Bioethics

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.

The contributed volume "e;Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health"e; is a health-centered volume of the Integrated Science Book series.

This edited volume draws on ten original contributions that locate ethics at the centre-stage of public health practice.

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

While historiography is dominated by attempts that try to standardize and de-individualize the behavior of animals, history proves to be littered with records of the exceptional lives of unusual animals.

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.

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

This is the Second Edition of a well-received book that reflects a fresh, integrated coverage of the concepts and scientific measurement of stress and welfare of animals including humans.

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.

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.

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 extensively revised and expanded new edition offers concepts, principles and applied information that relates to the wellbeing of reptiles.

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

This book offers the policy-maker or decision-maker key insights and practical information regarding the features of ethics frameworks best suited to the ethical assessment of human cognitive enhancement (HCE) applications, such as pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers and noninvasive brain stimulation techniques.

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

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

Prenatal genetic testing has changed the circumstances under which parents choose what pregnancies to carry to term.

Prenatal genetic testing has changed the circumstances under which parents choose what pregnancies to carry to term.

This book presents important concepts from medical and socio-cultural anthropology to health professionals working with organ transplantation involving indigenous populations.

This book examines the position of children who provide tissue to potentially save the life of another.

This book traces the contours of the symbiotic relationship between crop cultivation and cattle rearing in India by reading against the grain of several official accounts from the late colonial period to the 1980s.

Advances in genetics have begun to deliver on their promise of new and improved approaches to the prevention and treatment of human disease, including the gene-based therapeutics.

Sollten Gedächtnis und Aufmerksamkeit steigernde Psychopharmaka auch für gesunde Lernende zugelassen werden?

Marine mammals attract human interest - sometimes this interest is benign or positive - whale watching, conservation programmes for whales, seals, otters, and efforts to clear beaches of marine debris are seen as proactive steps to support these animals.

This book presents and elaborates on how the teaching of global ethics in healthcare contributes to furthering ideals of cosmopolitanism: solidarity, equality, respect for differences and concern with what human beings, and specifically patients have in common, regardless of where they live and who they are.

If our bodies could do more things, would our lives be better?