Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title What is so special about
human life? What is the relationship between flesh and blood and the human soul? Is there …

One of the ethical dilemmas facing health promotion and disease prevention (HP/DP)
practitioners is ensuring that programmes undertaken in the name of health as a 'common …

Pediatric nephrologists may encounter infants with renal failure who have either
unexpectedly survived lung hypoplasia at birth or whose renal failure could be treated but …

La enseñanza de la bioética pierde contacto con la realidad social en la cual se ejercen las
actividades de su ámbito (medicina, investigación biomédica, salud pública). Su reflexión …

This paper is a normative analysis of an empowerment approach in health promotion. In
particular it utilizes two increasingly influential idioms of normative analysis (analytic health …

influence ethics in the current environment. The very fact that there is such a history of moral
philosophy, and that the range of ethical theories are so divergent in many of their …

Background and Purpose. The difficulty of identification, remediation, and evaluation of
inappropriate behaviors remains a challenge for academic and clinical faculty who are …

Health needs assessment is an integral part of effective health promotion and the
cornerstone of the new health improvement and modernisation plans. This article examines …

One of the priciple of good maternity care identified by the Expert Maternity Group, suggest
that:'The woman must be the focus of… care. She should be able to feels that she is in …

Many leading health economists hold misconceived ideas about central components of their
work. In particular, they assume that their methods are in principle valueneutral. This belief is …