Bioethics

This volume explores the ethics of making or expanding families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction.

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.

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.

With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals.

With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals.

Of the 121,000 people on donor lists in the U.

Of the 121,000 people on donor lists in the U.

Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve some level of moral concern.

Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve some level of moral concern.

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.

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.

Most people believe that parents have moral rights and responsibilities regarding their children.

Most people believe that parents have moral rights and responsibilities regarding their children.

How does death help us understand the living?

Psychiatry and religion/spirituality (R/S) share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for community.

Psychiatry and religion/spirituality (R/S) share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for community.

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passe theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between biology and liberal thought.

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passe theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between biology and liberal thought.

Sport is often thought of as simply "e;games,"e; but it can in fact be much more.

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public LanguageAlthough Roe v.

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public LanguageAlthough Roe v.

What is a human?

What is a human?

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

Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism.

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

In this volume Allen Buchanan collects ten of his most influential essays on justice and healthcare and connects the concerns of bioethicists with those of political philosophers, focusing not just on the question of which principles of justice in healthcare ought to be implemented, but also on the question of the legitimacy of institutions through which they are implemented.

Food products with genetically modified (GM) ingredients are common, yet many consumers are unaware of this.

What role should religion play in a religiously pluralistic liberal society?

Thinking bees, ice-skating buffaloes, dreaming rats, happy foxes, ecstatic elephants, despondent dolphins--in Minding Animals, Marc Bekoff takes us on an exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, where we meet creatures who do amazing things and whose lives are filled with mysteries.

Animal cloning has developed quickly since the birth of Dolly the sheep.

While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare.

Emergency Ethics brings together leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice.

Emergency Ethics brings together leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice.

Medical uncertainty has been with us for centuries and remains a recurrent problem for patients, doctors, and researchers alike.

Medical uncertainty has been with us for centuries and remains a recurrent problem for patients, doctors, and researchers alike.

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.

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.

Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism.

Neuroscientists are mining nucleic acids, blood, saliva, and brain images in hopes of uncovering biomarkers that could help estimate risk of brain disorders like psychosis and dementia; though the science of bioprediction is young, its prospects are unearthing controversy about how bioprediction should enter hospitals, courtrooms, or state houses.

Sport is often thought of as simply "e;games,"e; but it can in fact be much more.

This compact and innovative book tackles one of the central issues in drug policy: the lack of a coherent conceptual structure for thinking about drugs.

A compelling argument for the morality of limitations on procreation in lessening the harmful environmental effects of unchecked populationWe live in a world where a burgeoning global population has started to have a major and destructive environmental impact.

A compelling argument for the morality of limitations on procreation in lessening the harmful environmental effects of unchecked populationWe live in a world where a burgeoning global population has started to have a major and destructive environmental impact.

In Almost Over, F.

In Almost Over, F.

"e;For all those who fear they cannot understand the science of DNA -- they will soon find that they can and it's fascinating.

"e;For all those who fear they cannot understand the science of DNA -- they will soon find that they can and it's fascinating.

This book provides a scientific and ethical approach to all forms of fraud and misconduct focusing on a scholarly however practice-oriented description of the problems, roots and potential solutions.