Bioethics

This book provides a comprehensive description and ethical analysis of one of the most challenging areas: international health research.

The mighty Assyrian army has invaded the tiny kingdom of Judah to crush the rebellion against the great king Sennacherib.

The medicalization of death is a challenge for all the world's religious and cultural traditions.

The book's strength is its careful consideration, from a variety of perspectives within the Catholic tradition, of the practice of embryo adoption.

This book puts the ethics, policy and politics of stem cells into context in a way that helps readers understand why past and current issues have developed the way they have and what the implications are for their work going forward.

This second edition of International Public Health Policy and Ethics complements the popular first edition with contemporary problems in international public health.

The book approaches the subject of ethics in science from a pedagogical and pragmatic viewpoint and addresses the need to effectively deal with these issues in science classrooms at the K-12 and undergraduate levels, drawing on real-world cases to do so.

Theologians and theologically educated participants in discussions of bioethics have been placed on the defensive during recent years.

Exploring the earliest literary evidence for human-animal relations, this volume presents and analyzes biblical and Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian) sources from the third millennium BCE through to the consolidation of the biblical literature in the first millennium BCE.

Religion is a dominant force in the lives of many Americans.

This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting.

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.

We have come to know that our ability to survive and grow as a nation to a very large degree depends upon our scientific progress.

Over the last decade, technical advances have allowed genomic testing which provides a great opportunity for diagnosis but also an increased chance of uncertain or unexpected findings.

Conscience in Reproductive Health Care responds to the growing worldwide trend of health care professionals conscientiously refusing to provide abortions and similar reproductive health services in countries where these services are legal and professionally accepted.

This book approaches the topic of intercultural understanding in philosophy from a phenomenological perspective.

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

To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings?

Neil Messer brings together a range of theoretical and practical questions raised by current research on the human brain: questions about both the 'ethics of neuroscience' and the 'neuroscience of ethics'.

The book discusses geoscience issues in Peru from a geoethical perspective, based on the leading experience of the Peruvian section of the International Association for Promoting Geoethics, in its seven years of activity.

This book is devoted to the welfare of invertebrates, which make up 99% of animal species on earth.

In bioethische Kontroversen geht es zumeist um den Umgang des Menschen mit sich selbst, genauer: den Umgang mit den biologischen Grundlagen seiner – der menschlichen – Existenz.

Protected areas have often been defined as the backbones of biodiversity conservation.

This book gets to the heart of trophy hunting, unpacking and explaining its multiple facets and controversies, and exploring why it divides environmentalists, the hunting community, and the public.

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.

This work presents the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of all relevant issues and topics in contemporary global bioethics.

Long before it cured disease, medicine aimed to relieve suffering-but despite that precedence, the relief of suffering often takes a back seat in today's biomedical research and treatment.

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.

When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap.

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

Religious freedom has become increasingly important across the global spectrum over the past decades but has remained a contested concept.

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 extensively updated textbook reviews the ethical issues faced within dermatology.

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

This book explores the relationship between politics, ethics and law in risk governance involving multi-valued human biological materials, such as blood.

Die Bedeutung von Religion in bioethischen Diskursen hat in den letzten Jahren große Aufmerksamkeit erfahren.

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

Examines trust, its definition, value, and decline from the perspective of a physician and a medical ethicist.

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine.