Bioethics

Contemporary bioethics, now roughly 40 years old as a discipline, originated in the United States with a primarily Anglo-American cultural ethos.

This project draws together the diverse strands of the debate regarding disability in a way never before combined in a single volume.

This volume discusses the definitional problems and conceptual strategies involved in defining the human.

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism is the first book-length study of animals in Canadian literature.

This book is a comprehensive, empirically-grounded exploration of the relationship between bioethics, culture, and the perspective of being affected.

Instances of euthanasia or mercy killing date back to antiquity.

This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry.

With implications that go to the core of what it means to be human, the issues raised by genetic manipulation-especially cloning-have sparked a passionate debate among governmental, religious, and scientific quarters, as well as the media and the general public.

With each species lost to the mass extinction crisis, the natural economy of the nation and of the world is greatly diminished.

This book explores the promissory discourses and practices associated with the bioeconomy, focusing especially on the transformation of institutions; the creation, appropriation, and distribution of value; the struggle over resources, power, and meaning; and the role of altruism, kinship, and care practices.

An innovative and comprehensive guide that can be applied to a wide range of dialogue settings this educational tool for trainers in all fields of dialogue interpreting addresses not only the two key areas of Community- and Public Service Interpreting, the legal and health sectors, but also business interpreting.

Unscharfe Grenzen und fließende Übergänge kommen in allen Registern der Erfahrung vor.

This book provides extensive and critical engagement with some of the most recent and compelling arguments favoring abortion choice.

In the past few years an increasing number of colleges and universities have added courses in biomedical ethics to their curricula.

This book provides a bridge between the theory to practice gap in contemporary health care ethics.

This book proposes ways to use the notion of solidarity fruitfully so as to inform policy and practice in biomedicine.

A multidisciplinary and international examination of the developing debates around using the criminal law to sanction disease transmission.

The idea for an anthology on personhood grew out of two things, viz.

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

How can we accept that we ought to stop smoking, follow a diet, exercise, or take medications?

Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today.

This title reviews the bioethical issues in congenital heart disease and other difficult pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgical situations.

This timely volume brings together well-established scholars and emerging voices to explore research methods and ethics in Neurodiversity Studies.

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

Ob es um Weltarmut oder um Genfood geht, ob um die Erderwärmung oder die Menschenrechte, ob um Flüchtlingspolitik oder die Verteilung medizinischer Güter, - immer stoßen wir auf drängende Fragen der Moral und ihrer Entscheidung.

This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting.

This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history.

This book discusses different challenges imposed to the globe following the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book discusses feature films that enrich our understanding of doctor-patient dilemmas.

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.

Public health has never been more important, or more controversial.

This thought-provoking treatise argues that current human fertility rates are fueling a public health crisis that is at once local and global.

A collection of objective essays reviewing the principal arguments for and against stem cell research.

This book offers intriguing philosophical inquiries into biotechnological art and the life sciences, addressing their convergences as well as their epistemic and functional divergences.

This textbook offers a unique and accessible approach to ethical decision-making for practicing pharmacists and student pharmacists.

This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry.

Dieser Band versammelt interdisziplinäre Beiträge zum Thema Altentötung, Opfertod und Alterssuizid.

Advances in genetics, such as the Human Genome Project's successful mapping of the human genome and the discovery of ever more sites of disease-related mutations, invite re-examination of basic concepts underlying our fundamental social practices and institutions.

This comprehensive book covers the research, theory, policy and practice context of unusual reproduction using third parties.

This book presents a critical analysis of the debate at the religious, legal and political level sparked off by the introduction of new biomedical technologies (cloning, genetics, organ transplants, IVF, etc.

This book explores the new ways in which biology is becoming technology.

This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy.

This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research.

"e;The fixed person for fixed duties, who in older societies was such a godsend, in the future ill be a public danger.

Long before it cured disease, medicine aimed to relieve suffering-but despite that precedence, the relief of suffering often takes a back seat in today's biomedical research and treatment.

This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski.