Catálogo de libros: Profesión médica

1993 Catálogo de libros: Profesión médica

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  • Palliative Care and Ethics
    Hospice is the premiere end of life program in the United States, but its requirement that patients forgo disease-directed therapies and that they have a prognosis of 6 months or less means that it serves less than half of dying patients and often for very short periods of time. Palliative care offers careful attention to pain and symptom management, added support for patients ...
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    58,16 €

  • The Ethics of the New Eugenics
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    44,57 €

  • Kidney for Sale by Owner
    Mark J. Cherry / Mark JCherry
    If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded?Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Kidney for Sale by Owner, now ...
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    27,67 €

  • Vulnerability and Care
    Andrew Sloane
    Medical and bioethical issues have spawned a great deal of debate in both public and academic contexts. Little has been done, however, to engage with the underlying issues of the nature of medicine and its role in human community. This book seeks to fill that gap by providing Christian philosophical and theological reflections on the nature and purposes of medicine and its role...
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    228,07 €

  • M-Health Innovations for Patient-Centered Care
    Anastasius Moumtzoglou
    The integration of mobile technology into the medical industry has revolutionized the efficiency and delivery of healthcare services. Once limited by distance and physical barriers, health professionals can now reach patients and other practitioners with ease. M-Health Innovations for Patient-Centered Care is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the i...
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    308,57 €

  • The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth
    Helen Watt
    This book addresses the unique moral questions raised by pregnancy and its intimate bodily nature. From assisted reproduction to abortion and ’vital conflict’ resolution to more everyday concerns of the pregnant woman, this book argues for pregnancy as a close human relationship-with the woman as guardian or custodian-and explores four approaches to pregnancy: ’uni-personal’, ’...
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    254,90 €

  • Ethics, Medicine, and Information Technology
    Kenneth W. Goodman / Kenneth WGoodman
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    74,13 €

  • Health Services Delivery and Ethical Implications
    PhD Adam A. Musah / PhD Adam AMusah
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    26,74 €

  • Health Services Delivery and Ethical Implications
    PhD Adam A. Musah / PhD Adam AMusah
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    14,28 €

  • Are Workarounds Ethical?
    Nancy Berlinger
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    44,57 €

  • Autonomie und Vertrauen
    Die Selbstbestimmung des Patienten wird in liberalen und individualisierten Gesellschaften zu Recht hochgehalten. Doch die Handlungsfreiheit des Einzelnen in einer hochkomplexen, von wissenschaftlich-technischen Rationalitäten durchstrukturierten Welt wächst nur in dem Maße, wie Personen- und Systemvertrauen ermöglicht wird. Denn mit den Handlungsmöglichkeiten der modernen Medi...
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    78,75 €

  • Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation
    Franklin G Miller / Robert D Truog
    In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics. They argue that the routine practice of stopping life support technology in hospitals causes the death of patients and that donors of vital organs (hearts, lungs, liver, and both kidneys) are not really dea...
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    42,24 €

  • Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy
    This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments. The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and Aristotle to answer philosophical and medical questions, to medical debates on the limits and power of mechanism, and o...
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    132,12 €

  • Patient-Centered Diagnosis
    Kashani-Sabet and Sagebiel Miller
    Patient-centered diagnosis and prognosis focus on individual patients. Both rely on a methodology that generates individually tailored probabilistic predictions of a specified medical outcome that a particular patient may experience. Predictions are based on observable diagnostic and prognostic factors. Because these predictions are both particular-outcome-specific and individu...
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    22,14 €

  • Overcoming Medical Phobias
    Mark A. Watling / Mark AWatling / Martin M. Antony / Martin MAntony
    Does the mere thought of a visit to the doctor’s office set your heart racing? If so, you’re not alone. Upwards of 30 million of us fear doctors and medical procedures significantly enough to keep us from getting the healthcare we need. The good news is that you don’t have to live with these fears anymore. Thanks to the work of Martin M. Antony, PhD, and Mark A. Watling, MD, th...
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    25,28 €

