Medical Ethics Products

By Dien Ho

This book sheds light on important philosophical assumptions made by professionals working in clinical and research medicine. 　In doing so, it aims to make explicit how active philosophy is in medicine and shows how this awareness can result in better and more informed medical research and practice…

Paperback – 2019-06-27 
Routledge

By Tom Walker

This book provides an account of the ethics of chronic illness. Chronic illness differs from other illnesses in that it is often incurable, patients can live with it for many years, and its day-to-day management is typically carried out by the patient or members of their family. These features…

Hardback – 2019-05-17 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Applied Ethics

Edited by Jaime Ahlberg, Michael Cholbi

Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights explores important issues at the nexus of two burgeoning areas within moral and social philosophy: procreative ethics and parental rights. Surprisingly, there has been comparatively little scholarly engagement across these subdisciplinary boundaries,…

Paperback – 2019-05-07 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Applied Ethics

Edited by Friedo Zölzer, Gaston Meskens

Environmental health encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents. It is often assumed that the assessment part is just a matter of scientific research, and the control…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Environment and Health

By Charles Greene Cumston

Originally published in 1926, An Introduction to the History of Medicine is a compilation of reliable and essential contributions to the subject of the history of medicine. The book looks at the evolution of medicine from the practices in Ancient Egypt, to the medicine of the 16th century, and…

Hardback – 2018-12-17
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine

By Arturo Castiglioni

Originally published in 1941, A History of Medicine provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the advancement of medicine, from Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Babylonia, all the way up to the 20th century. The book looks at the close relationship between the progress of medicine and its…

Hardback – 2018-12-17
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine

By Ruth E. Groenhout

This book examines the central structures in medicine—medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority—from the perspective of an ethics of care. The author analyzes each of these structures in detail before considering the challenges they present to end of life care.…

Hardback – 2018-11-05
Routledge
Routledge Annals of Bioethics

By Shaun D. Pattinson

Is it lawful for a doctor to give a patient life-shortening pain relief? Can treatment be lawfully provided to a child under 16 on the basis of her consent alone? Is it lawful to remove food and water provided by tube to a patient in a vegetative state? Is a woman’s refusal of a caesarean section…

Hardback – 2018-10-19
Routledge
Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

By Browne Lewis

Posthumous reproduction refers to the procedure that enables a child to be conceived using the gametes of a dead person. Advances in reproductive technology mean it is now possible to assist in creating a life after you die, and in recent years the number of women who have attempted to get pregnant…

Paperback – 2018-10-18
Routledge
Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

Edited by Friedo Zölzer, Gaston Meskens

Environmental health involves the assessment and control of environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents. It is less commonly understood that environmental health also requires addressing questions of an ethical nature…

Hardback – 2018-09-19
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Environment and Health

By Havi Carel

What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social, and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can there be well-being within illness? In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Havi Carel…

Paperback – 2018-08-01
Routledge

Edited by Peter Schaber, Andreas Müller

  While the importance of consent has been discussed widely over the last few decades, interest in its study has received renewed attention in recent years, particularly regarding medical treatment, clinical research and sexual acts. The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent is an…

Hardback – 2018-06-11
Routledge
Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics