This book discusses Asian medicine, which puts enormous emphasis on prevention and preservation of health, and examines how, in recent decades, medical schools in Asia have been increasingly shifting toward a curative approach.
This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India.
Esta obra es el resultado de la investigacion realizada en Colombia cuyo objetivo fue caracterizar y analizar en diversos campos del ejercicio profesional de la psicologia los procesos de identificacion, valoracion y razonamiento etico en actuaciones profesionales especificas, asi como el uso de recursos para guiar la practica etica y su relacion con la formacion recibida al respecto.
"Los temas que se presentan en este texto confluyen en los conflictos bioéticos y jurídicos en escenarios como: decisiones críticas en escenario de emergencias, cuidados paliativos, demencia, eutanasia y suicidio asistido, los estados alterados de conciencia, y justicia sanitaria en torno al trasplante de órganos y tejidos.
Los textos aquí reunidos son producto de seis trabajos de grado de la Maestría en Bioética de la Universidad El Bosque: 1) Oscuro bosque oscuro, una historia de terror: una reflexión bioética en torno a la dignidad humana; 2) Aporte bioético a la antropología teológica católica respecto al trato que el ser humano da al mismo ambiente: una aproximación a la ética de la responsabilidad; 3) Aporte del principio de beneficencia de la bioética principialista a la gestión ambiental del humedal Córdoba en Bogotá; 4) El paciente crítico, una familia enferma: descripción de la experiencia de la familia de pacientes adultos hospitalizados en cuidado intensivo a través de la teoría de la intersubjetividad; 5) Mediación bioética intercultural en la resolución de dilemas bioéticos en salud con comunidades indígenas; 6) Comprensión de la información suministrada a la familia como parte del proceso de obtención del consentimiento informado en una unidad de intervención en crisis en salud mental.
Los comités de ética en investigación se han constituido primordialmente para asegurar la protección de los seres humanos y la calidad científica de los proyectos de investigación.
La bioética, como "ciencia puente", ayuda a regular las actuaciones de la persona con la vida en general, pero particularmente con la vida humana, que no admite contemplaciones por su particular proyección a la trascendencia.
This anthology provides a collection of new essays on ethical and philosophical issues that concern the development, dispensing, and use of pharmaceuticals.
Since the 1970s, the origin of cancer is being explored from the point of view of the Somatic Mutation Theory (SMT), focusing on genetic mutations and clonal expansion of somatic cells.
Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public.
This volume addresses some of the most prominent questions in contemporary bioethics and philosophy of medicine: 'liberal' eugenics, enhancement, the normal and the pathological, the classification of mental illness, the relation between genetics, disease and the political sphere, the experience of illness and disability, and the sense of the subject of bioethical inquiry itself.
Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational.
The contributions to this volume grew out of papers presented at an international conference Individual, Community & Society: Bioethics in the Third Millennium, held in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, between 25-28 May 1999.
Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity: - is the first volume on bioethics all contributors of which are exclusively non-western scholars; - unfolds a rich and colourful picture; - addresses thorny bioethical issues from comprehensive Asian perspectives and different from the western paradigm of bioethics; - covers many topics including the intellectual foundation of Asian bioethics, bioethics and Asian culture, life and death, euthanasia and end-of-life care in Asia; - shows in its discussions moral diversity in Asia; - sheds light on the debate about universal ethics, global ethics and moral diversity.
lt is with great pleasure that I write this preface for Or Li's book, wh ich addresses the venerable and vexing issues surrounding the problem of whether death can be a harm to the person who dies.
In this book, developed by a group of collaborating scholars in bioethics from different European countries, an overview is given of the most salient themes in present-day bioethics.
Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap- plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years.
Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious communities, professional caregiving traditions, and philosophical perspectives, the dominant moral language in contemporary biomedical ethics is that of `rights'.
Religious beliefs and attitudes have long been recognized as playing an important role in sexual functioning, but the relationship between religion and sexual behavior has rarely been studied in a comprehensive way.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action theory.
