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  • Competency

    A Study of Informal Competency Determinations in Primary Care

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Some conferences produce proceedings, others an inspiration to labor, which finally leads to a published work. Such has been the case with regard to this volume. In 1984, the Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues held a conference with the title 'When are Competent Patients Incompetent?' with the support of the Texas Committee for the Humanities, a state-based program of the National ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Beneficence and Health Care

    Edited by E.E. Shelp ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The meaning and application of the principle of beneficence to issues in health care is rarely clear or certain. Although the principle is frequently employed to justify a variety of actions and inactions, very little has been done from a conceptual point of view to test its relevance to these behaviors or to explore its relationship to other moral principles that also might be called upon to ... Read more

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  • Sexuality and Medicine

    Volume II: Ethical Viewpoints in Transition

    Edited by E.E. Shelp ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    It may be unnecessary to some to publish a text on sexuality in 1986 since the popular press speaks of the sexual revolution as if it were over and was possibly a mistake. Some people characterize society as too sexually obsessed, and there is an undercurrent of desire for a return to a supposedly simpler and happier time when sex was not openly dis cussed, displayed, taught or even, presumedly, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Sexuality and Medicine

    Volume I: Conceptual Roots

    Edited by E.E. Shelp ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    When confronted by the concerns of human sexual function or dys function, American medicine finds itself well impaled on the horns of a dilemma. Currently it is acceptable medical practice to treat sexual dysfunctions, disorders, or dissatisfactions that arise from psy chogenic etiologies, endocrine imbalances, neurologic defects or are side effects of necessary medication regimes. In addition, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Justice and Health Care

    Edited by E.E. Shelp ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Bioethics is a discipline still not fully explored in spite of its rather remark able expansion and sophistication during the past two decades. The prolifer ation of courses in bioethics at educational institutions of every description gives testimony to an intense academic interest in its concerns. The media have catapulted the dilemmas of bioethics out of the laboratory and library into public ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Theology and Bioethics

    Exploring the Foundations and Frontiers

    Edited by E.E. Shelp ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    We who live in this post-modern late twentieth century culture are still children of dualism. For a variety of rather complex reasons we continue to split apart and treat as radical opposites body and spirit, medicine and religion, sacred and secular, private and public, love and justice, men and women. Though this is still our strong tendency, we are beginning to discover both the futility and ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Clinical Encounter

    The Moral Fabric of the Patient-Physician Relationship

    Edited by E.E. Shelp ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The encounter between patient and physician may be characterized as the focus of medicine. As such, the patient-physician relationship, or more accurately the conduct of patients and physicians, has been the subject of considerable comment, inquiry, and debate throughout the centuries. The issues and concerns discussed, apart from those more specifically related to medical theory and therapy, ... Read more

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  • Genetic Data and the Law

    A Critical Perspective on Privacy Protection

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  • Narrative Medicine : Honoring the Stories of Illness

    Honoring the Stories of Illness

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