Bioethics

This book clearly explains bioethical issues and their philosophical foundations to science students, encouraging critical thinking about the ethics of biotechnology.

This book examines the dependence of transhumanist arguments on the credibility of the narratives of meaning in which they are embedded.

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

Are there any commonalities between Transhumanism and the WHO framework for global governance of human genome editing?

This compact book relies on the story of two intertwined Jewish immigrant families to tell a multigenerational Jewish story about the interplay between public/social policy, cultural categories, and the lived experience of working class immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe, including trans-/intergenerational trauma.

This comprehensive book covers the research, theory, policy and practice context of unusual reproduction using third parties.

Nanobiotechnology is the convergence of existing and new biotechnology with the 1 ability to manipulate matter at or near the molecular level.

In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate.

What if there were a pill for love?

Islamic Bioethics presents a wide variety of perspectives and debates on how Islamic societies deal with the ethical dilemmas raised by biomedicine and new technologies.

This book discusses outcomes of a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, Czech Republic, examining moral integrity in the post-communist Czech-speaking environment.

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

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

This book exposes significant threats to research integrity and identifies policies and practices that can reverse these trends.

Countless public health agencies are trying to solve our most intractable public health problems -- among them, the obesity and opioid epidemics -- by partnering with corporations responsible for creating or exacerbating those problems.

Biobanking, i.

Reframing Disease Contextually will be of particular interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers.

This book takes readers on a journey through the wide universe of bioethics, raising the following question: what is the proper attitude towards health, life, and death from the perspective of contemporary behavioral economics?

It is often said that bioethics emerged from theology in the 1960s, and that since then it has grown into a secular enterprise, yielding to other disciplines and professions such as philosophy and law.

This book explores how Paul Tillich's systematic theology, focusing on the concepts of being and reason can benefit nonhuman animals, while also analysing how taking proper account of nonhuman animals can prove immensely beneficial.

This book offers an impressive collection of contributions on the epistemology of international biolaw and its applications, both in the legal and ethical fields.

This book demonstrates that the COVID 19 pandemic asks for a a global approach to bioethics.

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.

Genomics and Society; Ethical, Legal-Cultural, and Socioeconomic Implications is the first book to address the vast and thorny web of ELSI topics identified as core priorities of the NHGRI in 2011.

This book is about the philosophy of de-extinction.

Why does a hospital need an ethics consultation?

Since World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a clear distinction between the two.

What is pediatric suffering, and how is the suffering of sick children different from that of sick adults?

In this edited volume, scientists from different disciplines discuss modern biotechnological processes and a knowledge-based bioeconomy.

In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable, esophagus.

This book studies the critical issues that dominate contemporary discourse on biomedical ethics.

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

Intended as a guide for wildlife managers and ecotourism operators, as well as interested ecotourists, this book addresses the biological principles governing how ecotourism affects wildlife.

This book provides a brief introduction to the growing field of animal maltreatment evaluation and treatment, with a special emphasis on clinical training from a forensic psychology perspective.

Intended as a guide for wildlife managers and ecotourism operators, as well as interested ecotourists, this book addresses the biological principles governing how ecotourism affects wildlife.

"e;Carefully reasoned, clearly articulated, and pulls no punches.

Tom L.

This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research.

We who live in this post-modern late twentieth century culture are still children of dualism.

This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski.

In this Brief, Daniel Sokol interprets 'doing medical ethics' broadly to capture the application of ethical knowledge to a concrete situation, rather than just resolving a moral dilemma contained within a case.

This book presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research.

The place of drugs in American society is a problem more apt to evoke diatribe than dialog.

While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B.

Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today.