Medical ethics involve more than a prohibition against advertising or solicitation of patients,
or a limit on the height of the letters on a doctor's office door. The true ethics of health care …

First published in 1997, this book contributes to our understanding of the way our society
responds to issues of death and dying. The trans-disciplinary research which informs this …

Adaptation is a foundational concept in the natural sciences. In the context of biological
evolution it refers to the process of change through natural selection whereby those best …

If a nursing service uses agency nurses to help cope with staff shortages, the nursing
administrator must manage the cost and quality of care delivered by these nurses. The …

La bioética como área del saber que se interesa por la reflexión sobre los dilemas que
generan los avances técnico–científicos y que afectan la vida en el sistema GAIA, debe …

This paper examines the problem facing school psychologists, psychiatrists and other
members of helping professions in balancing professional intervention against a child's …

The interface between religion, psychiatry, and ethics is often a locus for considerable
controversy. This article focuses on the response of American psychiatry to religious …

Sex preselection is the ability to select the sex of one's offspring prior to conception. After a
discussion of the potential methods of sex preselection, this paper explores the possible …

Responsibility refers to the consequences of human actions, especially to the bad
consequences, as far as we have control over them. Responsibility, therefore, presupposes …

T HE WORLD WAS INTRODUCED to the first" testtube" baby in July 1978 with the birth of
Louise Brown in England. Headlines in newspapers and reports on television spread the …