Bioethics

This book discuss the meaning and implications of the social and ethical implications of the notion of social responsibility in healthcare in six major world religions - Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, & Judaism.

This is the first book entirely dedicated to exploring issues associated with the nature of neuroethics.

This book develops and defends an ethic of species preservation, genetic modification, human enhancement and species creation.

Just as patients do not come to a medical office with the intention of suing the p- sician, physicians have no intention of harming their patients.

This book presents an interpretation of pharmaceutical, surgical and psychotherapeutic interventions based on a univalent metalanguage: biosemiotics.

Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human body.

This book reprints Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby, a seminal work in the history of medical ethics and human subject research that has been nearly unavailable for over 40 years.

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.

This book tackles complex global issues like vaccination, climate change, environmental ethics, embryo adoption, and surrogate motherhood viewed from the perspective of the global south.

This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical research.

What if there were a pill for love?

Applied ethics is an essential part of practical knowledge in pluralistic and democratic societies.

Medical research involving human subjects has contributed to considerable advancements in our knowledge, and to medical benefits.

This book analyzes the challenges and ethical dilemmas military physicians and nurses experienced while deployed on military operations-and how they dealt with them.

This book focuses on the spaces and practices of caring for horses, explored in a series of case studies set across the equine lifespan.

This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health?

This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the major global issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest.

CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVES AND CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL MORALS A Catholic perspective on medical morals antedates the current world- wide interest in medical and biomedical ethics by many centuries[5].

It is a comprehensive and critical study of the normative status of human nature in biotechnology from a Christian perspective.

This book discusses medicine from an ethical perspective, whereas books on medical ethics more commonly present ethics from a bio-medical standpoint.

Lochlann Jain's debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things.

The fur trade is a multi-million-dollar industry.

Health and welfare issues of brachycephalic (flat-faced) animals are one of the most pressing problems facing companion animals right now.

This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine dominative attitudes toward the nonhuman.

An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists'' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence.

This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.

This book supports the emerging field of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) for face and upper-limb transplants by providing a revised, ethically appropriate consent model which takes into account what is actually required of facial and upper extremity transplant recipients.

The potential of modern medicine in a pluralistic world leads to the potential for moral conflict.

This book offers an overview of the main questions arising when biomedical decision-making intersects ethical decision-making.

This book offers a set of reflections on the ethics of care in full articulation with some of the most pressing issues of our time.

This book begins the discourse on post-trial access to drugs in developing countries.

This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction.

Much has been written on WMD terrorism, but few books present a systems approach to this problem.

Emerging medical technologies are changing our views on human nature and what it means to be alive, healthy, and leading a good life.

The general scope of the book is the patentability and morality of human embryonic stem cell research in US, EU and China.

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

This book examines the controversial and repercussive contention that an objective of the law should be to promote personal morality - to make people ethically better.

This collection addresses whether ethicists, like authorities in other fields, can speak as experts in their subject matter.

Modern epigenetics unites scientists from life sciences, organic chemistry as well as computer and engineering sciences to find an answer to the question of how environmental influences can have a lasting effect on gene expression, maybe even into the next generations.

Culture, Health, and Social Change is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine.

Emphasising the vulnerability and interdependence of humans, care ethics has emerged in recent years as a powerful alternative to dominant modes of thinking in moral philosophy.

Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration.

This invaluable resource discusses the saftey, ethics, and regulations of developing stem cell clinical applications.

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 comprehensively reviews the anatomy, physiology, genetics and pathology of laboratory animals as well as the principles and practices of using laboratory animals for biomedical research.

This book, written both for a Canadian and an international readership, provides a multidisciplinary review of the framework and performance of the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program.