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Ethical Considerations at the Intersection of Psychiatry and Religion
John Peteet, Mary Lynn Dell, and Wai Lun Alan Fung (eds)
Psychiatry and religious/spiritual share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for community. Yet historical tensions between science and ...
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Ethics in Palliative Care: A Complete Guide
Robert C. Macauley
No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine. What is the best way to plan ahead for the end of life? How should physicians respond when ...
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Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--and Makes Us Vulnerable
Jeremy Snyder
One often hears stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by individuals offering empty promises of help. Frequently these cases are condemned ...
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Extreme Caregiving: The Moral Work of Raising Children with Special Needs
Lisa Freitag
Raising a child with multiple special needs or disabilities is a time-consuming and difficult task that exceeds the usual parameters of parenting. This book examines all the facets of that ...
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Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine
Michael J. Balboni and Tracy A. Balboni
Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power—an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion and ...
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Is Evidence-based Psychiatry Ethical?
Mona Gupta
Rated as one of the top 15 breakthroughs in medicine over the last 150 years, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become highly influential in medicine, and promotes the seemingly irrefutable ...
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Law and ethics in intensive care (2 edn)
Christopher Danbury, Christopher Newdick, Alex Ruck Keene, and Carl Waldmann (eds)
The practice of intensive care medicine raises multiple legal and ethical issues on a daily basis, making it increasingly difficult to know whom to admit and when, at what stage invasive ...
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Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine
Eileen F. Baker (ed.)
Part of the “What Do I Do Now?: Emergency Medicine” series, Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine uses a case-based approach to cover common and important topics in the legal and ...
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Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: Philosophical Dimensions
Nir Eyal, Samia A. Hurst, Christopher J.L. Murray, S. Andrew Schroeder, and Daniel Wikler (eds)
In this volume, a group of leading philosophers, economists, epidemiologists, and policy scholars continue a twenty-year discussion of philosophical questions connected to the Global Burden ...
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A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters
Jane Sturgess, Derek Duane, and Rebekah Ley (eds)
Patient expectations for immediate, risk-free healthcare have never been greater; the scrutiny that the medical profession face to deliver this perfect care has also never been greater; the ...
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Organ Donation and Transplantation after Cardiac Death
David Talbot and Anthony D'Alessandro (eds)
Written by international experts, this resource lays out the moral, legal and ethical restraints to using donors after cardiac death for organ transplant, together with the techniques that ...
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Public Bioethics: Principles and Problems
James F. Childress
Doing public bioethics involves analyzing and assessing actual and proposed public policies regarding biomedicine, healthcare, and public health. “Public bioethics” also refers to ...
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