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Medical philosophy. Medical ethics

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  • Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, Seventh Editionby Albert Jonsen; Mark Siegler; William Winslade

    McGraw-Hill 2010; US$ 46.95

    A unique structured approach to solving ethical issues that arise in daily clinical practice Clinical Ethics teaches the widely-known Four-Topics Method to help you make the right choice when facing complex ethical questions and dilemmas encountered during everyday patient care. You will learn an easy-to-apply system based on simple questions about medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features that clearly explain clinical ethics and helps you formulate a sound diagnosis and treatment strategy. Goes beyond theory to offer a solid decision-making strategy applicable to real-world practice Numerous clinical case examples link principles to everyday practice--many new to this edition ... more...

  • Ethical Practice in Clinical Medicineby William J. Ellos S.J.

    Routledge 1990; US$ 39.95

    This textbook develops the issue of ethics to a philosophical level complex enough to be applicable to students of philosophy and applied ethics courses. It is the first book to address clinical problems from a classical perspective. more...

  • Dying Processby Julia Lawton

    Routledge 2000; US$ 51.95

    Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of day care and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death. more...

  • General Practice and Ethicsby Christopher Dowrick; Lucy Frith

    Routledge 1999; US$ 36.95

    Explores the ethical issues faced by GPs in their everyday practice, addressing two central themes: the uncertainty of outcomes and effectiveness in general practice and the changing pattern of general practitioners' responsibilities. more...

  • Psychology of Healthby Marian Pitts; Keith Phillips

    Routledge 1998; US$ 42.50

    Completely revised and updated second edition of this classic text which contains additional chapters on cancer, nutrition and exercise, social drugs and the impact of social inequalities upon health. more...

  • Stories Matterby Rita Charon

    Routledge 2002; US$ 42.95

    This text examines the many ways that narrative methods of analysis and interpretation are transforming the work of medicine and ethics. This edited collection provides conceptual foundations, guidelines and theory central to narrative ethics. more...

  • Ethics and Community in the Health Care Professionsby Michael Parker

    Routledge 1999; US$ 39.95

    This volume explores the focus of interest in community and the emerging theoretical opposition between communitarianism and liberalism, including the practical, theoretical and ethical issues that relate to community in the healthcare professions. more...

  • Essential Psychology for Nurses and Other Healthby Graham Russell

    Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95

    This book is an introductory psychology text for students of nursing and health care. Each section includes learning outcomes, chapter summaries, illustrative scenarios, self-test questions and a guide to further reading. more...

  • Business Ethics in Healthcareby Leonard J. Weber

    Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 28.00

    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 community. As Weber shows, ... more...

  • Handbook of Clinical Health Psychologyby Susan Llewelyn; Paul Kennedy

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2003; US$ 250.00

    The Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of clinical health psychology. It is primarily a well-referenced but practical resource, which provides an authoritative, up-to-date guide to empirically validated psychological interventions in health care. Each contributor provides a conceptual synthesis of the area, and how key models are related to formulation, service delivery and research. The book also considers contextual issues and the importance of topics such as ageism and power, which may have an impact on how health psychology is delivered by practitioners, and experienced by recipients of services. It also seeks to provide a summary of evidence concerning crucial aspects in the delivery... more...