  • Overcoming Medical Phobias
    Mark A. Watling / Mark AWatling / Martin M. Antony / Martin MAntony
    Does the mere thought of a visit to the doctor’s office set your heart racing? If so, you’re not alone. Upwards of 30 million of us fear doctors and medical procedures significantly enough to keep us from getting the healthcare we need. The good news is that you don’t have to live with these fears anymore. Thanks to the work of Martin M. Antony, PhD, and Mark A. Watling, MD, th...
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    32,74 €

  • Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing
    Medical advances enable us to make our bodies available to others in an increasing number of ways, for instance, via organ, tissue, egg and sperm donation and surrogate motherhood. This cutting-edge book develops new ways of understanding the ethical, social and cultural aspects of different such bodily exchanges. ...
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    268,14 €

  • Psychosocial Interventions in End-of-Life Care
    Peggy Gordon / Peggy Sturman Gordon
    This volume explores the possibility and desirability of a 'good death' by presenting the psychosocial measures of care as a crucial component, such as religion, existentialism, hope and meaning-making. It also focuses on oncologic psychiatry and the influence of technology as a means to alleviate pain and suffering, and potentially provide relief to those at the end of life. S...
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    281,75 €

  • Patient-Centered Approach for the Chronically-Ill
    Irene S Switankowsky / Irene S. Switankowsky / Irene SSwitankowsky
    A Patient-Centered Approach to the Chronically-Ill addresses the unique needs of chronically-ill patients and the challenges they present for medical doctors. This book features four principles of the patient-centered approach that can be used by physicians in treating chronically-ill patients. ...
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    39,37 €

  • Organizational Culture and Ethics in Modern Medicine
    Technological developments and improved treatment methods have acted as an impetus for recent growth and change within the medical community. As patient expectations increase and healthcare organizations have come under scrutiny for questionable practices, medical personnel must take a critical look at the current state of their operations and work to improve their managerial a...
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    295,54 €

  • Der medizinisch nicht indizierte Eingriff zur kognitiven Leistungssteigerung aus rechtlicher Sicht
    Katharina Suhr
    Das Buch liefert einen umfassenden rechtlichen Überblick über das kognitive Enhancement. Dieses umfasst medizinisch nicht indizierte Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung der kognitiven Leistungsfähigkeit bei Menschen, die als gesund gelten. Der Grundlagenteil der Arbeit ist der Klärung und Entwicklung der Begrifflichkeiten sowie den medizinischen Aspekten und den Rechtstatsachen gewidmet...
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    109,16 €

  • 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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    65,26 €

  • Reconsidering Intellectual Disability
    Jason Reimer Greig
    Drawing on the controversial case of 'Ashley X,' a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever small-a procedure now known as the “Ashley Treatment”—Reconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and...
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    84,99 €

  • Replacement Parts
    In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan’s new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an i...
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    103,20 €

  • 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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    134,97 €

  • Rights Come to Mind
    Joseph J. Fins / Joseph JFins
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    146,85 €

  • Bioethics and the Human Goods
    Alfonso Gómez-Lobo
    Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a 'natural law' philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its origins to classical antiquity, has profoundly shaped Western ethics and law and is enjoying an exciting renaissance. While compatible with much in the ethical thought of the great religions, it is...
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    67,19 €

  • Bioethics and the Human Goods
    Alfonso Gómez-Lobo / John Keown
    Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a 'natural law' philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its origins to classical antiquity, has profoundly shaped Western ethics and law and is enjoying an exciting renaissance. While compatible with much in the ethical thought of the great religions, it is...
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    36,73 €

  • Beyond Price
    J. David Velleman / JDavid Velleman
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    28,93 €

  • Beyond Price
    J. David Velleman / JDavid Velleman
    In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor concep...
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    57,63 €


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