Bioethics

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

Many wild animals in human care live longer than their wild counterparts because of modern care and wellbeing programmes, leading to a growing demographic of ageing animals.

Der vorliegende Band enthält eine Sammlung von Aufsätzen zum Thema Leihmutterschaft aus Blickrichtungen verschiedener Disziplinen, die allesamt jeweils an den aktuellen Forschungsstand anknüpfen.

Murdering Animals confronts the speciesism underlying the disparate social censures of homicide and "e;theriocide"e; (the killing of animals by humans), and as such, is a plea to take animal rights seriously.

This edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history.

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.

For millennia, Africans have lived on the African continent, in close contact with the diversities of nature: floral, faunal and human; and in so doing they have developed cultures, values, attitudes and perspectives to the problems, ethical and otherwise, that have arisen from the existential pressures of their situation.

The biological wealth of our planet is represented by the biodiversity that surrounds us.

This book provides an analysis of the ways in which the BAC has established an ethical framework for biomedical research in Singapore, following the launch of the Biomedical Sciences Initiative by the Singapore Government.

Fast-moving and ever-changing, stem cell science and research presents ongoing ethical and legal challenges in many countries.

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.

The book approaches the subject of ethics in science from a pedagogical and pragmatic viewpoint and addresses the need to effectively deal with these issues in science classrooms at the K-12 and undergraduate levels, drawing on real-world cases to do so.

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This edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the basic and advanced metabolic engineering technologies used to generate natural metabolites and industrially important biomolecules.

The book approaches the subject of ethics in science from a pedagogical and pragmatic viewpoint and addresses the need to effectively deal with these issues in science classrooms at the K-12 and undergraduate levels, drawing on real-world cases to do so.

The book introduces the basic concepts of nanotechnology and the various technologies to characterize nanomaterials.

This book illustrates the significance of biomedical engineering in modern healthcare systems.

This book examines the position of children who provide tissue to potentially save the life of another.

This book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease.

This volume reviews the application of biochemical and molecular pathologies, which are based on conventional pathomorphology, toxicology, and DNA analysis technologies, not only to autopsies but also to the field of clinical medicine in general.

This edited volume draws on ten original contributions that locate ethics at the centre-stage of public health practice.

This volume reviews the application of biochemical and molecular pathologies, which are based on conventional pathomorphology, toxicology, and DNA analysis technologies, not only to autopsies but also to the field of clinical medicine in general.

This book takes a reproductive justice approach to argue that surrogacy as practised in the contemporary neoliberal biomarkets crosses the humanitarian thresholds of feminism.

The general scope of the book is the patentability and morality of human embryonic stem cell research in US, EU and China.

This edited volume comprehensively examines the critical ethical challenges that arise in the practice of counselling and psychotherapy.

La vida es valorada por los individuos como un valor básico y como el soporte material para el goce de los demás derechos.

En este documento se hace una revisión de los conceptos de ambiente, la problemática asociada en sus instancias social, económica, política y cultural, enfatizando en la propuesta de un paradigma macrobioético (desarrollo sostenible, globalización, ecosofía), para finalizar analizando los derroteros de la Educación Ambiental formulada tras la Declaración de Tbilisi, y llegar así a una prospección sobre la Educación Ambiental y la Bioética en Colombia: de una ética del ambiente, que no tendría sentido si no está orientada a los individuos, las sociedades y los componentes de la Naturaleza, considerada holísticamente.

Para el Departamento de Bioética de la Universidad El Bosque es un placer presentar la segunda edición parcial en español del libro ¿Qué es la bioética?

Tras algunas décadas de investigación y deliberación rigurosas, la bioética en América Latina –Nuestra América, como la llamó José Martí– está pensando con cabeza y voz propias.

Este numero reune las reflexiones producto de cinco trabajos de investigacion de la Maestria en Bioetica de la Universidad El Bosque que aportan criterios para la toma de decisiones ante conflictos eticos de diversos escenarios.

Los biobancos destinados a la investigacion cientifica constituyen hoy una fuente inagotable de beneficios y esperanzas para la vida de las poblaciones, tanto por sus aportes en el campo de la salud como por representar intereses muy preciados para la identidad de las personas o la historia genetica de una comunidad.

La bioética es un vocablo presentado por el especialista norteamericano Van Rensselaer Potter (1911-2012).

Este libro retoma las primeras meditaciones, publicadas hace 10 años, tras una década de nuevas experiencias, nuevos descubrimientos científicos y cambios tecnológicos, del doctor Fernando Sánchez Torres, reconocido académico colombiano, exrector de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, médico de formación, experto en bioética y artista plástico.

This anthology provides a collection of new essays on ethical and philosophical issues that concern the development, dispensing, and use of pharmaceuticals.

This book is focused on the examination of the particular relationship between developments in neuroscience and commonsense concepts, such as free will, personal identity, privacy, etc.

Biobank research and genomic information are changing the way we look at health and medicine.

Asia is by far the largest continent in the world in terms of area with population exceeding 3.

This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health?

With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves.

This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics.

This volume is dedicated to the philosophy of medicine advanced by Edmund D.

Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine.

At the time of the first edition of Principles of Cancer Biotherapy in 1987, this book represented the first comprehensive textbook on biological therapy.

PERSONHOOD AND HEALTH CARE This book arose as a result of a pre-conference devoted to the topic held June 28, 1999 in Paris, France.

Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational.

Each year, roughly a million new cases of cancer appear in the US, and more than 500,000 Americans die annually of premature death.

This book contributes to an overall understanding of the nature and the impact of sexual boundary violations.

The contributions to this volume grew out of papers presented at an international conference Individual, Community & Society: Bioethics in the Third Millennium, held in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, between 25-28 May 1999.