Bioethics

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 book focuses on informed consent in African Traditional Medicine (ATM).

"e;An engaging, compelling and disturbing confrontation with evil .

Scientific medicine in Miettinen's conception of it is very different from the two ideas about it that come to eminence in the 20th century.

This book both presents a succinct history of medical ethics and discusses a wide range of important ethical dilemmas in the provision of modern health care.

The outsourcing of clinical trials to Latin America by the transnational innovative pharmaceutical industry began about twenty years ago.

There is a diversity of 'ethical practices' within medicine as an institutionalised profession as well as a need for ethical specialists both in practice as well as in institutionalised roles.

Ethical considerations regarding applications of technologies are becoming increasingly more important.

"Das Teuerste auf der Erde ist das Leben" (Daodejing).

This book offers a reflection on the central role that the ethics of informed consent plays in Rapid Tissue Donation (RTD).

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

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

Spending the final chapter of your life in a nursing home is considered, by many, a fate worse than death.

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 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.

The multidisciplinary book assesses the legal and economic uncertainties surrounding the collection, storage, provision and economic development of biological samples (tumors, tissues, cells) and associated personal data related to oncology.

The North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAM) is the driver of a strong anthropocentric stance, which has legalized an ongoing, annual exploitation of hundreds of millions of wild animals, who are killed in the United States through trapping, hunting and other lethal practices.

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.

This book features articles by more than twenty experienced teachers of ethics who are committed to the idea that ethics can and should be taught virtually anywhere in the education curriculum.

This book discusses outcomes of a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, Czech Republic, examining moral integrity in the post-communist Czech-speaking environment.

In recent years, the well-established field of human anthropology has been put under scrutiny by the new data offered by science and technology.

Die Bedeutung von Religion in bioethischen Diskursen hat in den letzten Jahren große Aufmerksamkeit erfahren.

Biotechnologische Eingriffe in den menschlichen Organismus (genetisch, psychopharmazeutisch oder technisch) können die körperliche oder geistige Leistungsfähigkeit von Menschen steigern und das menschliche Erleben gezielt verändern, auch über ein "normales" oder "natürliches" Maß hinaus.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of philosophical, social, ethical, and legal challenges arising as a consequences of current advances in neurosciences and neurotechnology.

Das Wort "Gen" wurde 1909 geprägt.

Medical research involving human subjects has contributed to considerable advancements in our knowledge, and to medical benefits.

This Pivot traces the rise of the so-called "e;vegetarian"e; vampire in popular culture and contemporary vampire fiction, while also exploring how the shift in the diet of (some) vampires, from human to animal or synthetic blood, responds to a growing ecological awareness that is rapidly reshaping our understanding of relations with others species.

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.