Bioethics

Psychiatry and religion/spirituality (R/S) share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for community.

Marvin Giehl zeigt den im erziehungswissenschaftlichen Diskurs bislang unterrepräsentierten Konnex zwischen den ethisch motivierten Ernährungs- und Lebensformen des Vegetarismus und des Veganismus sowie deren biographischer Genese und bildungstheoretischen Überlegungen auf.

In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012.

This book explores some of the complex ethical quandaries entailed by proposed phase III HIV preventive vaccine trials.

When confronted by the concerns of human sexual function or dys- function, American medicine finds itself well impaled on the horns of a dilemma.

This book focuses exclusively on the welfare of goats, which have peculiar behavioral characteristics and needs, and distinct individual personalities.

The ethics of human/animal relationships is a growing field of academic research and a topic for public discussion and regulatory interventions from law-makers, governments and private institutions.

Any list of the most influential figures of the second half of the twentieth century would arguably have to begin with the name of Pope John Paul II.

Science is an aspect of modern culture that carries a huge weight of prestige.

Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to connect with someone who does not seem to think or act like us.

This book demonstrates that the COVID 19 pandemic asks for a a global approach to bioethics.

Can we can use the patterns and processes of convergent evolution to make inferences about universal laws of life, on Earth and elsewhere?

Bioethics is a discipline still not fully explored in spite of its rather remark- able expansion and sophistication during the past two decades.

The scientific reproducibility crisis is a crisis of character.

Like its predecessor, New Dimensions in Bioethics, this volume developed out of a series of lectures at Yale University's Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

This book offers a unique and comprehensive outline of the ethos, the bioethics and the sexual ethics of the renowned anatomist and founder of modern geology, Niels Stensen (1638-1686).

This book presents a concept for implementing a mass balance approach toward developing an effective eco-friendly, livestock farming system independent of external energy input.

This book explores why animals, at some point, disappeared from the realm and scope of sociology.

This series is directed to health care professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using information and knowledge.

This book presents and elaborates on how the teaching of global ethics in healthcare contributes to furthering ideals of cosmopolitanism: solidarity, equality, respect for differences and concern with what human beings, and specifically patients have in common, regardless of where they live and who they are.

This collection of original essays by scientists, theologians, religious studies scholars, and ethicists offers an authoritative, illuminating, and thought-provoking overview of the CRISPR controversy.

This Element provides a new overarching perspective on responsibility for health, covering public health, healthcare policies, and clinical medicine.

What if there were a pill for love?

In this volume Allen Buchanan collects ten of his most influential essays on justice and healthcare and connects the concerns of bioethicists with those of political philosophers, focusing not just on the question of which principles of justice in healthcare ought to be implemented, but also on the question of the legitimacy of institutions through which they are implemented.

This book focuses on the spaces and practices of caring for horses, explored in a series of case studies set across the equine lifespan.

Das vorliegende Buch widmet sich der „Kind als Schaden“-Rechtsprechung und beleuchtet das Zusammenwirken der strafrechtlichen Vorschriften über den Schwangerschaftsabbruch mit dem zivilen Arzthaftungsrecht unter dem Einfluss des Verfassungsrechts.

This volume offers extensive information on preventive and infection surveillance procedures, routines and policies adapted to the optimal infection control level needed to tackle today's microbes in hospital practice.

Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume explores the reality of the principle of human dignity - a core value which is increasingly invoked in our societies and legal systems.

Bioethical issues are practically urgent, politically divisive, and call for resolutions.

This book examines the ethics of end of life care, focusing on the kinds of decisions that are commonly made in clinical practice.

How many citizens take part in moral and political decisions concerning the results obtained by the contemporary life sciences?

Psychiatry and religion/spirituality (R/S) share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for community.

Drawing on shared research experiences and collaborative projects, this book offers a broad and timely perspective on research on the hand and its current challenges.

Just as patients do not come to a medical office with the intention of suing the p- sician, physicians have no intention of harming their patients.

This work challenges the current reliance on "e;The Three R's"e; or Replacement, Reduction and Refinement which direct most animal research in the behavioral sciences.

This book deals with good, evil, happiness and morally enhanced post-humans.

The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.

In this edited volume, scientists from different disciplines discuss modern biotechnological processes and a knowledge-based bioeconomy.

Neil Messer brings together a range of theoretical and practical questions raised by current research on the human brain: questions about both the 'ethics of neuroscience' and the 'neuroscience of ethics'.

This book offers a set of reflections on the ethics of care in full articulation with some of the most pressing issues of our time.

This book brings into sharp relief the extent to which the medical profession has enabled or participated in actions that are at moral crossroads.

This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.

The North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAM) is the driver of a strong anthropocentric stance, which has legalized an ongoing, annual exploitation of hundreds of millions of wild animals, who are killed in the United States through trapping, hunting and other lethal practices.

This book explores how the ethical treatment and status of other-than-human animals influence pedagogy, teaching, and learning in general, aiming to fill what has been a gap in the philosophy of education.

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT The Human Genome Project (HGP) is now almost completed.

Die Entwicklung von Ethikkomitees und Ethikberatung ist derzeit ein sehr dynamischer Prozess, wodurch sich ein immer dichter werdendes Netz an Gremien zur Ethikberatung entwickelt.

An examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived  eugenics.