Law, Ethics and Professional Values

Mental Health Ethics provides an overview of traditional and contemporary ethical perspectives and critically examines a range of ethical and moral challenges present in contemporary ‘psychiatric-mental’ health services...

This book examines the conflicting normative claims of partiality and impartiality in nursing care, looking in-depth at how to reconcile reasonable concerns for one particular patient with equally important concerns for the maximisation of health-related welfare for all with relevant nursing-care ne..

Exploring how moral phenomenology could provide fruitful alternatives to traditional frameworks in bioethics, this book explores new approaches to pain and suffering; evaluation and moral deliberation about treatment options and medical futility; surrogacy, decision-making and moral agency; and end-..