Bioethics

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'.

This book explores major bioethical issues emerging from the development and use of artificial intelligence in medical settings.

An assessment of some ethical implications of increasing life spans.

Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to connect with someone who does not seem to think or act like us.

Michael Ryan (d.

Public health has never been more important, or more controversial.

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

This collection of original essays by scientists, theologians, religious studies scholars, and ethicists offers an authoritative, illuminating, and thought-provoking overview of the CRISPR controversy.

Blue Extinction in Literature, Culture, and Art examines literary and cultural representations of aquatic biodiversity loss, bringing together critical perspectives from the blue humanities and extinction studies.

Andrew Thompson, Norman J.

This work challenges the current reliance on "e;The Three R's"e; or Replacement, Reduction and Refinement which direct most animal research in the behavioral sciences.

This book draws a connection between ethics and research across social sciences, philosophy, medical sciences and legal sciences, and demonstrates that any research activity needs to be conducted by means of rules deriving from the field of ethics.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of philosophical, social, ethical, and legal challenges arising as a consequences of current advances in neurosciences and neurotechnology.

Can religious arguments provide a reasonable basis for restrictive public policies regarding politically controversial medical interventions?

This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics.

Enhancing Human Capacities is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement.

This book sheds light on various ethical challenges military and humanitarian health care personnel (HCP) face while working in adverse conditions.

This Element presents a careful analysis and discussion of the potential benefit and harm of interventions in the immune system.

The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics: A Hoot in the Light presents the latest research in animal perception and cognition in the context of rhetorical theory.

This book explains the causes, consequences and desirable solutions to the unbalanced and unfair relationship between Homo sapiens and the other species that inhabit Planet Earth in a succinct, enjoyable and thought-provoking way.

Many wild animals in human care live longer than their wild counterparts because of modern care and wellbeing programmes, leading to a growing demographic of ageing animals.

This book provides an up-to-date description of cross-cultural aspects of end-of-life decision-making.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the empirical and theoretical problems posed by the encounter between law and biology in the twenty-first century.

Psychiatry is a field that differs from other fields of medical practice in terms of its ethical problems and ethical dilemmas it encounters.

The pervasive influence of law on medical practice and clinical bioethics is often noted with a combination of exasperation and lamentation.

This book provides cross-cultural ethical exploration of sex robots and their social impact.

In Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America, Dr.

This is the first book on the market or within academia dedicated solely to moral distress among health professionals.

While explicitly set against a backdrop of sexism in social justice activism more generally, this book exposes causes, pervasiveness, harms, and possible directions for change with regard to sexism and male privilege in the animal activist movement.

In The Ethics of Parenthood Norvin Richards explores the moral relationship between parents and children from slightly before the cradle to slightly before the grave.

This book contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Robot Ethics, held in Lisbon on October 23 and 24, 2015.

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 provides an analysis of the ways in which the BAC has established an ethical framework for biomedical research in Singapore, following the launch of the Biomedical Sciences Initiative by the Singapore Government.

This book offers a set of reflections on the ethics of care in full articulation with some of the most pressing issues of our time.

Observing Bioethics examines the history of bioethics as a discipline related not only to modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the core values and beliefs of American society and its courts, legislatures, and media.

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

An examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived  eugenics.

Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1985 is the third volume in a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central impor- tance in bioethics today.

This beautifully illustrated book is the first comprehensive work ever published on all four tapir species worldwide, filling a gap in the scientific literature.

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

We live in an age of rapid technological advancement.

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

Provides comprehensive, yet concise coverage of the broad field of bioethics, dealing with the scientific, medical, social, religious, political and international concerns This book offers complete information about all aspects of bioethics and its role in our world.

This book delves into medico-legal history, travelling back in time to explore English law's fascinating and often acrimonious relationship with healing and healers.

This book moves away from the frameworks that have traditionally guided ethical decision-making in the Western clinical setting, towards an inclusive, non-coercive and, reflective dialogic approach to moral decision-making.