Catálogo de libros: Profesión médica

1993 Catálogo de libros: Profesión médica

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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Shifting Paradigms in Public Health
    Vijay Kumar Yadavendu
    This transdisciplinary volume outlines the development of public health paradigms across the ages in a global context and argues that public health has seemingly lost its raison d’être, that is, a population perspective. The older, philosophical approach in public health involved a holistic, population-based understanding that emphasized historicity and interrelatedness to stud...
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    134,23 €

  • Remediation in Medical Education
    Remediation in medical education is the act of facilitating a correction for trainees who started out on the journey toward becoming excellent physicians but have moved off course. This book offers an evidence-based and practical approach to the identification and remediation of medical trainees who are unable to perform to standards. As assessment of clinical competence and pr...
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    94,70 €

  • Classification, Disease and Evidence
    This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e. define classes of diseases and recognize that an instance X of disease belongs...
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    66,56 €

  • I Have Been Talking with Your Doctor
    Peggy A Rothbaum
    I interviewed 50 doctors using about four pages of questions developed based on the professional research literature on doctoring and my personal professional experience working with doctors. The interviews lasted between 30 minutes and two hours. I sat down with the doctor interviewees, one by one. They talked, I typed. They met with me in between patients, taking breaks to an...
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    34,30 €

  • Pediatric Ethics
    Alan R. Fleischman
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    70,79 €

  • Paediatric Patient and Family-Centred Care
    Randi Zlotnik Shaul
    This book provides the reader with a theoretical and practical understanding of two health care delivery models: the patient/child centred care and family-centred care. Both are fundamental to caring for children in healthcare organizations. The authors address their application in a variety of paediatric healthcare contexts, as well as an understanding of legal and ethical iss...
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    195,01 €

  • Clinical Inertia
    Gérard Reach
    Clinical practice guidelines were initially developed within the context of evidence-based medicine with the goal of putting medical research findings into practice. However, physicians do not always follow them, even when they seem to apply to the particular patient they have to treat. This phenomenon, known as clinical inertia, represents a significant obstacle to the efficie...
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    194,77 €

  • Toward Scientific Medicine
    O.S. Miettinen
    Scientific medicine in Miettinen’s conception of it is very different from the two ideas about it that come to eminence in the 20th century. To him, medicine is scientific to the extent that it has a rational theoretical framework and a knowledge-base from medical science. He delineates the nature of that theoretical framework and of the research to develop the requisite know...
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    66,71 €

  • Global Bioethics
    The UNESCO International Bioethics Committee is an international body that sets standards in the field of bioethics. This collection represents the contributions of the IBC to global bioethics. The IBC is a body of 36 independent experts that follows progress in the life sciences and its applications in order to ensure respect for human dignity and freedom. Currently, some of t...
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    66,61 €

  • Advance Directives
    This volume gives an overview on the currently debated ethical issues regarding advance directives from an international perspective. It focuses on a wider understanding of the known and widely accepted concept of patient self-determination for future situations. Although advance directives have been widely discussed since the 1980s, the ethical bases of advance directives stil...
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    134,22 €

  • At the Foundations of Bioethics and Biopolitics
    This volume brings together a set of critical essays on the thought of Professor Doctor H. Tristram Engelhardt Junior, Co-Founding Editor of the Philosophy and Medicine book series. Amongst the founders of bioethics, Professor Engelhardt, Jr. looms large. Many of his books and articles have appeared in multiple languages, including Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Ch...
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    136,32 €

  • Regenerative Medicine Ethics
    Linda F. Hogle
    This book puts the ethics, policy and politics of stem cells into context in a way that helps readers understand why past and current issues have developed the way they have and what the implications are for their work going forward. It also addresses emerging issues as the field progresses towards clinical and industrial uses.While there is a superabundance of material on the ...
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    148,38 €

  • Biosemiotic Medicine
    Farzad Goli
    This book presents an interpretation of pharmaceutical, surgical and psychotherapeutic interventions based on a univalent metalanguage: biosemiotics. It proposes that a metalanguage for the physical, mental, social, and cultural aspects of health and medicine could bring all parts and aspects of human life together and thus shape a picture of the human being as a whole, made up...
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    132,69 €

  • Institutionalizing Illness Narratives
    Mathew George
    This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India. Through a study of fevers, the study provides a critical overview to medical practice itself, as it is said that the history of fevers is also the history of medicine. This association between fevers and medicine is as relev...
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    65,38 €

  • Big Picture Bioethics
    This book addresses the problem of how to make democratically-legitimate public policy on issues of contentious bioethical debate. It focuses on ethical contests about research and their legitimate resolution, while addressing questions of political legitimacy. How should states make public policy on issues where there is ethical disagreement, not only about appropriate outcome...
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    64,93 €

  • JURIDIFICATION IN BIOETHICS
    CALVIN WAI-LOON HO
    What is 'legal' about bioethics? What are the ideas and artefacts that bioethics encompasses, and how are they related to law? What is the role of law in bioethics? In this work, Calvin Ho attempts to address these questions in the context of the governance of human pluripotent stem cell research. In essence, he argues that the hybridization of law, through processes, d...
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    218,88 €

  • JURIDIFICATION IN BIOETHICS
    CALVIN WAI-LOON HO
    What is 'legal' about bioethics? What are the ideas and artefacts that bioethics encompasses, and how are they related to law? What is the role of law in bioethics? In this work, Calvin Ho attempts to address these questions in the context of the governance of human pluripotent stem cell research. In essence, he argues that the hybridization of law, through processes, d...
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    81,29 €

  • Normative Entgrenzung
    Axel W. Bauer / Axel WBauer
    Das Buch bietet in 24 Kapiteln einen systematischen Einblick in methodische und thematische Fragen der Medizin- und Bioethik in Deutschland von 1995 bis 2016. Dieser beginnt mit metaethischen Aspekten der Relation zwischen Ethik und Moral sowie mit der keineswegs unproblematischen Fächerkombination von Medizinethik und Medizingeschichte an den deutschen Universitäten. Sodann we...
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    72,32 €

  • Krankheit und Recht
    Susanne Beck
    Das Buch arbeitet die zentralen Kriterien des Krankheitsbegriffs im Recht heraus. Die Beantwortung vieler rechtlicher Fragen im Bereich ärztlichen Handelns ist abhängig von der Abgrenzung zwischen Heilung, Prävention und Enhancement und damit von der Unterscheidung zwischen Krankheit und Gesundheit. In den einzelnen Rechtsgebieten haben sich bislang unterschiedliche Krankheitsb...
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    103,41 €


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