Bioethics

This book fills a gap in the literature on the Precautionary Principle by placing the principle within the wider context of precautionary reasoning and uses philosophical arguments and case studies to demonstrate when it does-and does not-apply.

This book offers a scientific whistleblower's perspective on current implementation of federal research misconduct regulations.

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

This book questions the notions of person, personality, dignity, and other connected notions such as (informed) consent, and discusses new perspectives on categories that allow ethical debates in medicine to overcome morals and ordinary religious schemes.

This book fills the gap in the literature on nursing theories by presenting the background information on situation specific theories such as philosophical bases and current status of situation specific theories and providing a collection of situation specific theories that have been developed.

We live in an age of rapid technological advancement.

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

Located in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan practices the philosophy of Gross National Happiness ("e;GNH"e;) that embraces environmental conservation as one of the main building blocks for its sustainable development goals.

This extensively updated textbook reviews the ethical issues faced within dermatology.

This book engages in a critical discussion on how to respect and promote patients' autonomy in difficult cases such as palliative care and end-of-life decisions.

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

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

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.

This Dictionary presents a broad range of topics relevant in present-day global bioethics.

This book discusses recent brain research and the potentially dangerous dual-use applications of the findings of these research projects.

Of all forms of alternative medicine, chiropractic is the one that is most generally accepted.

This book explores major bioethical issues emerging from the development and use of artificial intelligence in medical settings.

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 book explores the problem of disagreement concerning the treatment of animals in a liberal society.

This book is a companion to Clinical Ethics on Film and deals specifically with the myriad of healthcare ethics dilemmas.

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

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.