Bioethics

With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals.

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

Since its first publication in 1996, Ethics and Epidemiology has been an invaluable resource for practicing public health professionals and MPH students around the world.

This book offers the first transnational historical study of the creation, contention and consequences of the Australian animal movement.

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

Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health.

Ethical issues associated with public health and health policy--related, for example,  to pandemic plans and vaccination policies (c.

Environmental health involves the assessment and control of environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents.

Providing a new conceptual scaffold for further research in biology and cognition, this book introduces the new field of Cognitive Biology: a systems biology approach showing that further progress in this field will depend on a deep recognition of developmental processes, as well as on the consideration of the developed organism as an agent able to modify and control its surrounding environment.

Food products with genetically modified (GM) ingredients are common, yet many consumers are unaware of this.

This book sheds light on various ethical challenges military and humanitarian health care personnel (HCP) face while working in adverse conditions.

Asia is by far the largest continent in the world in terms of area with population exceeding 3.

Public Health Policy and Ethics brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced.

Offers a frank conversation about altruism in the global body market and critiques the vulnerability of altruism to corruption, coercion, pressure, and other negative externalities.

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?

Patient autonomy is a much discussed and debated subject in medical ethics, as well as in healthcare practice, medical law, and healthcare policy.

Since 2005 a dozen states and more than 15 specialties have reported a physician shortage or anticipate one in the next few years.

The volume offers a unique collection of articles on pediatric neuroenhancement from an international and multidisciplinary perspective.

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

This book is the first extended critical study of the early modern poet Edmund Spenser from the perspective of animal studies.

This Element presents an original argument for regarding the prospect of ''love drugs'' with caution.

This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies.

In this volume Allen Buchanan collects ten of his most influential essays on justice and healthcare and connects the concerns of bioethicists with those of political philosophers, focusing not just on the question of which principles of justice in healthcare ought to be implemented, but also on the question of the legitimacy of institutions through which they are implemented.

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.

Sammelband mit Beiträgen von 28 Expertinnen und Experten aus dem Bereich der assistierten Reproduktion.

Buddhism and Bioethics discusses contemporary issues in medical ethics from a Buddhist perspective.

This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.

TERMINAL SEDATION DURING THE 1990s During the 1990s a discussion took place in scholarly journals concerning a measure within palliative care that had earlier attracted little attention, to wit, the sedation of dying patients.

This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic?

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

Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health.

This anthology provides a collection of new essays on ethical and philosophical issues that concern the development, dispensing, and use of pharmaceuticals.

The book introduces the basic concepts of nanotechnology and the various technologies to characterize nanomaterials.

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%.

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.

This book explores the growing intellectual interest in the politics of immunity.

This compact and innovative book tackles one of the central issues in drug policy: the lack of a coherent conceptual structure for thinking about drugs.

It is difficult to think of an example of an advancement in the biological sciences that has had an impact on society similar to that of the new genetics.

Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child.

The contributed volume "e;Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health"e; is a health-centered volume of the Integrated Science Book series.

Over the last decade, technical advances have allowed genomic testing which provides a great opportunity for diagnosis but also an increased chance of uncertain or unexpected findings.

The Project on Reproductive Laws for the 1990s began in 1985 with the realization that reports of scientific developments and new technologies were stimulating debates and discussions among bioethicists and policymakers, and that women had little part in those discussions either as participants or as a group with interests to be considered.

This book traces the contours of the symbiotic relationship between crop cultivation and cattle rearing in India by reading against the grain of several official accounts from the late colonial period to the 1980s.

This series is directed to health care professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using information and knowledge.

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

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.