Bioethics

Many deep concerns in the life sciences and medicine have to do with the enactment, ordering and displacement of a broad range of values.

This book explores the religious language of Nonconformity used in ethical debates about animals.

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

A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ("e;internal morality"e;) and the larger social concerns and processes ("e;external morality"e;)Clinical Bioethics.

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

This book both presents a succinct history of medical ethics and discusses a wide range of important ethical dilemmas in the provision of modern health care.

This volume is dedicated to the philosophy of medicine advanced by Edmund D.

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

This book reveals the numerous ways in which moral, ethical and legal principles are being violated by those who provide, recommend or sell 'complementary and alternative medicine' (CAM).

This book redresses a misunderstanding in the history of biblical interpretation.

This book discusses outcomes of a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, Czech Republic, examining moral integrity in the post-communist Czech-speaking environment.

The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Center.

This volume elucidates the pivotal ethical and legal issues arising from the use of brain organoids for research, therapeutic and enhancement purposes.

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

The New York Times bestselling author of Darwins Doubt, Stephen Meyer, presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology.

The social practice of forming, shaping, expressing, contesting, and maintaining personal identities makes human interaction, and therefore society, possible.

This book argues that legal theory provides a jumping-off point for the study of controversial topics related to the work of Practicing Healthcare Ethicists (PHEs).

This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy.

This book focuses on resource allocation in military and humanitarian medicine during times of scarcity and austerity.

Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to ''one-size-fits-all'' treatment.

Given the profound moral-ethical controversies regarding the use of new biotechnologies in medical research and treatment, such as embryonic research and cloning, this book sheds new light on the role of religious organizations and actors in influencing the bio-political debates and decision-making processes.

In 2015 the UK became the first country in the world to legalise mitochondrial donation, a controversial germ line reproductive technology to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial disease.

In Matthew's passion narrative, the ethnoracial identity of Jesus comes into sharp focus.

Bonnie Steinbock presents The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics - an authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics.

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.

A coherent, wide-ranging and practical account of the role of consent in biomedicine, first published in 2007.

This book tells the dramatic story of Crispr and the potential impact of this gene-editing technology.

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.

In the 1960's marked changes occurred throughout the world in philosophies and policies related to man's role in life.

Animals, Museum Culture and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century-be they alive, stuffed or fossilised-and the development of children's literature at this time.

This book analyses the political and public debates about euthanasia in Portugal.

It may be unnecessary to some to publish a text on sexuality in 1986 since the popular press speaks of the sexual revolution as if it were over and was possibly a mistake.

This volume discusses the definitional problems and conceptual strategies involved in defining the human.

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.

This book addresses an epidemic that has developed on a global scale, and, which under the heading of "e;addiction,"e; presents a new narrative about the travails of the human predicament.

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

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.

As the demand for organs continues to outstrip availability and waiting lists surge, the pressure to make morally questionable, unethical decisions becomes more likely and trust in transplant medicine starts to erode.

This book, explores the complex moral and ethical dilemmas surrounding Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID) and its recent classification in the ICD-11.

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

Patient autonomy is a much discussed and debated subject in medical ethics, as well as in healthcare practice, medical law, and healthcare policy.

This book focuses on justice and its demands in the way of providing people with medical care.

This book is aimed at analyzing the foundations of medical ethics by considering different moral theories and their implications for judgments in clinical practice and policy-making.

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