Published February, 2009
By Alasdair Maclean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Alasdair Maclean examines the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment, arguing that consent should be approached in the context of the healthcare professional-patient relationship. Suggestions for reform are compared with the possible future development of the law if Neil Manson and Onora O'Neill's model of genuine consent is implemented.

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Published January, 2009
By Frederick Mansfield Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos, George Denniston and Frederick Hodges
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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All over the world, millions of infant boys and girls have part or all of their sexual organs cut off for abhorrent reasons. In this text, experts from an array of fields present the latest research on this tragedy and outline steps to end it.

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Published January, 2009
By John McMillan, Oonagh Corrigan, Kathleen Liddell, Martin Richards and Charles Weijer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Informed consent developed as an international principle to protect the welfare of patients and volunteers taking part in medical research. This book examines the inadequacies of consent for contemporary biomedical research, including perspectives from medicine, law, philosophy and sociology.

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Published January, 2009
By James L. Werth, Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel, G. Andrew H. Benjamin and James L. Werth Jr.
Publisher: Eurospan (American Psychological Association)
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Psychologists and other mental health professionals rightfully experience significant anxiety regarding their duty to protect when working with potentially dangerous individuals who are at risk of harming others or themselves. This book discusses the legal and ethical foundations of the duty to protect and the duty to warn.

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Published January, 2009
By British Medical Association and BMA Medical Eth
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd))
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This book is the British Medical Association's statement on the ethics related to care of the elderly, written and reviewed by a panel of renowned medical ethicists. As such it is an authoritative and considered reference, written in an accessible, non jargon so as to be useful for anyone charged with looking after the elderly.

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Published January, 2009
By Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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To what extent should we use technological advances to try to make better human beings? Leading philosophers debate the possibility of enhancing human cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and controlling aging. Would this take us beyond the bounds of human nature? These are questions that need to be answered now.

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Published January, 2009
By Maria Adele Giamberardino and Maria Adele Giamberadino
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This concise pocketbook addresses the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of visceral pain, and provides practical information for the consultation and treatment.

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Published December, 2008
By Laurence B. McCullough and Robert B. Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics, the first book of its kind, takes a global, multicultural, and interdisciplinary approach to the history of medical ethics. The book offers a chronology of major figures and texts, biographies of major figures, a comprehensive bibliography, and a history of the field itself.

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Published December, 2008
By Wendy A Rogers, Annette Braunack-Mayer and Annette J. Braunack-Mayer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This book makes the complex issues of medical ethics applicable to the unique needs of general practice, focusing on a practical approach rather than the esoteric philosophy behind it.

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Published December, 2008
By Gary L. Kreps and Linda C Lederman
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Beyond These Walls is an invaluable collection of foundational and cutting-edge readings from top scholars in the rapidly growing area of health communication. This innovative anthology demonstrates that health care and communication about health often take place at home, at work, at school, and in recreational and social settings-not just in doctors' offices and hospitals.

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