Bioethics

Offers a compelling theory of bioethics, covering medical assistance-in-dying, the right to health care, abortion, animal research, and the definition of death.

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

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patient's and the physician's understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient.

This book examines the ethics, politics and aesthetics of veganism in contemporary culture and thought.

This book departs from conventional bioethics approaches to consider the different moral and political economies involved in the donation and transformation of human organs, gametes, stem cells and breastmilk.

This book presents a concept for implementing a mass balance approach toward developing an effective eco-friendly, livestock farming system independent of external energy input.

Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute.

A practical guide for Catholics through the controversial field of bioethics.

In light of new biomedical technologies, such as artificial reproduction, stem cell research, genetic selection and design, the question of what we owe to future persons-and unborn life more generally-is as contested as ever.

This book tackles complex global issues like vaccination, climate change, environmental ethics, embryo adoption, and surrogate motherhood viewed from the perspective of the global south.

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Human evolutionary genomics illuminates fascinating philosophical questions about our individual identities and collective connections.

While historiography is dominated by attempts that try to standardize and de-individualize the behavior of animals, history proves to be littered with records of the exceptional lives of unusual animals.

In the past decade the body of literature in the area of biomedical ethics has expanded at an astounding rate.

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.

Genetic differences can influence differences in our human behaviours, but only occasionally undermine the reality of our free will.

This book is a machine-generated literature overview of the legal and ethical debates over privacy and data protection measures in the last three decades, showcasing the expectations vis-à-vis realities of their presence and application in different sectors.

A good research paper is more than just a clear, concise, scientific expose.

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.

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

Lochlann Jain's debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things.

Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics is a collection of original papers by philosophers from Britain, the USA and Australia.

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

An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance—both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally.

Bringing the concept of contamination into dialogue with affect theory and bioart, Agnieszka Wolodzko urges us to rethink our relationship with ourselves, each other and other organisms.

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 handbook provides an in-depth examination of the practical and theoretical issues within the emerging field of animal ethics.

The Handbook of Bioethical Decisions Volume II addresses and analyzes the most important ethical concerns and moral quandaries related to scientific integrity and institutional ethics.

Medical innovation as it stands today is fundamentally unsustainable.

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

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.

This book explores what constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences.

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

Narratives and Jewish Bioethics searches for answers to the critical question of what roles ancient narratives play in creating modern norms by Jewish bioethicists utilizing the Jewish textual tradition.

Human beings seek to transcend limits.

The book approaches the subject of ethics in science from a pedagogical and pragmatic viewpoint and addresses the need to effectively deal with these issues in science classrooms at the K-12 and undergraduate levels, drawing on real-world cases to do so.

Murdering Animals confronts the speciesism underlying the disparate social censures of homicide and "e;theriocide"e; (the killing of animals by humans), and as such, is a plea to take animal rights seriously.

Medical uncertainty has been with us for centuries and remains a recurrent problem for patients, doctors, and researchers alike.

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

This book is designed to be an easy-to-use guide to understanding the ethical and biosecurity implications of life science research.

An exploration of the scientific mindset—such character virtues as curiosity, veracity, attentiveness, and humility to evidence—and its importance for science, democracy, and human flourishing.

When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap.

Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism.

This book reveals the numerous ways in which moral, ethical and legal principles are being violated by those who provide, recommend or sell 'complementary and alternative medicine' (CAM).