This compact and elegant work (equally fitting for both academic as well as the trade audiences) provides a readily accessible and highly readable overview of Bhutan's unique opportunities and challenges; all her prominent environmental legislation, regulatory statutes, ecological customs and practices, both in historic and contemporary terms.
In Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective, Marti Kheel explores the underlying worldview of "e;nature ethics,"e; offering an alternative ecofeminist perspective.
Two ofthe most important notions concerning the rights of people with mental illness are among the most neglected: the first is that human rights and duties are complementary and that both must be considered in constructing a framework for mental health care.
This book puts the ethics, policy and politics of stem cells into context in a way that helps readers understand why past and current issues have developed the way they have and what the implications are for their work going forward.
Remediation in medical education is the act of facilitating a correction for trainees who started out on the journey toward becoming excellent physicians but have moved off course.
In most developed countries, the epidemiological disease profile has changed from infectious to degenerative, causing major alterations in epidemiological thinking and public health policies.
Many of the demands being voiced for a "e;humanizing"e; of health care center on the public's concern that they have some say In determining what happens to the individual in health care institutions.
The roles of both the consumer and the health advocate professional have become increasingly significant in to- day's climate of "e;rationed"e; health care.
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.
There is the world of ideas and the world of practice; the French are often for sup- pressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed.
Biomedical Ethics Reviews * 1990 is the eighth volume in a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today.
In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult and relevant even today.
George Annas, America's leading proponent of patient rights, spells them out for you in this revised, up-to-date edition of his groundbreaking classic.
Quality, as exemplified by Quality-of-life (QoL) assessment, is frequently discussed among health care professionals and often invoked as a goal for improvement, but somehow rarely defined, even as it is regularly assessed.
Medical healing implies knowledge of the assumptions that underlie our understanding of "e;health,"e; and, concomitantly, how we define well being and its opposites, illness and disease.
Enhanced knowledge of the nature and causes of mental disorder have led increasingly to a need for the recruitment of 'cognitively vulnerable' participants in biomedical research.
"e;Genetic Democracy"e; involves an in-depth analysis of the ethical, social and philosophical issues related to modern genetic research and gene technology.
