Bioethics

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

This book is about the philosophy of de-extinction.

This is the first book on the market or within academia dedicated solely to moral distress among health professionals.

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

This book offers a scientific whistleblower's perspective on current implementation of federal research misconduct regulations.

This volume considers the ethical legitimacy of invoking the criminal law to regulate medical and scientific practice and bioethical issues.

This volume elucidates the pivotal ethical and legal issues arising from the use of brain organoids for research, therapeutic and enhancement purposes.

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

This Element comprehensively analyses and discusses normative aspects of consciousness that have been neglected or only partly examined by philosophers and neuroscientists.

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 serves as an introduction to the concepts of medical biotechnology, with great details about fundamentals and early disciplines of study as well as emerging fields and the latest research.

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This edited volume brings together a diverse group of contributors to create a review of research and an agenda for the future of dog care and training in correctional facilities.

Provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in genetics for health professionals, patients and their families.

Charles Bonnet began his career as a naturalist, from an early age establishing a reputation as a careful observer.

This interdisciplinary and accessible book will help environmentalists to make stronger arguments in favor of conserving biodiversity.

Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today's top bioethics scholars, focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first century.

This book offers a theoretically-based study on crimes against protected wildlife in mainland China with first-hand empirical data collected over five years.

This book explores and elaborates three theories of public reason, drawn from Rawlsian political liberalism, natural law theory, and Confucianism.

A balanced and accessible introduction to the engagements that feminist scientists and science scholars undertake with a variety of biological sciences.

The aim of this book is to provide insight into the principles of operation of the cerebral cortex.

"e;There is hardly a reason to circumcise a little boy for medical reasons because those medical reasons don't exist"e;, said Dr.

This book provides the tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases people with disabilities and bioethicists have.

This book presents the first critical examination of the overlapping ethical, sociocultural, and policy-related issues surrounding disasters, global bioethics, and public health ethics.

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

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

In this book, Leif DeVaney brings the traditional philosophical branches of metaphysics and ethics to bear on conservation biology.

This textbook offers an introduction to the field of bioethics, specifically from a practicing physician standpoint.

Dieser Band behandelt umfassend und systematisch die Frage des Patientenwillens: die historischen und philosophischen Grundlagen des Willensbegriffs, die Beziehung von Autonomie und Wille und praktische Fragen der Bioethik und des Biorechts.

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

This textbook presents epidemiology in a practical manner, contextualized with discussions of theory and ethics, so that students and professionals from all academic backgrounds may develop a deep appreciation for how to conduct and interpret epidemiological research.

This unique volume gives insight into the science of slaughter with in-depth discussion of neural communication and the welfare aspects of pre-slaughter handling and slaughter of livestock.

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

First published in 1922, this book represents an attempt to outline the biological approach to the questions of religious thought.

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

This book is a companion to Clinical Ethics on Film and deals specifically with the myriad of healthcare ethics dilemmas.

This book is aimed at analyzing the foundations of medical ethics by considering different moral theories and their implications for judgments in clinical practice and policy-making.

Blue Extinction in Literature, Culture, and Art examines literary and cultural representations of aquatic biodiversity loss, bringing together critical perspectives from the blue humanities and extinction studies.

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 book articulates an African conception of dignity in light of the salient axiological category of personhood in African cultures.

Why does a hospital need an ethics consultation?

An exploration of the basis on which the Vatican presumes to proclaim universally binding prescriptions, paying particular attention to those concerning the value of human life.

This multidisciplinary book addresses the nature and meaning of relationships and identity in assisted conception families.

In this remarkable book, Gary Wright brings his thirty years of experience as a physician in pediatric and family medicine together with his Ph.

This book is the first major work that addresses a core question in biomedical research: the question of acceptable risk.

Embryonic stem cell research holds unique promise for developing therapies for currently incurable diseases and conditions, and for important biomedical research.

In this book, Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser consider how we might better understand human-animal companionship in the context of domestic violence.

This book moves away from the frameworks that have traditionally guided ethical decision-making in the Western clinical setting, towards an inclusive, non-coercive and, reflective dialogic approach to moral decision-making.

A compelling argument for the morality of limitations on procreation in lessening the harmful environmental effects of unchecked populationWe live in a world where a burgeoning global population has started to have a major and destructive environmental impact.