This book examines the medical human research industry from the point of view of the researched. Written by human test research subjects (also know...

Have you ever left the doctor's office feeling as if you had just gone through a revolving door? Now more than ever, each of us has to take control...

Human dignity -- is it a useful concept in bioethics, one that sheds important light on the whole range of bioethical issues, from embryo research ...

Informed consent is in an unsettled state in both bioethics and the law. The central problem in both fields is the absence of a clear, general form...

Using the voices of ordinary people, clinical ethicist and nurse Dianne Godkin explores the end-of-life issues and emotions that arise when an indi...

The choice for a medical career is a millenary issue. About 2,400 years ago, Hippocreates "the father of Medicine" pointed out the necessary qualit...

This book addresses the topics that are central to the provision of medical education. A group of experts who present a state-of-the-art review on ...

This book opens with a focus on the study of anatomy, the foundation of any medical education. Advances in technology involving radiological imagin...

The issue of living organ donation is important because it represents one important set of possibilities for balancing the needs of people seeking ...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the practices, methods and challenges of patient education and patient managemen...

In the past 50 years, ethical concerns concerning human experimentation have arisen with the advancement of new medical research and technology. Wh...

In the past 50 years, ethical concerns concerning human experimentation have arisen with the advancement of new medical research and technology. Wh...

Expanding Our Calling: Social Ethics in Medical Education is a compendium of essays that represent the thoughts and teachings of a group of philoso...

Holistic medicine, or quality of life as medicine, as we often call it, is basically a strategy for improving the patients quality of life, through...

To derive benefit from medical care, a patient must be able to trust the physician. This trust exists only to the extent that the patient feels con...

Are you a medical student on the cusp of graduation from medical school who is soon to embark upon a journey through residency training? Are you an...

"Unparalleled in British medical history James Owen Drife charted his reactions to the medical world in which he worked and published them, initial...

Dr William O'Flaherty draws on thousands of patient encounters, both human and animal, for this memoir. O'Flaherty’s 24 stories about living and do...

Gaining a patient's trust, or the trust of a patient's family, may seem to be a given, but achieving trust is a fragile, individual, hazardous ende...

Trust in a Medical Setting

In his second book, Sterling Haynes begins by telling us that at the age of seventy a left hemisphere stroke rearranged his brain. "My right creati...