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Teaches healthcare providers how to effectively identify, evaluate, and resolve ethical issues in clinical medicine.

Builds your understanding of the science of emotion and delivers practical insights for recognizing, acknowledging, and responding to patients' emotions, as well as your own.

Four-step method for improving communication and managing conflict in any healthcare setting.

Designed to be highly practical and to help you develop your professionalism skills. Chapters include clinical scenarios all based on the authors’ personal experience in teaching and clinical care, learning exercises to stimulate active participation of readers, and “challenge cases.”

New sections address issues of posthumanism (or transhumanism) and business ethics, with discussion of topics that include cybernetics, cloning, human dignity, embryonic stem cell research, nanotechnology, anti-aging interventions, health services management ethics, and managed care, among other subjects.

Includes 36 true-to-life cases that have been carefully selected to cover important topics such as the doctor-patient relationship, student issues, medical teams, end-of-life care, and social media. Each case includes complete discussion, clinical pearls, references, and review questions with answers.

Articulates the core values and ethical responsibilities of physicians who are charged with curing the sick when possible and comforting the dying.

Intended to assist Certificate Holders and Candidates in maintaining a high level of ethical conduct and in providing for the protection, safety, and comfort of patients.

Purpose is to achieve high levels of ethical consciousness, decision making, and practice by the members of the profession.

Provides ethical guidance in relation to nurses’ roles, duties, responsibilities, behaviours, professional judgement and relationships with patients, other people who are receiving nursing care or services, co-workers and allied professionals.