Published August, 2013
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 July, 2013
By Catherine Mills
Publisher: Springer
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The book provides clear and thorough discussions of some of the dominant problems in reproductive ethics - human enhancement and the notion of the normal, reproductive liberty and procreative beneficence, the principle of harm and discrimination against disability - while also proposing new ways of addressing these.

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Published July, 2013
By Nancy Berlinger, Bruce Jennings and Susan M. Wolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines shaped the ethical and legal framework for treatment decision-making and end-of-life care in the U.S. This updated edition offers comprehensive practical guidance to professionals caring for seriously ill adults and children. It is a resource for clinical ethicists, ethics committees, lawyers, administrators, educators, and policymakers.

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Published July, 2013
By Alicia Ouellette
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book provides the tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases people with disabilities and bioethicists have that the health care setting is a dangerous place and that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics.

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Published July, 2013
By Nathan Emmerich
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
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Recent research in the sociology of medical education and the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu are covered. In the end, the themes of Bourdieuan Social Theory, socio-cultural apprenticeships and the 'characterological turn' in medical education are draw together the context of medical ethics education.

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Published July, 2013
By Lucia S. Sommers, John Launer and Lucia Siegel Sommers
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book surveys clinical uncertainty in primary care and primary care education, offering definitions, research on effects, methods for dealing with uncertainty and details of the practice inquiry process as it is applied in a variety of clinical settings.

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Published July, 2013
By Stuart Katz, Ragavendra Baliga and Stuart D. Katz
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Oxford American Cardiology Library
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Heart Failure synthesizes established clinical guidelines for the management of heart failure in an easy-to-use handbook for busy clinicians.

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Published June, 2013
By Dana Heller Levitt and Holly J. Hartwig Moorhead
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Values and Ethics in Counseling illustrates the ways in which ethical decisions are values-but more than that, it guides counselors through the process of examining their own values and analyzing how these values impact ethical decision making.

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Published June, 2013
By Dana Heller Levitt and Holly J. Hartwig Moorhead
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Values and Ethics in Counseling illustrates the ways in which ethical decisions are values-but more than that, it guides counselors through the process of examining their own values and analyzing how these values impact ethical decision making.

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Published June, 2013
By Insoo Hyun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Bioethics and the Future of Stem Cell Research provides a sophisticated yet accessible account of emerging trends in stem cell research and their accompanying ethical issues. Insoo Hyun encourages readers to look beyond the embryo debate to consider tough ethical issues involving animal research, clinical trials and stem cell tourism.

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