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In this book the author looks at how people suffering from dementing disorders in old age are regarded in the legal syst......more

Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities provides a critical resource for understanding and debating the interdisc......more

In the Name of Progress: The Dark Side of Medical Research is a comprehensive exploration of the dark side of medical pr......more

A timely look at the ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding brain injury and collision sports. American tackle fo......more

Paul Scherz explores the ethical challenges raised by precision medicine and its focus on medical risk as opposed to cur......more

While the health of the body can be defined by its functioning parts and systems, the health of the person is more compl......more

Care ethics first emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics; feminist scholars like Carol Gilligan argued that women’s mo......more

Care ethics first emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics; feminist scholars like Carol Gilligan argued that women’s mo......more

Suffering is an unavoidable reality in healthcare. Not only are patients and families suffering, but more and more the c......more

This thought-provoking book exposes the values, judgements, and hierarchies that underlie ageism in care settings. Desta......more

Acupuncture is a nuanced vocation that requires practitioners to manage complex ethical scenarios. This much-needed inte......more

This book fulfils the need of doctors, medical students and all healthcare personnel for information that addresses fund......more

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book analyses the clashes between evidence-based medicin......more

Travis Pickell explores the paradoxes of choice in modern dying and the ways Christian theology can aid in navigating th......more

The practice of medicine is immersed in issues of life, death, and suffering in relation to the mortal body. Because of ......more

The practice of medicine is immersed in issues of life, death, and suffering in relation to the mortal body. Because of ......more

Palliative care has evolved rapidly in recent years. Not only is the field dealing with an increasingly elderly and mult......more

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This book rethinks procreative responsibility considering the continuous development of assisted reproductive technologi......more

For a human being to exist, does it require an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul? Is there a......more

Outlines how the social dimensions of medical diagnosis can deepen our understanding of health. Diagnosis is central to ......more

A timely collection of essays on the pressing possibilities and risks of gene-editing technology. Scientists and genetic......more

William LaFleur (1936-2010), an eminent scholar of Japanese studies, left behind a substantial number of influential pub......more

Encoding Bioethics addresses important ethical concerns from the perspective of each of the stakeholders who will develo......more

This book investigates how a study of Shakespeare’s plays may enhance empathy in doctors, nurses, and other healthcare p......more

Explores human dignity and care in the face of disease and disability. Complex contemporary experiences with disease, de......more

An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America--the cesarean s......more

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This book provides extensive and critical engagement with some of the most recent and compelling arguments favoring abor......more

This book offers a novel theory of childhood well-being as a social good. It re-examines our fundamental assumptions abo......more

This is the first book to argue in favor of paying people for their blood plasma. It does not merely argue that offering......more

This ground-breaking book uses organizational ethics and stakeholder theory to explore the ethical accountability of lea......more

Arguably among the worst of all medical afflictions, the dementias slowly destroy one’s personality, take a tremendous e......more

Professional, Ethical, Legal, and Educational Lessons in Medicine: A Problem Based Approach provides a comprehensive rev......more

Quality of care is an essential outcome in modern healthcare, and improving this care is an integral part of the daily w......more

The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it i......more

"Sant’Egidio, a Catholic social movement rooted in "the gospel and friendship," pursues projects such as peacemaking eff......more

"Sant’Egidio, a Catholic social movement rooted in "the gospel and friendship," pursues projects such as peacemaking eff......more

How can health and social care services better serve people with disabilities? How can we meaningfully challenge ableist......more

This important text draws on decades of research, arguing that modern nursing germinated and grew an ethics from its own......more

This important text draws on decades of research, arguing that modern nursing germinated and grew an ethics from its own......more

The debate over vaccines and their impact on people has been ongoing for many years. While some people believe that vacc......more

For those captive to the broken world of late modernity, wherein ageing and dying persons become vulnerable to despair, ......more

"As more people accept the practice of physician-assisted death, Christians must decide whether to embrace or oppose it.......more

This book exposes significant threats to research integrity and identifies policies and practices that can reverse these......more

An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, uneq......more

Family physician Raymond Downing offers a bold critique of western medicine and sees medical care as one of the fallen "......more

"Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande." --Los Angeles Times This "compelling mixt......more

Angels of Death provides a window into the ’euthanasia underground’-a secret part of medicine and nursing that few profe......more

This book provides novel perspectives on ethical justifiability of assisted dying in the revised edition of New Directio......more

This book explores the ethical implications of managing uncertainty in clinical decision-making during the COVID-19 pand......more

In a world that too often marginalizes people based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, body size, or disability,......more

In a world that too often marginalizes people based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, body size, or disability,......more

In the realm of mental health professionals, possessing knowledge of psychotherapeutic techniques is merely the tip of t......more

This book offers a philosophical perspective on contemporary Tourette Syndrome scholarship, a field which has exploded o......more

Pellegrino’s Clinical Bioethics: A Compendium offers, for the first time, a collection of the landmark articles in clini......more

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including lifetime acc......more

First published in 1985, Ethical Issues in Psychosurgery examines the continuing debate surrounding the treatment of psy......more

"The author provides a critical, historically-informed book about the Zika pandemic and how it connects to broad questio......more

This important book outlines how, despite varying levels of global socio-economic development, governments around the wo......more

"Zombiethics" by Leia Hedonus is a thought-provoking exploration of the ethical considerations and challenges faced in a......more

An argument for attentive and personal care within the bureaucracy of health care systems. In Fighting for the Soul of G......more

This book explores the ethics and efficacy of many current public health programmes, looking at screening, surveillance ......more

This book explores the ethics and efficacy of many current public health programmes, looking at screening, surveillance ......more

Public health has never been more important, or more controversial. What states do, and fail to do, makes a significant ......more

Volume 21 (=386 pages) is in honor of James Lovelock (1919-2022). Please note that most of the chapter contributions do ......more

This book explores the best interests principle, and alternatives offered in the academic literature, to consider why th......more

Elements of Moral Experience in Clinical Ethics Training and Practice: Sharing Stories with Strangers is a philosophical......more

The aim of this book is to introduce and discuss bioethics in a three-synergistic way: from the foundations to the curre......more

Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Insp......more

Informing both research and practice, Data Ethics and Digital Privacy in Learning Health Systems for Palliative Medicine......more

The death of a child horrifies. We recoil at its mention. Images of dead or dying children impose themselves on our atte......more

The history, philosophy, ethics, and science behind the placebo and nocebo effects. Placebos are the most widely used tr......more

This book analyses the concept of disease, as defined in the context of evolutionary medicine. Upon introducing the read......more