Published February, 2014
By Gerald Young
Publisher: Springer
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Malingering, Feigning, and Response Bias in Psychiatric/Psychological Injury

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Published November, 2013
By Niklas Juth and Christian Munthe
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Medical or health-oriented screening programs are amongst the most debated aspects of health care and public health practices in health care and public health ethics, as well as health policy discussions.

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Published November, 2013
By Nikola Biller-Andorno, Peter Lack and Susanne Brauer
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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This volume gives an overview on the currently debated ethical issues regarding advance directives from an international perspective. Although advance directives have been widely discussed since the 1980s, the ethical bases of advance directives still remain a matter of heated debates.

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Published September, 2013
By Norbert Konrad, Birgit Vollm, D. N. Weisstub, David N. Weisstub and Birgit Voellm
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Recent surveys demonstrate a high and possibly increasing prevalence of mental disorders in prisoners. Ethical conflicts may arise from the dual role of forensic psychiatrists giving raise to tensions between patient care/protection of the public.This book describes models and ethical issues of psychiatric healthcare in prison in several countries.

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Published May, 2013
By Jay Schulkin and William F. Rayburn
Publisher: Springer
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Reflecting the anticipated shortage of physicians (especially those involved in women's health care) in the USA, this volume focuses on strategic planning, with material on changing demographics, the hidden value of part-time faculty, and staff retention.

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Published December, 2012
By Jan Tolleneer, Sigrid Sterckx and Pieter Bonte
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Zooming in on the intrinsic issue of what is valuable about our homo sapiens biological condition, this volume devotes only scant attention to the specific issue of natural talent and why such talent is appreciated so differently than biotechnological origins of ability.

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Published November, 2012
By John Douard and Pamela D. Schultz
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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This book addresses the ways in which the metaphor of the criminal as monster is used to scapegoat certain categories of crimes and criminals for anxieties about our own potential for deviant, and, indeed, dangerous interests.

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Published October, 2012
By Norman Sartorius and Hanfried Helmchen
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Ethics in Psychiatry: (1) presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research; (3) examines the application of general ethics to specific psychiatric problems and relates these to moral implications of psychiatry practice;

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Published January, 2012
By Sigmund Simonsen
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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This book is the first major work that addresses a core question in biomedical research: the question of acceptable risk. It is a relevant work for lawyers and ethicists, and the practical approach makes a valuable tool for researchers and members of research ethics committees supervising biomedical research.

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Published November, 2011
By Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Bringing a person into an existence that is truly awful-not worth having-can be wrong, and so can bringing a person into an existence that is worth having when we had the alternative of bringing that same person into an existence that is substantially better.

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