Body Image, Eating, and Weight : A Guide to Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42698
edited by Massimo Cuzzolaro, Secondo Fassino.
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Springer
, c2018.
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This book equips readers with the knowledge required to improve diagnosis and treatment and to implement integrated prevention programs in patients with eating and weight disorders. It does so by providing a comprehensive, up-to-date review of research findings and theoretical assumptions concerning the interface and interactions between body image and such disorders as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, other specified feeding and eating disorders, orthorexia nervosa, ov…
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- Cuzzolaro, Massimo
- Fassino, Secondo
- Responsibility
- edited by Massimo Cuzzolaro, Secondo Fassino
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 439 p.) : 19 illus., 9 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319908175
- 9783319908168 (print ed.)
- 9783319908182 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Body Image
- Body Dysmorphic Disorders
- Feeding and Eating Disorders
- Specialty
- Nutritional Sciences
- Psychology
- Abstract
- This book equips readers with the knowledge required to improve diagnosis and treatment and to implement integrated prevention programs in patients with eating and weight disorders. It does so by providing a comprehensive, up-to-date review of research findings and theoretical assumptions concerning the interface and interactions between body image and such disorders as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, other specified feeding and eating disorders, orthorexia nervosa, overweight, and obesity. After consideration of issues of definition and classification, the opening part of the book examines the concept of body image from a variety of viewpoints. A series of chapters are then devoted to the assessment of the multidimensional construct "body image", to dysmorphophobia/body dysmorphic disorder, and to muscle dysmorphia. The third part discusses body image in people suffering from different eating disorders and/or overweight or obesity, and two final chapters focus on body image in the integrated prevention of eating disorders and obesity, and cultural differences regarding body image. The book will be of interest to all health professionals who work in the fields of psychiatry, clinical psychology, eating disorders, obesity, body image, adolescence, public health, and prevention.
- Contents
- Body schema and body image: a brief history of the concepts -- Neuroscience and body image -- Psychoanalysis and body image -- Family functioning and body image -- Cognitive-behavioral learning theories and body image -- Feminist perspectives on body image. - Body image: gender, age, and ethnic differences -- Body image: methods of assessment in children, adolescents and adults -- Body Uneasiness Test -- Diagnostic classification of body image disturbances -- Body dysmorphic disorder -- Body image and muscle dysmorphia in male -- Dysmorphophobia by Enrico Morselli: selected passages and comment -- Diagnostic classification of eating disorders -- Body image and anorexia nervosa -- Body image and bulimia nervosa -- Body image and binge eating disorder -- Body image and other eating disorders -- Body image and orthorexia nervosa -- Diagnostic classification of overweight and obesities -- Body image and overweight/obesity in children -- Body image and overweight/obesity in adults -- Non-surgical weight loss and body image in children, adolescents and adults -- Body image before and after bariatric surgery in adolescents and adults -- Gender dysphoria, body image, eating, and weight -- Sexual orientation, body image, eating, and weight -- Sexual abuse, body image, eating, and weight -- Body image and integrated prevention of eating and weight disorders.
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- e-Book
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Clinical Handbook of Anxiety Disorders : From Theory to Practice
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44883
Eric Bui, Meredith E. Charney, Amanda W. Baker, editors.
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Humana Press
, c2020.
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This book is designed to present a state-of the-art approach to the assessment and management of anxiety disorders. This text introduces and reviews the theoretical background underlying anxiety and stress psychopathology, addresses the issues faced by clinicians who assess individuals presenting with anxiety in different contexts, and reviews the management of and varied treatment approaches for individuals with anxiety disorders. Written by experts in the field, the book includes the most com…
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- Bui, Eric
- Charney, Meredith E.
- Baker, Amanda W.
- Responsibility
- Eric Bui, Meredith E. Charney, Amanda W. Baker, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 363 p.) : 14 illus., 13 illus. in color
- Series Title
- Current clinical psychiatry
- ISBN
- 9783030306878
- 9783030306861 (Print ed.)
- 9783030306885 (Print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2626-241X
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Anxiety Disorders - etiology
- Anxiety Disorders - therapy
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Abstract
- This book is designed to present a state-of the-art approach to the assessment and management of anxiety disorders. This text introduces and reviews the theoretical background underlying anxiety and stress psychopathology, addresses the issues faced by clinicians who assess individuals presenting with anxiety in different contexts, and reviews the management of and varied treatment approaches for individuals with anxiety disorders. Written by experts in the field, the book includes the most common demographics and challenges for physicians treating anxiety, including disorders in children, aging patients, personality disorders, drug and non-drug treatment options, as well as anxiety in comorbid patients. Clinical Handbook of Anxiety Disorders is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, students, counselors, psychiatric nurses, social workers, and all medical professionals working with patients struggling with anxiety and stress-related conditions.
