Catálogo de libros: Profesión médica

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  • Empirical Bioethics
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    179,34 €

  • Bioethics of Enhancement
    Melinda Hall
    This book is a critical intervention into debate over human enhancement and engages bioethics, disability studies, and Michel Foucault. Melinda Hall employs a biopolitical framework to argue that transhumanist thinkers present diminished images of the good life and seriously devalue disabled lives by linking disability with risk and death. ...
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    129,32 €

  • Dreams of Santiago Ramón Y Cajal
    Benjamin Ehrlich
    The Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) explored the microscopic world of the brain and found a landscape inhabited by distinctly individual cells, later termed neurons. "The mysterious butterflies of the soul," he called them, "whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind." Although he ranks among the greatest scientists in history, ...
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    56,05 €

  • Biotechnology and the Integrity of Life
    Michael Hauskeller
    There are things that can be done and are done to life on earth (whether it be human, animal or plant life) which, even if they do not involve or produce any suffering, are still considered morally wrong by a large proportion of the public. Such things include changing the nature of living beings by means of genetic engineering in order to enhance their health, or, more likely ...
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    89,82 €

  • Clinical Ethics Consultation
    John-Stewart Gordon
    This volume brings together a group of researchers from different European countries and disciplines who are involved in Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC). The work provides a discussion on the theories and methods underlying CEC and on the issues of implementation and evaluation. ...
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    91,45 €

  • Defining Death
    Lainie F. Ross / Lainie FRoss / Robert M. Veatch / Robert MVeatch
    New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This creates confusion and disagreement not only among medical, legal, and insurance professionals but also within fam...
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    80,92 €

  • Defining Death
    Lainie F. Ross / Lainie FRoss / Robert M. Veatch / Robert MVeatch
    New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This creates confusion and disagreement not only among medical, legal, and insurance professionals but also within fam...
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    40,78 €

  • Holding and Letting Go
    Hilde Lindemann
    The social practice of forming, shaping, expressing, contesting, and maintaining personal identities makes human interaction, and therefore society, possible. Our identities give us our sense of how we are supposed to act and how we may or must treat others, so how we hold each other in our identities is of crucial moral importance. To hold someone in her identity is to treat h...
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    46,04 €

  • Bioethical Prescriptions
    F M Kamm
    Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.M. Kamm's articles on bioethics, which have appeared over the last twenty-five years and which have made her among the most influential philosophers in this area. Kamm is known for her intricate, sophisticated, and painstaking philosophical analyses of moral problems generally and of bioethical issues in particular. This volume showcases ...
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    44,51 €

  • What Patients Teach
    David Schenck / Joseph B Fanning / Larry R Churchill
    This book, a follow-up to Healers (OUP, 2012), answers two basic questions: As patients see it, what things allow relationships with healthcare providers to become therapeutic? What can this teach us about healthcare ethics? The authors present detailed descriptions and analyses of 55 interviews with 58 patients, representing a wide spectrum of illnesses and clinician specialti...
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    35,11 €

  • Healers
    David Schenck / Larry R Churchill
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    34,78 €

  • The DSM-5 in Perspective
    Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May 2013 of its fifth edition, the DSM-5, marked the latest milestone in the history of the DSM and of American psych...
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    158,64 €

  • Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Darian Meacham
    This volume addresses some of the most prominent questions in contemporary bioethics and philosophy of medicine: ’liberal’ eugenics, enhancement, the normal and the pathological, the classification of mental illness, the relation between genetics, disease and the political sphere, the experience of illness and disability, and the sense of the subject of bioethical inquiry itsel...
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    133,71 €

  • Medicine as a Scholarly Field
    O.S. Miettinen
    This book exposes, and fills, a notable void in the educational content generally covered in modern schools of medicine. It provides an introduction to the field at large in terms of content that is relevant for each of the specialties and subspecialties of medicine; and to this end, it addresses the modern counterpart of the Hippocratic philosophy that was at the root of the g...
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    66,94 €

  • The Patient’s Playbook
    Leslie D. Michelson
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    25,51 €

  • A Critical Examination of Ethics in Health Care and Biomedical Research
    Richard M. Zaner
    This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as trust and uncertainty, dialogue involving talk and listening, the vulnerability of the patient against the asymm...
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    66,68 €

  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Adults
    This book discusses and provides insight on the legal and ethical dilemmas of managing those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). This book provides a clear perspective for those clinicians and legal professionals who are working with those with this disorder, and correspondingly increases their understanding when arranging effective supports for this population. Histor...
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    121,48 €

  • Equitable Access to Human Biological Resources in Developing Countries
    Roger Scarlin Chennells
    The main question explored by the book is: How can cross-border access to human genetic resources, such as blood or DNA samples, be governed in such a way as to achieve equity for vulnerable populations in developing countries? The book situates the field of genomic and genetic research within global health and research frameworks, describing the concerns that have been raised ...
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    134,25 €

  • Ethics, Law and Governance of Biobanking
    Deborah Mascalzoni
    Biobank research and genomic information are changing the way we look at health and medicine. Genomics challenges our values and has always been controversial and difficult to regulate. In the future lies the promise of tailored medical treatments and pharmacogenomics but the borders between medical research and clinical practice are becoming blurred. We see sequencing platform...
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    134,12 €

  • New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care
    Thomas Schramme
    This work sets the stage regarding debates about paternalism and health care for years to come. The anthology is organized around four parts: i) The concept of paternalism and theoretical issues regarding the idea of anti-paternalism, ii) strategies for justifying different forms of paternalism, iii) paternalism in psychiatry and psychotherapy, iv) paternalism and public health...
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    66,19 €

  • Contemporary Bioethics
    Hassan Chamsi-Pasha / Mohammed Ali Al-Bar
    This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr’ a (nature) and human intellect (al-’aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed.Whereas these natural sources are God...
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    72,47 €

  • Ethical Issues in Behavioral Neuroscience
    Behavioral neuroscience encompasses the disciplines of neurobiology and psychology to study mechanisms of behavior. This volume provides a contemporary overview of the current state of how ethics informs behavioral neuroscience research. There is dual emphasis on ethical challenges in experimental animal approaches and in clinical and nonclinical research involving human partic...
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    210,17 €

  • The Mental Mechanisms of Patient Adherence to Long-Term Therapies
    Gérard Reach
    How can we accept that we ought to stop smoking, follow a diet, exercise, or take medications? The goal of this book is to describe the mechanisms of patients’ adherence to long-term therapies, whose improvement, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), would be more beneficial than any biomedical progress. For example, approximately half of the patients do not regular...
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    66,56 €

  • Individualized Medicine
    In 2009 the University Medicine Greifswald launched the 'Greifswald Approach to Individualized Medicine' (GANI_MED) to implement biomarker-based individualized diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in clinical settings. Individualized Medicine (IM) has led not only to controversies about its potentials, but also about its societal, ethical and health economic implications. This...
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    210,20 €

  • Family-Oriented Informed Consent
    Ruiping Fan
    This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research. The goal is critically to explore the current individually oriented approach to informed consent which grew out of the dominant bioethics movement that arose in the United States in the 1970s. In contrast to that individually oriented approach, this volume explores...
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    66,23 €

  • Bioethical Decision Making and Argumentation
    This book clarifies the meaning of the most important and pervasive concepts and tools in bioethical argumentation (principles, values, dignity, rights, duties, deliberation, prudence) and assesses the methodological suitability of the main methods for clinical decision-making and argumentation. The first part of the book is devoted to the most developed or promising approaches...
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    120,89 €

  • Shaping Our Selves
    Erik Parens
    When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or farther from such happiness. ...
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    33,09 €

  • Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics
    With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves. The International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO working group has for the last several years dedicated to deepen this principle of human vulnerability and personal integrity. This book serves to supplement this effort with a religious perspective ...
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    133,98 €

  • Clinical Trials in Latin America
    The outsourcing of clinical trials to Latin America by the transnational innovative pharmaceutical industry began about twenty years ago. Using archival information and field work in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru, the authors discuss the regulatory contexts and the ethical dimensions of human experimentation in the region. More than 80% of all clinical trials i...
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    207,62 €

  • Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust
    'An engaging, compelling and disturbing confrontation with evil ...a book that will be transformative in its call for individual and collective moral responsibility.' - Michael A. Grodin, M.D., Professor and Director, Project on Medicine and the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston UniversityHuman Subjects Research after the Holocaust challenges you to confr...
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    136,38 €


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