One of the most challenging issues of the 21st century is the impending separation of sex (in bed) and reproduction (under the microscope) as a result of recent advances in contraception and assisted reproduction.
A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'The ideal guide to what is not just a fiendishly complex area of science but also an ethical minefield' Mail on SundayA new gene editing technology, invented just seven years ago, has turned humanity into gods.
Iconoclast: Ideas That Have Shaped the Culture Wars is an anthology of essays by some of the world's most prominent intellectuals on crucial social, cultural, philosophical, scientific and political issues.
At the onset of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic enhancement, for wholesale redesign.
Biomedical Ethics Reviews * 1989 is the seventh volume in a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today.
Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1992 is the tenth volume in a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today.
In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate.
In Reproduction, Technology, and Rights, philosophers and ethicists debate the central moral issues and problems raised by today's revolution in reproductive technology.
The National Science Foundation, The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and the Center for Technology and Humanities at Georgia State University sponsored a two-day national conference on Moral Issues and Public Policy Issues in the Use of the Method of Quantitative Risk Assessment ( QRA) on September 26 and 27, 1985, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Biomedical Ethics Reviews * 1987 is the fifth volume in a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today.
Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1985 is the third volume in a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central impor- tance in bioethics today.
This is the second volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews, a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today.
Prominent bioethicists whose work is rooted in philosophy, religion, medicine, nursing, literature, history, and policy analysis join together to discuss their methods and professional insights, as well as to better define the field and its future development.
Internationally recognized scientists, clinicians, and technologists review and explain the fundamental molecular and cellular biology that has been applied to the emerging field of transplant immunology and xenotransplantation, and what impact these advances might optimally have on medicine and science.
The question of whether there might be a duty to die was first raised by Margaret Battin in 1987 in her ground-breaking essay, "e;Age Distribution and the Just Distribution of Health Care: Is There a Duty- to-Die?
This book provides the reader with a theoretical and practical understanding of two health care delivery models: the patient/child centred care and family-centred care.
Dieses Buch verfolgt einen Ansatz der reproduktiven Gerechtigkeit, um zu argumentieren, dass die Leihmutterschaft, wie sie auf den heutigen neoliberalen Biomärkten praktiziert wird, die humanitären Grenzen des Feminismus überschreitet.
Living and Dying Well takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death.
El contenido de este libro recopila el trabajo de investigación llevado a cabo en los últimos cinco años por el grupo de investigación Ética, Lenguaje y Epistemología de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP).
Leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal with using complimentary and alternative medicines.
The primary objective of The Health Care Ethics Con- sultant is to focus attention on an immediate practical problem: the role and responsibilities, the education and training, and the certification and accreditation of health care ethics consultants.