Bioethics

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.

Die menschliche Entwicklung ist seit jeher von einer gesicherten Energieversorgung abhängig, die heute aus Gründen der Machbarkeit und der Umweltbelastungen global betrachtet werden muss.

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.

Exploring the earliest literary evidence for human-animal relations, this volume presents and analyzes biblical and Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian) sources from the third millennium BCE through to the consolidation of the biblical literature in the first millennium BCE.

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 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).

Anti-natalism is the provocative view that it is either always or almost always all-things-considered wrong to procreate.

Alternative medicine (AM) is popular; about 40% of the US general population have used alternative treatment in the past year, and in Germany this figure is around 70%.

The fur trade is a multi-million-dollar industry.

This book provides an overview of the US laws that affect clinical practice for healthcare professionals with no legal background.

This book explores the vast array of animals that populate detective fiction.

This book explores the relationships between humans, chickens, and environments in the context of protein production.

 This book deals with the theme of creativity in the animal world, conceived as a basic function for adapting to specific situations and as a source of innovations and inventions.

This is the first monograph to deal with medicine as a form of hermeneutics, now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, including a whole new chapter on medical ethics.

In this book, Christian Erk examines the ethical (im)permissibility of killing human  beings in general and of selected killings in particular, namely suicide, lethal selfdefence, abortion and euthanasia, as well as organ transplantation and assisted suicide.

This book provides a brief introduction to the growing field of animal maltreatment evaluation and treatment, with a special emphasis on clinical training from a forensic psychology perspective.

This book introduces "e;biolaw"e; as an integrated and distinct field in contemporary legal studies.

This book begins the discourse on post-trial access to drugs in developing countries.

This book provides a scientific and ethical approach to all forms of fraud and misconduct focusing on a scholarly however practice-oriented description of the problems, roots and potential solutions.

Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today.

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

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.

This book addresses the fundamental conflict of interest that physicians face in their daily work lives between the ethics of proper medical care versus the demands of standard business practices.

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