Updated, reorganized, and streamlined to focus squarely on ethical decision making in counseling and psychotherapy and in the practice of specialties in counseling. This fifth edition is unparalleled in helping counselors-in-training use ethical decision-making processes as a foundation for approaching ethical and legal dilemmas in practice.
How reproductive justice birth workers and queer parents build kinships and care relations that resist oppressive structures.
Anti-trans policies that restrict the boundaries of gender, reproduction, and family formation are a dangerous form of reproductive injustice with grave impacts on trans, nonbinary, and gender ......
A Practical Guide for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals
This guide will give practitioners the confidence to deal with the ethical and legal issues which arise in clinical dementia contexts. The standalone chapters cover difficult issues such as abuse, behaviour that challenges, and forced care, and the book contains clinical case vignettes throughout.
Cultural Safety and Social Justice in Primary, Sexual, and Reproductive Healthcare
Provides a framework for delivering culturally safe clinical care to LGBTQIA populations filtered through the lens of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. The book focuses on the social context in which we live, one where multiple historical processes of oppression continue to manifest as injustices in the health care setting and beyond.
The medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650-1500) has, like few others, influenced the fates and fortunes of countless human beings. This title tells the story of contact and cultural exchange across countries and creeds, affecting many people from kings to the common crowd.
Outlines eight issues regarding end-of-life care as seen through the lens of the Catholic medical ethics tradition. This title looks at the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means; the difference between killing and allowing to die; criteria of patient competence; what to do in the case of incompetent patients; and, more.
How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care
The history, philosophy, ethics, and science behind the placebo and nocebo effects. Placebos are the most widely used treatments in the history of medicine. Thousands of studies show that they can be effective and make us happier and healthier. Yet confusion about what placebos are and how to measure their effects prevents some doctors from ......
The original subtitle of Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom (1894)—“the basis for a modern worldview”—points to the lifelong project with which he was engaged.