- Contents
- A Causal Systems Approach to Anxiety Disorders -- Neurocircuitry of Anxiety Disorders -- Anxiety Disorders: A Feminist Ecological Model Approach -- Two peas in a pod? Understanding cross-cultural similarities and differences in anxiety disorders -- Anxiety Comorbidities: Mood Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and Chronic Medical Illness -- From OC Spectrum to Anxiety Disorders -- Anxiety Disorders in Children -- Anxiety disorders in emerging adulthood -- Anxiety Disorders among Older Adults: Empirically Supported Treatments and Special Considerations -- Anxiety and Bereavement -- Suicide in Anxiety Disorders -- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders -- Psychopharmacology of Anxiety Disorders -- Mind-Body Treatments for Anxiety Disorders -- Transcranial Photobiomodulation for Anxiety Disorders and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in the Digital Age -- Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders: A Psychodynamic Approach -- Barriers to Implementing Evidence-Based Treatments for Anxiety Disorders in Community Settings.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Diversity, social justice, and inclusive excellence : transdisciplinary and global perspectives
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33118
edited by Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel.
--New York, NY:
Suny Press
, c2014.
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- Online
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- Asumah, Seth N
- Nagel, Mechthild
- Responsibility
- edited by Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Suny Press
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource, 445 p.
- ISBN
- 9781438451640 (electronic bk.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Cultural Diversity
- Social Justice
- Racism
- Oppression (Psychology)
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Cultural pluralism
- Social justice
- Racism
- Blacks - Race identity - United States
- People with mental disabilities - Government policy - United States
- Oppression (Psychology)
- Sex role
- Contents
- About the contributors -- Preface / Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel -- Doing diversity for cultural competence, social justice and inclusive excellence -- Five faces of oppression / Iris Marion Young -- The vicissitudes of cultural competence : dealing with difficult classroom dialogue / Elizabeth Davis-Russell and Gale Young -- Gender, race, class, homosexuality, disability, immigration and animal oppression in the United States -- Teaching feminist pedagogy on race and gender : beyond the additive approach? / Mechthild Nagel -- Beyond the pale : reflections on the vulnerability of Black life in the United States / Mechthild Nagel -- Women's work trips and multifaceted oppression / Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo -- Racial identity and policy making : redefining whiteness / Seth N. Asumah -- Examining cyberstalking through the prism of race and gender / Tosha A. Asumah and Debra F. Glaser -- Framing the same-sex marriage issue as equity / Christopher P. Latimer -- Oppression's three new faces : rethinking Iris Young's "Five faces of oppression" for disability theory / Elizabeth Purcell -- Gender and the politics of invisible disability / Nancy J. Hirschmann -- Stigmatized, marginalized, and ill : the oppression of people with serious mental illness / Diane C. Gooding and William T. L. Cox -- Rethinking United States immigration policy, diversity, and the politics of exclusion / Seth N. Asumah and Matthew Todd Bradley -- The faces of animal oppression / Lori Gruen -- Doing diversity worldwide for global justice -- The tale of two worlds : unpacking the power of the global North over the global South / Gowri Parameswaran -- Feeding the city and financing the family : women market traders in Suva, Fiji / Susan C. Dewey and Cema Bolabola -- China in Africa : dislocating cultures, reexamining the role of the nation state and the China model in the process of development / Seth N. Asumah -- Political struggle of rural migrant hostesses for first-class citizenship in postsocialist China / Tiantian Zheng -- Understanding disability rights in a global context / Janet M. Duncan -- Islam, rentier states and the quest for democracy in the Middle East and Africa / Seth N. Asumah -- African relational democracy : reframing diversity, economic development and society-centered governance for the twenty-first century / Seth N. Asumah -- Index.
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- e-Book
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- Online
International handbook of adolescent pregnancy : medical, psychosocial, and public health responses
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33704
Andrew L. Cherry, Mary E. Dillon, editors.
--New York:
Springer
, c2014.
