6,623円 We often hear stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by someone offering promises of help. Frequently these cases are condemned in terms of "exploiting hope." These accusations are made in a range of contexts: human smuggling, employment relationshi...

7,292円 This book provides a bridge between the theory to practice gap in contemporary health care ethics. It explores the messiness of everyday ethical issues and validates the potential impacts on health care professionals as wounded healers who regularly experience close proximity to suffering and pai...

12,154円 This edited volume aims to better understand the multifaceted phenomenon we call health. Going beyond simple views of health as the absence of disease or as complete well-being, this book unites scientists and philosophers. The contributions clarify the links between health and adaptation, robust...

1,300円 ¿Qué es la sensatez? Podríamos definirla como una sabiduría práctica: hacer bien lo que hay que hacer, y no hacer –ni bien ni mal– lo que no hay que hacer. Hasta hace apenas décadas, las insensateces eran resultado de la ignorancia y de las creencias; en los últimos tiempos, el conocimiento cient...

5,573円 A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the Year A First Things Books for Christmas Selection Winner of the Expanded Reason Award “This important work of moral philosophy argues that we are, first and foremost, embodied beings, and that public policy must recognize the limits and gifts that this en...

4,432円 Should editing the human genome be allowed? What are the ethical implications of social restrictions during a pandemic? Is it ethical to use animals in clinical research? Is prioritizing COVID-19 treatment increasing deaths from other causes? Bioethics is a dynamic field of inquiry that draws on ...

1,500円 En este libro están compendiados más de cuarenta años de la vida de un médico. Así como todo camino tiene una meta, en este la felicidad está en el andar, que se convierte en su propio fin. El viaje comienza en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, con un joven que obtiene el título de médico para cura...

10,280円 Medical Dominance, now in a revised edition, provides a fascinating account of the medical profession's successful domination of a wide range of health care services. Evan Willis delves into the past to explain the existing division of labour and health care, the rise of the medical profession to...

1,400円 "Los temas que se presentan en este texto confluyen en los conflictos bioéticos y jurídicos en escenarios como: decisiones críticas en escenario de emergencias, cuidados paliativos, demencia, eutanasia y suicidio asistido, los estados alterados de conciencia, y justicia sanitaria en torno al tras...

9,948円 Get Through FRCR Part 1: MCQs and Mock Examination is the essential and highly praised revision aid for the Royal College of Radiologists' FRCR Part 1 exam. Providing comprehensive coverage of the new FRCR Part 1 syllabus, this title presents questions in a similar style to the exam, accompanied ...

2,661円 Contracting surrogate mothers is no longer marginal. Nor is it secret. Surrogacy is growing rapidly even though no informed debate on the social impacts of its normalization has been conducted. It is even regarded as socially progressive, while those who question it are considered to be opposed t...

1,896円 Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke has written a gripping moral thriller that uses the lens of medical ethics to examine urgent questions of faith, belief, and scientific rationality. How do we defend the "truth" when no one agrees what it is and many have ...