Bioethics

This edited volume represents a unique addition to the available literature on animal ethics, animal studies, and neuroethics.

This book addresses the ethical problems that physicians have to face every day while caring for critically ill patients.

In this book, the author argues that no current philosophical theory of evidence in clinical medical science is adequate.

This book addresses the ethical problems that physicians have to face every day while caring for critically ill patients.

This book is an interdisciplinary study centred on the political and legal position of animals in liberal democracies.

This book examines the ethics of end of life care, focusing on the kinds of decisions that are commonly made in clinical practice.

Protected areas have often been defined as the backbones of biodiversity conservation.

This book reprints Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby, a seminal work in the history of medical ethics and human subject research that has been nearly unavailable for over 40 years.

There have been extraordinary developments in the field of neuroscience in recent years, sparking a number of discussions within the legal field.

This work explores and discusses the ethical dilemmas clinicians face in everyday forensic psychiatry practice.

This title reviews the bioethical issues in congenital heart disease and other difficult pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgical situations.

This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski.

This book discusses ethical questions surrounding research and innovation in military and humanitarian contexts.

This book is both a workbook and process guide for making ethical system-level decisions.

This is the Second Edition of a well-received book that reflects a fresh, integrated coverage of the concepts and scientific measurement of stress and welfare of animals including humans.

This book brings the animal into the scholarly discussion of animal-assisted therapy and other interventions.

This book provides an introduction into the diversity of the environmental movement through great characters in the green sector.

This book addresses the complexity of talking about normativity in bioethics within the context of contemporary multicultural and multi-religious society.

This book provides a comprehensive description and ethical analysis of one of the most challenging areas: international health research.

This edited volume represents a unique addition to the available literature on animal ethics, animal studies, and neuroethics.

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 volume covers a wide range of topics concerning methodological, epistemological, and regulatory-ethical issues around pharmacology.

This interdisciplinary volume gathers selected, refereed contributions on various aspects of public health from several disciplines and research fields, including the philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics.

Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction explores the ethical concerns and dimensions of representations of the future of global science fiction, focusing on the issues that dominate utopian, dystopian and science fiction literature.

This book provides a perspective on the concepts placebo and placebo effects, which has been missing so far: a detailed analysis of the history of the terms, their current use, suggested alternatives and the implications of the conceptual confusion.

Understanding and improving how organizations work and are managed is the object of management research and practice, and this topic is of longstanding interest in the academia and in society at large.

This volume examines the latest scientific and technological developments likely to shape our post-human future.

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

This collection of essays centers on literary representations of meat-eating, bringing aesthetic questions into dialogue with more established research on the ethics and politics of meat.

This book affords a neopragmatic theory of animal ethics, taking its lead from American Pragmatism to place language at the centre of philosophical analysis.

This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history.

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.

This book offers easy access to the everyday ethics problems that occur in the medical care of children.

This book brings into sharp relief the extent to which the medical profession has enabled or participated in actions that are at moral crossroads.

This book provides an up-to-date description of cross-cultural aspects of end-of-life decision-making.

This book presents a collection of essays exploring the legal, economic, socio-environmental, and ethical dimensions of human-animal interaction in Brazil.

This book discusses the possibilities for the use of ?

This book explores the ethical dilemma clinicians may face when disclosing a diagnosis of atypical sex.

This book focuses on justice and its demands in the way of providing people with medical care.

The chapter entitled "e;Truth or Dare; Women, Politics, and the Symphysiotomy Scandal"e;, by Oonagh Walsh, was published in this book "e;GeoHumanities and Health"e; by Springer Nature AG.

The medicalization of death is a challenge for all the world's religious and cultural traditions.

Literature and Medicine: A Practical and Pedagogical Guide is designed to introduce narrative medicine in medical humanities courses aimed at pre-medicine undergraduates and medical and healthcare students.

This book offers a first rate selection of academic articles on Latin American bioethics.

This book discusses the ethical and legal challenges related to innovations, with reference to both scientific research and emerging technologies.

Given the profound moral-ethical controversies regarding the use of new biotechnologies in medical research and treatment, such as embryonic research and cloning, this book sheds new light on the role of religious organizations and actors in influencing the bio-political debates and decision-making processes.

This book is devoted to the welfare of invertebrates, which make up 99% of animal species on earth.

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

Written with passion for anyone interested in seeing an end to the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, this book shows how, by working together, people all over the world who care about these animals are gradually bringing about change for the better.

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

This book provides a current analysis of the legal and ethical challenges in preparing for and responding to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) crises.