Peter Lack • Nikola Biller-Andorno Susanne Brauer Editors 2014 Advance directives have been intensely debated since the 1980s. Over the past few years, a growing number of articles have focused not only on general ethical questions but also on matters of implementation, as advance directives have become increasingly widespread in institutions such as hospitals and […]
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Gerald Young 2014 Implications for Practice and Court This book is a lengthy one consisting of 34 chapters arranged into two major sections. The first section of the book gives the basics in the area of psychiatric/psychological injury, malingering, and its detection and assessment, focussing on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Randi Zlotnik Shaul Editor 2014 This collection of essays marks an important step in the evolution of the concepts or models of paediatric patient-centred care and family-centred care. While there is still no consensus in the healthcare literature on the definition of these terms, there is sufficient recognition of relevant values, to allow for the […]
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Marc Lévêque 2014 New Techniques for Brain Disorders Neurosurgical interventions to ameliorate the suffering of desperately ill patients, suffering from a psychiatric disorder, and who cannot be helped otherwise, have caught the attention of neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, and psychologists for several decades. The title of this book, ‘‘psychosurgery,’’ summarizes these types of interventions in one word. Everybody understands the word, […]
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Ahmed Ammar • Mark Bernstein Editors 2014 Modern medical practice is dominated by technology and evidence based medicine emphasizing the importance of scientific data to guide our daily practice. But through the years, as medicine has crossed different cultures and borders, it has been and will be always be the ultimate value-based activity, much of which is not necessarily […]
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