Medicinsk etik og lægeetik

This book spotlights 10 critical themes through essays and action items, equipping readers to move beyond conversation to action in promoting health equity and well-being in nursing.

Befriending the North Wind is about the moral lives of children and their agency in decisions about death. It examines the dimensions of human meaning children reveal and the new horizons they open to us. It asserts that children can die a good death and that they can and should have a voice in their end-of-life care.

This book addresses a research gap in the study of eugenics in fictional literature: the analysis of the nexus of eugenics and genetics in 21st-century novels, detached from their authors¿ ideological beliefs. It is based on an understanding of literature as an interdiscourse in Jürgen Link¿s sense. The study employs categories developed by Rabinow and Rose in the context of Foucault¿s concept of ¿biopower.¿ It thereby demonstrates that, though officially fallen from grace in light of the Nazi atrocities committed in the name of racial hygiene, eugenic ideas remain surprisingly resilient in the sciences as well as in fiction. Thus, the nexus between eugenics and genetics continues to serve as an important force in the structuring of scientific and contemporary popular (inter-)discourses.

Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. In The Real AIDS Epidemic, Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system. It is rare that a researcher, having studied HIV, ever expresses any doubt in the paradigm, and an even rarer event still when she abandons the field altogether. Culshaw's book, updated from its original edition, which was titled Science Sold Out, is one of the great insider-turned-whistleblower stories of our time.  The Real AIDS Epidemic focuses on the politics of the changing definition of AIDS and the flaws in all HIV testing. In a much broader sense, it explains how the current, government-based structure of scientific research has corrupted science as the search for truth. It offers not only scientific reasons for HIV/AIDS being untenable, but also sociological explanations as to how the theory was accepted by the media and the world so quickly. In particular, this book offers a scathing criticism of the outrageous discriminatory measures that have been leveled at HIV-positives from the inception. She also warns that the toxic drugs being foisted on the Black and gay communities constitute one of the worst medical violations of human rights since the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.    The compelling case she makes that the AIDS establishment has led us into a biomedical disaster through incompetence, fraud, and deceit will have many readers throwing their hands up and feeling helpless and hopeless. But she does something no other book that is critical about HIV and AIDS has done. She suggests a series of strategic actions the scientific community, Congress, the media, and the public can take to undo the damage that the powerful AIDS establishment has done since the epidemic began in 1981.

Der Band ¿Facetten von Gesundheitskompetenz in einer Gesellschaft der Vielfalt¿ zeichnet ein vielseitiges Bild über die Bedeutung von Gesundheit und Gesundheitskompetenz in einer Gesellschaft, die von zunehmender Diversität, digitaler Transformation und immer leistungsfähigerer Medizin geprägt ist. Gesundheitskompetenz, also Gesundheitsinformationen finden, verstehen, beurteilen und anwenden zu können, ist ein Zusammenspiel von individuellen Fähigkeiten und institutionellen Anforderungen. Wie können Gesundheitsinformationen aufbereitet werden, um für alle Menschen angemessen zugänglich und verständlich zu sein? Woran erkennen wir gute Gesundheitsinformationen? Wie können VertreterInnen unterschiedlicher Gesundheitsprofessionen selbstbestimmte Gesundheitsentscheidungen fördern? Diese und anderen Fragen werden u.a. aus gesundheitspsychologischer, soziologischer und ethischer Perspektive beleuchtet. Die AutorInnen geben Einblicke in die aktuelle Forschung, stellen ausgewählte Arbeiten vor und laden zur Reflexion über unseren Umgang mit Gesundheit und Gesundheitsinformationen ein.

¿Dieses Buch richtet sich an Pflegende auf der Intensivstation und ist ein Leitfaden für die Betreuung von Patienten mit extrakorporaler Membranoxygenierung, kurz ECMO. Diese spezielle Therapie ist ein expandierendes Verfahren, welches gerade in den letzten Jahren in Deutschland eine breite Anwendung findet. Die erfahrenen Autoren sind Spezialisten auf dem Gebiet und bieten Fachwissen auf höchstem Niveau in verständlicher Sprache. Lernen Sie alles Relevante für eine gute und sichere Pflege Ihrer Patienten!