Catálogo de libros: Profesión médica

1984 Catálogo de libros: Profesión médica

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  • Exploring Central and Eastern Europe’s Biotechnology Landscape
    At a time when the human genome has been sequenced advances in the life sciences seem to have great potential for human health, industry and the environment throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Still, for some, potential risks and ethical dilemmas remain, surrounding issues such as the appropriate use of GM crops, stem cells, genetic information, the nature of intellect...
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    134,14 €

  • Reconceiving Medical Ethics
    Christopher Cowley
    This volume of original work comprises a modest challenge, sometimes direct, sometimes implicit, to the mainstream Anglo-American conception of the discipline of medical ethics. It does so not by trying to fill the gaps with exotic minority interest topics, but by re-examining some of the fundamental assumptions of the familiar philosophical arguments, and some of the basic sit...
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    63,96 €

  • Bringing Kindness to Medicine
    Jerome W. Freeman MD / Jerome WFreeman MD
    A clarion call to kindness... A clarion call is a summons to action. And that is exactly what Bringing Kindness to Medicine sets out to accomplish. Medicine is rich in science and technology, with sophisticated testing methods and mind-boggling therapies-but all too often its marvelous powers are accompanied by a clinician’s calm detachment rather than the soft touch of human k...
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    20,16 €

  • The Physician as Captain of the Ship
    'The fixed person for fixed duties, who in older societies was such a godsend, in the future ill be a public danger.' Twenty years ago, a single legal metaphor accurately captured the role that American society accorded to physicians. The physician was 'c- tain of the ship.' Physicians were in charge of the clinic, the Operating room, and the health c...
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    207,76 €

  • Mental Illness
    This volume developed from and around a series of six lectures sponsored by Rice University and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the Fall of 1976. Though these lectures on the concepts of mental health, mental illness and personal responsibility, and the social treatment of the mentally ill were given to general audiences in Hous...
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    133,98 €

  • Ethik der Biogerontologie
    Hans-Jörg Ehni
    Der Biogerontologie oder biologischen Alternsforschung ist es gelungen, den Alternsprozess von Labororganismen zu manipulieren. Biogerontologische Forscher glauben diese Erkenntnisse auch auf den Menschen übertragen zu können. Hier sollte zeitnah eine ethische Reflexion einsetzen, bevor Forschungserfolge die zukünftige Entwicklung in eine unerwünschte Richtung führen. Der Konte...
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    60,16 €

  • 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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    132,87 €

  • Berufsethos im Krankenhaus. Zu den Auswirkungen der Ökonomisierung auf die berufsethischen Orientierungen des medizinischen Personals im Krankenhaus
    Christiane Stüber
    Betriebswirtschaftliche Kalküle bestimmen zunehmend den Arbeits­alltag von Ärztinnen, Ärzten, Krankenschwestern und Pflegern in deutschen Krankenhäusern. Die Vorgaben resultieren dabei wesentlich aus politisch festgesetzten Sparzwängen und dem Bemühen, das Überleben der jeweiligen Häuser unter Wettbewerbsdruck sicherzustellen. Inwieweit gerät diese Ökonomisierung mit dem tradi...
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    51,29 €

  • Toward Scientific Medicine
    O.S. Miettinen / O.SMiettinen
    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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    65,35 €

  • Assisted Death
    L. W. Sumner / LWSumner
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    45,84 €

  • Saviour Siblings
    Michelle Taylor-Sands
    Genetic screening technologies involving pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) raise particular issues about selective reproduction and the welfare of the child to be born. This book re-evaluates the welfare of the child through the controversial topic of saviour sibling selection. From analysing existing Australian and UK legal frameworks for regulating saviour siblings, th...
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    254,69 €

  • The Ethics and Governance of Human Genetic Databases
    Matti Hayry / Ruth Chadwick / Vihjalmur Arnason
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    50,27 €

  • Patient-Centered Prognosis
    Kashani-Sabet / Miller III / Sagebiel
    Patient-centered prognosis focuses on individual patients. It is a methodology that generates individually tailored probabilistic predictions of a specified medical outcome that a particular patient may experience. Its predictions are based on observable prognostic factors. Because these predictions are both particular-outcome-specific and individual-patient-specific, achieving...
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    16,92 €

  • Textbook of Healthcare Ethics
    Erich E.H. Loewy
    Here, Erich H. Loewy expands on his earlier book Textbook of Medical Ethics (1989) offering healthcare workers and students a new perspective on ethical practice. Textbook of Healthcare Ethics focuses on the social conditions in which medical practice occurs and how ethical healthcare decisions involves nurses, social workers, ...
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    133,74 €

