Medical Ethics Books

New and Published Books

1. Prospects for the Professions in China

   Edited by William P Alford, William Kirby, Kenneth Winston

   Series: Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia

   Professionals are a growing group in China and increasingly make their presence felt in governance and civil society. At the same time, however, professionals in the West are under increasing pressure from commercialism or scepticism about their ability to rise above self-interest. This book...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Bioethics: The Basics

   By Alastair Campbell

   Series: The Basics

   Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today....

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Care Ethics

   New Theories and Applications

   Edited by Christine Koggel, Joan Orme

   The ethic of care has developed to become a body of theory that has expanded from its roots in social psychology to many other disciplines in the social sciences as well as the humanities. This work on care has informed both theory and practice by generating complex accounts of care ethics for...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. An Introduction to Global Health Ethics

   Edited by Andrew Pinto, Ross Upshur

   The field of global health is expanding rapidly. An increasing number of trainees are studying and working with marginalized populations, often within low and middle-income countries. Such endeavours are beset by ethical dilemmas: mitigating power differentials, addressing cultural differences in...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Human Dignity in Bioethics

   From Worldviews to the Public Square

   Edited by Stephen Dilley, Nathan J. Palpant

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies. The volume falls into three parts, beginning with meta-level perspectives and moving to...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Regulating Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis

   A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis

   Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean, Sarah Elliston

   Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

   The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990. The technology is often used for patients who are at substantial risk of conceiving a pregnancy affected by a known genetic disorder, however from this technology other...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Dimensions of Pain

   Humanities and Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Lisa Folkmarson Käll

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

   Pain research is still dominated by biomedical perspectives and the need to articulate pain in ways other than those offered by evidence based medical models is pressing. Examining closely subjective experiences of pain, this book explores the way in which pain is situated, communicated and formed...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. Partners in Palliative Care

   Enhancing Ethics in Care at the End-of-Life

   Edited by Mary Beth Morrissey, Bruce Jennings

   The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("Collaborative") is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care. It has grown from a small fledgling group to a...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
9. Risky Genes

   Genetics, Breast Cancer and Jewish Identity

   By Jessica Mozersky

   Series: Genetics and Society

   Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. So what does it mean to be told you have an increased risk of genetic breast cancer because you are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin? In a time of ever-increasing...

   Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
10. Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics

    By James Stacey Taylor

    Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

    Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a...

    Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge