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Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health

This book provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases.

Euthanasia: Searching for the Full Story Experiences and Insights of Belgian Doctors and Nurses

This book has been written by ten Belgian health care professionals, nurses, university professors and doctors specializing ...

Evidence-Based Medical Ethics : Cases for Practice-Based Learning

In Evidence-Based Medical Ethics: Cases for Practice-Based Learning, the authors address what has been missing in existing ...

Expanding Horizons in Bioethics

What are the resources and needs, the strengths and the vulnerabilities of patients, of society, or of nature? How do we ...

Genetic Democracy : Philosophical Perspectives

GENETIC DEMOCRACY involves an in-depth analysis of the ethical, social and philosophical issues related to modern genetic ...

Giving Death a Helping Hand : Physician-Assisted Suicide and Public Policy. An International Perspective

The volume focuses on public policy issues related to physician-assisted suicide. It offers a detailed analysis of the current ...

Global Changes

offers an authoritative analysis of the challenges that have arisen as a result of modern technologies. It covers several ...

Globalization and Health

This timely collection explores ethical and legal dilemmas in healthcare arising from globalization. Conflicts between public ...

Happiness is the Wrong Metric

This timely book addresses the conflict between globalism and nationalism. It provides a liberal communitarian response to ...

Human Challenge Studies in Endemic Settings Ethical and Regulatory Issues

This book provides an extensive review of ethical and regulatory issues related to human infection challenge studies, with ...

Humanizing Modern Medicine : An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine

In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical knowledge and practice occasioned ...

Managing Care: A Shared Responsibility

The concept of genuine responsibility, recognizing the complexity of health care and the need for stakeholder-specific interpretations ...

Medical Technologies in Neurosurgery

The tremendous progress evolving in medical technologies in recent years increasingly influences our daily neurological practice. ...

Neonatal Pain : Suffering, Pain and Risk of Brain Damage in the Fetus and Newborn

Until the 1980s it was denied that fetuses and neonates feel pain. With the advent of a deeper understanding of the pathophysiology ...

Pluralistic Casuistry : Moral Arguments, Economic Realities, and Political Theory

This volume presents a sustained philosophical analysis of Brody’s contributions to biomedical ethics. The essays in this ...

Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers : Issues at Stake and Matters of Concern

This book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around ...

Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient A CauseHealth Resource for Healthcare Professionals and the Clinical Encounter

This book is a unique resource for health professionals who are interested in understanding the philosophical foundations ...

Rethinking Health Care Ethics

The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and ...

Risk Prevention in Ophthalmology

TOPICS COVERED: Causes of litigation. Poor communication. Cataract surgery. Retinal detachment. Prescribing and drugs. Glaucoma. ...

Stabilità funzionale e controllo neuroumorale

La stabilità della funzione è stato il concetto di riferimento da C. Bernard ad oggi, sia per la biologia che per la medicina ...

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