Bioethics

This book is about ordinary animals and how they are imagined in twenty-first century fiction.

This book engages with some of the most pressing ethical issues that arise from the use of animals in various business practices, providing interdisciplinary approaches to improving the nonhuman and human lives in animal-related industries.

Research is defined by the Australian Research Council as "e;the creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies, inventions and understandings"e;.

This book explores the philosophical analysis of attitudes and values and sustainable behaviors in fields such as healthcare, social sciences, economics in the context of environmental studies.

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New Harvest includes contributions from specialists in medical, philosophical, psychological, religious, and legal fields.

Since the 90's, issues of scarcity, priority setting, and rationing lie at the centre of most current debates on health care.

Among the vast literature on contemporary reproductive technologies, Prosthetic Bodies stands out in its effective combination of insights, methods, and theories from the history of medicine, constructivist science and technology studies, and feminist theory.

This book explores some of the complex ethical quandaries entailed by proposed phase III HIV preventive vaccine trials.

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).

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

This updated third edition is an essential overview for teachers and students in medical and biological sciences, and for those who conduct animal-based research.

This Element comprehensively analyses and discusses normative aspects of consciousness that have been neglected or only partly examined by philosophers and neuroscientists.

Biobank research and genomic information are changing the way we look at health and medicine.

In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H.

This book discusses the ethical and legal challenges related to innovations, with reference to both scientific research and emerging technologies.

In this book, developed by a group of collaborating scholars in bioethics from different European countries, an overview is given of the most salient themes in present-day bioethics.

What is a human?

Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the problem of vulnerability.

This book both presents a succinct history of medical ethics and discusses a wide range of important ethical dilemmas in the provision of modern health care.

Like its predecessor, New Dimensions in Bioethics, this volume developed out of a series of lectures at Yale University's Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

Thinking bees, ice-skating buffaloes, dreaming rats, happy foxes, ecstatic elephants, despondent dolphins--in Minding Animals, Marc Bekoff takes us on an exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, where we meet creatures who do amazing things and whose lives are filled with mysteries.

A compelling argument for the morality of limitations on procreation in lessening the harmful environmental effects of unchecked populationWe live in a world where a burgeoning global population has started to have a major and destructive environmental impact.

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

Analyses the highly controversial problems of DNA forensic technologies, providing important insights into their ethical, legal and societal dimensions.

This Element presents a careful analysis and discussion of the potential benefit and harm of interventions in the immune system.

In recent years, the well-established field of human anthropology has been put under scrutiny by the new data offered by science and technology.

This book clarifies the meaning of the most important and pervasive concepts and tools in bioethical argumentation (principles, values, dignity, rights, duties, deliberation, prudence) and assesses the methodological suitability of the main methods for clinical decision-making and argumentation.

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.

This Element provides a new overarching perspective on responsibility for health, covering public health, healthcare policies, and clinical medicine.

This volume gives an overview on the currently debated ethical issues regarding advance directives from an international perspective.

The Legacies of Ursula K.

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.

This book offers ethical and political approaches to issues that nonhuman animals face.

This book presents original, critical and diverse perspectives on topics spanning the breadth of this emerging new field.

This book is an essential resource to understanding the intersection of medical genetics and law.

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics is an outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in feminist bioethics, with chapters covering topics from justice and power to the climate crisis.

This book offers an overview on the growing field of nonhuman studies in relation to Anglophone novels.

Global Public Health: a new era is a comprehensive updated account of the international state of public health, including an agenda for improving the practice of the discipline across the world.

This volume reviews the broad topic of welfare in nonhuman primates under human care.

A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.

This book provides a current review of Medical Research Ethics on a global basis.

Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral right to privacy.

This Pivot traces the rise of the so-called "e;vegetarian"e; vampire in popular culture and contemporary vampire fiction, while also exploring how the shift in the diet of (some) vampires, from human to animal or synthetic blood, responds to a growing ecological awareness that is rapidly reshaping our understanding of relations with others species.

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.

Though many of the ethical issues important in adult mental health are of relevance in the child, there are a considerable number of issues special to children.