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Biomedical Issues
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Abul Fadl Mohsin Ebrahim |
The book addresses the Muslim dilemma when confronted with some of the biotechnological innovations such as those relating to abortion, infertility, contraception, etc. Analyzing these issues under b… |
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Religious doctrine and medical practice
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Richard Thomas Barton |
Religion has evolved through the centuries in many directions and has taken myriad forms with a complete lack of uniformity. This book is written, therefore, to serve as a practical guide primarily f… |
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Death by decision
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Wilson, Jerry, B. |
Surveys the attitudes toward and arguments for and against euthanasia and examines the key medical, legal, and moral issues involved, offering a guideline for medical and legal actions in cases invol… |
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Transplantation Ethics
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Robert M. Veatch |
Although the history of organ transplant has its roots in ancient Christian mythology, it is only in the past fifty years that body parts from the deceased have successfully been procured and transpl… |
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
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Elliot Aronson,Carol Tavris |
At some point we all make a bad decision, do something that harms another person, or cling to an outdated belief. When we do, we strive to reduce the cognitive dissonance that results from feeling t… |
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Moral responsibility in prolonging life decisions
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Albert S. Moraczewski,Donald G. McCarthy |
This book has been prepared as a resource contribution to the Church's ministry to suffering and dying persons and to the healing and caring ministry of countless health care professionals. As chapte… |
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Thieves of virtue
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Tom Koch |
Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchers needed the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised by technological advances in medicine. It blossomed … |
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Ethically impossible
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United States. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues |
In response to a request by President Barak Obama on November 24, 2010, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues oversaw a thorough fact-finding investigation into the specifics… |
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Abortion, medicine, and the law
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David F. Walbert |
An anthology of original and reprinted articles expressing views on all aspects of the subject of abortion. |
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Issues in sexual and medical ethics
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Charles E. Curran |
the book gives some emphasis on sexual and medical ethics |
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Ethics in HIV-related psychotherapy
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Robert L. Barret |
A practical decision-making model for clinicians with ethical, moral and legal dilemmas with HIV positive patients. It discusses the risk of legal malpractice, and offers guidance on reducing this ri… |
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Challenging inequities in health
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Timothy Evans |
This text provides a unique view of global inequities in health status and health sytems. Emphasizing socioeconomic conditions, it combines chapters on conceptual and measurement issues with case stu… |
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Euthanasia and the newborn
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Richard C. McMillan,Stuart F. Spicker,H. Tristram Engelhardt |
Based on a symposium entitled "Conflicts with Newborns : Saving Lives, Scarce Resources, and Euthanasis," held May 10-12, 1984, at the Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, Ga. |
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Éthique clinique
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Antoine Payot,Annie Janvier |
"Peut-il être acceptable de mentir à un patient? Face à plusieurs interventions possibles, doit-on rester neutres, faire une recommandation, n'en offrir qu'une? Comment gérer les dilemmes éthiques qu… |
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Questions and answers in medical ethics
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Emma Searle |
Features clinical cases illustrating the key topics important in understanding Medical Ethics. Each case prompts candidates to decide upon the necessary investigations, set their own research objecti… |
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Choosing life or death
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William J. Winslade |
Describes the legal, ethical, financial, medical, and emotional aspects of decisions involving the critically ill, and discusses living wills, kidney dialysis, handicapped newborns, organ transplants… |
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Medical Nemesis
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Ivan Illich |
"The medical establishment has become a major threat to health. The disabling impact of professional control over medicine has reached the proportions of an epidemic. Iatrogenesis, the name for this … |
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Begotten or made?
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Oliver O'Donovan |
As I looked through evidence submitted by Christian bodies to the Warnock Committee, and compared them with writings from other Christian sources in the last quarter-century, it seemed to me that a c… |
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Physicians, law and ethics
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Carleton B. Chapman |
"Since the days of Ancient Greece, the question of ethics in medicine has been one of continued debate. The Hippocratic oath, and subsequent professional codes, have seemingly spelled out the relatio… |
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Islamic biomedical ethics
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Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina |
From the Publisher : Biomedical ethics is a burgeoning academic field with complex and far-reaching consequences. Whereas in Western secular bioethics this subject falls within larger ethical theorie… |
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