Billy s Family is a story about a little boy who is an only child and wishes for a big family. Throu... more

PERSONHOOD AND HEALTH CARE This book arose as a result of a pre-conference devoted to the topic held... more

Culture, Health, and Social Change is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the Internat... more

Enhanced knowledge of the nature and causes of mental disorder have led increasingly to a need for t... more

Moral capacity is an important feature of what it means to be human. In this volume, the contributor... more

PERSONHOOD AND HEALTH CARE This book arose as a result of a pre-conference devoted to the topic held... more

Decisions at the End of Life is the last volume in a trilogy on Aging conceived for the Internationa... more

Culture, Health, and Social Change is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the Internat... more

This book arises from a two-fold conviction. The first is that autonomy, despite recent critiques ab... more

claim was that he had faced a conflict of duties pitting his legal duty not to kill against his duty... more

Exploring the moral foundations of the healing relationship, Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma offer the...... more

by the rapid advance of science and technology. David Thomasma has written many books on medical ethics including For the...... more

. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma trace the history of virtue in moral thought, and they examine current debate about a virtue...... more

In recent years, virtue theories have enjoyed a renaissance of interest among general and medical et... more