Bioethics

This textbook offers a unique and accessible approach to ethical decision-making for practicing pharmacists and student pharmacists.

Bioethical issues are practically urgent, politically divisive, and call for resolutions.

A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists'' work.

A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale.

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

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Roadkill is a recurrent but often unthought feature of modern life.

An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring.

Neglected diseases are severe conditions that mainly affect the world's poorest people.

An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology''s magic devices and romantic cyborgs.

This book questions the notions of person, personality, dignity, and other connected notions such as (informed) consent, and discusses new perspectives on categories that allow ethical debates in medicine to overcome morals and ordinary religious schemes.

Since the 1980s, MRI scanners have told us much about brain function and played an important role in the clinical diagnosis of a number of conditions - both in the brain and the rest of the body.

Bioethics developed as an academic and clinical discipline during the later part of the 20th century due to a variety of factors.

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 provides a careful and comprehensive, step-by-step method for providing clinical ethics consultation.

The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind.

This edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history.

This book examines animal research conducted with the goal of medical translation to humans.

This book discusses and provides insight on the legal and ethical dilemmas of managing those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

At a time when the human genome has been sequenced advances in the life sciences seem to have great potential for human health, industry and the environment throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

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 updated introduction to animal ethics helps readers to reflect critically and empathetically on our relationships with other animals.

This book offers a first rate selection of academic articles on Latin American bioethics.

This book explores what constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences.

Jessie Aitkin, the long-time Editor-in-Chief of a leading life sciences journal, receives a fantastic job offer.

This book departs from conventional bioethics approaches to consider the different moral and political economies involved in the donation and transformation of human organs, gametes, stem cells and breastmilk.

This book argues that qualitative methods, ethnography included, have tended to focus on the human at the cost of understanding humans and animals in relation, and that ethnography should evolve to account for the relationships between humans and other species.

Griffiths and Sanders present a fresh and wide-ranging analysis of the impact of the criminal process on medical practice.

Invertebrates are the neglected majority of the animal world.

This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history.

This book provides a current analysis of the legal and ethical challenges in preparing for and responding to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) crises.

At the onset of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic enhancement, for wholesale redesign.

Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations.

This book arises from a two-fold conviction.

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An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the compatibility of palliative care with the vision of human dignity in the Catholic moral and theological traditions.

This book offers an easy-to-read, yet comprehensive introduction to practical issues in doctor-patient relationships in a typical low- and middle-income country setting in India, examining in detail the reasons for erosion of trust and providing guidance on potential research areas in the field.

The scientific reproducibility crisis is a crisis of character.

Dorothy Wertz and John Fletcher pioneered the first international study of ethical and social issues in genetics in 18 nations.

Nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2018In the UK and beyond, Down's syndrome screening has become a universal programme in prenatal care.

Located in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan practices the philosophy of Gross National Happiness ("e;GNH"e;) that embraces environmental conservation as one of the main building blocks for its sustainable development goals.

This edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history.

This book offers new essays exploring concepts and applications of nonideal theory in bioethics.

This beautifully illustrated book is the first comprehensive work ever published on all four tapir species worldwide, filling a gap in the scientific literature.

Leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal with using complimentary and alternative medicines.

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has historically been concerned with the protection of human subjects.