Published December, 2016
By Charles Foster, Patrick Davey, Michael Dunn, Anna Rathmell, Helen Salisbury and P Davey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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Medical Ethics, Law and Communication at a Glance presents a succinct overview of these key areas of the medical curriculum. This new title aims to provide a concise summary of the three core, interlinked topics essential to resolving ethical dilemmas in medicine and avoiding medico-legal action.

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Published December, 2016
By Shane S. Bush, Rebecca S. Allen and Victor A. Molinari
Publisher: Eurospan (American Psychological Association)
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Introduces a structured decision-making process that draws heavily from principle-based and positive ethics and provides practical applications of the APA Ethics Code while also accounting for federal laws and regulations. Detailed case examples illustrate how to apply this process in a variety of treatment contexts, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, and hospice care.

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Published December, 2016
By Sigrid Sterckx, Kasper Raus and Freddy Mortier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law
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Continuous sedation is becoming increasingly common in end-of-life care. It raises many concerns, though, especially regarding reducing or removing consciousness, withholding hydration and whether it amounts to 'slow euthanasia'. In this book, ethicists, clinicians and lawyers address these concerns and discuss various justifications and guidelines for the practice.

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Published December, 2016
By Giovanni Maio
Publisher: Thieme (Thieme Publishing Group)
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Published December, 2016
By Ralf J. Jox and Frank Erbguth
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Published December, 2016
By John Davis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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The 14 chapters in Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments, all published here for the first time, focus on recent thinking in this important area, helping initiate issues and lines of argument that have not been explored previously.

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Published December, 2016
By Sue Shea, Robin Wynyard and Christos Lionis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Developing a multi-disciplinary theory of compassionate care, and underpinned by empirical examples of good practice, this volume is a valuable resource for all those interesting in understanding and supporting compassion in health care, including advanced students, academics and practitioners within medicine, nursing, psychology, allied health, sociology and philosophy.

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Published December, 2016
By Ofer Zur
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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This first of a kind analysis will focus exclusively on unavoidable and mandated multiple relationships between clients and psychotherapists.

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Published December, 2016
By Inmaculada de Melo-Martin and Inmaculada de Melo-Martmn
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Reprogenetic technologies have been embraced by advocates as tools that can create healthier, smarter, more admirable human beings.

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Published December, 2016
By David Schenck, Larry R. Churchill and Joseph B. Fanning
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Healthcare ethics has been dominated by the voices of professionals. This book listens to the voices of patients and argues that patients' perceptions should form the core ethical obligations and insights for "good care." This is the ethical meaning of "patient-centered care."

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