Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide
ISBN: 9780275966461 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Fatal Freedom" is an eloquent defense of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death. The author, a renowned psychiatrist, believes that we can speak about suicide calmly and rationally, as he does in this book, and that we can ultimately accept suicide as part of the human condition. By maintaining statutes that determine that voluntary death is not legal, our society is forfeiting one of its basic freedoms and causing the psychiatric/medical establishment to treat individuals in a manner that is disturbingly inhumane according to Dr. Szasz. His important work asks and points to... "Fatal Freedom" is an eloquent defense of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death. The author, a renowned psychiatrist, believes that ... |
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Scarce Goods: Justice, Fairness, and Organ Transplantation
ISBN: 9780275974329 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1841 the American sailing ship "William Brown" struck an iceberg. About half of the passengers and all of the crew were saved in two small, open boats. The next night, half of the passengers in the larger long-boat were thrown overboard because the boat was overfull. This was the first case of lifeboat ethics, of hard choices in the face of scarcity. Since then the question has been who should die so that others, equally needy, might live? Both the case of the "William Brown" and the ethics it spawned have been used in recent years to describe the problem of health care rationing... In 1841 the American sailing ship "William Brown" struck an iceberg. About half of the passengers and all of the crew were saved in two small, open... |
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577,47 zł |
Scarce Goods: Justice, Fairness, and Organ Transplantation
ISBN: 9780275974336 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1841 the American sailing ship "William Brown" struck an iceberg. About half of the passengers and all of the crew were saved in two small, open boats. The next night, half of the passengers in the larger long-boat were thrown overboard because the boat was overfull. This was the first case of lifeboat ethics, of hard choices in the face of scarcity. Since then the question has been who should die so that others, equally needy, might live? Both the case of the "William Brown" and the ethics it spawned have been used in recent years to describe the problem of health care rationing... In 1841 the American sailing ship "William Brown" struck an iceberg. About half of the passengers and all of the crew were saved in two small, open... |
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276,85 zł |
Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control
ISBN: 9780300013740 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Because those who come after us may not be like us, or because those like us may not come after us, or because after a time there may be none to come after us, mankind must now set to work to insure that those who come after us will be more unlike us. In this there is at work the modern intellect's penchant for species suicide." With these words Paul Ramsey brings to a conclusion his provocative and surprising study of the problems we are encountering - and will encounter - as scientific advances make the genetic control of man a real possibility. Now, increased knowledge of chromosome...
"Because those who come after us may not be like us, or because those like us may not come after us, or because after a time there may be none to come...
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The Ethics of Fetal Research
ISBN: 9780300018806 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "So here we have an entity too alive to be dead, not mature enough to be a viable baby, yet human enough to be specially protectable." -- Paul Ramsey
A storm has been brewing over legal and ethical questions raised by experimentation on still-living human fetuses. The discussion is complicated by its connection with the issue of abortion: in recent debates, fetal research has become fetal politics. The Ethics of Fetal Research distinguishes between these two questions. Paul Ramsey first outlines the various types of fetal research now being done and grants their... "So here we have an entity too alive to be dead, not mature enough to be a viable baby, yet human enough to be specially protectable." -- Paul ...
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132,56 zł |
Ethics at the Edges of Life
ISBN: 9780300021417 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Ramsey addresses the moral problems of medicine, life and death and not merely to those who share his faith. Ramsey sets out with both clarity and and in detail the moral suppositions and implications of recent judgments by the courts, and especially by the Supreme Court, on abortion. A product of a lifetime of deep concern and keen thinking about the ethical, medical and legal-policy aspects of the "edges of life."
In this book, Ramsey addresses the moral problems of medicine, life and death and not merely to those who share his faith. Ramsey sets out with both c...
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294,89 zł |
Health and Human Values: A Guide to Making Your Own Decisions
ISBN: 9780300030266 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although modern developments in medical science have produced some dramatic benefits, they have also raised difficult and sometimes controversial moral and legal questions. How much information should a physician give to a patient? If preserving life means increasing suffering, should every means be exercised to prolong life? Should we screen the population and reduce the reproductive freedom of individuals with genetic diseases? In an era of staggering increases in health care costs, should the new medical benefits go to those who can afford them or should the government devise systems that...
Although modern developments in medical science have produced some dramatic benefits, they have also raised difficult and sometimes controversial mora...
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204,71 zł |
Genetic Secrets
ISBN: 9780300080636 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dramatic explosion of information brought about by recent advances in genetic research brings welcome scientific knowledge. Yet this new knowledge also raises complex and troubling issues concerning privacy and confidentiality. This thought-provoking book is the first comprehensive exploration of these ethical, legal, and social issues. Distinguished experts in law, medicine, bioethics, public health, science policy, clinical genetics, philosophy, and other fields consider the many contexts in which issues of genetic privacy arise--from research and clinical settings to workplaces,...
The dramatic explosion of information brought about by recent advances in genetic research brings welcome scientific knowledge. Yet this new knowledge...
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451,21 zł |
A Time to Die: The Place for Physician Assistance
ISBN: 9780300086980 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on in-depth interviews with people who were dying and with the physicians who cared for them, as well as on his own experiences as a physician, Dr. Charles McKhann argues persuasively that physician-assisted dying should be made legally available under certain circumstances. "A comprehensive and thoughtful guide to the hotly contested issue of physician-assisted death. The author draws on extensive clinical experience in the treatment of patients with cancer, detailed interviews with seriously ill patients and the clinicians who care for them, and a thorough survey of the literature....
Drawing on in-depth interviews with people who were dying and with the physicians who cared for them, as well as on his own experiences as a physician...
