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Applying the Humanities (The Hastings Center Series in Ethics)
Springer
, 1985
Coerced Contraception?: Moral and Policy Challenges of Long-Acting Birth Control (Hastings Center Studies in ...
Georgetown University Press
, 1996
The Ethics of Hospital Trustees (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics)
Bradford H. Gray
Georgetown University Press
, 2004
All manner of medical practitioners have had their scruples dissected ad infinitum. In spite of the attention paid to medical ethics and bioethics, little has been paid to the ethical roles and responsibilities of those who are ultimately in charge of hospital governance: hospital trustees. Deriving from a Hastings Center research project involving meetings with a national task force of experts and extensive interviews with 98 nonprofit hospital ...
The Perversion of Autonomy: Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society
Willard Gaylin
, Bruce Jennings
Georgetown University Press
, 2003
Perversion of Autonomy: The Proper Uses of Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society
Willard Gaylin
, Bruce Jennings
Diane Pub Co
, 1996
Argues that the individual rights movement is endangering Americans and that the right of controlling citizens must be restored to the community. 15,000 first printing. Tour.
Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy, and Practice
Oxford University Press, USA
, 2006
Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism. This volume brings together twenty-five articles by leading thinkers in the field, writing on topics that concern both classic and novel problems. They open up new terrain in each area, including tobacco ...
Faithful Living, Faithful Dying: Anglican Reflections on End of Life Care
5 reviews
Jan C. Heller (editor) Cynthia B. Cohen (editor)
, Bruce Jennings (editor), ...
Morehouse Publishing
, 2000
A really helpful book
This is a really useful book for those who are approaching death and those who are critically ill and don't know what the outcome will be. I'm not Episcopalian, but felt really supported in terms of ethical and spiritual help when my father was dying and I read it.
Ethics in Hospice Care: Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment (Monograph ...
Bruce Jennings
Routledge
, 1997
Ethics in Hospice Care: Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment explores the pressures and challenges facing hospice and aims to produce new studies and educational materials on hospice ethics to help professionals in the field. Many of the tensions felt by caregivers and practitioners in hospice stem from uncertainty about the ethical mission of hospice and the ethical dilemmas arising in practice. This volume, a ...
The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning
Duke University Press
, 1993
Public policy is made of language. Whether in written or oral form, argument is central to all parts of the policy process. As simple as this insight appears, its implications for policy analysis and planning are profound. Drawing from recent work on language and argumentation and referring to such theorists as Wittgenstein, Habermas, Toulmin, and Foucault, these essays explore the interplay of language, action, and power in both the practice ...
Unlikely Allies: Fort Delaware's Prison Community In The Civil War
5 reviews
Dale Fetzer
,
Bruce Mowday
Stackpole Books
, 2005
The truth be told!
With stories of men dying of disease, succumbing to the elements and living life from mouthful to mouthful one would think that Fort Delaware was indeed the "Andersonville of the North". In its heyday over 16,00 men were held prisoner on this lonely island known as "Pea Patch" with more than 30,000 Confederates passing through its gates in just over three years. Yet, the true story of life ...
Is justice enough? Ends and means in bioethics. (includes commentaries)(In Search of the Good Society: The ...
Norman Daniels
,
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
, ...
Hastings Center
, 1996
This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on November 1, 1996. The length of the article is 6023 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Is justice enough? Ends and means in ...
The quest to reform end of life care: rethinking assumptions and setting new directions.: An article from: ...
Thomas H. Murray
, Bruce Jennings
Thomson Gale
, 2005
This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 6813 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: The quest to reform end of life care: ...
A grassroots movement in bioethics. (positive role citizen participation in shaping health care and health ...
Bruce Jennings
Hastings Center
, 1988
This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on June 1, 1988. The length of the article is 8143 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: A grassroots movement in bioethics. ...
QUALITY OF LIFE, PHILOSOPHICAL AND ETHICAL DIMENSIONS: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's ...
BRUCE JENNINGS
Macmillan Reference USA
, 2002
As the Baby Boomers head toward retirement, the four-volume ?Encyclopedia of Aging? offers a timely resource encompassing all aspects of aging. Covering a variety of disciplines?biology, medicine, economics, law, psychology, sociology and history?the Encyclopedia also explores related issues such as religion, spirituality, and ethics.
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