Exposes the new age of health maintenance organisations (HMOs) doctoring for what it is: a rush to profit rather than a concern for patient's needs; a cost-versus-quality machine that emphasises the bottom line, while patients become the victims of a corporate mentality that favours assembly-line treatment standards.
Legal Boundaries and Regulatory Perspectives (POD)
A third of all Americans use complementary and alternative medicineincluding chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy, nutritional and herbal treatments, and massage therapyeven when their insurance does not cover it and they have to pay for such treatments themselves. Nearly a third of U.S. medical schools offer courses on ......
With more than 200,000 copies sold, The Johns Hopkins Atlas of Human Functional Anatomy is a trusted and authoritative source of information about the human body for general readers and students at all levels. Now newly revised and expanded, the fourth edition offers more comprehensive coverage than ever. Included are: 226 color illustrations, ......
Addresses such questions that touch the sacredness of human life: abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, and capital punishment. This title discusses and interprets the Pope's teachings on these complex moral issues.
Property Rights and the Ownership of Human Biological Materials
Examines whether the body and materials derived from it - such as human organs and DNA - should be thought of as market commodities and subject to property law. This title explores whether the language and assumptions of property law can help society determine who has rights to human biological materials.
Insanity, Rational Autonomy, and Mental Health Care
Addresses the ethical and legal issues in mental health care. This sourcebook offers the research in psychiatry, psychology, advocacy, mental health law, social services, and medical ethics relevant to the rational autonomy of psychiatric patients.
Exploring the moral foundations of the healing relationship, this title looks at the ways a religious perspective shapes the healing relationship and the ethics of that relationship. It argues that religion provides insights into medical practice and morality that cannot be ignored, even in our morally heterogeneous society.
A comprehensive examination of medical ethics in the Renaissance. It investigates the ethical considerations, evaluations of procedures, and techniques of problem-solving in the writings of European physicians and surgeons from the mid-sixteenth through the mid-seventeenth centuries.
