Bioethics

This volume offers a collection of writings on ethical issues regarding retarded persons.

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 book presents a heuristic and critical study of comparative theology in engagement with phenomenological methodology and sociological inquiry.

As the fields of philosophy of medicine and bioethics have developed in the United States, the philosophical perspective of phenomenology has been largely ignored.

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 book brings together a number of essays that are optimistic about the ways certain neuroscientific insights might advance philosophical ethics, and other essays that are more circumspect about the relevance of neuroscience to philosophical ethics.

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.

A concise and accessible introduction to the concept of species, exploring its historical, biological and philosophical uses.

This book provides a bridge between the theory to practice gap in contemporary health care ethics.

This book analyses the role of religion during the COVID- 19 pandemic and vaccination rollout in Zimbabwe.

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 discuss the meaning and implications of the social and ethical implications of the notion of social responsibility in healthcare in six major world religions - Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, & Judaism.

This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine dominative attitudes toward the nonhuman.

Dorothy Wertz and John Fletcher pioneered the first international study of ethical and social issues in genetics in 18 nations.

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This book addresses the many ethical issues and extraordinary risks that nurses and others are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, which creates physical, emotional, and economic burdens, affecting nurses' overall health and well-being.

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

In 2015 the UK became the first country in the world to legalise mitochondrial donation, a controversial germ line reproductive technology to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial disease.

An innovative and comprehensive guide that can be applied to a wide range of dialogue settings this educational tool for trainers in all fields of dialogue interpreting addresses not only the two key areas of Community- and Public Service Interpreting, the legal and health sectors, but also business interpreting.

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

Medical healing implies knowledge of the assumptions that underlie our understanding of "e;health,"e; and, concomitantly, how we define well being and its opposites, illness and disease.

This book applies a discussion of the nature of human life to resolving bioethical issues.

This book offers new direction in disability studies, by integrating the medical and social model of disability.

On May 13-15, 1982, some 50 scientists and scholars - physicians, philos- ophers and social scientists - convened at Hasselby Castle in Stockholm for the first Nordic Symposium on the Philosophy of Medicine.

Ministry is challenging, complex, and costly.

Psychiatry is a field that differs from other fields of medical practice in terms of its ethical problems and ethical dilemmas it encounters.

A groundbreaking contribution to bioethics bringing classical and contemporary wisdom to the dilemmas of life and love, health and healthcare.

The law serves a function that is not often taken seriously enough by ethicists, namely practicability.

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 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.

In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate.

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

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession.

This volume captures the recent changes and evolution in ethics in research involving humans and provides future directions to achieve alternative drug development strategies for equitable global health.

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.

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

This book presents original, critical and diverse perspectives on topics spanning the breadth of this emerging new field.

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

This book discusses Gadamer's theory of context-dependence.

This book examines the central structures in medicine-medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority-from the perspective of an ethics of care.

In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate.

As noted in Volume 1, the Yearbook series alternates between a biennial volume tracing recent theological discussions on topics in bioethics and a biennial volume tracing recent regional discussions in bioethics.

This book intertwines phenomenological fieldwork with a wide range of Heidegger's writings to explore how our everyday uses of mobile media technologies permit a unique avenue to rediscover poiesis, our creative cultivation that is simultaneously a bringing forth, a revealing.

This volume explores the experiences of those with little or no power-usually, although not exclusively, animals.

Philosophy and the advances in cosmology, neurology, molecular biology, and the social sciences have made the convincing and converging arguments for God's existence more probable than ever in history.

What is 'legal' about bioethics?

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.