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"The rates are on the decline worldwide. But adolescent pregnancies still occur, placing millions of girls each year at risk for medical complications and social isolation, and their babies for severe health problems--especially when prenatal care is inadequate or nonexistent. But as the opportunity for young women and girls increases around the world, adolescent pregnancy will continue to decline. Featuring reports from countries across the developed and developing worlds, the International Ha…
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- Cherry, Andrew L
- Dillon, Mary E
- Responsibility
- Andrew L. Cherry, Mary E. Dillon, editors
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 712 pages)
- ISBN
- 9781489980267 (electronic bk.)
- 9781489980250
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Pregnancy in Adolescence
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Teenage pregnancy - Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Pregnancy in Adolescence
- Maternal and Child Health
- Social Work
- Child and School Psychology
- Abstract
- "The rates are on the decline worldwide. But adolescent pregnancies still occur, placing millions of girls each year at risk for medical complications and social isolation, and their babies for severe health problems--especially when prenatal care is inadequate or nonexistent. But as the opportunity for young women and girls increases around the world, adolescent pregnancy will continue to decline. Featuring reports from countries across the developed and developing worlds, the International Handbook of Adolescent Pregnancy analyzes the scope of the problem and the diversity of social and professional responses. Its biological/ecological perspective identifies factors influencing childhood pregnancy, as well as outcomes, challenges, and needs of very young mothers as they differ across nations and regions. Salient comparisons are made as cultural contexts and community support vary widely, and attention is paid to issues such as child marriage, LGBT concerns, and the impact of religion and politics on health care, particularly access to contraception, abortion, and other services. This global coverage heightens the understanding of readers involved in care, education, and prevention programs, and otherwise concerned with the psychosocial development, reproductive health, and general well-being of girls"--Provided by publisher.
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- An International Perspective on Adolescent Pregnancy -- Biological Influences of Adolescent Pregnancy -- Adolescent Maternal Health and Childbearing -- Adolescent Pregnancy and Mental Health -- International View of Adolescent Fathers -- Adolescent pregnancy: A Feminist Issue -- Adolescent Pregnancy as a Social Problem -- Adolescent Pregnancy & LGBTQ -- Argentina -- Australia -- Canada -- Chile -- Colombia -- Costa Rica -- Eastern Europe -- France -- Germany -- India -- Indonesia -- Iraq -- Ireland -- Japan -- Mexico -- Netherlands -- Nicaragua -- Nigeria -- Philippines -- Portugal -- Russia -- South Africa -- South Korea -- Spain -- Sweden -- Switzerland -- Turkey -- Uganda -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Vietnam.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Nursing Ethics : Feminist Perspectives
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat46014
Helen Kohlen, Joan McCarthy, editors.
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Springer
, c2020.
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The aim of this book is to show how feminist perspectives can extend and advance the field of nursing ethics. It engages in the broader nursing ethics project of critiquing existing ethical frameworks as well as constructing and developing alternative understandings, concepts, and methodologies. All of the contributors draw attention to the operations of power inherent in moral relationships at individual, institutional, cultural, and socio-political levels. The early essays chart the developme…
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- Kohlen, Helen
- McCarthy, Joan
- Responsibility
- Helen Kohlen, Joan McCarthy, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxix, 187 p.)
- ISBN
- 9783030491048
- 9783030491031 (Print ed.)
- 9783030491055 (Print ed.)
- 9783030491062 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Ethics, Nursing
- Feminism
- Abstract
- The aim of this book is to show how feminist perspectives can extend and advance the field of nursing ethics. It engages in the broader nursing ethics project of critiquing existing ethical frameworks as well as constructing and developing alternative understandings, concepts, and methodologies. All of the contributors draw attention to the operations of power inherent in moral relationships at individual, institutional, cultural, and socio-political levels. The early essays chart the development of feminist perspectives in the field of nursing ethics from the late 19th century to the present day and consider the impact of gender roles and gendered understandings on the moral lives of nurses, patients and families. They also consider the transformative potential of feminist perspectives to widen the scope of nursing and midwifery practices to include the social, economic, cultural and political dimensions of moral decision-making in health care settings. The second half of the book draws on feminist insights to critically discuss the role of nurses and midwives in leadership, healthcare organisations, and research as well as the provision of particular forms of care e.g. care in the home and abortion care.
