TOP MEDICAL BOOKS

Book Description: The most widely used medical ethics textbook today, Munson’s INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION is a collection of the most up to date and influential articles addressing the most pressing contemporary debates in medical ethics. Also delivering a wide variety of timely and provocative cases for consideration, INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION provides you with the most comprehensive... Read the story →

Book Description: The Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania is the internationally recognized leader in bioethical education and research. Its interdisciplinary faculty is drawn from the fields of medicine, law, nursing, education, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Arthur L. Caplan, the Center’s founding director, is recognized as one of the most influential... Read the story →

Book Description: Medicine and health care generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic, professional and public interest. This comprehensive resource is designed as a succinct yet authoritative text and reference for clinicians, bioethicists, and advanced students seeking a better understanding of ethics problems in the clinical setting. Each chapter illustrates an... Read the story →

Book Description: Up-to-date and comprehensive, this practical best-selling text now available with an online personalized study plan, helps students learn how to deal with and apply ethical standards. The authors provide readers with the basis for discovering their own guidelines within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. They raise what they... Read the story →

Product Description With the huge growth of interest in shoulder surgery has come a realization that some operations are best conducted arthroscopically. This international guide from experts is a practical guide to the considerations involved in each operation. This book is illustrated in colour throughout and features the very latest refinements in techniques from contributing experts. CLICK... Read the story →

Book Description: We are living in an unprecedented era of biomedical revolution. Medicine is remaking humans, and controversy surrounds such topics as abortion, artificial organs, brain circuitry, eugenics, euthanasia, and gene therapy. At the same time, medical advances are posing complex ethical problems for both patients and professionals. The most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of... Read the story →

Book Description: When the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics appeared in 1978, the discipline was new and relatively undefined. The second edition, in 1995, kept pace with the rapid changes in the field. Continuing advances in biological and medical research have created the need for yet another edition. Bioethics has become a recognized field, “the interdisciplinary examination... Read the story →

Book Description: Neonatal intensive care has been one of the most morally controversial areas of medicine during the past thirty years. This study examines the interconnected development of four key aspects of neonatal intensive care: medical advances, ethical analysis, legal scrutiny, and econometric evaluation. The authors assert that a dramatic shift in societal attitudes toward newborns and... Read the story →

Book Description Nurses in the field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) require very specialized knowledge to provide competent care for their patients. The specialty is evolving rapidly as new treatment methods and uses for HSCT are developed. The book, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Manual for Nursing Practice, is actually a combination of two guideline books on transplantation... Read the story →

Book Description: Surgical Management of Low Back Pain second edition presents the current diagnostic and therapeutic surgical treatemtns for low back pain as well as the anatomic and physiologic rationale for their application. Leading experts in the field of spine surgery, neurosurgery and orthopaedics provide evidence-based discussions of the indications, various techniques, and anticipated results... Read the story →

Book Description: This title focuses on Arthroscopy and Hip, Knee & Lower Extremity.”Hip Arthroscopy” provides you with an improved understanding of the anatomy, common indications and hip conditions that can be treated arthroscopically. A highly-visual learning experience, you will see the steps from patient positioning and portal selection to arthroscopic visualization of the hip... Read the story →

Book Description: Biomedical ethics is a burgeoning academic field with complex and far-reaching consequences. Whereas in Western secular bioethics this subject falls within larger ethical theories and applications (utilitarianism, deontology, teleology, and the like), Islamic biomedical ethics has yet to find its natural academic home in Islamic studies. In this pioneering work, Abdulaziz... Read the story →

BOOK DESCRIPTION: In activity for the quadrennial planetary IPRAS conference, directive impressible surgeons worldwide hit been asked by the International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery to advance their most up-to-date findings, investigate results, and experiences in their Atlantic of expertise. The aggregation is organic according to the earth fields of impressible... Read the story →