The definitive guide to the legal and ethical issues around medical and surgical practice. It is written with the busy clinician in mind who requires the key information presented without technical jargon in a handy quick-reference style.
The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law covers the breadth and depth of health law, with contributions from the most eminent scholars in the field.
Anyone who wants to know how the central debates in bioethics have developed in recent years, and where the debates are going, will want to consult this book.
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Prima facie duties W D Ross (Dancy 1991, Ross 1930) developed a duty-based approach to ethics that has influenced the 'four-principle' approach to medical ethics (see p. 15). Ross believed that, although the consequences of one's ...
The Handbook is a comprehensive reference work in ethical theory consisting of commissioned articles by leading scholars. The first part treats meta-ethics and the second part normative ethical theory.
I felt deprived when social services cut me down from two to one bath a week in 2004—deprived of feeling like a normal adult. Then they told me I had to stop having the one bath a week I have now because my care was taking longer than ...
This volume brings together scholars from multiple perspectives to address both traditional and novel questions about the rights and responsibilities of human reproducers, their caregivers, and the societies in which they live.
With this ability comes a responsibility that is awesome and inescapable. How we understand and manage this responsibility is the theme of this volume. The book comprises six sections.
The handbook contains more than 50 chapters by leaders from around the world and a broad range of sectors of academia and clinical practice spanning the neurosciences, medical sciences and humanities and law.
This Handbook's wide scope and comparative take on health law are particularly timely. Economic globalization has made it increasingly important for different countries to harmonize their legal rules.