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How Doctors Think
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 39.99Defines the nature and importance of clinical judgement. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science, but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. It also contends that there can be adverse side effects to assuming that medicine is strictly science. more...
Principles of Health Care Ethics
Wiley 2007; US$ 424.00Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition is a standard resource for students, professionals, and academics wishing to understand current and future issues in healthcare ethics.... more...
Ethical Challenges in Study Design and Informed Consent for Health Research in Resource-poor Settings
World Health Organization 2007; US$ 25.00This review considers ethical challenges to research design and informed consent in biomedical and behavioral studies conducted in resource-poor settings. A review of the literature explores relevant social, cultural, and ethical issues in the conduct of biomedical and social health research in developing countries. Ten case vignettes illustrate ethical... more...
The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 73.00A comprehensive reference providing an approach to problems of biomedical ethics in the clinical setting. more...
Nursing Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 32.00This book proposes a 'strong' (action-guiding) account of a virtue-based approach to moral decision-making within contemporary nursing practice. Merits and criticisms of obligation and virtue-based approaches to morality are explored. The author argues that in order to deliver morally good care, it is necessary to examine one's moral character. more...
Stem Cells, Human Embryos and Ethics
Springer 2008; US$ 39.99Is it acceptable from an ethical point of view to use stem cells from human embryos for scientific research and clinical therapy? And what are the weaknesses and strengths of various opinions and positions when they are critically evaluated? These are the main problems dealt with in this book. The various chapters as a whole give a comprehensive, many-sided... more...
Teaching Medical Professionalism
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 47.00The first resource available to guide those designing and implementing programs on teaching medical professionalism. more...
Evidence-Based Medical Ethics
Springer 2008; US$ 35.99In the modern practice of medicine, new challenges complicate the ethical care of patients. Today's times require a contemporary take on the concept of medical ethics. The idea for this textbook was born out of a need for a teaching resource that merges medical ethics theory with the practical needs of modern clinical medicine. In Evidence-Based... more...
Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik 2007
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2007; US$ 81.00The 12th volume in this standard periodical contains contributions, reports, and documents related to contemporary themes in biological and technical ethics as well as scientific-political and legal debates. The topics discussed include neurological research, nano-technology, the amendment of stem-cell laws, the slowing pace of aging, scientific... more...
Humanizing Modern Medicine
Springer 2008; US$ 149.99In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical knowledge and practice occasioned by the crisis of quality-of-care, especially in terms of the various humanistic adjustments to the biomedical model. To that end he examines the metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical boundaries of these medical models. He... more...