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- Part I. Nursing Ethics and Feminist Theoretical Challenges -- The Influence of the Social Location of Nurses-as-Women on the Early Development of Nursing Ethics -- An Evolution of Feminist Thought in Nursing Ethics -- Piecing Together a Puzzle: Feminist Materialist Philosophy and Nursing Ethics -- Bearing Witness and Testimony in Nursing: An Ethical-Political Practice -- Intercultural Perspectives -- An Interview with Joan Tronto on Care Ethics and Nursing Ethics -- Part II. Nursing Ethics in Organisation, Clinical Practice, and Research through a Feminist Lens -- Organisation Ethics, Relational Leadership and Nursing -- Hospital Ethics Committees and the Dismissal of Nursing Ethical Concerns: A Feminist Perspective -- Feminist Reflections on Home, Digital Health Technologies, and Ethics -- Conscience, Conscientious Objection and Commitment: Midwives, Nurses, and Abortion Care -- Feminist Ethics in Nursing Research.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Prenatal and Preimplantation Diagnosis : The Burden of Choice
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39328
Joann Paley Galst, Marion S. Verp, editors.
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Springer
, c2015.
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This book aims to expand the awareness and understanding of the emotional sequelae of prenatal/preimplantation diagnosis, prenatal decision-making, pregnancy interruption for fetal anomaly, multifetal reduction for high-order multifetal pregnancies, and preimplantation choices involving the selection of embryos. Featuring a multi-disciplinary approach, it examines prenatal and preimplantation diagnosis from medical, legal, ethical, and psychosocial perspectives. Prenatal and Preimplantation Dia…
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- Paley Galst, Joann
- Verp, Marion S
- Responsibility
- Joann Paley Galst, Marion S. Verp, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 354 p. : 20 illus., 14 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9783319189116
- 9783319189109 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Bioethical Issues
- Genetic testing
- Preimplantation Diagnosis
- Prenatal Diagnosis - ethics
- Abstract
- This book aims to expand the awareness and understanding of the emotional sequelae of prenatal/preimplantation diagnosis, prenatal decision-making, pregnancy interruption for fetal anomaly, multifetal reduction for high-order multifetal pregnancies, and preimplantation choices involving the selection of embryos. Featuring a multi-disciplinary approach, it examines prenatal and preimplantation diagnosis from medical, legal, ethical, and psychosocial perspectives. Prenatal and Preimplantation Diagnosis is an excellent resource for obstetricians, reproductive endocrinologists, clinical geneticists, genetic counselors, and mental health professionals seeking to better support patients faced with difficult choices.
- Contents
- Part I. Medical Perspective -- Prenatal Screening and Diagnostic Testing -- Preimplantation Genetic Screening and Diagnostic Testing -- Medical Reasons for Pregnancy Interruption: Chromosomal and Genetic Abnormalities -- Medical Reasons for Pregnancy Interruption: Structural Abnormalities -- Medical Reasons or Pregnancy Interruption: Fetal Reduction -- Fetal Pain -- Giving Bad and Ambiguous News -- Part II. The Legal Landscape -- Legal Issues in Prenatal and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis -- Part III. Alternative Social Perspectives -- Ethical Issues -- Religious Traditions -- Disability Perspectives -- Feminist Perspectives on Prenatal and Preimplantation Diagnosis -- Part IV. Psychosocial Perspective -- Critical Aspects of Decision-Making and Grieving After Diagnosis of Fetal Anomaly -- Helping Patients Cope with Their Decisions -- A Burden of Choice: The Ripple Effect: Parents' Grief and the Role of Family and Friends -- Postscript: A Patient's Perspective.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Reproductive Ethics II : New Ideas and Innovations
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42543
Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Paul Burcher, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
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This book is the second collection of essays on reproductive ethics from Drs. Campo-Engelstein and Burcher. This volume is unique in that it is both timely and includes several essays on new technologies, while also being a comprehensive review of most of the major questions in the field, from racial disparities in reproductive healthcare to gene editing and the possibility of the creation of a transhuman species. The scholars writing these essays are pre-eminent in their fields, and their back…
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- Campo-Engelstein, Lisa
- Burcher, Paul
- Responsibility
- Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Paul Burcher, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 193 p.) : 2 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319894294
- 9783319894287 (print ed.)
