Bioethics

Two ofthe most important notions concerning the rights of people with mental illness are among the most neglected: the first is that human rights and duties are complementary and that both must be considered in constructing a framework for mental health care.

Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies.

This book explores the religious language of Nonconformity used in ethical debates about animals.

Is the involuntary commitment of the mentally ill morally proper?

This book questions how abortion laws can be regulated in a time when abortion rights are still subject to intense debate.

Marine mammals attract human interest - sometimes this interest is benign or positive - whale watching, conservation programmes for whales, seals, otters, and efforts to clear beaches of marine debris are seen as proactive steps to support these animals.

Homeopathy is over 200 years old and is still experiencing an uninterrupted influx of new practitioners and patients.

What is 'legal' about bioethics?

Research on human beings saves countless lives, but has at times harmed the participants.

Bonnie Steinbock presents The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics - an authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics.

Health and welfare issues of brachycephalic (flat-faced) animals are one of the most pressing problems facing companion animals right now.

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

In 2008 the youtube video documenting the emotional reunion between two men and Christian the Lion became a worldwide sensation.

This volume is a contribution to the continuing interaction between law and medicine.

The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics treats a number of distinct moral questions and ?

This book shows how pressing issues in bioethics - e.

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

Attitudes towards science, medicine and the body are all profoundly shaped by people's worldviews.

In this interdisciplinary work, philosophers from different specialisms connect with the notion of the wild today and interrogate how it is mediated through the culture of the Anthropocene.

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.

Provides a roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice.

This book focuses on resource allocation in military and humanitarian medicine during times of scarcity and austerity.

This book configures a consistent epistemology of biolaw that distinguishes itself from bioethics and from a mere set of international instruments on the regulation of biomedical practices.

Can religious arguments provide a reasonable basis for restrictive public policies regarding politically controversial medical interventions?

Genome Editing Techniques are seen to be at the frontier of current research in the field of emerging biotechnologies.

Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book PrizeHIV has changed in the presence of recent biomedical technologies.

This book argues that legal theory provides a jumping-off point for the study of controversial topics related to the work of Practicing Healthcare Ethicists (PHEs).

This extensively updated textbook reviews the ethical issues faced within dermatology.

This book configures a consistent epistemology of biolaw that distinguishes itself from bioethics and from a mere set of international instruments on the regulation of biomedical practices.

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

GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action theory.

This second edition of International Public Health Policy and Ethics complements the popular first edition with contemporary problems in international public health.

The International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects (CIOMS and WHO, 1993: 11) defines "e;research"e; as referring to a class of activities designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge.

Should transhuman and posthuman persons ever be brought into existence?

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

This book fills an important gap in existing health care ethics literature by describing an egalitarian conception of moral respect which applies to autonomous and non-autonomous patients alike.

This book challenges the unchallenged methods in medicine, such as "e;evidence-based medicine,"e; which claim to be, but often are not, scientific.

This book is the first to bring together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on surrogacy and egg donation from three socially, legally and culturally distinct countries - India, Israel and Germany.

In dieser Arbeit steht die ethische Reflexion bei der Beurteilung von Tierversuchsanträgen im Mittelpunkt.

This book focuses on multiculturalism, racism and the interests of nonhuman animals.

This book provides a careful and comprehensive, step-by-step method for providing clinical ethics consultation.

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective applies the best of the Roman Catholic theological and ethical tradition to some of the most controversial and complex bioethical topics that confront contemporary society.