Are Workarounds Ethical?: Managing Moral Problems in Health Care Systems
Nancy Berlinger
How work gets done in complex health care systems is ethically important. When health care professionals and other staff experience moral uncertainty or distress in their own work and ...
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Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children
Robert Klitzman
Since the first “test tube baby” was born over 40 years ago, in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have advanced in extraordinary ways, producing ...
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Emergency Ethics: Public Health Preparedness and Response
Bruce Jennings, John D. Arras, Drue H. Barrett, and Barbara A. Ellis (eds)
This book brings together some of the leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and ...
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Ethical Considerations at the Intersection of Psychiatry and Religion
John Peteet, Mary Lynn Dell, and Wai Lun Alan Fung (eds)
Psychiatry and religious/spiritual share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for community. Yet historical tensions between science and ...
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Ethical Issues in Women's Healthcare: Practice and Policy
Lori d'Agincourt-Canning and Carolyn Ells (eds)
This volume brings together original essays exploring the intersections of clinical practice, policy, and bioethics in women’s healthcare. Including but moving beyond the familiar theme of ...
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Ethics in Palliative Care: A Complete Guide
Robert C. Macauley
No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine. What is the best way to plan ahead for the end of life? How should physicians respond when ...
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Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--and Makes Us Vulnerable
Jeremy Snyder
One often hears stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by individuals offering empty promises of help. Frequently these cases are condemned ...
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Extreme Caregiving: The Moral Work of Raising Children with Special Needs
Lisa Freitag
Raising a child with multiple special needs or disabilities is a time-consuming and difficult task that exceeds the usual parameters of parenting. This book examines all the facets of that ...
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Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession
T.A. Cavanaugh
Hippocrates’ Oath and Asclepius’ Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession articulates the Oath as establishing the medical profession—a practice incorporating an internal, ...
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Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine
Michael J. Balboni and Tracy A. Balboni
Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power—an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion and ...
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Illness Narratives in Practice: Potentials and Challenges of Using Narratives in Health-related Contexts
Gabriele Lucius-Hoene, Christine Holmberg, and Thorsten Meyer (eds)
Illness narratives, patients’ stories about their experiences of illness, have gained a reputation as a scientific domain in medicine in the last thirty years. Patients’ stories about ...
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Intelligent Assistive Technologies for Dementia: Clinical, Ethical, Social, and Regulatory Implications
Fabrice Jotterand, Marcello Ienca, Tenzin Wangmo, and Bernice Elger (eds)
The development and implementation of intelligent assistive technologies (IATs) to compensate for the specific physical and cognitive deficits of older adults with dementia have been ...
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Is Evidence-based Psychiatry Ethical?
Mona Gupta
Rated as one of the top 15 breakthroughs in medicine over the last 150 years, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become highly influential in medicine, and promotes the seemingly irrefutable ...
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Law and ethics in intensive care (2 edn)
Christopher Danbury, Christopher Newdick, Alex Ruck Keene, and Carl Waldmann (eds)
The practice of intensive care medicine raises multiple legal and ethical issues on a daily basis, making it increasingly difficult to know whom to admit and when, at what stage invasive ...
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Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine
Eileen F. Baker (ed.)
Part of the “What Do I Do Now?: Emergency Medicine” series, Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine uses a case-based approach to cover common and important topics in the legal and ...
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Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: Philosophical Dimensions
Nir Eyal, Samia A. Hurst, Christopher J.L. Murray, S. Andrew Schroeder, and Daniel Wikler (eds)
In this volume, a group of leading philosophers, economists, epidemiologists, and policy scholars continue a twenty-year discussion of philosophical questions connected to the Global Burden ...
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A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters
Jane Sturgess, Derek Duane, and Rebekah Ley (eds)
Patient expectations for immediate, risk-free healthcare have never been greater; the scrutiny that the medical profession face to deliver this perfect care has also never been greater; the ...
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Medical Experimentation: Personal Integrity and Social Policy: New Edition
Charles Fried, Franklin Miller (ed.), and Alan Wertheimer (ed.)
Charles Fried’s 1974 treatise is a classic statement of the moral relationship between doctor and patient as expressed in the concept of personal care. This concept is then tested in the ...
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Military Medical Ethics in Contemporary Armed Conflict: Mobilizing Medicine in the Pursuit of Just War
Michael L. Gross
Beleaguered countries struggling against aggression or powerful nations defending others from brutal regimes mobilize medicine to wage just war. As states funnel medical resources to ...
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Moral Resilience: Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare
Cynda Hylton Rushton (ed.)
Suffering is an unavoidable reality in healthcare. Not only are patients and families suffering but also the clinicians who care for them. Commonly the suffering experienced by clinicians ...
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