- 9783319894300 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Bioethical Issues
- Reproductive Health
- Reproductive Rights
- Reproduction - ethics
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted - ethics
- Specialty
- Ethics
- Reproductive Medicine
- Abstract
- This book is the second collection of essays on reproductive ethics from Drs. Campo-Engelstein and Burcher. This volume is unique in that it is both timely and includes several essays on new technologies, while also being a comprehensive review of most of the major questions in the field, from racial disparities in reproductive healthcare to gene editing and the possibility of the creation of a transhuman species. The scholars writing these essays are pre-eminent in their fields, and their backgrounds are quite varied, including philosophers, anthropologists, physicians, and professors of law. Reproductive ethics remains an underdeveloped area of bioethics despite the recent technological breakthroughs that carry both great promise and potential threats. Building on the first volume of work from a conference held just over one year ago, this new collection of essays from a conference held April 2017 continues this discussion as well as provides ethical insights and reviews of these emerging technologies. The ethical questions swirling around human reproduction are both old and new, but the conference presentations, and the essays derived from them, focus on new ways of appreciating old arguments such as the ethics of abortion, as well as new ways of seeing new technologies such as CRISPR and mitochondrial transfer.
- Contents
- Reproductive Ethics: Introduction -- Part I. Genetics, Eugenics, and Reproduction -- Frankenstein and the Question of Children’s Rights After Human Germline Genetic Modification -- The Ethical Complexity of Using Whole-Exome Sequencing to Detect Adult-Onset Conditions in the Prenatal and Pediatric Settings -- Creating a Higher Breed: Transhumanism and the Prophecy of Anglo-American Eugenics -- Part II. Exploring Infertility and the Right to Reproduce -- One Is the Loneliest Number: How the WHO’s Redefinition of Infertility Provokes Contestations of the Body and the Body Politic -- Expanding the Clinical Definition of Infertility to Include Socially Infertile Individuals and Couples -- Social Responses to the Environmental Impact of Reproduction in the Global West: A Critique of Christine Overall’s “Overpopulation and Extinction” -- Part III. Reflections on Assisted Reproductive Technologies -- Decentering Whiteness in Feminist Bioethics: Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) as an Illustrative Case -- New Pitchforks and Furtive Nature -- Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Proliferation of Parents: The More, the Merrier? -- Part IV. Reproductive Perspectives, Practices, and Education -- Reconceiving the Human Fetus in Reproductive Bioethics: Perspectives from Cultural Anthropology and Bioarchaeology -- The Ethics of Evangelism: Why You Can’t Be a Good Physician and Support Crisis Pregnancy Centers -- Doulas as Agents of Reproductive Justice Who Promote of Women’s International Human Rights: An Evidence-Based Review and Comparative Case Study Between Brazil and the United States -- Reproductive Flourishing: A Framework for Teaching Reproductive Ethics in Clinical Education.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Reproductive Ethics : New Challenges and Conversations
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41700
Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Paul Burcher, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, 2017.
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This book summarizes the contributions at an April 2016 conference held at Albany Medical College, Reproductive Ethics: New Challenges and Conversations. Reproductive ethics does not suffer from a lack of challenging issues, yet a few "hot button" issues such as abortion and surrogacy seem to attract most of the attention, while other issues and dilemmas remain relatively underdeveloped in bioethics literature. The goal of this book is to explore and expand the range of topics addressed in repr…
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- Campo-Engelstein, Lisa
- Burcher, Paul
- Responsibility
- Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Paul Burcher, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 176 pages) : 3 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319526300
- 9783319526294 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Abortion, Induced - ethics
- Bioethical Issues
- Ethics, Medical
- Fertility Preservation - ethics
- Genetic Counseling
- Prenatal Diagnosis - ethics
- Reproductive Health
- Abstract
- This book summarizes the contributions at an April 2016 conference held at Albany Medical College, Reproductive Ethics: New Challenges and Conversations. Reproductive ethics does not suffer from a lack of challenging issues, yet a few "hot button" issues such as abortion and surrogacy seem to attract most of the attention, while other issues and dilemmas remain relatively underdeveloped in bioethics literature. The goal of this book is to explore and expand the range of topics addressed in reproductive ethics. This is a multi-disciplinary book bringing together philosophers, clinicians, sociologists, anthropologists, and other scholars whose research or clinical interests touch reproductive issues. The results of this compilation are a comprehensive and unique discussion of the evolving issues in the rapidly changing field. The majority of the popular reproductive ethics anthologies were published at least 10 years ago. The field of reproductive ethics would benefit from a new anthology that addresses some of the perennial dilemmas in reproductive ethics (e.g. abortion, sex selection) from updated perspectives and that also covers new technologies that have emerged only in the last few years, such as social egg freezing.
