Bioethics

This book provides a detailed introduction to the cloning of both plants and animals and discusses the important social, ethical, political, technical, and other issues related to the practice.

Embryonic stem cell research holds unique promise for developing therapies for currently incurable diseases and conditions, and for important biomedical research.

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In the current era, evidence-based medicine and various supporting technologies dominate everyday clinical practice, according to a disease-centred, as opposed to patient-centred, approach.

In the 1960's marked changes occurred throughout the world in philosophies and policies related to man's role in life.

Offers a new theory of property and distributive justice derived from Talmudic law, illustrated by a case study involving the sale of organs for transplant.

For many years we have been talking about a very special patient, the embryo; and the numerous and encouraging successes brought about by embryofetal medicine in the application of both noninvasive therapies and invasive ultrasound-guided tre- ment are well known.

This book provides a critical analysis of the experiences of people with disabilities in Latin America.

This book explores the vast array of animals that populate detective fiction.

Within contemporary society, globalization has emerged as a key concern at the centre of ethical, legal and policy debates relating to health care.

A comprehensive reference providing an approach to problems of biomedical ethics in the clinical setting.

This volume examines the latest scientific and technological developments likely to shape our post-human future.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive yet concise overview of the challenges and opportunities presented by the use of big data in healthcare.

This volume considers the ethical legitimacy of invoking the criminal law to regulate medical and scientific practice and bioethical issues.

This book presents important concepts from medical and socio-cultural anthropology to health professionals working with organ transplantation involving indigenous populations.

Drawing on shared research experiences and collaborative projects, this book offers a broad and timely perspective on research on the hand and its current challenges.

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.

Biomedical Ethics Reviews is an annual publication designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today.

This book explores Kierkegaard's significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard's existential thinking can enrich and advance current bioethical debates.

As the state of the natural world declines, environmentally related health problems will increasingly shape the landscape of human health and disease.

Exploring both the intrapersonal (moral) and interpersonal (ethical) nature of death and dying in the context of their development (philosophical), Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society shows how death and dying have been and will continue to be governed in any given society.

This book presents the case for legal protection for animals based on humanity's shared interests and destinies with the animal kingdom.

Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism is the first book-length study of animals in Canadian literature.

Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada fulfils a vital contribution to the conversation surrounding animal representation as a point of continuity in national narratives and supports the idea that focusing on narratives of responsibility and care influences better relations with both non-human animals and across settler-Indigenous boundaries.

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.

This book provides a critical and innovative reassessment of contemporary debate on the human-animal relationship.

This volume is dedicated to the philosophy of medicine advanced by Edmund D.

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

Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve some level of moral concern.

The term `bioethics' was coined in 1971, just as interest in the medical humanities claimed a prominent place in medical education.

The Aging Self and the Aging Society Ethical issues involving the elderly have recently come to the fore.

Dieser Band behandelt umfassend und systematisch die Frage des Patientenwillens: die historischen und philosophischen Grundlagen des Willensbegriffs, die Beziehung von Autonomie und Wille und praktische Fragen der Bioethik und des Biorechts.

Bioethics asks fundamental questions.

This book explores the ethical dilemma clinicians may face when disclosing a diagnosis of atypical sex.

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.

The growth of knowledge and its effects on the practice of medicine have been issues of philosophical and ethical interest for several decades and will remain so for many years to come.

This title reviews the bioethical issues in congenital heart disease and other difficult pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgical situations.

This book affords a neopragmatic theory of animal ethics, taking its lead from American Pragmatism to place language at the centre of philosophical analysis.

There has been much recent excitement amongst neuroscientists and ethicists about the possibility of using drugs, as well as other technologies, to enhance cognition in healthy individuals.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive yet concise overview of the challenges and opportunities presented by the use of big data in healthcare.

Explains the ethical imperative to take seriously the potential impacts on our identities of encountering bioinformation about ourselves.

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

The social practice of forming, shaping, expressing, contesting, and maintaining personal identities makes human interaction, and therefore society, possible.

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.

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.