Bioethics

This book takes the contentious issue of designer babies and argues against the liberal eugenic current of bioethics that commends the logic and choice regimes of selective reproduction.

This invaluable resource discusses the saftey, ethics, and regulations of developing stem cell clinical applications.

Intended as a guide for wildlife managers and ecotourism operators, as well as interested ecotourists, this book addresses the biological principles governing how ecotourism affects wildlife.

This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies.

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

This book brings together the debate concerning personal identity (in metaphysics) and central topics in biomedical ethics (conception of birth and death; autonomy, living wills and paternalism).

This book supports the emerging field of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) for face and upper-limb transplants by providing a revised, ethically appropriate consent model which takes into account what is actually required of facial and upper extremity transplant recipients.

This book is about ordinary animals and how they are imagined in twenty-first century fiction.

This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical research.

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.

This book departs from conventional bioethics approaches to consider the different moral and political economies involved in the donation and transformation of human organs, gametes, stem cells and breastmilk.

This is the first book entirely dedicated to exploring issues associated with the nature of neuroethics.

This book offers ethical and political approaches to issues that nonhuman animals face.

This book offers the policy-maker or decision-maker key insights and practical information regarding the features of ethics frameworks best suited to the ethical assessment of human cognitive enhancement (HCE) applications, such as pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers and noninvasive brain stimulation techniques.

This book summarizes the contributions at an April 2016 conference held at Albany Medical College, Reproductive Ethics: New Challenges and Conversations.

This book focuses on the increasingly popular phenomenon of veganism, a way of living that attempts to exclude all animal products on ethical grounds.

This progressive resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform.

The essays in this book clarify the technical, legal, ethical, and social aspects of the interaction between eHealth technologies and surveillance practices.

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.

This book contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Robot Ethics, held in Lisbon on October 23 and 24, 2015.

This book provides an elaboration and evaluation of the dominant conceptions of genetic counseling as they are accounted for in three different models: the teaching model; the psychotherapeutic model; and the responsibility model.

This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic?

This book clarifies the meaning of the most important and pervasive concepts and tools in bioethical argumentation (principles, values, dignity, rights, duties, deliberation, prudence) and assesses the methodological suitability of the main methods for clinical decision-making and argumentation.

This book explores how Paul Tillich's systematic theology, focusing on the concepts of being and reason can benefit nonhuman animals, while also analysing how taking proper account of nonhuman animals can prove immensely beneficial.

This book examines the dependence of transhumanist arguments on the credibility of the narratives of meaning in which they are embedded.

This book presents an interpretation of pharmaceutical, surgical and psychotherapeutic interventions based on a univalent metalanguage: biosemiotics.

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

This book examines the ethics, politics and aesthetics of veganism in contemporary culture and thought.

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

This book addresses the problem of how to make democratically-legitimate public policy on issues of contentious bioethical debate.

This readable overview offers a public health framework for integrating medical and alternative care to improve health outcomes in patients with chronic illnesses.

This book offers a theoretical and practical overview of the specific ethical and legal issues in pediatric organ transplantation.

In this book,scholars with different disciplinary and national backgrounds argue forpossible answers and analyse case studies on current issues of governance inbiomedical research.

This book offers an overview of the main questions arising when biomedical decision-making intersects ethical decision-making.

This book discusses 'how' to respectfully and responsibly include pregnant women in clinical research.

Synthetic biology is a dynamic, young, ambitious, attractive, and heterogeneous scientific discipline.

This volume presents a number of controversial cases of enforced medical treatment from around the globe, providing for the first time a common, biopolitcal framework for all of them.

The UNESCO International Bioethics Committee is an international body that sets standards in the field of bioethics.

This book examines all aspects of narrative medicine and its value in ensuring that, in an age of evidence-based medicine defined by clinical trials, numbers, and probabilities, clinical science is firmly embedded in the medical humanities in order to foster the understanding of clinical cases and the delivery of excellent patient care.

This book discusses and provides insight on the legal and ethical dilemmas of managing those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

The main question explored by the book is: How can cross-border access to human genetic resources, such as blood or DNA samples, be governed in such a way as to achieve equity for vulnerable populations in developing countries?

This book exposes, and fills, a notable void in the educational content generally covered in modern schools of medicine.

This work sets the stage regarding debates about paternalism and health care for years to come.

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.

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

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This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research.

In 2009 the University Medicine Greifswald launched the "e;Greifswald Approach to Individualized Medicine"e; (GANI_MED) to implement biomarker-based individualized diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in clinical settings.

This work presents the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of all relevant issues and topics in contemporary global bioethics.