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Effective palliative care that rests on a sound ethical foundation requires ongoing discussions about patient and family values and preferences. This is especially important when addressing care at end-of-life including artificial nutrition and hydration, withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies and palliative sedation as well as requests for assistance in hastening death. This volume in the 'HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals' series, provides an overview of critical communication skills and formal organizational mechanisms, such as ethics committees and interdisciplinary rounds, required for decisions in ethical dilemmas which respect diversity in the views of colleagues, as well as patients

"Coercion is one of the most fascinating and controversial subjects in psychiatry. It is a highly sensitive, and hotly debated topic in which clinical practice, ethics, the law and public policy converge. This book considers coercion within the healing and ethical framework of therapeutic relationships and partnerships at all levels, and addresses the universal problem of how to balance safety versus autonomy when dealing with psychiatric treatment"--EBL

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Selected concepts of logic and philosophy -- 3. Science in historical perspective -- 4. Philosophy of science in historical perspective -- 5. Mathematical modelling -- 6. Measurement -- 7. Scientific explanation -- 8. Context of discovery -- 9. Context of justification -- 10. Uncertainty of scientific knowledge -- 11. Basic concepts of Western ethics -- 12. Western ethics in historical perspective -- 13. System of values associated with science -- 14. Principles of moral decision-making -- 15. General issues of research ethics -- 16. Ethical aspects of experimentation -- 17. Ethical aspects of information processing -- 18. Legal protection of intellectual property -- 19. Ethical issues implied by information technologies -- 20. Concluding remarks -- Appendix: Milestones in the history of science -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms

Nurses and healthcare professionals are constantly faced with ethical and philosophical dilemmas when working with children in everyday practice. Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and young people is a comprehensive text on the ethics and philosophy behind paediatric nursing, that reflects some of the contemporary issues encountered while working with children and young people. This important new book provides a philosophical and historical analysis of the subject, looking at a review of sociological and political theories concerning the nature of childhood, and providing a

Management by Ethics is a reformation study of the renowned paradigm, management by objectives, by Peter Drucker. This book focuses on how to manage companies by ethical principles with a morally developed workforce. Through the operational strategies of moral development learning focused on ethically caring reciprocities