Now in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on
the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that …

Over 50 years ago nymphs of the Plecoptera species, Paraperla frontalis Banks, 1906
(Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae), were shown to exist in a shallow floodplain aquifer of the …

In this important study, first published in 1989, Thomas Halper examines the policies and
practices of the British National Health Services in treating kidney disease. Technological …

Health Care and the Common Good is a timely study on an important issue that affects every
American. In this book, JosZ Lavastida examines the notions of common good and …

The history of medical ethics is a very old and distinguished one, with its roots in ancient
Greece and its latest expressions appearing regularly in learned journals and the meetings …

Health care is recognized as a right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and by the
World Health Organization's Declaration on the Rights of Patients.'This article demonstrates …

Our aim is to draw a set of distinctions among types of goods which has significant
implications for theories of distributive justice. We begin by providing a general account of …

Paraphrasing the opening passage of the Communist Manifesto, one could say that a
specter is haunting health care-the specter of medicalization. In the literature on …

I am not sure that health care can profitably be discussed in the context of rights. For one
thing, it is a term of many and shifting meanings, and thus virtually guarantees some degree …

External influences acting on the health field today threaten the very fabric of the vocation.
As practitioners struggle to meld business ethics with the traditional values of the healing …