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One box of chemicals mistaken for another. Ingredients intended to be life-sustaining are instead life-taking. Families in shock, healthcare providers reeling, and fingers starting to point. A large healthcare system's reputation hangs in the balance while decisions need to be made, quickly. More questions than answers. People have to be held accountable—does this mean they get fired? Should the media and therefore the public be informed? What are family members and the providers involved feeling? When the dust settles, will remaining patients be more safe or less safe?

This book offers a comprehensive and controversial analysis of abortion, addressing it not only as a medical procedure but also as an ethical, psychological, and social dilemma. The work presents a balanced perspective, integrating technical knowledge and critical bioethical analysis on the impacts of abortion on women's health. Through a detailed look at medication abortion, surgical abortion, and its complications, the book provides an in-depth understanding of medical risks and physical and psychological consequences associated with the procedure.

W świetnie przyjętym przez czytelników pierwszym tomie „Zakazanej psychologii" (opatrzonym podtytułem „Pomiędzy nauką a szarlatanerią"), książce, która ukazała się w roku 2009, Tomasz Witkowski pisał o grzechach psychologii akademickiej, grzechach terapeutów i ekspansji psychobiznesu oraz o słynnej prowokacji wobec magazynu "Charaktery", której był autorem. Zapowiedział też, że "Ciąg dalszy nastąpi."

Este libro sobre trasplantes de órganos aborda los dilemas más profundos y controvertidos de la medicina moderna, tratando cuestiones éticas, médicas y tecnológicas que desafían los límites de la práctica médica. Con la escasez global de donantes y la creciente demanda de órganos, el libro analiza temas como la comercialización de órganos, el mercado ilegal de trasplantes, y las innovaciones tecnológicas, incluyendo la bioingeniería y los xenotrasplantes, que prometen moldear el futuro de los trasplantes.

Euthanasia is one of the most controversial issues in contemporary medicine, involving profound ethical, medical, and psychological dilemmas. This work explores the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide, challenging medical traditions by questioning the extent to which we have the right to decide the end of our lives. With technological advancements artificially prolonging life, new questions arise about the meaning of a "dignified death" and how far extreme suffering should be alleviated, even if it means shortening life.

Dieses unverzichtbare Buch über psychoaktive Substanzen untersucht eingehend deren Definition, Klassifikation sowie die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Fortschritte und innovativen Therapien. Mit einem Fokus auf die Wirkmechanismen im zentralen Nervensystem analysiert es, wie Stimulanzien, Depressiva, Halluzinogene und Analgetika das Gehirn und das menschliche Verhalten beeinflussen. Diese Arbeit bietet eine detaillierte Analyse, die Neurowissenschaften, Medizin und mentale Gesundheit verbindet, und ist somit ein unverzichtbarer Leitfaden für Wissenschaftler und Fachleute.

This audiobook on organ transplantation delves into the most profound and controversial dilemmas of modern medicine, addressing ethical, medical, and technological issues that challenge the boundaries of medical practice.

This comprehensive book on psychoactive substances. This delves deeply into their definition, classification, and the latest scientific advancements and innovative therapies. With a focus on the mechanisms of action in the central nervous system, it examines how stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, and analgesics influence the brain and human behavior. Offering a thorough analysis that bridges neuroscience, medicine, and mental health, this work is an indispensable reference for scholars and professionals alike.

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This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the RBT exam's requirements, the benefits of becoming an RBT, and the exam format and structure. You'll also learn about the foundations of behavior analysis, including basic principles, assessment and measurement, functional assessment and analysis, and ethics. In addition to providing a theoretical overview of the key topics, this guide also includes 450 practice questions to help you prepare for the exam.

Este libro tiene como objetivo proporcionar una base sólida de conocimiento para comprender las complejidades y desafíos en la intersección entre la medicina, la tecnología y el derecho. Al ofrecer una perspectiva global y comparativa, la obra pretende capacitar a los lectores con las herramientas necesarias para navegar y contribuir de manera efectiva al avance y la regulación de la práctica médica en un mundo en constante evolución.

Esta obra es esencial para juristas, profesionales de la salud, académicos y estudiantes que buscan una comprensión profunda de las cuestiones éticas y legales en la práctica médica global. Aborda, de manera detallada y crítica, los principios fundamentales del derecho médico, explorando la evolución histórica, las teorías jurídicas aplicadas a la salud y la comparación entre diferentes sistemas legales, como el common law y el civil law.

Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming increasingly adept at editing the human genome. How far can—and should—they go in editing future generations? In The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, editor Neal Baer brings together a timely collection of essays by influential bioethicists, philosophers, and geneticists to explore the moral, ethical, and policy challenges posed by CRISPR technology.

In these hard times of global financial peril and growing social inequality, injuries to dignity are pervasive. "Indignity has many faces," one man told Nora Jacobson as she conducted interviews for this book. Its expressions range from rudeness, indifference, and condescension to objectification, discrimination, and exploitation. Yet dignity can also be promoted. Another man described it as "common respect," suggesting dignity's ordinariness, and the ways we can create and share it through practices like courtesy, leveling, and contribution.

Drawing on his work as a primary care physician and a behavioral scientist, Michael Stein artfully examines the often conflicting goals of patients and their doctors. In those differences, Stein recognizes that kindness should not be a patient's forbidden or unrealistic expectation. This book leaves us with new knowledge of and insights into what we might hope for, and what might go wrong, or right, in the most intimate clinical moments.

While quackery—loosely defined as the spread of false "knowledge," often accompanied by various versions of "snake oil"—is not a novel phenomenon, it has never posed as great a threat to public health as today. In Quack Quack, Dr. Joe Schwarcz focuses on the deluge of anecdotes, cherry-picked data, pseudoscientific nonsense, and seductive baseless health claims that undermine efforts to educate the public about evidence-based science. The wide scope of the topics drawn from past and present aims to cast a life preserver to people drowning in a sea of misinformation.

Rarely are human dilemmas out of the news. And what medical science can do and ought to do—or ought not to do—impinges on our personal lives, families and societies. John Wyatt examines the issues surrounding the beginning and end of life against the background of current medical-ethical thought. Writing out of a deep conviction that the Bible's view of our humanness points a way forward, he suggests how Christian healthcare professionals, churches and individuals can respond to today's challenges and opportunities.

In this book, Stephen G. Post offers new perspectives on the worth and dignity of people with Alzheimer's and related disorders despite the negative influence of "hypercognitive" values that place an ethically unacceptable emphasis on human dignity as based on linear rationality and strength of memory. With vignettes and narratives, he argues for a deeper dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional presence, creativity, interdependence, music, and a self that is not "gone" but "differently abled."

In this groundbreaking book, Anita Hannig brings us into the lives of ordinary Americans who go to extraordinary lengths to set the terms of their own death. Faced with a terminal diagnosis and unbearable suffering, they decide to seek medical assistance in dying—a legal option now available to one in five Americans. The Day I Die tackles one of the most urgent social issues of our time: how to restore dignity and meaning to the dying process in the age of high-tech medicine.

This book is an antidote to hype and a salve to soothe the itch for stem-cell salvation. In it, Professor John Rasko, a leading physician-scientist, and writer-historian Carl Power take us on a wild historical tour of this scandal-prone field.