This book challenges the idea that medical ethics in armed conflict is identical to peacetime. It explores the dual loyalty conflict for Military Health Care Professionals torn between military orders and professional codes when caring for the wounded under fire.
Japanese bioethics has developed a distinct identity separate from its American origins. This anthology, featuring original chapters by leading scholars, reveals how traditional Japanese values shape the nation’s approach to complex ethical issues in medicine.
The Age of Informed Consent
This book analyses the application of informed consent in continental Europe, comparing its evolution to the US/UK model. It addresses the practical difficulties of applying an imported concept without a proper analysis of the local cultural, social, and medical background.
This collection of essays addresses the absence of African voices in global bioethics. It explores issues from medical research and traditional medicine to reproductive health, showing how universal bioethics can be firmly anchored in local, continental realities.
This volume explores how healthcare can be improved by the humanities. Drawing on fiction, art, and history, it offers innovative perspectives on healing, illness, and patient care, showing why an interdisciplinary dialogue is needed to enrich both medicine and the humanities.
This collection presents case studies and reflections on research bioethics from a Latin American perspective. It inspires comparative analyses of research with human subjects and explores the reception of global scientific ideas in the region.
This book offers an ethical analysis of challenges in COVID-19 research, vaccination, and therapy. It confronts the dilemma of who to treat when life-saving resources are limited and highlights the necessity of a global bioethical framework for pandemic management.
This book provides the philosophical basis for person-centred healthcare. Drawing on phenomenology, it offers clinicians a practical guide to improving care and promoting autonomy in patients with chronic illness.
This book explores the complexities of ethics and plagiarism in medical research. Plagiarism is often framed in narrow terms, but its consequences are complicated by the internet. This text helps readers understand how to scrutinize language in scientific writing and publishing.
In Russia, millions of women underwent radical mastectomy without indications. This book explores invasive procedures used without sufficient cause, a surgical hyper-radicalism linked to paternalism, disregard for informed consent, and the training of medical personnel for war.
Concepts and Issues in Healthcare Ethics
This book gives healthcare professionals practical help with ethical dilemmas. With a playful, accessible approach, it provides philosophical tools and discusses practical cases to stimulate creative inquiry and guide students and professionals in providing good care.
Medical Assistance in Dying
This book offers a critical analysis of medical aid in dying (MAiD). While supporting MAiD based on the notion of rational suicide, it shows how inconsistent international protocols raise moral and legal concerns. It provides a framework to analyze and reform these protocols.