Background Bedside clinical examinations can have high rates of misdiagnosis of
unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (vegetative state) or minimally conscious state. The …

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician,
argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary …

Now in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on
the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that …

When making substituted judgments for incapacitated patients, surrogates often struggle to
guess what the patient would want if they had capacity. Surrogates may also agonize over …

The human brain has the astonishing capacity of integrating streams of sensory information
from the environment and forming predictions about future events in an automatic way …

There is broad consensus that withholding or withdrawing medical interventions is morally
permissible when requested by competent patients or, in the case of patients without …

We live in an age of awesome technological potential. From nanotechnology to synthetic
organisms, new technologies stand to revolutionize whole domains of human experience …

Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after
catastrophic bodily change—the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of …

The care of chronically unconscious patients raises vexing medical, ethical, and social
questions concerning diagnosis, prognosis, communication with family members, and …

Health Care Ethics is a comprehensive study of significant issues affecting health care and
the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic theology. It aims to help Christian …