Published December, 2010
By Matthew J. Commers
Publisher: Springer
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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For decades, health professionals have asserted the importance of public participation in interventions for health. In this innovative work, the author contrasts public and professional understandings of health and the best ways to achieve health.

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Published December, 2010
By F. Wutscher, Friedrich Breyer, Hartmut Kliemt, F. Thiele, F. Breyer, H. Kliemt and Felix Erich Thiele
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
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The book series on the ethics of science and technology assessment edited by the Europ?ische Akademie is devoted to the publication of the work-reports of its project groups, works on the foundations of ethics, the philosophy science, and other issues related to the work of the Europ?ische Akademie.

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Published December, 2010
By L.Y Nordenfelt
Publisher: Springer
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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This book is a contribution to the general philosophy of action and the philosophy of welfare. At the same time he explores and substantiates the idea of a strong interdependence between the concept of action and some of the central concepts of welfare, in particular health and illness and related concepts.

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Published December, 2010
By Sharon K. Anderson and Karen Strohm Kitchener
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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In Foundations of Ethical Practice, Research, and Teaching in Psychology and Counseling, Kitchener and Anderson lay a conceptual foundation for thinking well about ethical problems.

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Published December, 2010
By Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes and C. Delkeskamp-Hayes
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine. Concepts of medical research, medical causality, intuition, and medical decision-making are examined in the light of medicine's revolutionary advances in the twentieth century.

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Published December, 2010
By Paulina Taboada, Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback, Patricia Donohue-White, K.F. Cuddeback and P. Donohue-White
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Published December, 2010
By Mary Ann Gardell Cutter
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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This volume will be of interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers, medical professionals, historians of western medicine, and health policymakers. The book provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, knowledge, and value of disease.

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Published December, 2010
By Lennart Nordenfelt and L.Y Nordenfelt
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years.

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Published December, 2010
By R. B. Baker, R. Porter and R.B. Baker
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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This volume has emerged from papers delivered at a conference on the History of Medical Ethics, held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, 1 December, 1989.

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Published December, 2010
By W.B. Bondeson and J.W. Jones
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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This collection provides a philosophical and historical analysis of the development and current situation of managed care. Its special feature is its depth of analysis as the philosophical, social, and economic issues of managed care are developed.

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