systems: Case Studies in Decision Making in Intensive Care
ISBN: 9780275927103 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A well-organized, thoughtful, and logical discussion of a difficult ethical issue frequently encountered by clinicians. "Journal of the American Medical Association" Walton has made a successful attempt to write about medical concerns without ever leaving the layperson to flounder in confusion. "Probate Law Journal" In recent years the question of when to terminate life-extending medical treatments has become a thorny social issue. Douglas Walton has brought together a number of these case studies and analyzed the very difficult issues they raise.
A well-organized, thoughtful, and logical discussion of a difficult ethical issue frequently encountered by clinicians. "Journal of the American... |
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217,76 zł |