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234,77 zł |
The Patient as Person: Explorations in Medical Ethics, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780300093964 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As physicians are faced with new and wonderful options for saving lives, transplanting organs, and furthering research, they also must wrestle with new and troubling choices--who should receive scarce and vital treatment, how we determine when life ends, what limits should be placed on care for the dying, and more. This book by renowned theologian Paul Ramsey, first published thirty years ago, anticipated these moral and ethical issues and addressed them with cogency and power, providing the intellectual foundations for the field of bioethics. This second edition of Ramsey's classic work...
As physicians are faced with new and wonderful options for saving lives, transplanting organs, and furthering research, they also must wrestle with ne...
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270,84 zł |
Textbook of Medical Ethics
ISBN: 9780306432804 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When physicians in training enter their clinical years and first begin to become involved in clinical decision making, they soon find that more than the technical data they had so carefully learned is involved. Prior to that time, of course, they were aware that more than technology was involved in practicing medicine, but here, for the first time, the reality is forcefully brought home. It may be on the medical ward, when a patient or a patient's relatives ask that no further treatment be given and that the patient be allowed to die; it may be in ob/gyn, when a 4- or 5-month pregnant lady...
When physicians in training enter their clinical years and first begin to become involved in clinical decision making, they soon find that more than t...
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389,98 zł |
Textbook of Healthcare Ethics
ISBN: 9780306452406 / Angielski / Twarda / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, Erich H. Loewy expands on his earlier book Textbook of Medical Ethics (1989) offering healthcare workers and students a new perspective on ethical practice.
Textbook of Healthcare Ethics focuses on the social conditions in which medical practice occurs and how ethical healthcare decisions involves nurses, social workers, psychologists, technicians, and patients as well as physicians. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition addresses historical and theoretical underpinnings and practical concerns. A series of case studies serve as a... Here, Erich H. Loewy expands on his earlier book Textbook of Medical Ethics (1989) offering healthcare workers and students a new pe...
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389,98 zł |
The Ethics of Terminal Care: Orchestrating the End of Life
ISBN: 9780306464355 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume the authors examine some of the medical social and psychological conditions which affect the way we die. Important topics covered include attitudes toward death; suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia; hospice and pain management. This volume will be of interest to all who work with terminally ill patients. In this volume the authors examine some of the medical social and psychological conditions which affect the way we die. Important topics covered in... |
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194,97 zł |
Textbook of Research Ethics: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780306464485 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects (CIOMS and WHO, 1993: 11) defines research as referring to a class of activities designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Generalizable knowledge consists of theories, principles or relationships, or the accumulation of information on which they are based, that can be corroborated by accepted scientific techniques of observation and inference. The International Guidelines for the Ethical Review of Epidemiological Studies (CIOMS, 1991) recognizes that it may be difficult to distinguish...
The International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects (CIOMS and WHO, 1993: 11) defines research as referring to a cla...
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Chimpanzees in Research: Strategies for Their Ethical Care, Management, and Use
ISBN: 9780309058919 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chimpanzees in biomedical and behavioral research constitute a national resource that has been valuable in addressing national health needs. Facilities that house chimpanzees owned and supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have successfully met the research requirements of the scientific community. The captive chimpanzee population in the United States has grown substantially, particularly over the last decade. That growth is due primarily to the success of the NIH-sponsored Chimpanzee Breeding and Research Program, which achieved the birth numbers thought necessary to meet... Chimpanzees in biomedical and behavioral research constitute a national resource that has been valuable in addressing national health needs. Facili... |
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176,02 zł |
Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation: Medical and Ethical Issues in Procurement
ISBN: 9780309064248 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Non-heart-beating donors (individuals whose deaths are determined by cessation of heart and respiratory function rather than loss of whole brain function) could potentially be of major importance in reducing the gap between the demand for and available supply of organs for transplantation. Prompted by questions concerning the medical management of such donors--specifically, whether interventions undertaken to enhance the supply and quality of potentially transplantable organs (i.e. the use of anticoagulants and vasodilators) were in the best interests of the donor patient--the U.S.... Non-heart-beating donors (individuals whose deaths are determined by cessation of heart and respiratory function rather than loss of whole brain fu... |
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122,63 zł |
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
ISBN: 9780309085328 / Angielski / Twarda / 780 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of the quality of health care received. In Unequal Treatment, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the... Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic condition... |
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538,73 zł |
Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics
ISBN: 9780312144012 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new commandments according to Rethinking Life and Death. The new commandments according to Rethinking Life and Death. |
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85,85 zł |
Medicine and Money: A Study of the Role of Beneficence in Health Care Cost Containment
ISBN: 9780313263576 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Medicine and Money: A Study of the Role of Beneficence in Health Care Cost Containment" is a frank discussion of the moral problems associated with the need to control health care costs. The book provides a base for physicians to address these concerns and examines the events leading to America's current health care crisis, diminishing beneficence. After a brief definition of the problem, Frank H. Marsh and Mark Yarborough continue by describing the threat of cost containment and justifying beneficence-based health care system. Special importance is given to "Medicine and Money" by the... "Medicine and Money: A Study of the Role of Beneficence in Health Care Cost Containment" is a frank discussion of the moral problems associated wit... |
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457,22 zł |
The Right to Die Debate: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780313305221 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rapid changes in medical care and in society's attitudes about death have made the right-to-die debate a timely topic, but its roots can be traced back to the founding of this country. High school and college students can explore the history of this debate through this unique collection of primary documents. Government reports, court cases, statements from religious groups, and many other contributions provide a thorough examination of the arguments for and against allowing people to make their own decisions about how and when they die. An explanatory introduction precedes each document to... Rapid changes in medical care and in society's attitudes about death have made the right-to-die debate a timely topic, but its roots can be traced ... |
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481,27 zł |