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The Voices and Rooms of European Bioethics
This book reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, in various locations, and from various disciplinary perspectives. In so doing, the book advances understanding of the academic and social status of European bioethics as it is being supported and practiced by various disciplines such as philosophy, law, medicine, and the social sciences, applied to a wide ra…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1317804570
- Collation
- 232 halaman
- Series Title
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- Call Number
- 170 VOI
A Critical Examination of Ethics in Health Care and Biomedical Research: Voic…
This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as trust and uncertainty, dialogue involving talk and listening, the vulnerability of the patient against the asymmetric power of th…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-18332-9
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- -
- Series Title
- International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
- Call Number
- 301 ZAN c
Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy & Public Health Ethics: Publ…
This book looks at health policy through the lens of public versus private: population health versus the somatic, social, or emotional experiences of a patient. Rather than presenting policy/ethics as overly technical, this book takes a novel approach of framing public and private health in terms of political philosophy, ethics, and popular examples. Each chapter ties back to the general ethics…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-12203-8
- Collation
- XI, 100
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Public Health
- Call Number
- 614 BAT a
The Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
This book serves to unite biomedical principles, which have been criticized as a model for solving moral dilemmas by inserting them and understanding them through the perspective of the phenomenon of health care relationship. Consequently, it attributes a possible unification of virtue-based and principle-based approaches.
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-007-4939-9
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- VI, 86, 1 b/w illustrations
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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- -
New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care
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, and v) paternal…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1387-6678
- Collation
- XII, 299
- Series Title
- Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
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- -
The Mental Mechanisms of Patient Adherence to Long-Term Therapies
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 regularly follow medic…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-12265-6
- Collation
- XXI, 207
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- Philosophy and Medicine
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- -
Medicine as a Scholarly Field: An Introduction
This book exposes, and fills, a notable void in the educational content generally covered in modern schools of medicine. It provides an introduction to the field at large in terms of content that is relevant for each of the specialties and subspecialties of medicine; and to this end, it addresses the modern counterpart of the Hippocratic philosophy that was at the root of the genesis of modern …
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-19011-2
- Collation
- XVI, 136
- Series Title
- Medicine as a Scholarly Field: An Introduction
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- -
Family-Oriented Informed Consent East Asian and American Perspectives
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 the importance o…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-12120-8
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- XII, 288
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- -
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- -
Contemporary Bioethics : Islamic Perspective
The present study undertakes to examine biomedical issues as they have emerged in the last three decades. In the Muslim world, as in any part of the globe, advancements in biomedical technology has meant a number of new issues in the medical treatment and procedures that impinge upon Islamic values as taught by the Qur’an and the Sunna (the Tradition of Prophet Muhammad). Our investigations i…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-18428-9
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- XV, 267 halaman
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- -
- Call Number
- 174.2 BAR c
Mental Health in South Asia: Ethics, Resources, Programs and Legislation
Asia is by far the largest continent in the world in terms of area with population exceeding 3.5 billion and has dozens of cultures, religions, languages and ethnic groups. As a result of its highly varied political systems, Asia also spawns a wide variety of health care systems including mental health care systems, often based on historical roots and at times colonial heritages. The people who…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-017-9016-1
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- XV, 363
- Series Title
- International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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- -
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