Published January, 2017
By Karen Devine
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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This book explores the legal and ethical dilemmas that arise from the procurement, storage and use of stem cells derived from the umbilical cord of new-born infants. Karen Devine traces the emergence of umbilical cord blood (UCB) as a biological resource of potential therapeutic value, and introduces the medical researchers, practitioners and patients that fought to prove its worth.

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Published January, 2017
By Samuel B. Hellman
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Learning While Caring is about medical learning within the doctor-patient relationship in the context of academic medical practice. Although cancer is the subject of most of Dr. Hellman's essays, they are applicable to most of clinical medicine.

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Published January, 2017
By Françoise Baylis and Angela Ballantyne
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Series: Research Ethics Forum
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Published January, 2017
By Lynn R. Webster and Lynn Webster
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Dr. Webster puts a face on chronic pain through describing the lives of patients. The Painful Truth opens readers' eyes to a population who are stigmatized and marginalized by society. Yet the book offers a path forward for those willing to engage in a crusade against our primal enemy: pain.

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Published January, 2017
By Philip M. Rosoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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American healthcare is neither efficient nor available to all, and is also the most expensive in the world. This book argues that rationing of healthcare could work and proposes an approach to ration fairly, effectively and generously.

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Published December, 2016
By Charles Foster, Patrick Davey, Michael Dunn, Anna Rathmell, Helen Salisbury and P Davey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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Medical Ethics, Law and Communication at a Glance presents a succinct overview of these key areas of the medical curriculum. This new title aims to provide a concise summary of the three core, interlinked topics essential to resolving ethical dilemmas in medicine and avoiding medico-legal action.

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Published December, 2016
By Shane S. Bush, Rebecca S. Allen and Victor A. Molinari
Publisher: Eurospan (American Psychological Association)
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Introduces a structured decision-making process that draws heavily from principle-based and positive ethics and provides practical applications of the APA Ethics Code while also accounting for federal laws and regulations. Detailed case examples illustrate how to apply this process in a variety of treatment contexts, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, and hospice care.

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Published December, 2016
By Sigrid Sterckx, Kasper Raus and Freddy Mortier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law
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Continuous sedation is becoming increasingly common in end-of-life care. It raises many concerns, though, especially regarding reducing or removing consciousness, withholding hydration and whether it amounts to 'slow euthanasia'. In this book, ethicists, clinicians and lawyers address these concerns and discuss various justifications and guidelines for the practice.

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Published December, 2016
By Giovanni Maio
Publisher: Thieme (Thieme Publishing Group)
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Published December, 2016
By Ralf J. Jox and Frank Erbguth
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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