Family-Making(Reprint) Contemporary Ethical Challenges (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) by FrancoiseBaylis, Carolyn Mcleod Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-877658-1, ISBN: 0-19-877658-6
"This volume explores the ethics of making or expanding families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. For many people, these methods are separate and distinct: they can choose either adoption or assisted reproduction. But for others, these options blend together. For example, in some jurisdictions, the path of assisted reproduction for same-sex couples is complicated by the need for the partner who is not geneticall ..."
"Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global. Ethical questions that once arose only in the narrow context of the physician-patient relationship in relatively prosperous societies are now being raised across societies, cultures, and continents. For example, what should be the "standard of care" for clinical trials of medical innovations in poorer countries? Are researchers obligated to compare new therapies or drugs ..."
"Stem cell research. Drug company influence. Abortion. Contraception. Long-term and end-of-life care. Human participants research. Informed consent. The list of ethical issues in science, medicine, and public health is long and continually growing. These complex issues pose a daunting task for professionals in the expanding field of bioethics. But what of the practice of bioethics itself? What issues do ethicists and bioethicists confron ..."
"Stem cell research. Drug company influence. Abortion. Contraception. Long-term and end-of-life care. Human participants research. Informed consent. The list of ethical issues in science, medicine, and public health is long and continually growing. These complex issues pose a daunting task for professionals in the expanding field of bioethics. But what of the practice of bioethics itself? What issues do ethicists and bioethicists confron ..."
"This book brings together an unusually broad range of experts from reproductive medicine, medical ethics and law to address the important ethical problems in maternal-fetal medicine which impact directly on clinical practice. The book is divided into parts by the stages of pregnancy, within which the authors cover four main areas: • the balance of power in the doctor-patient relationship and the justifiable limits of paternalism and aut ..."
"Barbara K. Miller, Thomas J. Mansen, and Helen Lee, "Patient Advocacy: Do
Nurses Have the Power and Authority to Act as Patient ... Anne H. Bishop and
John R. Scudder, Jr., The Practical, Moral and Personal Sense of Nursing:
Phenomenological Philosophy of Practice (Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1990)."
"The primary objective of The Health Care Ethics Con sultant is to focus attention on an immediate practical problem: the role and responsibilities, the education and training, and the certification and accreditation of health care ethics consultants. The principal questions addressed in this book include: Who should be considered health care ethics consultants? Whom should they advise? What should be their responsi bilities and what k ..."
The Health Care Ethics Consultant(Reprint) (Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society) by Francoise C. Baylis Paperback, 209 Pages, Published 2010 by Humana Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61737-003-8, ISBN: 1-61737-003-7
"... producing students with expertise in bioethics. Like certification, it is an
approach that insists on fragmentation and specialization. Just as the Profile
stands as an alternative to certification, the feeder disciplines approach, outlined
in the chapter coauthored by Michael Burgess, Eugene Bereza, Bridget Campion
, Jocelyn Downie, Janet Storch, and George Webster, stands as an alternative to
specialized education. Traditional ..."