  • The Law-Medicine Relation
    This volume is a contribution to the continuing interaction between law and medicine. Problems arising from this interaction have been addressed, in part, by previous volumes in this series. In fact, one such problem constitutes the central focus of Volume 5, Mental Illness: Law and Public Policy [1]. The present volume joins other volumes in this ser...
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    66,12 €

  • Philosophical Dimensions of the Neuro-Medical Sciences
    Although the investigation and regulation of the faculties of the human mind appear to be the proper and sole concern of philosophers, you see that they are in some part nevertheless so little foreign to the medical forum that while someone may deny that they are proper to the physician he cannot deny that physicians have the obliga­ tion to philosoph...
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    133,95 €

  • Faces of Medicine
    P.J. Thung / W.J. van der Steen
    1. MEDICINE Illness, disease and disability plague man in every culture. But the form they take is not the same everywhere. Neither is man’s reaction. Coping strategies, and the experience and knowledge backing them, depend very much on cultural setting. So medicine, the fabric of strategy and know­ ledge, can only be understood in the context of cult...
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    66,50 €

  • Mental Health
    The concept ’health’ is ambiguous [18,9, 11]. The concept ’mental health’ is even more so. ’Health’ compasses senses of well-being, wholeness, and sound­ ness that mean more than the simple freedom from illness - a fact appreci­ ated in the World Health Organization’s definition of health as more than the absence of disease or infirmity [7]. The wide ...
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    135,80 €

  • Strange Bedfellows
    Ben A. Rich
    The pervasive influence of law on medical practice and clinical bioethics is often noted with a combination of exasperation and lamentation. Physicians and non-physician bioethicists, generally speaking, consider the willingness of courts, legislatures, and regulatory agencies to insinuate themselves into clinical practice and medical research to be a...
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    135,43 €

  • Rights to Health Care
    Thomas J. Bole III / W.B. Bondeson
    Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death. These facts of life and of death give ample grounds for characterizing much of the human condition as unfortunate. A core philosophical question is whether the circumstances are in addition unfair or unjust in the sense of justifying claims on the resources, time...
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    209,80 €

  • Balancing Act
    E. Haavi Morreim
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    135,38 €

  • Changing Health Care Systems from Ethical, Economic, and Cross Cultural Perspectives
    Erich E.H. Loewy
    This volume is the result of a conference sponsored by the Medical Alumni Association of the University of California, Davis and held in Sacramento, California, in January, 2000, The purpose of this conference was to examine the impact ofvarious health care structures on the ability of health care professionals to practice in an ethically acceptable m...
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    135,40 €

  • Biomedical Ethics Reviews · 1984
    This is the second volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews, a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today. Five topics are dis­ cussed in the present volume. Section I, Public Policy andRe­ search with Human Subjects, reviews the history of the moral issues involved in the history of rese...
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    66,37 €

  • Bioethics and the Fetus
    Bioethics and the Fetus: Medical, Moral, and Legal Issues is the ninth volume in the Biomedical Ethics Reviews series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today. All of the essays in this volume examine moral and/or legal problems involving human fetal life; summaries of these essays may be...
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    66,71 €

  • Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice
    Michael Parker
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    54,52 €

  • Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
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    38,01 €

  • Parental Obligations and Bioethics
    Bernard G. Prusak
    This book examines the question of what parental obligations procreators incur by bringing children into being. Prusak addresses in turn the ethics of adoption, child support, gamete donation, surrogacy, prenatal genetic enhancement, and public responsibility for children. ...
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    254,86 €

  • Dosage
    J. David Johnson / JDavid Johnson
    Healthcare professionals calculate dosage when dispensing medicine and determining treatment plans. This text applies the concept of dosage to communication. We often assume that “more is more” when it comes to communicating, but in all interactions there are ideal and different “quantities” of communication that will get the job done with a better result. Dosage explores this ...
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    148,69 €

  • Dosage
    J. David Johnson / JDavid Johnson
    Healthcare professionals calculate dosage when dispensing medicine and determining treatment plans. This text applies the concept of dosage to communication. We often assume that “more is more” when it comes to communicating, but in all interactions there are ideal and different “quantities” of communication that will get the job done with a better result. Dosage explores this ...
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    53,07 €

  • Understanding Aging and Diversity
    Patricia Kolb
    In Understanding Aging and Diversity, Patricia Kolb presents important sociological theories and concepts for understanding experiences of older people and their families in a rapidly changing world. She explores concepts from phenomenology, critical theory, feminist theory, life course theory and gerotranscendence theory to explain important issues in the lives of older people...
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    254,72 €


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