- Contents
- Reproductive Ethics: New Challenges and Conversations Introduction -- Part I. Genetic Testing and Enhancement -- Zooming Out: Solidarity in the Moral Imagination of Genetic Counseling -- Enhancing Future Children: How It Might Happen, Whether It Should -- The Decision to Know: Pregnancy and Epistemic Harm -- Part II. Fertility Preservation -- Egg Freezing and the Feminist Quest for Equality in the Workplace -- Fertility Preservation in Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Youth and Adolescents -- Part III. Childbirth -- Rights and Realities in U.S. Maternity Care -- The Periviable Cesarean Section: Can a Case Be Made for Expanding Beneficence in Decision-Making? -- Part IV. Abortion, Surrogacy, and Circumcision -- “Teaching Morality by Teaching Science:” Religiosity and Abortion Regret -- My Child, Your Womb, Our Contract: The Failure of Contract Law to Protect Parties in Gestational Surrogacy -- Vulvar Nick and Metzitzah b’peh: Punishment or Harm Reduction?
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- e-Book
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- Online
The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics
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edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and Shannon Lundeen.
--Dordrecht:
Springer
, c2006.
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Few diseases have made more difference to our understanding of illness, the relation of the patient to the physician and other health care professionals, and the social context of disease than breast cancer. Breast cancer activism has provided a model of public policy advocacy for women, as well as for sufferers from other diseases, and even in causes unrelated to health. In many ways it has become emblematic of issues in women's health. This volume offers a discursive analysis of breast cancer…
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- Rawlinson, Mary C
- Lundeen, Shannon
- Responsibility
- edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and Shannon Lundeen
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2006
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 207 p.)
- Series Vol.
- v. 88
- Series Title
- Philosophy and medicine
- ISBN
- 9781402044779
- 9781402045080 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Bioethical Issues
- Breast Neoplasms
- Ethics, Medical
- Philosophy, Medical
- Women's Health
- Abstract
- Few diseases have made more difference to our understanding of illness, the relation of the patient to the physician and other health care professionals, and the social context of disease than breast cancer. Breast cancer activism has provided a model of public policy advocacy for women, as well as for sufferers from other diseases, and even in causes unrelated to health. In many ways it has become emblematic of issues in women's health. This volume offers a discursive analysis of breast cancer. From multiple perspectives--historical, philosophical, psychological, socio-political--these essays explore the competing narratives that have made breast cancer a contested site. It addresses debates about the autonomy of the patient in relation to the authority of the physician, as well as the importance of patient narratives in understanding disease. It analyzes the relation between the community and medical practice, particularly with regard to the effect of breast cancer activists and feminists on the medical understanding and treatment of breast cancer. And, it questions the intersection of medical science with political institutions and agencies of public policy in determining priorities of research and strategies of treatment.
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION. Women Finding Their Own Ways to Live with Human Contingency -- DISCOURSES OF BREAST CANCER: WHO SPEAKS FOR BREAST CANCER? -- 1. Personalizing the Political: Negotiating the Feminist, Medical, Scientific, and Commercial Discourses Surrounding Breast Cancer -- 2. Power, Gender, and Pizzazz: The Early Years of Breast Cancer Activism -- 3. Breast Cancer: Dueling Discourses and the Persistence of an Outmoded Paradigm -- 4. Doing Things with Ideas and Affects in the Illness Narratives Of Susan Sontag and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- NARRATIVES OF BREAST CANCER: LIVING WITH DISEASE -- 5. The Breast Cancer Diaries -- 6. Breast Cancer: The Maternal Body Reflected in a Three-way Mirror -- 7. Learn to Love What’s Left : Poems on Breast Cancer -- 8. Death and the Other: Rethinking Authenticity -- BREAST CANCER AS A MODEL IN CLINICAL RESEARCH -- 9. Breast Cancer Research: A Political Cause and Paradigm for Scientific Inquiry -- 10. Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer and Informed Consent: How Women Helped Make Research a Cooperative Venture -- 11. The Role of Psychosocial Research in Understanding and Improving the Experience of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Risk -- BREAST CANCER IN THE CLASSROOM -- 12. Teaching about Breast Cancer and “Common Health” -- 13. Theoretical Considerations on “Reading” the Breast -- 14. Recent Developments in Breast Cancer Research.
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- e-Book
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- Online
