Bioethics

Caring for Our Elders is the second of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine.

This book aims to show how film can increase awareness of the plight of farmed animals without exploiting them.

This thought-provoking treatise argues that current human fertility rates are fueling a public health crisis that is at once local and global.

This volume covers a wide range of topics concerning methodological, epistemological, and regulatory-ethical issues around pharmacology.

This book offers a theoretical and practical overview of the specific ethical and legal issues in pediatric organ transplantation.

Das Handbuch führt ein in zentrale Begriffe, Konzeptionen, Themen- und Problemfelder der Tierethik.

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

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

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

This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies.

This book applies a discussion of the nature of human life to resolving bioethical issues.

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

Supererogation is the category of moral actions which go beyond the call of duty.

Arguing that popular digital platforms promote misguided assumptions about ethics and technology, this book lays out a new perspective on the relation between technological capacities and human virtue.

Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global.

Sammelband mit Beiträgen von 28 Expertinnen und Experten aus dem Bereich der assistierten Reproduktion.

The question of whether there might be a duty to die was first raised by Margaret Battin in 1987 in her ground-breaking essay, "e;Age Distribution and the Just Distribution of Health Care: Is There a Duty- to-Die?

The aim of this book is to provide insight into the principles of operation of the cerebral cortex.

The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo's lifeThis unique critical edition presents key early biographical accounts of the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), written by his close contemporaries.

In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H.

Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human?

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.

Medical innovation as it stands today is fundamentally unsustainable.

Does modernization lead to the decline of religion?

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

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.

Exploring both the intrapersonal (moral) and interpersonal (ethical) nature of death and dying in the context of their development (philosophical), Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society shows how death and dying have been and will continue to be governed in any given society.

We live in an age of rapid technological advancement.

This book provides a robust analysis of the history of clinical ethics, the philosophical theories that support its practice, and the practical institutional criteria needed to become a practicing clinical ethicist.

This work sets the stage regarding debates about paternalism and health care for years to come.

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patient's and the physician's understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient.

To avoid any misunderstandings: this book is not about spiders as pets, but about those spiders that live in our houses and apartments as lodgers.

Scientific medicine in Miettinen's conception of it is very different from the two ideas about it that come to eminence in the 20th century.

Film and literature have long been mined for interesting examples and case studies in order to teach biomedical ethics to students.

Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today.

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

This progressive resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform.

This volume reviews the application of biochemical and molecular pathologies, which are based on conventional pathomorphology, toxicology, and DNA analysis technologies, not only to autopsies but also to the field of clinical medicine in general.

This anthology provides a collection of new essays on ethical and philosophical issues that concern the development, dispensing, and use of pharmaceuticals.

Marvin Giehl zeigt den im erziehungswissenschaftlichen Diskurs bislang unterrepräsentierten Konnex zwischen den ethisch motivierten Ernährungs- und Lebensformen des Vegetarismus und des Veganismus sowie deren biographischer Genese und bildungstheoretischen Überlegungen auf.

Alternative medicine (AM) is popular; about 40% of the US general population have used alternative treatment in the past year, and in Germany this figure is around 70%.

This edited volume represents a unique addition to the available literature on animal ethics, animal studies, and neuroethics.

This volume is a collection of essays concerned with the morality of hu- man treatment of nonhuman animals.