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Hardcover. An assessment of some ethical implications of increasing life spans. Taking as a starting point the idea that to increase longevity is a form of medical enhancement, it examines the value of living longer; the means for extending life spans; the consequences of greater longevity for the fair distribution of resources and healthcare in particular. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC; MFKH3; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346. 256 pages. An assessment of some ethical implications of increasing life spans. Taking as a starting point the idea that to increase longevity is a form of medical enhancement, it examines the value of living longer; the means for extending life spans; the consequences of greater longevity for the fair distribution of resources and healthcare in particular. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: MBDC; MFKH3; PSAD. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 16. Weight: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576957
- ISBN
- 9780230576957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Hardback. Discusses character formation, ethics, professional character, and other concepts and addresses the interpersonal aspects of physicians as well as the importance of character. Editor(s): Kenny, Nuala; Shelton, Wayne N. Series: Advances in Bioethics. Num Pages: 254 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762311965
- ISBN
- 9780762311965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.87
€ 121.87
Paperback. Using attachment theory, Maunder and Hunter provide a practical, clinically focused introduction to the influence of attachment styles on an individual's risk of disease and the effectiveness of their interactions with health care providers. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 figures. BIC Classification: MBDP; MBNH9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442615601
- ISBN
- 9781442615601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.41
€ 38.99
€ 37.41
Hardback. Tries to show that problematic evaluations of new technologies such as IVF may be as dangerous as no evaluation at all. This book offers an extensive evaluation of four prominent institutional assessments of IVF. It reveals how inadequate assessments may produce policies that are not in the public's best interests. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792351160
- ISBN
- 9780792351160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.07
€ 190.07
Paperback. A legal and moral analysis of medical decision making on behalf of those with such severe cognitive impairments that they cannot exercise self-determination. Series: Basic Bioethics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: LATC; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402. Very good clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- MIT Press Massachusetts
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KEX0250006
- ISBN
- 9780262513272
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A legal and moral analysis of medical decision making on behalf of those with such severe cognitive impairments that they cannot exercise self-determination. Series: Basic Bioethics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: LATC; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402. Very good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- MIT Press Massachusetts
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0250021
- ISBN
- 9780262513272
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A legal and moral analysis of medical decision making on behalf of those with such severe cognitive impairments that they cannot exercise self-determination. Series: Basic Bioethics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: LATC; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402. Very good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- MIT Press Massachusetts
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0250022
- ISBN
- 9780262513272
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Advance directives - such as living wills and health care proxies - are documents intended to declare and preserve the health care choices of patients if they become unable to make their own decisions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of advance directives and clear, practical directions for writing and interpreting them. Editor(s): King, Nancy M. P. Series: Clinical Medical Ethics. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFME; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878406050
- ISBN
- 9780878406050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.79
€ 70.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 172 x 21. Weight in Grams: 992.
- Publisher
- Radcliffe Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846195853
- ISBN
- 9781846195853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.86
€ 59.86
Paperback. The availability and delivery of health care is one of the most important issues on the American public policy agenda. The authors analyze the social, psychological, and bureaucratic boundaries that define health care in the United States, discuss how organizational change affects these boundaries, and suggest broad strategies for managing them. Num Pages: 273 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JF; MBDP; MBPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 182 x 19. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780971242777
- ISBN
- 9780971242777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.94
€ 57.94
Hardback. Examines the pharmacological and molecular basis of the therapeutic properties of marihuana and its active ingredient, THC. This title details the broad array of marihuana's effects on brain function, the immune system, male and female reproductive functions, and cardiac and pulmonary functions. Editor(s): Nahas, Gabriel G.; Agurell, Stig; Harvey, David J. Num Pages: 826 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC; MMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1678.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Humana Press Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 826
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896035935
- ISBN
- 9780896035935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 247.39
€ 247.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: KJM; MBD; MBPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199332052
- ISBN
- 9780199332052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.52
€ 88.52
Hardback. Combines ethics and political philosophy in its approach to patient selection for transplantable organs. This book addresses the question of whether we should choose between lives on the basis of fair chances or best outcomes. It argues that final selection criteria should be based on fair chances. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1110.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402029707
- ISBN
- 9781402029707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.69
€ 125.69
Paperback. Outlines eight issues regarding end-of-life care as seen through the lens of the Catholic medical ethics tradition. This title looks at the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means; the difference between killing and allowing to die; criteria of patient competence; what to do in the case of incompetent patients; and, more. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCM; JHBZ; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589011120
- ISBN
- 9781589011120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.31
€ 40.31
Hardback. This volume contains all the contributions from an international symposium in 1999 on the ethical issues facing the medical community: when and how to die, whose life to preserve, whether to modify genes to create life, and how to pay for it all. Editor(s): Willich, Stefan N.; Elm, Susanna. Num Pages: 142 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 11. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792369042
- ISBN
- 9780792369042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.45
€ 125.45
Paperback. The second edition of Medical Ethics deals accessibly with a broad range of significant issues in bioethics, and presents the reader with the latest developments. This new edition has been greatly revised and updated, with half of the sections written specifically for this new volume. Editor(s): Boylan, Michael. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 193 x 19. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118494752
- ISBN
- 9781118494752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.85
€ 60.85
Paperback. Examines specific teachings of the Church on over seventy issues in clinical and research ethics, including abortion, AIDS, artificial insemination, assisted suicide, cloning, contraception, euthanasia, gene therapy, health care reform, organ donation and transplantation, organizational ethics, stem cells, and, surrogate motherhood. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM; MBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 23. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589017429
- ISBN
- 9781589017429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.92
€ 58.92
Paperback. Succeeding in the healthcare field means more than just making adiagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals areresponsible for convincing patients and their family members of thebest course of action and treatments to follow, whilst knowing howto make the right moral and ethical choices. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 187 x 20. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470878569
- ISBN
- 9780470878569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.66
€ 23.99
€ 17.66
Hardback. This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals. Num Pages: 956 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 956
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444337082
- ISBN
- 9781444337082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.44
€ 196.44
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Davey, Patrick; Rathmell, Anna; Dunn, Michael; Foster, Charles; Salisbury, Helen. Series: At a Glance. Num Pages: 120 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 340 x 2. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470670644
- ISBN
- 9780470670644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 45.44
€ 46.99
€ 45.44